New Delhi: The Lok Sabha (Lower House) was yesterday adjourned for the day as Left parties, the BSP and others blamed the government...
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha (Lower House) was yesterday adjourned for the day as Left parties, the BSP and others blamed the government...
New Delhi: The Congress was yesterday “relieved” after BSP supremo Mayawati announced that her 15 MPs would support the government in the motion...
Bangalore: C N R Rao, chairman of the science advisory council to the prime minister, was in discussions with the central government to...
Belgaum: The Congress’s Karnataka unit yesterday opposed release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu in spite of the Supreme Court’s directive to the...
DUBAI: An Indian man committed suicide in Dubai by throwing himself under a train after his employer refused him the right to return...
Kochi: Kerala Mono Rail Corporation, a new company, has been floated to implement two separate monorail projects - one in Thiruvananthapuram and another...
Pakistan Taliban commander Hakimullah Mehsud (left) is seen during a news conference in South Waziristan in this May 24, 2008 file photo. WANA:...
KABUL: The Afghan government has decided to scrap a UN-backed election watchdog in favour of a tribunal that could give President Hamid Karzai...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Supreme Court asked the country’s electoral body to enlist the army and paramilitary forces to help verify controversial electoral rolls in...
KABUL: Afghanistan’s intelligence chief was wounded in an assassination attempt in Kabul yesterday, officials said. Asadullah Khalid, head of the National Directorate of...
MIRANSHAH: A US drone fired two missiles at a compound in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal district early yesterday, killing at least three militants, local...
NEW BATAAN: A quarter million people were homeless and 477 confirmed dead after the Philippines’ worst typhoon this year, officials said yesterday, as...
MANILA: The Philippines, the world’s third largest exporter of bananas, lost a quarter of its crop in Typhoon Bopha, an industry group said...
MANILA: The Philippines improved its standing in Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index this year by moving up 24 points, from 129th place in...
Three robbers killed in Cavite shootout Dasmariñas City: Three suspected robbers believed to be planning to stick up a remittance centre, were killed...
MANILA: The government’s new visa policy on Chinese passports is not expected to affect foreign tourist arrivals. “It will not impact much on...
TOKYO: Japan yesterday dispatched three destroyers to waters over which North Korea says its satellite-bearing rocket will travel. Television footage showed three Aegis...
BANGKOK: Former Thai premier Abhisit Vejjajiva is to be charged with murder over the death of a civilian during 2010 “Red Shirt” rallies,...
