A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the Davao Oriental province in the Philippine island of Mindanao on Saturday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. No damage has been reported by the Philippine government yet. ...
Himachal Pradesh on Saturday witnessed a sunny but chilly day with temperature in many areas staying below freezing point, the Met Office said. "It was a bright, sunny day across the state with chances of rain and snow at some places in the state from January 1," an official of the meteorological ...
US President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to close the southern border amid an ongoing partial government shutdown, resuming his push for the funding of a long-promised US-Mexico border wall....
President Donald Trump on Friday said that the US will eliminate all economic assistance to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador in retaliation for the caravans of Central American migrants arriving at the southern border....
A postal stamp dedicated to Nabin Chandra Das, inventor of Rasogolla, West Bengal's spongy, syrupy round-shaped sweet, was launched on Friday on the inaugural day of the three-day festival marking the 150th year of its invention....
It was a year Congress President Rahul Gandhi came into his own as a campaigner and strategist, emerging as a powerful voice in the opposition against Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
The Syrian Army entered the key city of Manbij on Friday for the first time in six years and raised the national flag on it following the withdrawal of Kurdish militia, according to the state TV. ...
The countdown to the national election began in Bangladesh on Friday as campaigning ended amid complaints of clashes and inequality in the parliamentary contest to be held on Sunday....
The Union Cabinet has cleared a proposal to amend the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 to provide for the death penalty for aggravated penetrative sexual assault on children. ...
As controversy erupted over upcoming film "The Accidental Prime Minister", a biopic on former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, lead actor of the movie Anupam Kher on Friday said that after certification of a film by the censor board, nobody has the right to ask for showing the film before its release. ...
