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Indonesia to host international yoga festival

The Bali India Foundation will hold from March 3-10 an international yoga festival, that will also see experts discuss yoga in the light of Islam, the Jakarta Post said.

Major blast in Jakarta

The explosion occurred outside the Australian embassy.

Asian-African meet: 94 country heads to take part

8 of Bali Nine leaders executed by firing squad in Indonesia

"We've carried out the executions," an attorney general official told the Jakarta Post.

Was AirAsia at fault? Crashed plane did not get weather reports

AirAsia Indonesia allegedly violated standard procedures which resulted in the pilots of the airline's doomed plane not receiving a required weather report before takeoff, a media report has said citing leaked official documents.

Why are our passports so shabby?

'Why can't a country that builds and manages airports of acknowledged excellence at home and abroad produce passports of durable quality for its citizens?' asks Sunil Sethi.

#377: Don't look, but India is changing!

In the past decade-and-a-half, sections of urban India have become much more liberal about accepting gay men and women than our colonial-era laws might have suggested, says Rahul Jacob.

AirAsia QZ8501 crash: 2 more bodies found, debris spotted

Amid reports of sighting of more debris by a Russian search team, divers on Tuesday recovered two more bodies from choppy waters in the JavaSea, though there was still no trace of the crucial black box of the crashed AirAsia aircraft that crashed nine days ago.

3 bodies not 40 recovered in AirAsia search, says Indonesia rescue chief

After three days of intense search, debris of the missing AirAsia aircraft carrying 162 people was found on Tuesday in the Java Sea off Indonesia but only three bodies have been retrieved so far as the mystery remained over the cause of the crash.