New Delhi: Amid din over various issues, a select committee of Rajya Sabha yesterday tabled its much awaited report on Lokpal Bill, giving...
New Delhi: Amid din over various issues, a select committee of Rajya Sabha yesterday tabled its much awaited report on Lokpal Bill, giving...
Bhubaneswar: India yesterday successfully test fired a ballistic missile interceptor from a defence base in Odisha as part of its efforts to create...
Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress’s MLA from Singur yesterday threatened to resign from the state ministry and retire from politics, expressing unhappiness over the...
New Delhi: BJP yesterday called upon Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to keep the appointment of Ranjit Sinha as the new CBI director in...
Pakistani security officials check people crossing into Pakistan through Chaman at the border with Afghanistan, yesterday. Ghazni: A suicide car bomber killed three...
KARACHI: Pakistan suspended mobile phone services in major cities yesterday to prevent terror attacks from marring commemorations for the holy month of Muharram,...
Baharak: Ten years ago there was not a single midwife in the Afghan town of Baharak. Today there are four and the number...
KABUL: A network of informers, exploitation of popular dissent and the ability to strike at vulnerable moments helped hasten the end of France’s...
ISLAMABAD: The government of Pakistan has decided to give a job to Malala Yousufzai’s father, Ziauddin Yousufzai, at the Pakistan Consulate in Birmingham,...
Sri Lanka’s Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake smiles as she leaves the parliamentary complex in Colombo yesterday, ahead of impeachment proceedings. COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s...
YEONPYEONG: South Korea marked yesterday the anniversary of North Korea’s 2010 shelling of a border island with a military drill and memorials, clouded...
YANGON: Myanmar authorities yesterday accused a Rohingya militant group of carrying out an attack that left one dead and three people missing --...
BANGKOK: Thailand’s police chief said yesterday he would deploy almost 17,000 officers to prevent violence at an anti-government rally on the weekend, after...
TOKYO: North Korea, under heavy UN sanctions for its nuclear weapons programme, could be preparing a long-range ballistic missile test, a Japanese newspaper...
TOKYO: Japanese police rescued four hostages from a bank yesterday and arrested the knife-wielding man who had held them captive for more than...
Taipei: Taiwan yesterday protested after China started issuing new passports with maps that feature two of the island’s most famous scenic spots as...
A general view shows Filipino journalists, students and militant groups holding mock coffins to protest the killings of journalists in Manila, Philippines, yesterday....
MANILA: The Senate and the House of Representatives will begin their bicameral conference committee meeting on the sin tax reform bill next week,...