In a decisive step to ensure that elderly people are well taken care of, the Nepali government is introducing a law making it mandatory for the offspring to deposit a certain portion of their income in the bank account of their elderly parents, a senior Nepali Minister said....
A civilian was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on Friday in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district, police said. The gunmen shot and critically injured Simranjeet Singh in Khasipora village of Tral tehsil. He was shifted to a local hospital and then taken to Srinagar where ...
Senior separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani said on Friday that the desecration of the Jamia Masjid was an attempt to link the indigenous struggle of Kashmiris to global terror groups. Addressing the Friday gathering at the Jamia Masjid in Nowhatta area of ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated eight projects during his one-hour visit to Manipur on Friday. He also laid the foundation stones of four other projects which will be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 1,500 crore. ...
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak will be jointly tried with former 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Arul Kanda for allegedly tampering with an audit report on the state fund, a court ruled here on Friday....
About 7,000 people were moved to evacuation centres as Storm Pabuk struck the Thai province of Nakhon Si Thammarat on Friday, officials said. Authorities were trying to evacuate 80,000 people in the province, Nakhon Si Thammarat's Secretary of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department, ...
Union Minister Smriti Irani on Friday took a dig at Congress President Rahul Gandhi for visiting his parliamentary constituency Amethi more often and said this was because she had done a lot of work there and in the process rattled Gandhi. On a brief halt outside the Lucknow airport on way to Amethi, from where she ...
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday said it has arrested an arms supplier in connection with its ongoing probe into the new Islamic State (IS) module 'Harkat-ul-Harb-e-Islam'. A senior NIA official in New Delhi said the agency has arrested 21-year-old Naeem in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut on Thursday night....
Claiming "fresh revelations" in the Rafale fighter jet deal, the Congress on Friday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi increased the benchmark price of the deal from euro 5.2 billion to 8.2 billion, resulting in a loss to the exchequer. "Fresh revelations further expose brazen corruption practices in Rafale dea...
North Korea replaced its top envoy in Rome in November, Italian diplomatic authorities said on Friday, while remaining guarded about whether it's linked with a reported asylum bid by a Pyongyang diplomat. The confirmation came a day after reports emerged of North Korean ambassador to ...
