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New Delhi: Government is likely to notify this week the scheme giving tax dodgers another chance to come clean by paying 50 per cent of tax on junked...

Seoul: South Korean Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn began getting official briefings from aides of President Park Geun-hye on Monday, after assuming...

Islamabad: Pakistan's national carrier PIA on Monday grounded all 10 French-built ATR turboprop planes in its fleet, days after one of its flights...

Islamabad: Pakistan has named a new head of its powerful military Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), two weeks after replacing the chief of army...

Chennai: Authorities in India evacuated tens of thousands of people from low-lying areas and closed schools and colleges on Monday, as a cyclone barreled...

Beirut: The Syrian army made major advances in several more east Aleppo districts on Monday, a Syrian military source said, after taking the Sheikh Saeed...

Bhopal: Retired employees have been roped in by the Bank Note Press (BNP) at Dewas in Madhya Pradesh to meet the demand for new currency following the cash...

New Delhi: With the Centre and states again failing on Sunday to sort out contentious issue of dual control of assessees, the Goods and Services Tax (GST)...

WASHINGTON: US President-elect Donald Trump questioned whether the United States had to be bound by its long-standing position that Taiwan is part of...

Peshawar: A 29-year-old woman from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has become the first Pakistani female to join the Bomb Disposal Unit (BDU) in the restive province...