CHENNAI: There is quite a celebration in the two-room tenement where Shalini Munnuswamy lives with her parents. Rescued from bonded…
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party on Thursday won power for the first time in the northeastern…
MUMBAI: India’s much vaunted mobile telecom revolution has caused a lot of anguish at the country’s only toll-free emergency helpline…
TOKYO: An American working at a US military base on the Japanese island of Okinawa was arrested on Thursday on…
HONG KONG: A Hong Kong visit by a top leader of China’s Communist Party, which included talks with pro-democracy lawmakers,…
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s former rebel Maoists joined hands with hardline splinter groups to form a new political party on Thursday…
ARANAYAKA: Hopes faded on Thursday for the survival of about 130 people trapped under the mud and rubble of two…
ELANGAPITIYA VILLAGE: Soldiers and police used sticks and bare hands Wednesday to dig through enormous piles of mud covering houses…
Outside the train station in Rome, teen migrants sell drugs from school backpacks and trade sex for cash or clothes.…
MANILA: Communist rebel leaders welcomed on Wednesday a possible offer from the Philippines’ presumptive president-elect of four Cabinet posts, raising…