The US has said that denial of visas to a Kashmiri athlete and an official accompanying him has nothing to do with President Donald Trump's executive order banning immigrants from Muslim-majority countries and was "a standard adjudication based on the merit of the case", a senior Indian government official said on Thursday....
Pakistani ambassador in Kuwait Ghulam Dastagir has termed news on social media about the ban as baseless, adding that similar news had cropped up in 2011, Geo News reported....
Following the recent directive of the Supreme Court that there should be no liquor outlets on national and state highways, the new locations decided for these shops in the state has come under fire from civil society....
Thousands of people took part in the funeral service of senior Kerala parliamentarian E. Ahamed at a mosque here on Thursday....
Fears of a US-China miliatary confrontation over the South China Sea (SCS) have risen after a known hawk who warned of this nine months ago has been inducted in a key slot in the Donald Trump administration and recent remarks on the issue by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, a respected British daily said on Thursday....
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Thursday trashed the surveys ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls and said these are "sponsored" and hence not to be taken seriously....
Running a coalition government with an ideologically opposed ally is an art, running it successfully would entail magic. As things stand today, it is seems Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti is no magician....
The Archbishop of Canterbury has issued an "unreserved and unequivocal" apology on behalf of the Church of England for not reporting a child abuser in the 1970s, a media report said....
Kuwait has suspended the issuance of visas for nationals of Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran....
A court here on Thursday discharged all accused in the Aircel-Maxis deal case, including former Communications Minister Dayanidhi Maran. ...
