DHAKA: At least two people were killed and dozens hurt across Bangladesh yesterday when police and ruling party activists clashed with protesters blocking...
DHAKA: At least two people were killed and dozens hurt across Bangladesh yesterday when police and ruling party activists clashed with protesters blocking...
SEOUL: North Korea said it may delay a much-criticised rocket launch originally scheduled for as early as today, as analysts say its efforts...
NEW BATAAN, Philippines: Desperate families begged for food yesterday, days after a typhoon brought death and destruction to parts of a southern Philippine...
HANOI: Vietnam broke up anti-China rallies in its two main cities and arrested around 20 people yesterday, activists said, in the latest protests...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s main opposition party asked the Commonwealth yesterday to investigate the impeachment of the country’s chief justice in what it called...
CARACAS: Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez returns to Cuba yesterday for more surgery after a recurrence of cancer led him to name a successor...
SYDNEY/london/ BANGALORE: The owners of an Australian radio station at the centre of the British royal prank call scandal yesterday said the tragic...
CHICAGO: President Barack Obama may have defeated opponents of his landmark health care law in the courts and at the ballot box, but...
LONDON: Astronomer Patrick Moore (pictured), renowned for his work mapping the Moon’s surface and for having popularised his subject with the British public,...
LIMA: The earthquake all but flattened colonial Lima, the shaking so violent that people tossed to the ground couldn’t get back up. Minutes...
Vansada, Gujarat: Faulting the BJP government in Gujarat for failing to sustain balanced growth, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said yesterday that the state’s...
Haveri, Karnataka: Former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa yesterday dared incumbent Jagadish Shettar to resign and dissolve the legislative assembly to pave...
Jammu: Pakistani troops opened heavy gun fire at 10 Indian posts along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir in a...
Patna: The death toll in a hooch tragedy in Bihar has risen to 26 with eight more people losing their lives, police said...
by Moiz Mannan In just about a week’s time, the prosperous western state of Gujarat goes to the polls with the effervescent BJP...
TEHRAN: Iran has launched its own video-sharing website to compete against Google's popular YouTube whose content is deemed inappropriate by the Islamic regime,...
DUBAI: Dubai developer Emaar Properties and an arm of Dubai Holding, the ruler's conglomerate, launched the first project in a planned multi-billion dollar...
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia: Oil giant Saudi Aramco said on Sunday that an August cyber attack on its computer network targeted not just the...
