KUALA LUMPUR/PHU QUOC ISLAND, VIETNAM: The disappearance of a Malaysian jetliner is an "unprecedented mystery", the country's civil aviation chief said on Monday, as a massive air and sea search now in its third day failed to find any trace of the plane or 239 people on board. Dozens of ships and

MUMBAI: The humble 50 paise coin is still legal tender, but could be close to extinction given that people refuse to accept it. From shopkeepers to traders, laundrymen, rickshaw drivers, bus commuters and provision store owners, the smallest denomination of the Indian currency is simply not accep

CHENNAI: None of India's 700 universities and 35,539 colleges has made it to the top 100 list of the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings released on Thursday. This means that academics don't think too highly of the capabilities and work of our higher educational institutions. The

LONDON: For an average Indian, living costs in Mumbai may be a nightmare. But the newWorldwide Cost of Living 2014 index has thrown up an interesting finding. India's city of dreams has emerged as the world's cheapest city to live in. The analysis takes into account the concept of value of money

Omission of Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's name from a US human rights report was no indication of a change in policy, a US official has reiterated. "There is no change in policy. There's no editing error," State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki told reporte

BANGALORE: Indian IT firms have been trying to scamper up the 'value chain' in the past few years, and the resultant increase in focus on verticals such as product design and emerging technologies like mobile and cloud is sending these tech giants on a talent hunt to the country's arts and design sc

NEW DELHI: Government approved on Friday the proposal to ensure Rs 1,000 minimummonthly pension under a scheme of retirement fund body EPFO that would immediately benefit 28 lakh pensioners. The decision to provide the entitlement under Employees' Pension Scheme-95, run by the Employees' Providen

LONDON: An internet security firm has stumbled upon a "mind boggling" and "Godzilla-sized" cache of personal data put up for sale on the online black market by hackers. One of the hacker attacks stole over 105 million records making it the single largest data breach in cybercrime history. The

NEW DELHI: More than 450 Indian migrants working in Qatar have died in the last two years, data shows as the Gulf state is under pressure over its rights record ahead of the 2022 World Cup. In response to a Right to Information request filed by AFP, the Indian embassy in Qatar gave figures detailin

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NEW DELHI: Nearly 20,000 people were killed on railway tracks across the country in 2013, Lok Sabha was informed on Thursday. While 19,997 persons died on tracks, 1,63,645 were prosecuted for trespassing last year, minister of state for railways Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said in a written reply.

Asadabad: The Taliban stormed an Afghan army outpost in the eastern Kunar province bordering Pakistan early today, killing 20 soldiers and kidnapping seven, an official said. The volatile border area is dominated by Taliban who often use improvised explosive devices to target soldiers, but today's a

NEW DELHI: For a country which till recently had a weak civil society movement, India is now witnessing a boom in the NGO sector. With a population of 1.2 billion, the country could well be the land of opportunities for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with the Central Bureau of Investigation c

PATNA: If you have an internet-enabled device and you are anywhere on the stretch from NIT-Patna on Ashok Rajpath to Danapur, you can now access the internet free of cost. Once known as a backward state, Bihar has made a strong bid for a mention on the world's infotech map as chief minister Nitis

Nokia's anticipated first Android phone, believed to be dubbed Nokia X (and codenamed Normandy), has again been listed on a Vietnamese online retailer. The alleged Nokia X has been listed with model number A110 and is priced at roughly $110 (Rs. 6,800 approximately). However, there is no word on

More than 850,000 people in Somalia are in desperate need of food and "in crisis and emergency conditions," the director of UN humanitarian operations said today. John Ging, who just returned from a three-day visit to Somalia, said another two million Somalis are considered to be "food insecure."

As part of its initiative to encourage Dubai residents to put their green footprint forward, the Dubai Municipality is encouraging everyone to go car-free on Wednesday. Directors of various Dubai government departments set the example by taking the Dubai Metro to work this morning. Talking to 

RIYADH: The death toll from the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus in the Kingdom hit 60 on Sunday after a 22-year-old succumbed to the disease, health officials said. The victim's death was announced by the Ministry of Health in each website, which described him as also sufferin