Tamil activists' horror at what has become of Jaffna

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates says foreign aid donors must use their influence to tackle corruption in Afghanistan.

Filipino villages still deluged weeks after storms hit

India has declared that it has no objection if Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq goes to China but only on the condiction stapled visas on passports would not be valid for travel abroad.

India loses nearly Rs 70,000 crore due to road accidents every year and on an average 315 persons are killed and 5,000 seriously injured every day.

A girl attends class in a school in Qutbal, Pakistan. The country is witnessing a boom in private schools as parents look for alternatives to underfunded public schools and to the exclusively religiou...

Pushed to the backfoot by Opposition protests, the Centre blinked and announced it would roll back the controversial clause in the sugarcane-related amendments.

Since last year, the number of CAT III-compatible aircraft has gone up from 162 to 206. Airlines for long have been reluctant to train pilots in CAT-III operations citing costs.

Former Mumbai police commissioner Hasan Gafoor said there was a suggestion from a very senior police officer to call off the NSG as they were taking too much time to complete the operations.

SRINAGAR: Chairman of the Hurriyat Conference (moderate) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said on Friday that China had a stake in peace in the region, thus suggesting a role for it in the resolution of the Kashmi...

PARIS: Much as Pakistan has been trying to project in recent months that Francersquo;s initiative for a ldquo;strategic relationshiprdquo; with it was on the same lines as that with India, a top Fr...

England face the daunting task of taking on New Zealand as they attempt to get their uninspiring autumn campaign back on track on Saturday.

Will Clinton's approach to Afghan leader pay off?

Almost 20 years after India signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child, experts are now looking at the glass as half full, on indicators related to child survival and development.

Nestled in the Aravallis and about 190 kms from Delhi, Bal Ashram's four-acre campus is a different world from the sweat shops, factories and farms familiar to the kids.

Karnataka's Reddy brothers have been slammed by the Supreme Court's high-powered environment panel which has accused their Obulapuram Mining Company of indulging in largescale illegal mining.

Last Updated: November 20. 2009 11:42PM UAE / November 20. 2009 7:42PM GMT LAHORE // Pakistan yesterday strongly denied a US report that Mullah Omar, the head of the Afghan Taliban and a close confide...

LAHORE // Earlier this month, Abdul Malik, the mayor of Awaizi, was walking through the local market, about 16km south of the main north-west city of Peshawar. The market was bustling with shoppers ou...

Last Updated: November 20. 2009 11:42PM UAE / November 20. 2009 7:42PM GMT LAHORE // Pakistan yesterday strongly denied a US report that Mullah Omar, the head of the Afghan Taliban and a close confide...

LAHORE // Earlier this month, Abdul Malik, the mayor of Awaizi, was walking through the local market, about 16km south of the main north-west city of Peshawar. The market was bustling with shoppers ou...

KARACHI: President, Awami Tehrik (AT), Ayaz Latif Palijo, has bitterly criticised the announcement made from the platform of National Finance Commission (NFC) the other day that vital decisions about ...

The international conference of communist and workers' parties began amidst a call to intensify popular struggles and expand solidarities in the wake of the current world capitalist crisis.

Eight people crossing the Rohtang Pass on foot were killed on Friday when they were hit by a snow storm.

Pakistan faces a quot;demographic disasterquot; if its leaders fail to invest in a youth population that is disturbingly cynical about democracy, has greatest faith in the military and is resentful of western...

Mamata held a quiet, private dinner for bureaucrats from the West Bengal cadre on Wednesday at party MP and minister of state for surface transport Mukul Roy's residence.

Senior party leader M Venkaiah Naidu has strongly denied that he was turned down for the post of party chief by RSS.

On the back foot after Thursday's attack on a passenger train in Ghagra, the rebels apologised, saying it was carried out by "overzealous new recruits".

Environment minister Jairam Ramesh, known for courting controversy, said if there was a Nobel Prize for dirt and filth, India would get it.

