NEW DELHI: Stepping up the pressure on BlackBerry mobile phone services, government today asked phone-makers Research In Motion as well as telecom operators to provide a technical solution by August 31 or face ban.
In a …

The rupee sign, fresh from joining a select club of unique currency identities, is poised to invade the software lexicon and squeeze into computer keyboards as well as cellphones, a shift that will help ratchet up …

One of China’s biggest banks is on track to become the largest IPO in history.
Agricultural Bank of China, a lender which boasts more customers than the entire U.S. population, has raised $19.2 billion from investors, …

Thailand’s government has been urged to lift a state of emergency and drop terrorism charges against leaders of recent anti-government protests.
The International Crisis Group (ICG) warned the “legitimate frustrations” of protesters were “being forced underground …

Two suicide bombers have launched a deadly attack on a Sufi shrine in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore.
At least 42 people died in the blasts at the popular Data Darbar shrine late on Thursday …

Sensing trouble ahead of a proposed march by separatists, authorities today brought the entire Srinagar district under curfew even as they gave no relaxation in curfew-hit areas of south Kashmir. With overnight protests in the …

IT MAY not be the biggest diamond in the world but it certainly is the biggest to be unearthed from the Panna mines in Madhya Pradesh.
“We have found the biggest ever diamond. The diamond is …

Chinese people should soon find it easier to browse the web as domain names written in Chinese win approval.
Net address overseer Icann has approved the creation of domains that use only Chinese characters.
The decision builds …

North Korea is threatening to introduce a new nuclear deterrent because of US hostility, amid tensions over a sunken South Korean warship.
It also accused the US of taking weapons into Panmunjom, the truce village in …

President Obama and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency both reacted with skepticism on Sunday about the prospects for an Afghanistan peace deal pushed by Pakistan between the Afghan government and some Taliban militants.
While …