TweetNEW DELHI: Marine product exports are estimated to have grown by 20 per cent to $ 3.42 billion in the last fiscal on the back of increased shipments to South East Asia, Japan and the US. The country had shipped marine products worth $ 2.85 billion in 2010-11 financial year. "In 2011-12 fiscal...
Famed paceman Wasim Akram was upbeat Tuesday about growing signs that India and Pakistan are to resume cricketing ties, nearly four years after they were suspended following the 2008 terror attacks on Mumbai. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Zaka Ashraf is in India negotiating a revival of...
Tokyo's controversial nationalist governor said Tuesday his plan to buy islands at the centre of a festering territorial row with China was akin to locking the doors to keep a burglar out. Shintaro Ishihara told journalists that Beijing's drive to take control of what Japan knows as the Senkaku...
Tokyo has its best chance to host the Summer Olympics in 2020 and will face a long wait to bid for the Games again if it loses out, Japanese Olympic Committee president Tsunekazu Takeda said Tuesday. "If we ever miss this chance, we feel it will be quite difficult for Tokyo or Japan to invite the...
Singapore Open organisers searched for a new backer Tuesday after title sponsor Barclays pulled out, raising questions about the future of a tournament billed as "Asia's major". Officials said this November's US$6 million tournament, which is one of the region's richest golf events, was not in doubt...
Indonesian authorities have made their biggest ecstasy bust in 10 years, seizing more than one million pills with a street value estimated at $45 million,...
Six journalists and a PadangCouncil member were beaten up by a number of military-uniformed men in Padang, West Sumatra, at dusk on Tuesday. A number of locals were also reportedly attacked by the...
Islamabad: Police on Tuesday arrested a cleric accused of sentencing four married women and two men to death for allegedly singing and dancing at a wedding in the remote Kohistan district in northern Pakistan. The cleric, who was arrested along with a companion, however, denied he had issued any...
