Year: 2015

WASHINGTON: Newly discovered three-planet system holds clues to atmospheres of Earth-size worlds. Extrasolar planets are being discovered by the hundreds, ...

CHITWAN: Nepal police seized a large cache of hashish from a jeep at Bharatpur-1 in the district here the other ...

SYDNEY: The Australian stocks are surging strongly, with energy and resource stocks helped by a rebound in global oil prices ...

DHAKA: Bangladesh Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) seized a tiger hide and five deer hides and detained five people at Kalabagan ...

SEOUL: The South Korea stock market curved lower again on Monday, one session after it had hardly ended the three-day ...

HONG KONG: 2014 was the hottest year on record. The much-anticipated report by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

CHENNAI: Indian Customs ordered to release five customs officials of fabricating records to claim Rs 2.5 crore duty drawbacks, they ...

TOKYO: Ocean animals threatened with ‘major extinction that can be linked directly to human activity. A study conducted by scientists ...

MANILA: The joint forces of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) and the Philippine Army seized 6,000 sacks of smuggled rice ...

PARIS: According to new research in a series of journals, humans are now the chief drivers of change in the ...

OTTAWA: Flow of Canadian heavy crude to the U.S. Gulf Coast is sharply increasing. A combination of two pipelines is ...

BEIJING: The latest figures released by China’s ministry of industry and information technology showed a decrease in the country’s shipbuilding ...

LONDON: Brent crude oil traded around $50 per barrel on Monday, with a little bit support coming from declining U.S. ...

MOSCOW: Russia and Venezuela have agreed to increase cooperation in joint oil exploration projects and promised to work together to ...

JAKARTA:  A Nigerian, Daniel Enemuo, and four foreign nationals were executed by Indonesian authorities for drug trafficking-related offences. Another Nigerian, ...

BEIJING: Chinese police shot dead two ethnic Uighurs trying to cross the border with Vietnam, as the public security ministry ...

ISLAMABAD: After great success of crucial Historical Customs Clearance Evidence Data of five months --June to October -- now Customs ...

HARARE: Zimbabwe is currently reeling under an acute cash crunch and a debt of 9.9 billion. The figure is stated ...

DOHA: Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB), the Gulf state’s largest sharia-compliant lender by assets, reported a 30.4 per cent jump in ...

NEW YORK: Android 5.0 Lollipop update is getting released to more devices every week and today it is going to ...