Dhaka: Nervous, pale and sleep deprived, Bangladesh blogger Shammi Haque describes living in constant fear after four of her colleagues were hacked to...
Dhaka: Nervous, pale and sleep deprived, Bangladesh blogger Shammi Haque describes living in constant fear after four of her colleagues were hacked to...
Bangkok: A Thai court last Friday sentenced four men to life imprisonment over the death of three people, including two children, in a...
Devotees wait in a queue to offer prayers on the occasion of Janmashtami festival at Birla Temple in New Delhi, yesterday. New Delhi:...
A navjote ceremony in progress KARACHI: For more than 1,000 years, Parsis have thrived in South Asia but an ageing population and emigration...
NEW YORK: Two Pakistani brothers were extradited to New York on Friday to face charges that they conspired to smuggle heroin into America...
Representational image LAHORE: Pakistan police said Saturday they have arrested and imprisoned a Christian man accused of blasphemy in Punjab. Blasphemy is a...
Patna, Sep 5 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday announced that Bodh Gaya, which is considered the birthplace of Buddhism, would be...
HYDERABAD: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board, the apex body of Indian Muslims, has decided to launch a nationwide campaign against attempts...
NEW DELHI: The government has decided to implement the One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme for veterans, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said here...
TOKYO: The Japanese government on Saturday lifted the evacuation order for the first town near the crippled Fukushima reactors, more than four years...
COLOMBO: A lawyer for the Maldives' jailed former president was stabbed in the islands' capital ahead of a visit by his international legal...
Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe (right) takes oath as he is sworn in as minister of policy planning and economic affairs in...
Abuja: Over 2.1 million people are internally displaced in northeast Nigeria after a spike in a six-year insurgency by the Boko Haram group,...
BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday lauded the contribution of the Czech people during World War II in a meeting with the country’s...
KABUL: Rahim Khan’s return to Afghanistan 28 years after fleeing to Pakistan was not the homecoming he had dreamed of. The 60-year-old is...
Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani (centre) poses for a photograph with foreign delegation at the Regional Economic Cooperation Conference of Afghanistan in Kabul, yesterday.
Police wields baton-charge at protesting members of the Nishad community in Patnaa, yesterday. Patna: At least 50 people, including 12 police officers, were...
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court yesterday asked New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) to apprise it on what basis it decided to change...