Venturing far beyond where public figures have treaded on judicial corruption, the Dalai Lama during a lecture said, "Maybe in judiciary some pocket money... is working."

Washington, Nov 20 : Pakistan#039;s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) has helped Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar to flee from the border town of Quetta to the port city of Karachi, fearing that US dron...

Political parties representing minority Tamils and Muslims in Sri Lanka hold talks in Switzerland, the first since the end of the conflict.

A band of right-wing activists ransacked an Indian television station in the country's financial hub of Mumbai in an assault their party said was an act of retaliation against the channel's "bias" against their veteran leader.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_asia/~4/YgBsoIHfVqk" height="1" width="1"/

India backs plans for a massive increase in the amount of electricity it generates from solar power.

By Arun Kumar, Washington, Nov 20 : Expressing concern about the rise of terrorism in Pakistan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said India would like the United States to use all its influence with ...

(AP Photo/Naveed Sultan)Internally displaced Pakistani tribal women and their children, who fled their villages due to ongoing fighting between Pakistani security forces and Taliban militants, visit a...

Grant Elliott and Peter Fulton have won recalls to the New Zealand test squad, and given a preference for six specialist batsmen seem certain to be in the starting XI in Dunedin on Tuesday. The squad...

Lahore, Nov 20 (IANS) The Human Rights Committee of the Lahore High Court Bar Association has condemned suicide attacks and the use of violence against innocent lives, saying there is no justification in Islam for terrorism.

Pakistan (AP) -- A suspected U.S. missile strike killed at least eight militants Friday in northwestern Pakistan, officials said, the second attack this week in an area believed to hold many insurgent...

NEW DELHI -- Wearing white robes and a blue turban, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appeared relaxed this week as he discussed his upcoming state visit to Washington. Singh, 77, will meet Preside...

At least eight people have been killed in a suspected US missile attack targeting al-Qaeda-linked fighters in Pakistan#039;s mountains on the Afghan border. The strike on Friday came as Leon Panetta, the...

Islamabad, Nov 20 : Pakistan Foreign Office has denied reports regarding the presence of Taliban supreme leaders Mullah Omar in Pakistan.

Lahore, Nov 20 : The Lahore High Court has sought a detailed reply from the government on an application alleging that US security agency Black Water was indulging in illegal activities in Pakistan an...

Vietnamese officials deny blocking access to Facebook for the site's million users, instead blaming a technical fault.

Islamabad, Nov 20 (IANS) Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani Friday urged the US to fully share the contours of its road map on Afghanistan and incorporate Islamabad#039;s input in it.

Islamabad, Nov 20 : Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani during his meeting with the visiting CIA chief Leon Panetta stressed that the new US strategy for Afghanistan should not affect regional balance in South Asia.

Amritsar, Nov 20 : Under the aegis of the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy (IMTD), the US based NGO is preparing a blueprint for the quot;peace corridorquot; between India and Pakistan in order to support the safe and easy passage of pilgrims to Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib.

Anti-Americanism is peaking. Enemies of the state lurk around every corner, if the nationalist media is to be believed. President Asif Ali Zardari could hardly be more unpopular. Political insiders ma...

Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Friday asked Leon E. Panetta, the chief of U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), to share the American strategy with Pakistan, official said. U.S....

Pakistan#039;s security forces advanced further into the Taliban strongholds of South Waziristan tribal agency during the last 24 hours and killed five militants, the army said Friday in a daily press rel...

The Japanese government warns that deflation has returned to the country's economy for the first time since 2006.

Suicide Bomber Kills 19 in Pakistan Pakistani officials say a suspected U.S. drone attack has killed at least eight people in the country#039;s northwest. The officials say two missiles were fired at a...

Islamabad - A suspected US missile strike in Pakistan#039;s north-western tribal region on Friday killed at least eight militants, while 13 more died in clashes with Pakistani troops, officials said. The ...

