Over 100 people, including 93 labourers and an engineer, have been killed at the construction sites of Delhi Metro since its inception.

Woes of Indian students in Australia seem to be mounting with new scandal breaking that a large number of overseas students had copied their masters thesis.

Manmohan Singh told the Rajya Sabha that 'action has already started' for getting back black money belonging to Indians from Swiss banks.

India has been asking Pakistan to hand over 42 fugitives including Dawood Ibrahim but Islamabad has refused to cooperate, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna said.

SC has given 5 more months to Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the alleged role of Narendra Modi and other cabinet colleagues in the post-Godhra killings.

Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra dismissed PDP's allegation that Omar Abdullah was involved in the 2006 sex scandal.

UPA emphatically and vociferously defended the signing of the recent India-Pakistan joint statement in Sharm-el-Sheikh despite BJP's walkout.

In the backyard of a charming old house on the road leading to Bikfaya, an old man is sitting on a chair, sipping his coffee, and reading a bookmark-spiked tome entitled "What is Culture?" At 93, Phares Zoghbi enjoys a

Egypt’s Foreign Ministry this week lashed out at Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) leader MP Walid Jumblatt following the latter’s criticism of Egypt for hosting Israeli leaders to a ceremony to mark the anniversary of the Revolution of July 23. In

Lebanese Christian leaders are undertaking a significant political reconciliation, moved by a budding regional atmosphere of engagement, a push from Syria and the inescapable domestic electoral fate of a national unity cabinet, a number of analysts told The Daily Star

Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir reiterated Wednesday Bkirki’s support for reconciliation efforts among various Christian factions and welcomed a possible meeting with Marada Movement leader MP Sleiman Franjieh. He said Bkirki’s doors were open to all, including Franjieh.

The Shiite Amal Movement published on Wednesday the political document of its 12th convention in the hope of strengthening constructive political dialogue. Amal held its 12th convention under the title, "Martyrdom and Victory Convention-July 2006," earlier this month to discuss

Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom on Wednesday accused the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) of being the principal backer of Hizbullah after the group’s closest allies, Syria and Iran. In an interview published in the pan-Arab newspaper Al-Hayat, Shalom said

Lebanese politicians have agreed on the shape of a new coalition cabinet and will complete the allocation of ministerial portfolios within days, both Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and Premier designate Saad Hariri said Wednesday. Hariri aims to form a coalition

Troops struggled to crush an Islamist sect in northern Nigeria on Wednesday where fighting raged for a fourth day running, leaving around 300 people dead and forcing thousands from homes. Police sources said that fighting was concentrated in Maiduguri city,

A car bomb exploded outside a Civil Guard barracks in the northern Spanish city of Burgos on Wednesday, wounding 46 people, including children, in an attack authorities blamed on Basque separatist rebels ETA. The blast at around 4 a.m. ripped

South African municipal workers downed tools for a third day Wednesday as union leaders readied to mull a revised wage offer, with fresh anti-poverty protests erupting in poor towns. Workers prepared new marches through major cities, and residents of one

Nearly 10,000 Uighurs involved in deadly riots in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region went missing in one night, exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer said Wednesday, calling for an international investigation. Kadeer’s visit to Tokyo was condemned by China. The vice foreign

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah group threatened on Wednesday to arrest members of Hamas if the Islamist movement banned Fatah delegates in the Gaza Strip from attending a congress in the Occupied West Bank. Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip,

A Sudanese woman facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers in public made her first appearance in a court packed with supporters on Wednesday, in what her lawyer described as a test case in Sudan’s decency laws. There were chaotic scenes