In a move seen as the next salvo in his widening war on Chinese trade abuses, US President on Thursday directed the trade representative to level tariffs on nearly $50 billion worth of Chinese imports....
John Dowd, US President Donald Trump's lead lawyer who was handling the response to the special counsel investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia meddling in the 2016 presidential election, resigned on Thursday....
The Gujarat Assembly on Thursday admitted a no confidence motion, brought by the opposition Congress, against Speaker Rajendra Trivedi for suspending its two legislators for three years and another for a year....
The Congress said on Wednesday that it will move a privilege motion against External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj for "misleading" Parliament on the issue of the death of 39 Indians who were kidnapped in Iraq in 2014 from Mosul....
A special court on Thursday granted a conditional bail to Karnataka Energy Minister D.K. Shivakumar for allegedly destroying evidence in three income tax evasion cases. ...
Yet another bank fraud has come to light, with the CBI filing a case against Hyderabad-based Totem Infrastructure Ltd (TIL)for allegedly defrauding a consortium of eight banks led by Union Bank of India (UBI) to the tune of Rs 1,394 crore....
India on Thursday successfully test-fired a BrahMos missile from a fighter aircraft using an indigenous seeker for the first time. The test was carried out at the Pokhran test range. Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman congratulated the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), the armed forces and the defence industry for the...
US President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened former Vice President Joe Biden with violence, describing him as "weak, both mentally and physically". The President tweeted that his Democrat rival would "go down fast and hard". It follows comments from Biden, who said he would "beat the hell" out of the President if they were in high school together. ...
Minister of State for External Affairs M.J. Akbar on Thursday said that shared prosperity is the key to peace in the Indo-Pacific region, which has emerged as the most prominent source of prosperity in the world. Delivering the keynote address at a workshop on "Strategic Stability in the Indo-Pacific" organised by the Institute of Def...

Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen on Thursday lifted the state of Emergency imposed 45 days ago, stating that the situation in the atoll nation had returned to normal....