Indian banks called in thousands of police on Thursday to manage huge queues outside branches, as people tried to exchange bank notes abruptly pulled out of circulation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a crackdown on "black money".
HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani attending the 16th consultative summit of the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC)
Croatian Ivo Karlovic became the oldest man to reach the third round of a grand slam for 25 years when the 37-year-old came through a marathon five-setter against Australian Jordan Thompson at the French Open yesterday.
Protests by an Indian caste demanding the release of one of its leaders turned violent on Sunday, as police fought running street battles with stone-throwing demonstrators and detained hundreds.
A disused aircraft of Air India was damaged when it fell from a crane transporting it at Begumpet Airport yesterday morning, officials said.
Amid growing black market operations, Nepal’s central bank has imposed tighter controls over the exchange of Nepalese currency for the Indian rupee.
A backhoe driver has described in chilling detail how he used the excavator to bury the 58 victims of the Philippines’ worst political massacre, according to a video aired yesterday.
