This afternoon more than a dozen Liberians are expected at the Samuel Doe sports stadium in the capital, Monrovia. In a makeshift classroom with some plastic chairs and a whiteboard their teacher, Li Peng, is waiting to finish the group’s second...

Two persons were killed and 10 persons, including three railway personnel and the Station Master, sustained injuries in an explosion on the platform of the Sholavandan railway station near here on Tuesday evening. The dead were identified as S....

Pakistani officials are saying that India’s launch of a nuclear-powered submarine over the weekend threatens regional peace. Pakistan’s complaint comes barely two weeks after it had agreed to resume peace talks with India. According to the...

The recent aborted voyage of a North Korean ship, photographs of massive tunnels and a top secret meeting have raised alarm bells that one of the world’s poorest nations may be aspiring to join the nuclear club — with help from its friends in...

Despite the election of younger heads of government in such countries as Britain, France, Germany, Japan and the United States, the face of politics in India is still one of relative seniority. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who has heart trouble, is...

In a stunning disclosure, a Madras High Court judge told an open court on Monday that a Union minister had called and tried to influence him to grant anticipatory bail to a medical student and his doctor-father in a CBI case concerning a forged...

INDIA and the world remember the protests by students and workers at the Tiananmen Square in Beijing and China’s ruthless suppression through tanks. But the world, particularly India, has forgotten the imposition of the Emergency which had...

Somehow Mr. Liu became stuck in the machine, his sister Liu Yan recalled during a tearful interview in a village near the factory. “When we got his body, his whole head was crushed,” Ms. Liu said. “We couldn’t even see his...

India has banned imports of mobile phones which do not have a unique international identification code. Cheap mobile handsets without the code and imported primarily from China and Taiwan are popular in India. Over 25 million such handsets are now in...

A day after India crashed out of T20 World Cup, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BBCI) came out in support of Team India and Rajiv Shukla skipper MS Dhoni. ( Watch ) While talking to reporters, BCCI’s media and finance committee...