Hong Kong: Hong Kong called off talks with protesting students on Thursday, dealing a heavy blow to attempts to defuse a political crisis that has seen tens of thousands take to the streets to demand free elections and calling for leader Leung Chun-ying to resign. The government`s decision came asRead More

Beijing: The man in the olive drabs and oversized Soviet-style military cap who strode through South Korea`s main airport last week has climbed from an obscure desk job in North Korea to the most powerful position outside the ruling Kim family. Hwang Pyong So, now a top military aide to theRead More

Ankara: Pro-Kurdish protesters angered by the Turkish government`s lack of action against jihadists in Syria clashed for the third night running with police as the death toll from the violence rose to 22, officials said Thursday. To the fury of Turkey`s Kurds, Ankara has not intervened militarily against Islamic StateRead More

Sydney: A woman missing for more than two weeks in a rugged Australian rainforest has stumbled out alive after surviving on creek water and small fish, officials and reports said today. Shannon Fraser, 30, went missing on September 21 near the remote Josephine Falls in Queensland state after becoming disorientated,Read More

Yangon (Myanmar): The Thai pilot of a helicopter that went missing in a mountainous part of Myanmar almost two weeks ago has been found and taken to hospital. The pilot identified by Thai media as Chatchawal Thanthong arrived in Yangon late yesterday. He’d been flown from northern Kachin state afterRead More

Seoul: North Korea warned today of a “catastrophic” end in cross-border relations unless South Korea stops the planned launch of anti-Pyongyang leaflets marking a key political event this week in the communist country. South Korean activists plan to send anti-Pyongyang leaflets into the North from a site near the borderRead More

New Delhi, In the strongest warning yet over unabated ceasefire violations from across the border, india today asserted that Pakistan will not be able to bear the cost of this “adventurism” if it persists with such “unprovoked” aggression. “Pakistan in these attacks has clearly been the aggressor but it mustRead More

Srinagar, There has been no let-up in the tension along International Border (IB) in Jammu and Kashmir with at least 14 people, including three security men, sustaining injuries in the Pakistani troops’ heavy firing and shelling on Thursday. “Pakistani troops again resorted to unprovoked firing along the IB in Samba,Read More

Jammu, Pakistani troops continued breaching the ceasefire along for the fourth straight day in all seven sectors along the International Border. Pakistani rangers targeted 60 border outposts and over 80 villages. Another ceasefire violation by Pakistani troops along the International Border last night injured eight persons, including three BSF jawans.Read More

Manipal, Former chairman of Prasar Bharati and veteran journalist Madhav Vittal Kamath, popularly kmown as MV Kamath, died at Kasturba Hospital, Manipal on Thursday. He was 93. Kamath was the Washington correspondent of the Times of India from 1969 to 1978 and was also the editor of Illustrated Weekly ofRead More