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NEW DELHI: Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Sunday sought External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's intervention to ensure the safe return of about...

  SHANGHAI: A fire drill at a school in northwestern China left more than 190 people injured, nine critically, after participants inhaled smoke used...

Sahanagar Crematorium Keoratala, Kolkata KOLKATA: Aiming to help grieving families who have to wait in long queues to cremate body of their dear...

Representationall image BHUBANESWAR: At least nine persons were killed and 15 others injured when a mini-truck overturned in Odisha's Sundargarh district, police said...

By Ashish Mishra KONDAGAON/DHAMTARI, Chhattisgarh:  Born in a Gond tribal family in Kondagaon district in Chhattisgarh, two-year old Priyanka weighed only 5 kg...

    An Egyptian miltary convoy in the North Sinai provincial capital El-Arish (AFP)   CAIRO: Unidentified assailants gunned down an Egyptian police general on the...

People read newspapers hanging outside a kiosk in Omonia Square in central Athens, Greece, September 19, 2015. BY JEREMY GAUNT ATHENS: Alexis Tsipras,...

By Mohit Dubey LUCKNOW: It is undoubtedly the most keenly followed 'bromance' of Uttar Pradesh. Every time former Rajya Sabha member Amar Singh...

Members of the media look at confidential files on Indian nationalist and prominent figure of the Indian independence movement Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose,...

    Members of the Patel community run as they are dispersed by Indian police during a protest rally in Ahmedabad   Surat: Apprehending a potential...

Pakistani soldiers patrol outside Air Force base, a day after it was attacked by militants in Peshawar, yesterday. PESHAWAR: Pakistani jets killed 16...

A demonstrator from the New Democracy Movement (NDM) group wears a mask during the Democracy Monument  rally in Bangkok, Thailand, yesterday. BANGKOK: Hundreds...

Protesters hold placards against Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s controversial security bills near the National Diet in Tokyo, yesterday. Tokyo: Opposition groups yesterday...

Migrants crowd the border crossing between Rigonce in Slovenia and Hamica in Croatia yesterday. Beli Manastir, Croatia: Thousands of migrants sought their way...

Libyan Red Crescent workers in Tripoli port help migrants who were rescued after their boat sank off Libya.  Rome: Twenty rescue operations yesterday...

French President Francois Hollande speaks to journalists upon his arrival at Ibn Battouta airport in Boukhalef, 10km south of Tangiers, Morocco, yesterday.  Tangiers,...

    A vendor shows a t-shirt with the face of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera for sale in the popular and dangerous Tepito neighborhood...

A Palestinian youth shows how to abseil into one of the tunnels on the Gaza side after Egyptian forces flooded smuggling tunnels beneath...