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Crackdown on buses with tinted windows 20 Dec 2012 - 07:26 am

New Delhi: A day after parliament exploded over the gang-rape of a woman in a moving bus, the government vowed a crackdown on...

Jamaica: Latest location for Indian weddings 20 Dec 2012 - 07:25 am

Kingston: The sunny island of Jamaica in the Caribbean is among the top favourite locations for destination weddings and has in recent months...

Brunei Sultan in Delhi 20 Dec 2012 - 07:24 am

Sultan of Brunei, Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah and his wife Pengiran Anak Saleha are welcomed by Minister of State for Home Affairs,...

Gujarat vote count today, BJP confident 20 Dec 2012 - 07:23 am

A paramilitary soldier guards a room where voting equipment are being kept, in Ahmedabad, yesterday. Ahmedabad: Gujarat’s ruling BJP was supremely confident ahead...

SP leader snatches quota bill from minister; House adjourned 20 Dec 2012 - 07:23 am

New Delhi: Samajawadi Party (SP) leader Yashvir Singh yesterday snatched a copy of the bill on quota in promotions from Minister of State...

Putin seeks big arms deals on Delhi visit 20 Dec 2012 - 07:22 am

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin hopes to conclude deals on the sale of fighter jets and aircraft engines to India next week which...

Another guerrilla killed in Kashmir 20 Dec 2012 - 07:22 am

Srinagar: Security forces yesterday recovered bodies of six guerrillas at a Kashmir village a day after a fierce gunbattle. But police said the...

US immunity for ISI a serious disappointment: Government 20 Dec 2012 - 07:22 am

NEW DELHI: India yesterday called a declaration that Pakistan’s intelligence service and former chiefs enjoy immunity in a case related to the 2008...

Britain to pull out 4,000 troops from Kabul 20 Dec 2012 - 07:21 am

A file photo shows British Prime Minister David Cameron talking to British soldiers based at Lashkar Gah in Helmand Province. LONDON: Britain will...

Three more polio workers shot in Pakistan 20 Dec 2012 - 07:20 am

PESHAWAR: Three workers in a polio eradication campaign were shot in Pakistan yesterday, and two of them were killed, the latest in an...

US audit uncovers more waste in Afghanistan 20 Dec 2012 - 07:20 am

WASHINGTON: Almost $13m in equipment designed to upgrade Afghanistan’s creaking power grid has been left mothballed in storage for lack of an installation...

Four policemen poisoned, shot dead in Kandahar 20 Dec 2012 - 07:16 am

KANDAHAR: Four Afghan policemen were shot dead and three wounded after being poisoned by a colleague in southern Afghanistan yesterday, officials said. The...

S Korea elects first woman president 20 Dec 2012 - 07:15 am

Leaders and members of South Korea’s presidential candidate Park Geun-Hye’s party watch a television broadcast of exit polls at the party headquarters in...

Philippines, communists agree to new peace talks 20 Dec 2012 - 07:14 am

MANILA: Maoist guerrillas waging a decades-long insurgency in the Philippines have resumed high-level peace talks with the government after a 13-month impasse, it...

School attack in China prompts soul-searching 20 Dec 2012 - 07:14 am

BEIJING: As the United States debates its gun laws after the Newtown school massacre, China is doing its own political soul-searching after a...

Court rejects Arroyo bid for Christmas reprieve 20 Dec 2012 - 07:14 am

MANILA: Detained former Philippine president Gloria Arroyo is to spend Christmas at a military hospital after a court rejected her bid for a...

Malaysia lifts curbs on Christian travel to Israel 20 Dec 2012 - 07:13 am

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has removed quotas and other restrictions on Christians from the Muslim majority nation making their pilgrimage to Jerusalem, government and...

Outcry as Cambodia protest shooting charges dropped 20 Dec 2012 - 07:13 am

PHNOM PENH: Cambodian rights campaigners yesterday slammed a court decision to drop charges against a former governor who was the prime suspect in...