New Delhi: Millions of anxious people armed with Rs 500 and 1,000 notes mobbed banks across India on Thursday to exchange or deposit...
New Delhi: Millions of anxious people armed with Rs 500 and 1,000 notes mobbed banks across India on Thursday to exchange or deposit...
KABUL, Afghanistan: Deported after decades living in Pakistan, the Afghan woman whose striking teenaged portrait became an icon of the Afghan refugee crisis...
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Indian banks called in thousands of police on Thursday to manage huge queues outside branches, as people tried to exchange bank...
KUALA LUMPUR: The Philippines on Thursday agreed to allow Malaysia and Indonesia to carry out “hot pursuits” in its territorial waters, as the...
NEW DELHI/TOKYO: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi headed to Japan on Thursday to seal a landmark nuclear energy pact and strengthen ties, as...
Beijing: Chinese courts Wednesday jailed almost 50 people over last year's giant explosions in the port of Tianjin that killed 165 people, state...
BEIJING: Donald Trump's upset election victory cracks open pressing strategic and economic questions in U.S.-China ties, and has likely surprised and worried Chinese ...
KABUL: The Afghan Taliban on Wednesday called on U.S. president-elect Donald Trump to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan. "Our message is that the...
SYDNEY: A 68-year-old British scuba diver expressed relief over his rescue after 17 hours lost at sea in shark-infested waters off Australia's northeast...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Indians struggled to pay for basics goods like food and fuel on Wednesday and wondered how to get hold of their...
Indian jeweler Bachhraj Bamalwa’s phone hasn’t stopped ringing since Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on national television that high-denomination bills will be withdrawn...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Pakistan on Wednesday deported Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed "Afghan Girl" whose 1985 photo in National Geographic became a symbol of her...
NEW DELHI: Authorities in New Delhi began revoking licences for thousands of older diesel vehicles on Tuesday and halted construction work on the...
LONDON: A young Afghan woman who went to the police station to report being raped was then raped by the district police commissioner...
MANILA: Jason Madarang, awaiting trial on a charge of drug use, is in a muggy, windowless cell in a Manila prison so overcrowded...
New Delhi: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered the withdrawal of 500 and 1,000 rupee notes from circulation on Tuesday in a shock...
Tokyo: A giant sinkhole appeared in the middle of a busy Japanese city on Tuesday, swallowing part of a five-lane street near the...
Sri Lankan wildlife officials rescued a massive crocodile on Monday after it got stuck in a canal in the southern city of Matara...
