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  • egypt s morsi faces fresh trial for insulting judiciary

    Egypt's Morsi faces fresh trial for 'insulting judiciary'

    World | January 19, 2014 22:12 IST

    Cairo: Ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and 25 others, including liberal activists and journalists, will be tried for “insulting the judiciary”, the fourth case slapped on the Islamist leader.  Attorney General Hisham Barakat has referred

  • 98.1 per cent voters in egypt approve new constitution in

    98.1 per cent voters in Egypt approve new constitution in referendum

    World | January 19, 2014 9:50 IST

    Cairo: An overwhelming 98.1 per cent of voters approved Egypt's new constitution in a nationwide referendum, widely seen as a vote on a likely presidential bid by army chief Gen Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.The Supreme Electoral

  • know about egypt s latest terror suspect puppet abla fahita

    Know about Egypt's latest terror suspect, puppet Abla Fahita

    World | January 15, 2014 6:31 IST

    New Delhi: Believe it or not, Egypt's prosecutors have not even spared toys and have accused them for spreading terrorism. The infamous Egypt puppet, Abla Fahita which features on television is the latest terror suspect.Abla

  • powerful bombing at egypt police station kills 14

    Powerful bombing at Egypt police station kills 14

    World | December 24, 2013 16:17 IST

    Mansoura: A powerful explosion believed to be caused by a car bomb ripped through a police headquarters in a Nile Delta city north of Cairo early on Tuesday, killing 14 people and wounding more than

  • egypt forms panel to probe post morsi violence

    Egypt forms panel to probe post-Morsi violence

    World | December 23, 2013 12:04 IST

    Cairo : Egypt's interim President Adly Mansour ordered to form a fact-finding committee to investigate the violence that broke out after the ouster of former president Mohamed Morsi, a state-run website reported.Mansour issued a presidential

  • egypt s morsi faces trial for prison break murder

    Egypt's Morsi faces trial for prison break, murder

    World | December 21, 2013 19:25 IST

    Cairo: Ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and 132 others, including members of Hamas and Hezbollah, will face trial for a prison break and murder of police officers during the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak,

  • suicide car bomber kills 11 soldiers in egypt

    Suicide car bomber kills 11 soldiers in Egypt

    World | November 21, 2013 7:08 IST

    Cairo: A suicide car bomb hit a bus convoy of off-duty Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday, killing 11 and wounding 37, in the latest of a stepped-up wave of attacks blamed on

  • 27 killed in train accident in egypt

    27 killed in train accident in Egypt

    World | November 18, 2013 20:53 IST

    Cairo: At least 27 people were killed and 32 injured when a freight train crashed into a mini-bus and a truck near Egypt's capital Cairo in the early hours of Monday, the head of the

  • football matches a security test for troubled egypt

    Football matches a security test for troubled Egypt

    Football | November 09, 2013 11:28 IST

    Cairo: Two international football matches, including a World Cup playoff, are set to take place in Egypt's turbulent capital, putting security there to the test after violent street protests and bloody security crackdowns followed a

  • kerry in egypt on first visit since morsi ouster

    Kerry in Egypt on first visit since Morsi ouster

    World | November 03, 2013 16:44 IST

    Cairo: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was in Cairo on Sunday pressing for reforms during the highest-level American visit to Egypt since the ouster of the country's first democratically elected president.   The Egyptian military's

  • judges in egypt withdraw from muslim brotherhood chief

    Judges in Egypt withdraw from Muslim Brotherhood chief Badei's trial

    World | October 29, 2013 21:33 IST

    Cairo: Judges presiding in a trial of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood leaders have stepped down from the proceedings without giving any reason for their move, a court official said.The official said the decision was announced by

  • ten hidden facts of egypt s mysterious queen cleopatra

    Ten hidden facts of Egypt's mysterious queen-Cleopatra

    World | October 02, 2014 8:55 IST

    New Delhi: No other queen of the ancient world carries with her the intrigue of Egypt's Queen Cleopatra. Her life, her romantic encounters have given her a magical appeal that has captivated the world ever since.Over

  • deadly egyptian soccer riots of 2012

    Deadly Egyptian soccer riots of 2012

    Football | January 28, 2014 7:56 IST

    New Delhi: Soccer is the world's most popular Olympic sport, but  in Port Said, Egypt, on 1st Feb, 2012,  people who called themselves lovers of soccer  turned their favourite game into an ugly one. The

  • egypt 51 killed in new bout of street violence

    Egypt: 51 killed in new bout of street violence

    World | October 07, 2013 7:44 IST

    Cairo : Security forces and Islamist protesters clashed around the country Sunday, leaving 51 killed, as a national holiday celebrating the military turned to mayhem. Crowds from Egypt's two rival camps—supporters of the ousted Islamist

  • egypt to hold world cup playoff in cairo

    Egypt to hold World Cup playoff in Cairo

    Football | September 26, 2013 14:04 IST

    Egypt's national football team will play in Cairo for the first time in two years, and for a spot in the World Cup.   The Egyptian football association decided Wednesday to hold the second leg of

  • egypt bans muslim brotherhood group

    Egypt bans Muslim Brotherhood group

    World | September 23, 2013 21:30 IST

    Cairo: An Egyptian court on Monday ordered the Muslim Brotherhood to be banned and its assets confiscated in a dramatic escalation of a crackdown by the military-backed government against supporters of the ousted Islamist president

  • know about the secrets of sunken city of egypt heracleion

    Know about the secrets of sunken city of Egypt, Heracleion

    World | June 22, 2014 7:22 IST

    New Delhi: You must have heard about the Lost city of Atlantis which got submerged into the sea mysteriously and discovered by the archeologists in the recent past. But there is another interesting yet mysterious

  • egypt reopens gaza border

    Egypt reopens Gaza border

    World | September 19, 2013 7:59 IST

    Gaza: Egypt reopened its Rafah crossing with the Gaza Strip Wednesday after seven days of closure, allowing a limited number of people to leave and return to the Palestinian coastal enclave through its main border

  • egypt extends emergency laws

    Egypt extends emergency laws

    World | September 12, 2013 20:31 IST

    Cairo: Egypt's interim president on Thursday extended a nationwide state of emergency by two months, citing security conditions.The nearly month-old state of emergency, which gives security forces greater powers of arrest, had been due to

  • egypt declares new supreme election commission

    Egypt declares new supreme election commission

    World | September 12, 2013 9:12 IST

    Cairo: Egypt's interim President Adli Mansour issued a decree to form the Supreme Elections Commission (SEC), tasked with supervising parliamentary and presidential elections in the country.The SEC, presided by the head of Cairo Appeal Court,

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