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Shimla: A five-day winter session of the Himachal Pradesh assembly beginning today in Dharamsala town is likely to be stormy as the opposition...

New Delhi: In a bid to highlight the plight of the migrant labourers, who are now returning home following inconvenience caused by demonetisation,...

Lakhimpur-Kheri: A lost, scared, lone rhinoceros from Nepal, wandering around this district town for the past eight months, attacked villagers on Saturday night...

New Delhi: The Congress yesterday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to explain the circumstances behind the appointment of Lt Gen Bipin Rawat as...

Panaji: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar yesterday exhorted voters in the Catholic-dominated region of Salcete in south Goa not to fear the BJP. "No...

New Delhi: India and Tajikistan are committed to helping Afghanistan in its peace process, President Pranab Mukherjee has said. "We are committed to...

New Delhi: Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu yesterday said the progress of implementation of new urban missions was encouraging in 2016 and will...

The Hague: The ex-Yugoslav war crimes court will next year hear appeals by former Bosnian Croat leader Jadranko Prlic and five others, jailed...

Paris: A TURKISH national charged with murdering three female Kurdish rebels in Paris died, a French judicial source said yesterday, before his case...

Belgrade: DOZENS of migrants, mainly from Afghanistan, have been taken to hospital in Croatia after police stopped a van carrying 67 people, and...

Ankara: NATO does not want a Cold War, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told Germany’s Bild daily early yesterday. Stoltenberg’s remarks came before the Nato-Russia...

Berlin: German judges and state prosecutors need to crack down straight away on fake news disseminated through social media platforms such as Facebook...

La Paz: Bolivia’s ruling socialist party yesterday defied the results of a February referendum and backed President Evo Morales for a fourth term...

Charleston: Convicted murderer Dylann Roof will not ask jurors to take his mental health into consideration next month during the death penalty phase...

Sao Paulo: Lawyers for former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva yesterday criticised fourth corruption case brought against him after a judge...

Cannon Ball, North Dakota: Two weeks after a victory in their fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline, most protesters have cleared out of...

Cincinnati: THE surgeon who created the life-saving Heimlich manoeuvre for choking victims died in Cincinnati. Dr. Henry Heimlich was 96. His son, Phil,...

Whittier, California: A WOMAN was killed and five others were injured when a large eucalyptus tree fell on a wedding party taking photographs...