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Insight: Stranded trucks, unpaid workers: India Inc counts cost of cash crunch 21 Nov 2016 - 04:39 pm
Indian customers queue to withdraw money from a State Bank of India ATM in Siliguri on November 21, 2016. Frustration is mounting in India over a cash crisis triggered by the withdrawal of all high-value notes from circulation. The shock November 8 move,
Rescuers end search for India train survivors as toll hits 146 21 Nov 2016 - 03:44 pm
Rescue workers move a carriage at the site of Sunday's train derailment in Pukhrayan, south of Kanpur city, India November 21, 2016. REUTERS/Jitendra Prakash
Alarm over proposed Philippine law to jail 9-year-olds 21 Nov 2016 - 01:27 pm
Photo: AFP.
Suicide blast at Kabul mosque kills 27, wounds 35 21 Nov 2016 - 12:41 pm
Afghan security forces keep watch in front of a mosque where an explosion happened in Kabul, Afghanistan November 21, 2016. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani.
15 Militants killed, 5 wounded in airstrikes in Afghan Laghman 21 Nov 2016 - 12:26 pm
Peninsula
'I was the only one alive' says India train survivor 21 Nov 2016 - 11:44 am
Rescue workers search for survivors at the site of Sunday's train derailment in Pukhrayan, south of Kanpur city, India November 21, 2016. REUTERS/Jitendra Prakash
Cambodia charges Australian nurse for running surrogacy clinic 21 Nov 2016 - 11:36 am
Tammy Davis-Charles being questioned. Photo: Cambodian National Police.
Gas explosion kills 4 at coal mine in central China 21 Nov 2016 - 11:23 am
Photo: AA.
Thailand to begin building late king's funeral pyre next year 21 Nov 2016 - 11:01 am
Peninsula
S. Korea, Japan to sign Intel-Sharing pact 21 Nov 2016 - 10:57 am
A police officer stands guard near Japan and South Korea national flags at a hotel in Tokyo, June 22, 2015. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
India train disaster toll rises to 142, more dead feared 21 Nov 2016 - 09:53 am
A railway employee cuts a railway track at the site of Sunday's train derailment in Pukhrayan, south of Kanpur city, India, November 21, 2016. REUTERS/Jitendra Prakash
India crash raises concerns of underinvestment in railway as toll hits 133 21 Nov 2016 - 08:42 am
Rescue worker and onlookers stand near the wreckage of the train on the damaged tracks where a train derailed near Pukhrayan in India's Kanpur district on November 21, 2016. AFP / SANJAY KANOJIA
Fed-up MH370 families to hunt for debris in Madagascar 21 Nov 2016 - 08:32 am
Peninsula
Taiwan says sees exchange with China's leader in APEC as positive 21 Nov 2016 - 08:18 am
Taiwan's representative James Soong reaches out to shake hands with Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (not pictured) as he arrives at the Lima Convention Centre for the APEC Leaders' Retreat on the last day of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (A
Stop the sprawl, teach slum dwellers to build skywards: leading Pakistani architect 20 Nov 2016 - 05:17 pm
AFP file photo
Photos: Traditional cockfight in Pakistan 20 Nov 2016 - 04:36 pm
Peninsula
Worst train disasters of the past two decades 20 Nov 2016 - 03:25 pm
Rescue workers search for survivors at the site of a train derailment in Pukhrayan, south of Kanpur city, India November 20, 2016. REUTERS/Jitendra Prakash
Train derails in north India, killing 104; many trapped 20 Nov 2016 - 02:20 pm
Rescue workers search for survivors at the site of a train derailment in Pukhrayan, south of Kanpur city, India November 20, 2016. REUTERS/Jitendra Prakash