Kenyan rule continues in Bangalore

NAIROBI, Kenya: Police shot dead a couple suspected to be terrorists after they threw four grenades, wounding five officers in an overnight standoff, a police official said yesterday. Following a tip, investigators raided the apartment where the ...

This morning's TCS World 10K Bangalore 2013 saw Kenyan runners Alex Oloitiptip and Gladys Cherono win the overall men and women titles. 23 year-old Oloitiptip was not tipped the emerge winner going into the race but did finish with a time of 28.07 ...

Even as the Ruia-promoted Essar Energy plans to pump in $1 billion for upgrading its Mombasa-based (KPRL), the future of the refinery is said to be under threat. Next week, a meeting between the two shareholders, the Kenyan government and Essar ...

The rhythm of running is ingrained in his surname but it was his tactics that made all the difference on Sunday. Alex Oloitiptip, putting to good use his knowledge of the conditions, led another commanding Kenyan show at the TCS World 10K even as thousands of ...

When the Supreme Court decided against those who were contesting the election of Uhuru Kenyatta anticipated jubilation broke out in Jubilee's ethnic strongholds. Gloom overcame other parts of Kenya. This was the natural reaction and continues to ...

Several months before Kenya's recent general election, Presidential contender Raila Odinga was in Uganda, fraternising with different politicians who have been associated with Uganda's endemic corruption, which left me afraid that an Odinga Victory ...

In a plot that might have come straight from a Bollywood film, the spoilt son of an Indian-origin Kenyan businessman, studying in Britain, staged his own kidnapping to extort more than £600,000 in gold bullion from his father to fund his lavish ...

Former Kenya MP Mukhisa Kituyi has been put forward to serve as the new secretary-general of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) for a four years term beginning United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon nominated Kituyi, ...

Lawyers for Kenyans tortured during a rebellion against colonial rule in the 1950s said Monday that they are negotiating with the British government over a possible settlement. An agreement to pay compensation could have broad implications for thousands of ...