Sri LANKA'S private bus operators and taxi drivers stopped work yesterday to protest government plans of a 50-fold increase in traffic fines to...
Sri LANKA'S private bus operators and taxi drivers stopped work yesterday to protest government plans of a 50-fold increase in traffic fines to...
Manila: China's coastguard rescued two Filipino fishermen from a capsized boat near a disputed South China Sea shoal yesterday, underlining the fast thawing...
Seoul: South Korea and Japan said yesterday they would impose new unilateral sanctions on North Korea over its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes,...
Beijing: China's top court yesterday cleared a man executed 21 years ago for murder -- more than a decade after another man confessed...
Phnom Penh: A Cambodian opposition leader who has spent months holed up in his party headquarters in a bid to avoid arrest was...
Within the next two years, Pakistan will have at least one laboratory that is up to international standards so that in case of...
Pakistan has produced a record high 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil recently after oil and gas exploration companies expedited efforts...
European Union (EU) Ambassador Jean Francois Cautain said that European Union (EU) will be offering ¤15m to Pakistan for conducting the next general...
Taliban militants have killed 23 civilians in Kandahar Province in the last 48 hours, an Afghan police official said. Gen. Abdul Raziq said...
New Delhi: Punjab Congress chief Capt Amarinder Singh and state Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal yesterday predicted result of the state polls,...
Bengaluru: The Karnataka government yesterday suspended two senior IAS officers for allegedly hoarding unaccounted cash in crores and bullion and gold jewellery at...
LONDON: A group of prominent religious leaders urged Australia on Thursday to introduce laws to ensure forced labour is not used to produce...
New Delhi: Across from the Red Fort of the Mughal emperors in the heart of Old Delhi, a small hospital run by followers...
HONG KONG/SINGAPORE: As the impounding of Singaporean troop carriers in Hong Kong exposes rising tensions between China and Singapore, the Lion City is...
New Delhi: India said old notes would no longer be accepted at petrol stations after Friday, fuelling anger over the scrapping of high...
Jakarta: More than 200,000 Indonesian Muslims prayed in unison and chanted Koranic verses Friday in the second major demonstration against Jakarta's Christian governor,...
Sydney: "Bad boy" pharmaceutical chief Martin Shkreli, who raised the cost of an HIV drug by 5,000 percent, has mocked a group of...
Bamiyan, Afghanistan: For centuries they stood, two monumental ancient statues of Buddha carved into the cliffs of Bamiyan, loved and revered by generations...
