Chairman of Nepal’s ruling Maoist party Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda hinted on Friday that the country might have to wait longer to get a new constitution and complete the peace process.
Bomb and gun attacks in Iraq have killed nine people, including a mayor, four soldiers and two family members of a Shiite cleric, and wounded 22 others, security officials said on Wednesday.
The Pakistani Taliban have threatened to attack installations of Shell Pakistan and the state-run Pakistan State Oil if the two firms do not pay a total of Rs. 400 million within 20 days as extortion money, a media report said today.
Al Qaeda has confirmed the death of US-born Yemeni militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in a CIA drone strike but vowed to avenge his killing, described by President Barack Obama as a "major blow" to the terror network.
With the Gulf countries embarking on knowledge-based economic expansion, India and the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council have the opportunity to play a key role in each other's bid to achieve accelerated economic growth, external affairs Minister S M Krishna has said.
It was Wen’s idea to make young people understand the significance of Indo-China relations. Reshma Patil reports.
The Bush Administration had told former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf in 2001 to take certain steps on Kashmir to bring down tensions with India, but these have been blackened in the latest US declassified documents released today.
Two enraged young Libyans barged into their embassy in the Philippine capital today to try to evict diplomats they suspect remain loyal to ousted dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
Nepal was supposed to have a new constitution on Wednesday. Instead the country got another extension of the Constituent Assembly's tenure — three more months to complete the peace process and deliver the statute.
Sri Lanka today announced the lifting of the state of emergency imposed nearly 30 years ago to confront the threat from the Tamil Tigers.
A bomb hidden in a scrap metal shop blew up in a market in southern Afghanistan today, killing two civilians on Monday, officials said.
Time to bury the hatchet
Three Asian countries are in the middle of political maelstroms. India is rooted in an unending welter of scams, Pakistan's caught in institutional breakdown and Nepal is unable to give itself a republican constitution, writes
Vinod Sharma.
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Terminal 3Thailand's army today said that a third military helicopter has crashed near the country's border with Myanmar in less than a week and that three troops are feared dead.
Nuclear envoys from North and South Korea held talks today in the Indonesian island of Bali, the foreign ministry said, for the first time since six-party nuclear negotiations collapsed in December 2008.
Malaysian police said they will shut major roads and suspend public transportation into Kuala Lumpur's city center to thwart opposition backed activists, who vowed today to press ahead with a banned rally for electoral reforms.