Agartala: The bus service between Agartala and Dhaka has been suspended after India’s ‘Maitree’ passenger bus between the two cities was burnt by...
Agartala: The bus service between Agartala and Dhaka has been suspended after India’s ‘Maitree’ passenger bus between the two cities was burnt by...
New Delhi: India is planning to invite Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi and step up business ties with one of the Arab world’s major...
Jammu: The tribal Gujjar community of Jammu and Kashmir yesterday demanded that Gojri be recognised as an official language and included in the...
Alappuzha: In an accident at an unmanned level crossing near here, the Hapa Express bound for Tirunelveli (in Tamil Nadu) rammed into a...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan distanced itself yesterday from a cabinet minister’s bounty for killing the maker of anti-Islam film “Innocence of Muslims”, as protests against...
HYDERABAD: Disaster in the Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh in the wake of the recent monsoon rains has exposed the capacity of the...
KABUL: China’s top security official has made the first high-level trip to Afghanistan by a senior Chinese leader in nearly half a century,...
ISLAMABAD: Worried over the trend of violence during the Friday’s protest demonstrations across the country, the PML (N)-led Punjab government has convened a...
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama will take a mere day out of his reelection bid for the UN General Assembly this week, and...
MOSCOW: Russia’s brutal 1994-1996 Chechen campaign mastermind and former defence minister Pavel Grachev died in Moscow yesterday at the age of 64 after...
PARIS: French Interior Minister Manuel Valls yesterday assured the country’s Jews that they could wear their Jewish skullcaps “with pride”, in a dismissal...
MINSK: Belarus’s President Alexander Lukashenko called opposition leaders “cowards” after they urged people to go mushrooming rather than vote in an election set...
KATHMANDU: An avalanche in Nepal killed at least nine climbers including a German man, an Italian, a Spaniard and a local guide trying...
TOKYO: Tokyo shares closed down 0.45 percent on Monday, weighed by the strong yen and concern over China's economic slowdown as well as...
BEIJING: China postponed yesterday a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties with Japan because of an ongoing territorial...
MANILA: The Philippines for the first time in 40 years will air the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos’ full television broadcast declaring martial law...
DUBAI: Iran plans to switch its citizens onto a domestic Internet network in what officials say is a bid to improve cyber security...
BEIRUT: A Lebanese Christian political leader and ally of the Shia group Hezbollah said he escaped an assassination attempt when his convoy came...
