New Delhi: India needs reforms in the national interest and “hard decisions” will be pursued with people’s support, despite political opposition. This was...
New Delhi: India needs reforms in the national interest and “hard decisions” will be pursued with people’s support, despite political opposition. This was...
Kolkata: With union ministers belonging to the Trinamool Congress resigning yesterday, the Congress said its ministers in the West Bengal government will put...
New Delhi/MOSCOW: Russia admitted yesterday it would not be able to deliver to India by the year-end a refurbished but still-faulty Soviet-era aircraft...
NEW DELHI: The United States embassy in New Delhi was shut yesterday and employees were asked to stay on the compound due to...
Aligarh: Former Jammu and Kashmir governor S K Sinha yesterday accused the Indian government of scoring “self goals” in the state but not...
TOKYO: Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda stormed to victory in a party poll yesterday, vowing to revamp his troubled ruling Democratic Party of Japan...
SEOUL: South Korea said its navy patrol boats fired warning shots yesterday at six North Korean fishing boats that crossed their disputed Yellow...
YANGON: Hundreds of people gathered in Yangon yesterday calling for an end to the festering conflict between Kachin ethnic minority rebels and Myanmar’s...
BEIJING: Judgement will be passed on Chinese ex-police chief Wang Lijun for defection and other crimes on Monday, a court said as the...
SEOUL: South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak yesterday accepted an independent investigation into alleged irregularities surrounding a now-defunct project to build his retirement home...
BEIJING: China’s leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping sought to reassure Southeast Asian leaders yesterday that his country wanted only peaceful relations with them, following months...
Sai Buri: At least six people were killed and 40 more wounded yesterday after a car bomb exploded in a packed market in...
HANOI: Three high-profile Vietnamese bloggers, including one whose case has been raised by US President Barack Obama, are set to go on trial...
KARACHI: At least 15 people were killed and more than 200 wounded in Pakistan during violent protests yesterday condemning a US-made film insulting...
UNITED NATIONS: Afghanistan has called on Pakistan to halt cross-border shelling, warning the UN Security Council that the attacks could jeopardise already tense...
ISLAMABAD: For Pakistani lawmakers disqualified on account of having dual nationality, losing their seat is the least of their concerns. They would now...
WASHINGTON: The last of the 33,000 US soldiers that President Barack Obama sent to Afghanistan nearly three years ago as part of a...
KABUL: Flip flops with AK 47 bullet primers may seem an unusual fashion choice for US beach-goers, but one US special forces veteran...
