In a callous act, Madhya Pradesh minister Kusum Mehdele, who has already courted controversy for her insensitive remarks on farmers' suicides, kicked a boy in full public view on Sunday when he asked her for one rupee....
Nepal has received 73.5 metric tons of petrol in the first batch of Chinese delivery, a Nepali official said on Sunday....
In a move designed to help NRI access old age income security, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Monday enabled the National Pension System (NPS) as an investment option for them....
The police have apologized for their treatment of Sikh protesters during a demonstration outside the Indian embassy last month, a media report said on Sunday....
The Russian aircraft disintegrated in midair before it crashed over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, state-run Ahram newspaper reported on Sunday....
Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) won back parliamentary majority in Sunday' s elections, paving way for it to form the next government on its own, according to the preliminary results based on 98 percent of votes counted. ...
The fourth and penultimate phase of the Bihar assembly polls, the biggest popularity test in the country since the February elections in Delhi that the BJP lost, ended on Sunday with around 58 percent of the 14 million electorate in the state's flood-prone fertile belt casting their ballot, officials said. ...
Rattled by the two major communist parties -- CPN-UML and Unified CPN (Maoist) -- cornering four top constitutional posts in the former Hindu Kingdom post-promulgation of a federal republican constitution, Nepal's largest political party Nepali Congress has summoned an urgent meeting of its CWC to assess the prevailing situation. ...
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said his government will examine the legality of a special team formed by the central government to probe the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. ...
India has moved up one position to become the world's seventh most-valued "nation brand", with an increase of 32 percent in its brand value to $2.1 billion - the highest among all the top 20 nations on the list. ...