At least 36 missing as boat capsizes in Godavari river

In Andhra Pradesh, at least 36 persons are said to be missing after a boat capsized in Godavari river in East Godavari district last evening. The...

UN Security Council discusses violence along Gaza-Israeli border

The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting last night to discuss the violence along the Gaza-Israeli border. The violence, whi...

N Korea cancels high-level talks with South Korea

North Korea has cancelled high-level talks with South Korea, scheduled for today, over Seoul's joint military exercises with the US. Some 100 war...

Bangladesh SC grants bail for former PM Khaleda Zia in corruption case

Bangladesh Supreme Court granted bail to former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia in a graft case today. The apex court has upheld the High Court's orde...

Col Rajyavardhan Rathore takes charge as new I&B Minister

Col Rajyavardhan Rathore on Tuesday took charge as the new Information and Broadcasting Minister. On Monday in a minor Cabinet reshuffle, Mr Rath...

It’s Not Just Hawaii: The U.S. Has 169 Volcanoes That Could Erupt

Volcanoes are full of tricks. They can build to a major eruption in a crescendo of shudders and spatters or explode with almost no warning. They can l...

Varanasi fly-over collapse: Four officers suspended

Four officers, including the Chief Project Manager of UP Bridge Corporation, have been suspended after two beams of an under construction fly-over col...

WB Panchayat elections: Re-polling underway in 568 booths

In West Bengal, re-polling is being held today in 568 panchayat election booths spread across 20 districts of the state.Voting began at 7 am and will ...

Earthquake: 3.8 quake strikes near Oakland

A shallow magnitude 3.8 earthquake was reported Monday evening two miles from Oakland, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred a...

Unusually severe Indian weather kills at least 66; more storms on the way

Ash cloud from Hawaii volcano sparks aviation red alert

North Korea threatens to cancel US summit

North Korea threatened Wednesday to cancel the forthcoming summit between leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump if Washington seeks to push Py...

WHO publishes its first essential diagnostics list

New Delhi: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has published its first 'essential diagnostics list', a catalogue of tests needed to diagnose the most ...

Israel envoy defends action on Gaza border

Ahmedabad: Defending the Israeli Army's action along the Gaza border which left 59 Palestinians dead, Israel's Ambassador to India, Daniel Carmon yest...

Melania Trump undergoes surgery for 'benign kidney condition'

Washington: US First Lady Melania Trump has undergone surgery for what the White House described as a "benign kidney condition" and was expected to re...

BJP, Congress to convene a legislative party meeting in Benguluru today

BJP, Congress and JD(S) have convened a legislative party meeting in Bengaluru today to elect their new leaders. Union Ministers JP Nadda and Dha...

US hedge fund eyes Bahrain as next distressed-debt target

Nakheel to open $217m Dubai waterfront project in Q4

Nakheel, a world-leading developer, said work on The Pointe, its Dh800-million ($217 million) waterfront dining and entertainment destination coming u...

Bahrain awards $390m construction, road tenders

Bahrain's Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning Ministry had awarded a total of 34 projects worth more than BD148 million ($390 million) du...

Iran prepared to expand cooperation with Estonia

At a meeting with Estonian Ambassador Marin Mõttus in Tehran on Wednesday, Iranian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Morteza Sarmadi expressed that Ira...

Mohammed bin Rashid pardons 700 prisoners ahead of Ramadan

DUBAI, 15th May, 2018 (WAM) -- His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, has ordered ...

Saudi Arabia 'rejects' US embassy transfer to Jerusalem

The Saudi Arabian government on Tuesday said it opposed the US decision to relocate its Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. "The kingdom reject...

Aadhaar card not mandatory for central government employees to get pension

Aadhaar card is not mandatory for central government employees to get their pension, minister of state for personnel Jitendra Singh has said.In 30th m...

Deadly clashes in Gaza are ‘unacceptable and inhuman’, says MSF

Turkish coast guard says 7 Afghan migrants die on sea crossing to Greece

Turkey’s coast guard says seven Afghan nationals died, including three children, while trying to cross into Greece, but that it managed to rescue 13 p...

Kuwaiti firm unveil plans for Birmingham’s tallest office tower

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath chopper forced to make emergency landing at a school, CM is Safe

In a major security lapse, the chopper carrying Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was today forced to land on a field instead of the makesh...

Why is Iran winning and Saudi Arabia losing?

Watch: Korean Asiana Flight Grazes Turkish Airlines Plane, Slices Jet's Tail

Korean airline Asiana was taxing on a tarmac Sunday on Turkey’s Istanbul Ataturk Airport when one of its wings was damaged after it collided with the ...

Middle East in crisis

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