A top American CEO has called for a "dramatic expansion" of the H-1B visa scheme -popular among Indian tech firms- to meet the growing demand. "The en...
Barack Obama will become the first US president to visit Cuba in almost a century next month, a symbolic visit that will cast off one of the last vest...
Pope Francis has questioned US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's Christianity over his call to build a border wall with Mexico. He said...
In Ghana, at least 71 people died while a further 13 people were seriously injured after a passenger bus collided with a truck carrying tomatoes on a ...
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has slammed China for the devaluation of its tightly-controlled currency, describing the Communist t...
An Indian teacher who runs a not-for-profit school in Mumbai for girls from the city's red light areas was on Wednesday named in the top 10 shor...
US Secretary of State John Kerry says Washington is seriously concerned about increased Chinese militarisation in the contested South China Sea. He wa...
In Ukraine, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk's government has survived a no-confidence vote hours after the President asked him to step down. The Pr...
Pope John Paul II had a close relationship with a married woman which lasted over 30 years, according to letters which feature in a documentary being ...
Three Indian-American legal luminaries may be among the possible candidates whom US President Barack Obama could nominate as a Supreme Court judge fol...
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has offered rival Ted Cruz an ultimatum, threatening to sue Cruz over his eligibility to serve in the W...
In Angola, a yellow fever outbreak has killed 51 people out of 241 suspected cases over last six weeks. There is no specific treatment for the viral h...
India’s largest aircraft carrier, INS Vikramaditya, accompanied by two battleships, INS Mysore and INS Deepak reached Maldives yesterday on a four-day...
Two Indian girl students lost their life in a fire at a medical university in western Russia. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj informed this in...
ASEAN leaders are in California for a summit with US President Barack Obama starting today. It is the first meeting of its kind on US soil. On the age...
UK banking giant HSBC has announced it is to keep its headquarters in London. Concerns about stricter UK regulations led Europe's biggest bank to laun...
France's foreign ministry has urged Turkey to end its assault on Kurdish fighters in northern Syria. In a statement, it said it was worried about the ...
The US Congress has adopted tougher sanctions on North Korea, in a bid to punish the reclusive Asian nation for its provocative recent nuclear test ...
Nine troops including six UN Peacekeepers were killed and around 30 injured when suspected Islamist militants attacked their base with mortars and m...
A powerful 6.5-magnitude earthquake strick eastern Indonesia late Friday, but no tsunami warning was immediately issued, US seismologists said. but ...
NATO ships are on their way to the Aegean Sea to help Turkey and Greece crack down on criminal networks smuggling refugees into Europe, the alliance's...
In Mexico, at least 52 inmates were killed in an overcrowded prison, as prisoners fought with bats, sticks and blades Thursday.Nuevo Leon state Govern...
Facebook founder and head Mark Zuckerberg has distanced himself from the comments made by Marc Andreessen about India, saying the remarks were "deeply...
NATO and the European Union have signed an agreement to improve cooperation in cyber defense. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called it a conc...
In Nigeria, two female suicide bombers blew themselves up in a refugee camp, killing at least 58 people in Dikwa, 85 kilometres northeast of Maiduguri...
The United States and India have held talks about conducting joint naval patrols that a U.S. defence official said could include the disputed South Ch...
Bernie Sanders has defeated Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary, and Donald Trump also scored his first victory in a triumph of two candidate...
In Germany, 9 people were killed and about 150 injured, 50 of them seriously, when two trains collided head-on in southeast Germany today, a police sp...
Nepal will bid adieu to the former Prime Minister and Nepali Congress President Sushil Koirala today. Cremation will be held with state honour at the ...
Turkry president lashed out at the United States a week after President Barack Obama’s envoy visited a northern Syrian town that is under the contro...
Which political party will win the Jharkhand Assembly elections 2024?