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Representational image LAHORE:  Pakistan police said Saturday they have arrested and imprisoned a Christian man accused of blasphemy in Punjab. Blasphemy is a...

  Patna, Sep 5 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday announced that Bodh Gaya, which is considered the birthplace of Buddhism, would be...

HYDERABAD:  The All India Muslim Personal Law Board, the apex body of Indian Muslims, has decided to launch a nationwide campaign against attempts...

NEW DELHI: The government has decided to implement the One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme for veterans, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said here...

TOKYO:  The Japanese government on Saturday lifted the evacuation order for the first town near the crippled Fukushima reactors, more than four years...

COLOMBO: A lawyer for the Maldives' jailed former president was stabbed in the islands' capital ahead of a visit by his international legal...

Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe (right) takes oath as he is sworn in as minister of policy planning and economic affairs in...

Abuja: Over 2.1 million people are internally displaced in northeast Nigeria after a spike in a six-year insurgency by the Boko Haram group,...

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday lauded the contribution of the Czech people during World War II in a meeting with the country’s...

KABUL: Rahim Khan’s return to Afghanistan 28 years after fleeing to Pakistan was not the homecoming he had dreamed of. The 60-year-old is...

Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani (centre) poses for a photograph with foreign delegation at the Regional Economic Cooperation Conference of Afghanistan in Kabul, yesterday.

Police wields baton-charge at protesting members of the Nishad community in Patnaa, yesterday.   Patna: At least 50 people, including 12 police officers, were...

  New Delhi: The Delhi High Court yesterday asked New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) to apprise it on what basis it decided to change...

New Delhi: Nestle India Chief Suresh Narayanan yesterday said the Indian arm of the company is trying to get Maggi noodles back into...

  New Delhi: “I am just your Mukherjee sir. I am not the president of India or a politician now. I would be happy...

New Delhi: Rejecting criticism that it was acting like a "remote control", the RSS said yesterday that the Narendra Modi government was on...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets with UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan in New Delhi yesterday.   New Delhi: India yesterday...

Geeta (in pink dress) descends along with others after a case hearing at district city court in Karachi, yesterday.   KARACHI: A Pakistani court...