UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon held talks with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in Colombo on Thursday....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday extended his best wishes to the athletes competing in the upcoming Paralympics Games beginning from Septemder 7 in Rio De Janeiro....
The US State Department said that the Haqqani network and other terror groups that operate inside Pakistan and along the Afghan border were a continued security threat to the entire South Asian region and beyond....
Michel Temer was sworn in as the new president of Brazil after Dilma Rousseff was stripped of the presidency by the Senate in an impeachment trial. ...
Indian tennis stars Leander Paes, Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna began their US Open campaign on a sound note, winning their respective opening round matches at Flushing Meadows here....
In a late development on Wednesday, over 400 RSS volunteers, including district, sub district and shakha heads announced their resignation from the Hindu organisation, in protest against the unceremonious sacking of state RSS chief Subhash Velingkar earlier in the day....
Brazil's first female leader, Dilma Rousseff, was stripped of the presidency on Wednesday as the country's Senate voted to impeach her for allegedly manipulating the budget....
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday hailed the Supreme Court's verdict in the Tata Motors' Nano project case as a "landmark victory", adding she had "tears of joy" on learning about the decision and can now "die in peace". ...
In the wake of the ruling by an international arbitration tribunal in favour of the Philippines in a dispute with China over the South China Sea, India and the US on Wednesday urged all parties concerned to respect international law. ...
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday gave its sanction for the major changes in the foreign direct investment policy approved in June and designed to liberalise norms by increasing FDI to 100 per cent in defence and further ease the regime in many other sectors. ...