New York Yankees Taiwanese right hander Wang Chien-ming yesterday said that he was ready to return to the mound after the surgical operation on his

New Vice Foreign Minister Shen Lyushun marked his debut appearance at the Legislative Yuan amid vehement verbal clashes with aides and lawmakers alike, reports said

Taiwan share prices closed down 0.99 percent yesterday as investors followed a retreat on Wall Street overnight, dealers said. The weighted index fell 77.01 points to

In a move to contribute to global wildlife conservation, Taiwan has again donated funds to Bird Life International (BLI) , a London-based organization working to

The American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) announced yesterday that the exhibition "Picturing America" will be shown throughout Taiwan to give local residents an understanding of

Taiwan's representative office in Sapporo will be opened Dec. 1, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) official said yesterday. The office will be officially known as

Premier Wu Den-yih stated yesterday that the time is not yet ripe for negotiations for a cross-strait "peace agreement" with the People's Republic of China

The ruling Kuomintang was likely to lose control over three counties in the Dec. 5 local elections, a poll said yesterday. The opposition Democratic Progressive Party

Former Interior Minister Yu Cheng-hsien was sentenced to two years in prison suspended for five years yesterday in one of the corruption scandals surrounding jailed

President Ma Ying-jeou said yesterday his administration plans to open a cultural center in Tokyo to facilitate the promotion of cultural exchanges between Taiwan and

ISLAMABAD: The CIA boss Leon Panetta today met Pakistan#039;s top civil and military leaders to discuss the war against terror and sharing of information between Washington and Islamabad to boost the c...

Lahore, Nov 20 (IANS) The Lahore High Court has sought a detailed reply from the

Manny Pacquiao returned home to a hero's welcome in his native Philippines on Friday after wresting the WBO welterweight title from Miguel Cotto on a 12th round technical knockout in Las Vegas.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_asia/~4/NaUS90YVNlk" height="1" width="1"/

Auckland, Nov 20: New Zealand fast bowler Shane Bond and batsman Peter Fulton have been included in the 13-man squad for the first of Three tests against Pakistan, starting in Dunedin on Tuesday.

Anti-Americanism is peaking. Enemies of the state lurk around every corner, if the nationalist media is to be believed. President Asif Ali Zardari could hardly be more unpopular. Political insiders ma...

Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar has shifted his base from Quetta to Karachi with the help of Pakistanrsquo;s Inter Services Intelligence, the Washington Times reports.

By Eli Lake, Sara A. Carter and Barbara Slavin THE WASHINGTON TIMES Mullah Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed leader of the Afghan Taliban, has fled a Pakistani city on the border with Afghanistan and found...

The unclaimed bodies of nine gunmen who were killed during the Mumbai attacks a year ago are still awaiting burial.

Sachin Tendulkar hits his 43rd Test century as the first match between India and Sri Lanka in Ahmedabad peters out into a draw.

A gunman went on a shooting spree on Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands on Friday, killing four people and wounding six others before turning a gun on himself, authorities said.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_asia/~4/fU2uARLiTQQ" height="1" width="1"/

Islamabad, Nov.20 : Islamabad police on Friday claimed to have arrested the mastermind of the suicide attack on the UN World Food Program building in which six UN officials were killed and dozen others were injured.

South Korea dampens speculation the country is willing to re-negotiate a free trade agreement with the US.

At least five people are killed in a shooting incident on Saipan, one of the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific.

The US launched a missile strike at Taliban rebels in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing eight of the Islamists

A former leader of the Tiananmen democracy protests, handed over by Hong Kong to China, goes on trial in what his supporters call political persecution.

Two Indian cricketers smash unique records

Srinagar, Nov 20 : About half a million migratory birds have arrived for their annual sojourn at the Hokersar wetlands in Kashmir from Central Asia.

