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Chinese still flock to 'lucky' Bangkok shrine hit by blast 31 Aug 2015 - 05:31 pm

BANGKOK: Two weeks on from the Bangkok bombing, the shrine devastated by the attack has lost none of its lustre for ethnic Chinese...

Lights out for Tokyo's modernist masterpiece Hotel Okura 31 Aug 2015 - 05:24 pm

TOKYO: Tokyo's sixties-era modernist masterpiece Hotel Okura, which hosted foreign leaders, royalty, celebrities and even James Bond, turned off the lights Monday, more...

6 soldiers killed in DR Congo ambush 31 Aug 2015 - 05:23 pm

GOMA: Six Congolese soldiers were killed on Monday in the Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province, a region where Rwandan Hutu rebels...

India should 'move towards' ending death penalty: Law Commission 31 Aug 2015 - 05:13 pm

NEW DELHI: India should "move towards" abolishing the death penalty and immediately restrict it to cases relating to terrorism and "waging war", the...

Merkel expects Greece to meet commitments for bailout package 31 Aug 2015 - 05:07 pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses an annual news conference in Berlin, Germany, August 31, 2015. BERLIN:German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that...

34 new cases of coronavirus recorded in Saudi Arabia 31 Aug 2015 - 05:05 pm

RIYADH: The Saudi Ministry of Health said in its weekly statement, it recorded 34 positive confirmed cases of respiratory Middle East syndrome virus...

India's economy grows by 7.0 percent in first quarter 31 Aug 2015 - 04:53 pm

NEW DELHI: India's economy grew by a slower than expected 7.0 percent in the first quarter, official figures showed Monday, adding to pressure...

Sisodia gets additional charge of Delhi's law ministry 31 Aug 2015 - 04:47 pm

NEW DELHI: Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia was given additional charge of the law ministry on Monday in a meeting presided over...

SC stays Rajasthan HC order on Jain practice Santhara 31 Aug 2015 - 04:41 pm

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday stayed a Rajasthan High Court order which held that the Jain custom of Santhara - a...

Black money: Swiss banks ask Indians to use compliance window 31 Aug 2015 - 03:40 pm

NEW DELHI: Swiss and other European banks have asked Indian customers to avail the ongoing one-time compliance window granted by the tax department...

Why $40 oil is killing Iraq, Venezuela and others, but not Russia 31 Aug 2015 - 03:06 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with journalists after submerging into the waters of the Black Sea inside a research bathyscaphe in Sevastopol, Crimea....

Myanmar's president signs off on law seen as targeting Muslims 31 Aug 2015 - 02:50 pm

File photo of Myanmar's President Thein Sein speaking at the Mekong-Five Economic Forum hosted by Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) in Tokyo, July...

Ukraine's parliament backs draft law giving east special status 31 Aug 2015 - 02:48 pm

A serviceman of the Ukrainian armed forces fires a weapon in the direction of positions of units of the armed forces of the...

Austria toughens border controls in trafficking clampdown 31 Aug 2015 - 01:42 pm

A truck, in which 71 migrants were found dead on a motorway near Parndorf, Austria August 27, 2015, is towed away. VIENNA/BUDAPEST: Austrian...

Unprecedented migrant crisis forces EU to seek answers 31 Aug 2015 - 01:05 pm

A Syrian migrant lifts a child over a fence on the Hungarian-Serbian border near Asotthalom, Hungary August 25, 2015. BY FOO YUN CHEE ...

Amitabh Bachchan's Twitter account hacked 31 Aug 2015 - 11:31 am

MUMBAI: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who is an active user of social networking services, says his Twitter handle has been hacked. The 72-year-old actor...