Military operation to recapture Mosul from IS begins in Iraq
In Iraq, a military operation to recapture the Iraqi city of Mosul from Islamic State terror group has begun, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says. Mr ...
15 people killed in torrential rains in Vietnam
In Vietnam, at least 15 people have died after torrential rains caused severe flooding across four central provinces and displaced thousands of people...
Aung San Suu Kyi to arrive in New Delhi today
The State Counselor of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi will arrive in New Delhi today. She reached India yesterday to attend the BRICS-BIMSTEC Outreach Summi...
Cauvery Technical team to submit report to Supreme Court today
The high level central technical team led by central water commission chairman G S Jha will submit its findings and report to Supreme Court today. The...
Govt to bring new Consumer Protection law to check misleading ads
Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan has said that the government will bring a new Consumer Protection law in the upcoming Parliament s...
BRICS nations sought IMF to bridge financing gap in economic growth of developing nations
BRICS nation have sought a strong quota-based and adequately resourced IMF to bridge the financing gap in infrastructure development to push economic ...
Modi calls for early adoption of Comprehensive Convention on International Terrrorism
Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for early adoption of the draft Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism in UN, saying doing so will be...
BRICS Summit condemns terrorism and recognised it as a global terrorism
The two-day BRICS Summit concluded yesterday with the adoption of the Goa Declaration. In the 109 point Declaration, the five nations- India, Brazil, ...
Qatar Airways is Middle East Airline of the Year
The PeninsulaDOHA: Qatar Airways has once again been chosen as the Middle East Airline of the Year by international business travellers. The acco...
Rosneft-led group acquires Essar Oil for nearly $13 billion
Russia's state-controlled oil giant Rosneft+ and its partners on Saturday took over India's second biggest private oil firm Essar Oil+ in an all-cash ...
China develops world's smallest nuclear plant to take control of South China Sea
China has developed a nuclear power plant so small it can fit inside a shipping container - to help Beijing's efforts to take control of disputed isla...
Dark side of call centre industry growing
The family of 21-year-old Jignesh Verma sympathised with him. He had a stressful job at a call centre in Mira Road, they assumed, which required odd h...
Cobra venom worth Rs 200 crore seized in Siliguri
JALPAIGURI: The forest department arrested four persons in the wee hours of Saturday while they were smuggling 15lbs of Cobra venom worth more than Rs...
China to launch manned space mission Shenzhou 11
China will launch a two-man space mission, Shenzhou 11, on Monday, the state-owned Xinhua news agency said, taking the country closer to its ambition ...
Petrol price hiked by Rs. 1.34 a litre, diesel by Rs. 2.37
New Delhi, 15 Oct (Agency) The petrol price was hiked on Saturday by Rs 1.34 per litre and diesel by Rs 2.37 per litre. The last hike was also in Octo...
Saudi Arabia, where even milk depends on oil, struggles to remake its economy
AL KHARJ, Saudi Arabia: This is what it takes to run a megadairy in the scorching desert here: 180,000 Holstein cows, precisely cooled cowsheds, water...
BRICS Summit
India is hosting the 8th BRICS summit in Goa on October 15-16. Here are 10 things that will help understand how the group was formed.BRICS was origina...
India to buy game-changer S-400 air defence system from Russia
GOA: In a game-changing arms acquisition+ , India on Saturday announced that it will buy the S-400 'Triumf' air defence systems+ from Russia, worth ov...
19 killed and 65 injured in stampede ahead of religious Hindu ceremony in Northern India
Police say at least 19 people were killed and 25 others injured in a stampede as they were heading to a Hindu religious ceremony in northern India.Police officer Daljit Singh says the stampede occurre...
What it’s like to travel through the most dangerous 150km stretch on Earth
WELCOME to the jungle. No ordinary jungle.Here, the elements conspire against you. The climate is hot and the air is thick and heavy, making breathing...
US fighter jet plunges into sea off Okinawa, Japan
A US Marine Corps Harrier jump-jet has dived into the sea shortly after taking off from a base on the island of Okinawa, south of Japan. Japanese coas...
Clashes in Somalia kill 11, displace 50,000 -U.N.
MOGADISHU - Clashes between two semi-autonomous regions of Somalia this week have killed at least 11 people and displaced around 50,000, the United Na...
Suicide bombing in northern Baghdad kills 31
Iraqi police and hospital officials say the death toll from a suicide bombing at a funeral gathering in northern Baghdad increased to 31, with another 65 people wounded.Iraqi police and hospital offic...
Obama Has Just Turned Yemen into Another Middle East Quagmire
When a U.S. vessel off the coast of Yemen fired on Houthi rebels Thursday, it sent another of the Obama administration’s delicate balancing acts in th...
Two trillion galaxies in 'observable' Universe: NASA
There are a dizzying two trillion galaxies in the Universe, up to twenty times more than previously thought, astronomers reported Thursday.The surpris...
Trump campaign rocked by new allegations of sexual misconduct
Donald Trump's fragile campaign has been hit by fresh allegations of inappropriate behaviour with two more women alleging that he made unwanted sexual...
Delegitimise all terror groups, go after terrorists: US
The US has told Pakistan to go after those terrorists who seek and "sometimes find safe haven" in the country and delegitimise all terror groups opera...
PM Modi meets Russian President Putin, hold talks
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today met Russian President Vladimir Putin for talks in which India is expected to raise concerns over growing Russia-Pak...
77th Indian Road Congress would be held in Hyderabad from Dec 15
Roads & Buildings Minister Tummala Nageshwar Rao on Friday said the prestigious 77th Indian Road Congress would be conducted at Hitex here from De...
Additional appointments for US visa aspirants
The US Embassy and the four US Consulates in India have made temporary increase in staff to help eliminate waiting time for travellers from India.As s...
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