YANGON: A court in military-ruled Myanmar ruled Tuesday that Aung San Suu Kyi can have an extra defence witness at her trial, but upheld a ban on testimony from two senior political figures, her party said. The Nobel-winning pro-democracy icon

GENEVA: The World Health Organisation warned on Tuesday that the world was on the verge of an official Influenza A(H1N1) pandemic, saying it was working to prepare countries for raising its alarm to the highest level. "We are getting very,

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A huge suicide truck bomb ripped through a luxury hotel on Tuesday killing 11 people and wounding 52 in Pakistan's Peshawar city, capital of a northwest province plagued by Taliban violence. Two foreigners were among the dead, provincial

MANILA: Steamy sex videos of a well-known cosmetic surgeon and his celebrity clients recently became the talk of the town in the Philippines. More than that, it has also highlighted the need for legislation to deal with such cyber crimes.

JAKARTA: A medical examination of a teenage US-Indonesian model who claimed she was raped and tortured by her Malaysian prince husband, has confirmed she was physically abused, a forensic expert said on Tuesday. Manohara Odelia Pinot, 17, last week told

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The decision was taken by bank unions at a meeting with IBA representatives, on the directive of chief labour commissioner, in Mumbai. UFBU is the umbrella body of bank unions in the country and consists of members from public, private

Can you imagine your life without a credit card? Whether it's to make payments online, shop till you drop, or for use as a lifeline in an emergency, the arrival of the credit card has been fortuitous both for the

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will meet heads of public sector banks on Wednesday to impress upon them the need to further moderate interest rates and also increase availability of credit to industry, suffering from the impact of the global downturn.

Does low-cost housing make economic sense? It seems to. Developers believe the loss in margins (20 per cent in affordable housing, against 50-300 per cent in case of premium housing) can be made up somewhat by the sheer volumes of

Giovanni Bisignani, CEO of International Air Transport Association, said Delhi and Mumbai airports were one of the worst contributors to the crisis, for their 207 per cent hike in charges. "There is no room for this nonsense in our future.

Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who work for California-based Internet broadcaster Current TV, were both convicted of an unspecified "grave crime" against the nation.

Pakistan's top and middle order fired to power them to 175 for five in their do-or-die Group B match against the Netherlands in the Twenty20 World Cup.

Australia admitted for the first time that some of the recent attacks on Indians in the country were 'racially motivated'.

A PIL filed in the Bombay High Court has sought to restrain Maharashtra government from extending benefits of reservation to the Maratha community.

After avoiding taking charge as Minister of State for over a week, Srikant Jena met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh amid indications that he may assume office in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers.