
At least 51 people have died in the sinking of an overcrowded boat carrying migrant workers in the sea off the Indonesian island of Batam. Polic...

An explosion has reportedly hit the center of Turkey’s southeastern city of Diyarbakir, which has been the scene of tensions between Ankara’s forces a...

The US military says it will deploy its Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system to South Korea within eight to 10 months.Vincent Brooks, th...

A senior Iranian commander says that the US is no longer the “number one power” in the world and, consequently, is unable to wage a direct war against...

The Madhya Pradesh government has ordered a judicial probe into the encounter of eight SIMI operatives in Bhopal. Retired justice SK Pande will head t...

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti yesterday reviewed the situation arising out of intermittent cross-border firing in the Jammu region ...

In Syria, rebels have renewed their bid to break a Government siege of eastern Aleppo, shelling regime-held parts of the city hours before a brief Rus...

UN migration agency, UNHCR has said, at least 240 migrants have drowned off the coast of Libya. UNHCR spokeswoman,Carlotta Sami, said in Italy that th...

Britain Government says, it will fight a High Court ruling that could frustrate its timetable for Brexit. Brexit Secretary, David Davis said in London...

Abhay Kumar On Friday evening Zakir Nagar’s rough and rugged road was crowded, as usual. Smoke from several kebab shops–set up along the road– ma...

The Indian Railways has set a target to achieve 100 per cent de-carbonisation, with 90 per cent electrification in next five years. Addressing an Inte...

7th Session of the Conference of Parties (COP7) to World Health Organization, WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) will be held from 7th...

The Information and Broadcasting Ministry’s inter-ministerial committee has recommended that news channel NDTV India be taken off air for 24 hours for...

The Paris Agreement to combat climate change agreed last year officially entered into force today, putting pressure on nearly 200 countries to start e...

New Delhi: The right group, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) has deplored the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan’s decisio...

India has announced that from next year, Nepalese students would be able to compete for seats in IITs.Announcing the new opportunity for the students ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for wider public debate on holding simultaneous elections for Lok Sabha and state assemblies. Speaking at the ...
The US presidential race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is getting tighter, although Clinton still holds an edge over Trump, an American ana...

At least 12 people have lost their lives and 30 others sustained injuries after a mortar shell landed in a wedding ceremony in Afghanistan’s northern ...

Yemen’s army and Popular Committees have killed several Saudi troops in the kingdom’s southern province of Najran, in retaliation for Riyadh's aggress...

JEDDAH: Daesh’s leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi’s call to his followers to attack Saudi Arabia is a joke, said Arab coalition’s spokesman Maj. Gen. Ahmed ...

Some activists have challenged the driving ban by getting behind the wheel and posting images of themselves online.Other Saudi women, howeve...

At least 12 people have been killed in rebel rocket and gunfire in western parts of the divided Syrian city of Aleppo, state media report.State media ...
A Saudi activist has begun a hunger strike after being kept in jail past his release date for an eight-year sentence, a human rights group said on Thursday.Khaled al-Omair had been due to be freed on ...

Amid Stand-off With China, IAF's C-17 Jet Lands 30 km From BorderAll India | Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Updated: November 03, 2016 18:47 IST b...

More than half of India's area is "vulnerable" to earthquakes and several of its cities are at "high risk", a catastrophe risk management firm said to...

The Election Commission (EC) has issued notices to Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel and 26 other AAP MLAs asking them why their Assembly membersh...

Outlining a 10-point agenda for renewing efforts for disaster risk reduction, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today stressed on encouraging involvement o...

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday reached the residence of Ram Kishan Grewal, who committed suicide over OROP.The suicide of Ram Kishan...

India has told the UN that its citizens have faced repeated inhuman terror attacks by "proxies" of Pakistan, which continues to abuse the concept of s...
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