-- 2018-06-19 18:04:07
The chief minister of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti, has resigned on Tuesday after the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) quit a coalition with her party. T...
-- 2018-06-19 16:42:42
At least 128 passengers were missing after a ferry sank in Indonesia’s Lake Toba on Monday evening, a search and rescue official said on Tuesday. “Many people have reported their relative...
-- 2018-06-19 15:19:23
At least six children were killed and one was rescued Tuesday after a car carrying them plunged into a roadside pond in India's eastern state of Bihar, officials said. The accident took place at Tara...
-- 2018-06-19 13:08:08
On June 24, when Saudi women are allowed to drive for the first time, Amira Abdulgader wants to be sitting at the wheel, the one in control, giving a ride to her mother beside her. “Sitting beh...
-- 2018-06-19 12:59:19
China has granted over $100 million in military aid to Cambodia, Cambodia’s Defence Ministry said on Tuesday, highlighting the strong ties between Beijing and a government that critics accuse of...
-- 2018-06-19 11:59:53
North Korea's Kim Jong-un is making a two-day visit to China, a week after meeting US President Donald Trump. It is expected he will discuss sanctions and the commitment he made at the summit, in gen...
-- 2018-06-18 21:41:07
An Indonesian woman has been killed and swallowed whole by a 7m (23ft) long python, say local authorities, reports BBC on Monday. Though such incidents are incredibly rare, this was the second python...
-- 2018-06-18 19:18:46
Three people were killed and hundreds injured on Monday after a powerful earthquake hit the area around Osaka, the country’s second-largest city of commerce. The earthquake also knocked over wa...
-- 2018-06-18 13:03:19
Philippine troops have clashed with remnants of a pro-Islamic State militant group that held a southern city for five months last year, the army said on Monday. Colonel Romeo Brawner, the deputy comm...
-- 2018-06-18 12:00:02
A widely welcomed three-day ceasefire between security forces and the Taliban in Afghanistan appears to be over. The Taliban said its militants had been ordered to take up arms again on Sunday night...
-- 2018-06-18 11:56:40
Syrian state TV is reporting that the US-led coalition has struck a military position in the country’s east, leaving several troops dead and wounded. The report early Monday says the airstrike...
-- 2018-06-18 11:21:02
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake shook Osaka, Japan’s second-biggest metropolis, early on Monday morning, killing three people, halting factory lines in a key industrial area and bursting water mains,...
Reuters 2018-06-18 09:51:00
Asian shares fell to a 2-1/2 week low on Monday after US President Donald Trump cranked up trade tensions by going ahead with tariffs on Chinese imports, prompting Beijing to immediately respond in ki...
-- 2018-06-17 19:10:15
A suicide bombing near the governor's office in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar has killed at least 14 people, officials say -- the second such bombing in the province in as many days, report...
-- 2018-06-17 18:42:39
The tragedy of the Rohingya Muslims of Burma began with the forced expulsion of more than a half-million Rohingya people from northern Rakhine state to neighboring Bangladesh, a brutal army operation...
-- 2018-06-17 18:06:16
NEW DELHI: India said Sunday (Jun 17) it was resuming military operations against rebels in disputed Kashmir after a rare 30-day suspension for Ramadan expired, with a top minister blaming militant...
-- 2018-06-17 16:39:55
SEOUL: South Korea and the United States are expected to announce the suspension of “large-scale” military drills this week, with the provision that they would restart if North Korea faile...
-- 2018-06-17 16:03:18
The death toll from a suicide bombing against a gathering of Taliban fighters celebrating a holiday cease-fire in Afghanistan has risen to 36, an official said Sunday. Najibullah Kamawal, director of...
-- 2018-06-17 13:54:51
Afghanistan’s High Peace Council will hold a news conference on Sunday amid an unprecedented Taliban ceasefire and a day after President Ashraf Ghani said he would extend a government ceasefire...
-- 2018-06-16 21:45:53
NEW DELHI: Incessant heavy rains throughout the week have led to flooding and landslides in Indian states of Assam, Tripura, Mizoram and Manipur, resulting in loss of at least 14 lives. Train service...
-- 2018-06-16 21:40:55
NEW DELHI: The Indian Union Cabinet has approved the proposal of Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) for the nomination of the Union Home Minister as ex-officio Chairm...
-- 2018-06-16 20:58:09
KABUL : A car bomb killed at least 20 people at a gathering of Taliban and Afghan armed forces in the eastern city of Nangarhar on Saturday, an official said, as soldiers and militants elsewhe...
-- 2018-06-16 20:50:21
KARACHI: An overwhelming number of Karachi's Bengali community remains out of the finalised electoral rolls for the general elections because they do not possess a CNIC, a prerequisite for bei...
-- 2018-06-16 18:05:58
SRINAGAR: At least one person was killed and about two dozen others wounded on Saturday as protests against Indian rule followed by clashes erupted in Indian-controlled Kashmir shortly after Eid praye...
-- 2018-06-16 17:30:18
ADEN : Forces from an Arab alliance entered the airport in Yemen’s main port city of Hodeidah Saturday, the coalition-backed Yemeni military said, in the biggest offensive in the war against the...
-- 2018-06-16 11:03:50
Police in Kashmir investigating the killing of a prominent journalist and two of his security guards arrested a suspect on Friday, an official said. Syed Shujaat Bukhari, editor of the Rising Kashmir...
-- 2018-06-15 21:28:03
India is facing its worst-ever water crisis, with some 600 million people facing acute water shortage, a government think-tank says. The Niti Aayog report, which draws on data from 24 of India's 29 s...
-- 2018-06-15 20:28:49
ADEN : Forces from an alliance of Arab states fought their way to the outskirts of the airport in Yemen’s main port city on Friday, as the Eid holiday saw a battle the United Nations fears could...
-- 2018-06-15 17:54:22
KUALA LUMPUR : Malaysian authorities investigating scandal-hit state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) are considering charging former prime minister Najib Razak with money laundering and misap...
-- 2018-06-15 17:31:25
Pakistani Taliban leader Mullah Fazlullah has been killed in a US-Afghan air strike in Afghanistan, a senior Afghan Defence Ministry official said on Friday, a killing likely to ease tension between t...
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