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Sardar Patel kept India united: Modi INTERNATIONAL

Sardar Patel kept India united: Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday praised India’s first home minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, saying he played a great role in uniting the country after Independence.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Lawyers offer to fight Sharbat Gula’s case INTERNATIONAL

Lawyers offer to fight Sharbat Gula’s case

A number of organisations and lawyers are offering to defend Sharbat Gula, the Afghan woman arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for fraudulently obtaining Pakistan’s computerised national identity card (CNIC) in the court of law.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Driven to Dhaka by disasters, girls in Bangladesh forced into marriage INTERNATIONAL

Driven to Dhaka by disasters, girls in Bangladesh forced into marriage

It was after floods washed away her family’s river-front land in Bangladesh’s northern Jamalpur district that Brishti Rafiq’s widowed father brought her to live in Dhaka.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Police kill two Islamist party men in gunfights INTERNATIONAL

Police kill two Islamist party men in gunfights

Bangladesh police said yesterday they shot dead two members of the country’s largest Islamist party in gunfights, as a rights activist demanded an independent probe on concerns of extrajudicial killings.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Indonesian IS militant gets jail term INTERNATIONAL

Indonesian IS militant gets jail term

An Indonesian court yesterday jailed an Islamic State group supporter for eight years for his role in a deadly gun and suicide bombing attack in Jakarta, the latest extremist sentenced over the assault.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Qatar’s breakeven oil price of $60 at least 13% lower than GCC average, says IIF ECONOMY

Qatar’s breakeven oil price of $60 at least 13% lower than GCC average, says IIF

Qatar’s fiscal breakeven oil price of $60 a barrel this year is at least 13% lower than the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) average but higher than that of Kuwait and the UAE, according to the Institute of International Finance (IIF).

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Thai economy ‘recovering gradually’: Central bank ECONOMY

Thai economy ‘recovering gradually’: Central bank

Thailand’s economy is recovering gradually but is stronger than that of many countries, the central bank governor said yesterday, amid concerns that a year of mourning for revered King Bhumibol Adulaydej could affect tourism and consumption.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Court hearing GCC citizen’s rental dispute case ARABIA

Court hearing GCC citizen’s rental dispute case

A court is hearing a case wherein a young GCC citizen is involved in a dispute with a house owner over termination of a rent contract.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
England prepare for trial by India’s spin master Ashwin CULTURE

England prepare for trial by India’s spin master Ashwin

How good is Ravichandran Ashwin? To some the question is rhetorical, to others interrogative. After another spectacular performance against New Zealand, he is No1 in the ICC Test bowling rankings,

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Masjid: the fortress of Islamic faith SPORT

Masjid: the fortress of Islamic faith

The masjid is the fortress of faith; the guardian of virtues; the home of the pious; the meeting place of Muslims; the centre of consultation and mutual advice, and the first school from which the Muslim graduates.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Haiti tries to get hurricane aid right but cholera weighs INTERNATIONAL

Haiti tries to get hurricane aid right but cholera weighs

Foreign medics with orange stretchers and gallons of chlorine are stemming a cholera outbreak on Haiti’s hurricane-struck coast but the focus on a disease UN peacekeepers brought here six years ago is slowing the delivery of food and shelter for storm victims.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
HMC breast cancer awareness drive targets women above 45 ARABIA

HMC breast cancer awareness drive targets women above 45

Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) is taking part in the promotion of Breast Cancer Awareness Month and launching a nationwide ‘Early Detection Saves Lives’ campaign.

4:45 AM November 25 2016