Mumbai--A day after Maharashtra government passed a diktat for schools to remain open on Sunday, June 21, to mark International Yoga Day, several...
Mumbai--A day after Maharashtra government passed a diktat for schools to remain open on Sunday, June 21, to mark International Yoga Day, several...
Chandigarh--The Centre has asked the Punjab government to either remove Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s pictures from the 108 ambulances or forgo a...
Jaipur--As Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje flagged off the inaugural run of Jaipur Metro on Wednesday morning, the event became much of a political...
Aizawl--Eighteen people from four families who undertook a journey on foot to China from Mizoram to escape the UID program and what they...
Basirhat (west Bengal)--Sitting in his office in Hasnabad in West Bengal’s Basirhat district, BSF deputy commandant Sudhir Kumar is thinking of new ways...
Bujumbura, Burundi--Opposition parties in Burundi said Wednesday they are ready to resume talks to find a solution to the weeks-long political crisis triggered...
Geneva--The United Nations on Wednesday condemned Myanmar's jailing of a writer for urging religious tolerance, calling on authorities to release him and instead...
KUWAIT CITY--Kuwait's parliament Wednesday backed legislation stipulating 10-year jail terms and fines of up to $165,000 for online crimes, especially those related to...
Jianli, China--Rescuers Wednesday started cutting through the hull of a capsized Chinese cruise ship, state media said, in a desperate effort to find...
Jerusalem--Israel has lodged a formal protest with Bern over Swiss funding for an exhibit by an Israeli NGO critical of the army's conduct...
Berlin--Germany's finance minister said Wednesday that a Greek reform proposal in talks with creditors to prevent a debt default initially confirmed his pessimism...
Kiev--Ukraine's army on Wednesday accused pro-Russian forces of launching a big new attack against government positions in breach of a shaky ceasefire. Rebel...
Bonn--As frustration grows with the protracted political process of penning a world climate pact for 2020, rich nations face ever-louder calls to take...
Washington--Former US President George W. Bush is now more popular than his successor Barack Obama, according to a CNN/ORC poll released Wednesday. The...
Dammam, Saudi Arabia--Prompted by fears of another deadly suicide attack on a Shiite mosque in Saudi Arabia, cranes were lowering concrete barricades into...
Brussels--Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras headed for last-ditch talks with European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker in Brussels on Wednesday to lay the ground...
KATMANDU: Nepalese Minister of Labor and Employment, Tek Bahadur Gurung today met Qatar's Ambassador to Nepal, Ahmed Jassim Al Hamar and praised the...
Beirut--Thousands of Iranian and Iraqi fighters have been deployed in Syria in past weeks to bolster the defences of Damascus and its surroundings,...
