Kandahar, Afghanistan: Gunmen shot dead five female airport workers and their driver in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, underlining the threat to employed women...
Kandahar, Afghanistan: Gunmen shot dead five female airport workers and their driver in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, underlining the threat to employed women...
Before getting too carried away with Taiwan’s elevated status under a Donald Trump presidency, President Tsai Ing-wen might want to check her bank...
Mumbai: With the global oil prices going over $50 a barrel earlier this week, state-run Indian Oil Corp yesterday hiked the prices of...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday strongly defended demonetisation, saying this should have been done in 1971 itself and blamed then PM...
New Delhi: Accusing the government of stifling the opposition's voice and subjecting parliamentary democracy to a 'severe threat', opposition parties led by the...
New Delhi: Police in New Delhi said yesterday they have arrested a driver for allegedly raping a woman in his car, as the...
Mumbai: Business has been slow at the Thakkar Bappa Colony shoe manufacturing hub in eastern Mumbai since the government withdrew high-value bank notes...
Singapore: Thousands of Filipinos gathered in Singapore yesterday to catch a glimpse of their president, Rodrigo Duterte, in a big show of support...
Manila: The Philippines yesterday appealed to former colonial ruler the United States to reconsider a decision to withhold humanitarian aid, with Manila's foreign...
Beijing: China's military has carried out its first ever live-fire drills using an aircraft carrier and fighters in the northeastern Bohai Sea close...
Seoul: The impeachment of South Korean President Park Geun-hye has no legal foundation, her lawyers argued yesterday, as they submitted their defence against...
Kathmandu: The last king of the isolated Himalayan region of Upper Mustang died yesterday in Kathmandu, eight years after he lost his royal...
Tokyo: Russia and Japan yesterday there was no resolution after a two-day summit to a decades-long territorial dispute that has blocked them from...
Bangkok: Thailand's military-appointed attorney-general yesterday charged 19 leaders of the opposition "red shirt" group with violating a junta ban on political gatherings. The...
Tokyo: Japanese Emperor Akihito, 82, has a cold and fever and has cancelled morning duties, an official at the Imperial Household Agency said...
Thai police yesterday unveiled a record half tonne seizure of crystal methamphetamine. The haul of high-grade meth, has a street value of around...
Seoul: South Korea has ordered its biggest-ever cull of chickens and other poultry, gassing millions of birds to fight an avian flu outbreak...
Peshawar: Parents of children killed when Taliban gunmen overran a Pakistan school gathered yesterday to mark the second anniversary of the attack --...