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Akihito, 85, was the first Japanese monarch to take the throne under a post-war constitution that defines the emperor as a symbol of the people without political power. (Photo: AP)

Japanese Emperor Akihito to abdicate after three decades on throne

Akihito, who has had treatment for prostate cancer and heart surgery, said that his age would make it hard for him to...

30 April 2019 11:26 AM IST

The minister said that the security services believe that Christchurch attacks prompted the terrorists to hit on Easter maintaining that the attacks were being planned for quite some time. (Photo: AP)

Sri Lanka bans face veil after Easter carnage

Muslim women in Sri Lanka will not be allowed to wear any form of face veils in public.

30 April 2019 6:10 AM IST

There could be another wave of attacks, the head of ministerial security division (MSD), a unit of the police, said in a letter to lawmakers and other security sections. (Photo: AFP I Reuters)

Sri Lanka on alert for attacks by militants disguised in uniforms

MSD in a letter to lawmakers said that people in military uniforms and using a van could be involved in attacks.

29 April 2019 12:54 PM IST

President Joko Widodo talks about results of presidential and parliamentary elections. (Photo: ANI)

Indonesia elections: More than 270 staff dies from fatigue-related...

Approximately 80 per cent of the total 193 million voters cast their ballots in more than 8,00,000 polling stations...

29 April 2019 7:43 AM IST

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe (Photo: AFP)

Sri Lanka PM: Most linked to bombing slain or held

The authorities have said there are about 140 followers of the Islamic State group in the country.

29 April 2019 3:35 AM IST

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe (Photo: AFP)

Most Sri Lanka Islamist radicals killed or arrested: PM Ranil...

Three churches and three hotels were targeted by suicide bombers in the attacks in which at least 40 foreigners were...

28 April 2019 8:58 PM IST

I will never let you down, Zelensky told jubilant supporters at his campaign. (Photo:AP)

Ukraine's Zelensky turns down Putin's offer, welcomes agitated...

He pledged instead to "give citizenship to representatives of all nations that suffer from authoritarian and corrupt...

28 April 2019 6:26 PM IST

Security has been beefed up in Sri Lanka as the army increased its deployment by 1,300 to 6,300. (Photo: AP)

Father, 2 brothers of Sri Lanka's Easter blasts mastermind killed in...

Zainee Hashim, Rilwan Hashim and their father Mohamed Hashim, who were seen in a video circulating on social media...

28 April 2019 6:25 PM IST

Former Pakistan military ruler Pervez Musharraf. (Photo: AP)

'Musharraf unlikely to return to Pakistan to stand trial for treason'

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government had filed the treason case against Musharraf over imposition of...

28 April 2019 3:18 PM IST

The alleged plot briefly threatened to cause tension between Sri Lanka and India, after a report that Sirisena had accused Indias intelligence services of involvement - a claim New Delhi and Colombo have both denied. (Photo: File)

Easter bombings: Sri Lanka bans 2 terror groups, including NTJ

Sirisena took the decision under emergency regulations to ban the National Thowheeth Jama'ath and Jamathei Millathu...

28 April 2019 11:08 AM IST

Addressing the press conference, Imran Khan said: I came into politics 22 years ago because I believed that the potential of our country was not being realised. The Pakistan that I saw growing up deteriorated in front of my very eyes. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

PEMRA slaps Rs 1 mn fine on tv channel for airing prog on Pak PM's...

PEMRA also directed the channel to air an apology within 7 days through its prime time programme.

27 April 2019 5:37 PM IST

Dozens are feared dead after a landslide in northern Myanmars Kachin state engulfed jade miners. (File/ Representational image)

Blast in Ukraine's mine; 3 dead, 14 injured

The gas blast ripped through the mine in Yurievka village in the self-proclaimed Republic of Lugansk, which broke away...

26 April 2019 4:49 PM IST