Castrol has strengthened its position in football by signing a prestigious six-year deal as a FIFA World Cup Sponsor until 2014. The agreement awards the global lubricants company worldwide rights for the 2010 FIFA World CupT in South Africa, the

Ravi Upindranath Verma, who runs a transport business in neighbouring Navi Mumbai, used to call up random landline numbers in the north east suburb of Mulund posing as a MTNL vigilance officer and went ahead if a woman took the

June 30, Colombo: Sri Lanka's retiring Inspector General of Police Victor Perera called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Temple Trees today.

June 30, Colombo: Informed sources say that President Mahinda Rajapaksa had appointed outgoing Inspector General of Police Victor Perera as the Governor of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka.

June 30, Colombo: Senior Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Jayantha Wickremaratne assumes duties as the new Inspector General of Police (IGP) from tomorrow.

Sri Lankan forces Monday evening arrested around 60 Tamils, most of them who had their place of birt..

SRI LANKA`S army chief said on Monday that his forces have wiped out the conventional military capab..

Last month's earthquake in Sichuan, China, has caused some $6 billion in damage to the province's agricultural sector, severely affecting over 30 mill

Mumbai: The Indian rupee dropped by another 14 paise to nearly a 15-month low of 43.02/03 against the Greenback on fresh month-end dollar demand amid

New Delhi: Barely a month after hiking jet fuel prices by 18.5 per cent, state-run oil companies today again increased the rates of aviation turbine f

Voting in Zimbabwe on Friday has been marked by a campaign of state violence and intimidation in the run up to the presidential election. Amnesty Inte

All Party Hurriyat Conference Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Monday said that the taking possesion of forest land by the Amarnath Shrine Board was no

There is some good news for Indian agriculture. The official weather forecasting agency, India Meteorological Department (IMD) has revised its forecas

Karachi: A bludgeoning hundred by Sanath Jayasuriya (130) and an elegant century by Kumar Sangakkara (121) secured Sri Lanka a place in the final of t

New Delhi: With Samajwadi Party (SP) leadership showing signs of taking a decision over supporting the UPA government on nuclear deal if provided

Chances of the parliamentary session of Nepal's Constituent Assembly (CA) remain slim on Monday. The CA sitting which has been repeatedly disrupted by the Madhesi lawmakers has been scheduled for 4pm today. Although the major three parties had claimed to

Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML) General Secretary Jhala Nath Khanal on Monday said that the demand for 'one Madhes one state' will lead the country towards disintegration. Stating that the model for a new Nepal will be multiregional, Khanal

The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has said that peace in Pakistan's Northern Areas will be maintained at all costs. Reacting to reports of recent disturbances in the region, especially along the Karakoram Highway and in the border town of Sost,

Pakistan's Supreme Court today adjourned for two weeks the hearing of an appeal filed by the government against a High Court's order disqualifying former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from contesting the by-polls. The three-judge bench of the apex court adjourned

In a clear indication of the kind of power it has acquired in the volatile tribal regions of Pakistan, and in the country's North West Frontier Province, the Taliban has set up kangaroo courts to deliver its form of Islamic