Islamabad, Nov.20 : At least eight persons were killed in a suspected US drone attack in North Waziristan on Friday.

The chairman of the hardline faction of the separatist Hurriyat Conference in India-controlled Kashmiri, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, has been detained by police to prevent him from addressing a rally on Fr...

A suicide bomber self-detonated Friday morning next to the governor's house in the capital of Afghanistan's western Farah province, killing at least seven people, including a policeman, police said.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_asia/~4/EUl5uWzyROk" height="1" width="1"/

A suspected drone fired two missiles at a house in northwestern Pakistan on Friday morning, killing eight militants and wounding several others, officials said.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_asia/~4/0N67CWAtvZ8" height="1" width="1"/

Srinagar, Nov 20 (IANS) Leaders of the moderate faction of Jammu and Kashmir#039;s separatist Hurriyat Conference are divided on the efficacy of the #039;quiet#039; talks with the central government.

WASHINGTON: Fearing that Taliban supremo Mullah Omar might be targetted by US drones, Pakistan#039;s ISI has helped him to flee from the border town of Quetta to the mega port city of Karachi, where he...

London, Nov.20 : Pakistan cricket captain Younus Khan, who opted out of the New Zealand series citing need for rest, has announced his availability for the forthcoming Australia tour.

Rawalpindi, Nov.20 : Disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan has denied reports about correspondencing with a Washington Post journalist.

Rawalpindi, Nov. 20 : The Lahore High Court#039;s (LHC) Rawalpindi bench has asked the government to reach an out-of-court settlement with nuclear scientist Dr. A Q Khan with regard to his security.

At least eight suspected militants are killed in a US drone attack in north-western Pakistan, officials say.

South Korean model Daul Kim is found dead at her apartment in Paris, amid speculation she took her own life.

WASHINGTON: Two former students of Cadet College Hasan Abdal, currently living in Chicago, are being investigated for their possible involvement in Mumbai attacks last year in which more than 160 peop...

KABUL: President Asif Ali Zardari has asked the US to take Pakistan on board regarding its new policy on Afghanistan, as it would also have an impact on Pakistan.

KARACHI: The Fifth National Finance Commission (NFC) meeting in the city on Thursday decided in principle to make population, revenue, backwardness and ldquo;inverse density populationrdquo; (the less the p...

Bondrsquo;s selection Friday follows a two-year absence from the New Zealand Test team due to injury and his participation last year in the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL).

The war in Afghanistan is winnable, and corruption will be fought, Interior Minister Hanif Atmar told CNN's Christiane Amanpour, as President Hamid Karzai was being sworn in for a second five-year term in Kabul.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_asia/~4/TNs0W8rVo1c" height="1" width="1"/

Islamabad, Nov 20 (DPA) A roadside bomb killed three police officers and wounded six early Friday in Pakistan#039;s troubled north-western city of Peshawar, police said.

ISLAMABAD, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- A committee in south Pakistan organized an awareness walk for the children rights in the eve of the Universal Children#039;s Day on Friday. The walk on Thursday started fro...

At least three policemen have died in an explosion in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, police say.

A passenger train in India derails, killing at least two people, after Maoist rebels blow up a railway track, police say.

Washington Terming as quot;tragic,quot; Pakistan#039;s use of terror as state policy, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said India is ready to resolve all outstanding issues with the country on the condition that...

Philippine boxing champion Manny Pacquiao returns home to Manila after his latest win, and eyes a political future.

Former film star Brigitte Bardot urges Nepal's president to stop a ritual slaughter of animals in an upcoming religious festival.

Suspected Maoists blew up a railway track in eastern India, derailing a train packed with passengers less than a week ahead of regional elections opposed by the powerful rebels, authorities said.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_asia/~4/TWaoecZG_xI" height="1" width="1"/

Chinese spies are aggressively stealing secrets to help build up China's military and economic power, a US advisory panel says.

A North Korean describes life in the secret state's army