Bangkok: Captain Harmanpreet Kaur led from the front with an all-round show as India outplayed arch-rivals Pakistan by five wickets to remain the sole unbeaten team in the Women’s Asia Cup T20 tournament, here on Tuesday. Kaur bagged two crucial wickets helping India restrict Pakistan to 97 for seven inRead More

Seoul: South Korea’s scandal-hit President Park Geun-Hye said today she was willing to resign early and let parliament decide her fate, a move critics said was a bid to delay impending impeachment. Park has been engulfed in allegations of influence peddling and claims that tens of millions of dollars haveRead More

New York: President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named a vociferous Obamacare critic and an Indiana policy consultant to help him overhaul the US healthcare system. Republican Representative Tom Price, an orthopedic surgeon from Georgia, will be Trump`s Health and Human Services secretary, and consultant Seema Verma will lead the CentersRead More

Beijing: China today opened anew research and development centre in its eastern Shandong Province, aimed at solving technical challenges in domestic nuclear projects. The centre was jointly built in the coastal city of Yantai by three of China’s state-owned nuclear power companies — China General Nuclear Power Corporation, China NationalRead More

AMSTERDAM: The Dutch Parliament`s lower house voted on Tuesday to ban the wearing of face-covering clothes – such as burqas and niqabs – in some public places, making the Netherlands the latest European country to restrict garments worn by some Muslim women. The legislation, which still needs to be passedRead More

Brussels: Turkey`s EU Affairs Minister Omer Celik on Tuesday dismissed a European Parliament vote to freeze accession talks with Ankara as the “most unjust resolution in history” and urged solidarity instead. During a visit to Brussels, Celik sought to ease tensions exacerbated by the non-binding vote last week to haltRead More

London: More than 12,000 people signed a petition today demanding the withdrawal of Britain’s newly- issued plastic five-pound banknotes that are manufactured using animal fat. Vegans and vegetarians have expressed outrage at the use of tallow, a substance derived from animal fat and used in candles and soaps, in theRead More

Rawalpindi: General Qamar Javed Bajwa, an expert in PoK affairs, on Tuesday took over as Pakistan’s new Army chief succeeding Gen Raheel Sharif and promised to improve the tense situation at the Line of Control soon. Gen Raheel handed over the command of world’s sixth-largest Army by troop numbers toRead More

Moscow: The Russian foreign ministry has denied Pakistani media reports about it having `secret negotiations` with Pakistan for the creation of the China-Pakistan economic corridor (CPEC). A statement issued by Russia`s Foreign Affairs Ministry said Moscow is not discussing the possibility of joining this project with Islamabad. “Russia-Pakistan trade andRead More

Aden: Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi accused Shiite rebels and their allies on Tuesday of dashing hopes for peace after they unveiled a new government in areas under their control. Hadi said that Monday`s formation by the Iran-backed rebels of a government of national salvation showed their determination to “spreadRead More