Bidhya Devi Bhandari, vice chairman of the ruling CPN-UML, was on Wednesday elected president of Nepal, making her the first woman to occupy the vaunted post....
Three prominent FTII alumni on Wednesday decided to return their National Awards in protest against what they termed "an atmosphere of intolerance" in the country in the past few months....
FTII students who went on strike on June 12 against the appointment of Gajendra Chauhan as its chairman returned to their classes on Wednesday but said protests against the BJP member will go on....
Curfew in Khargone town of Madhya Pradesh was relaxed for seven hours on Wednesday, police said. The town is under curfew for the last six days following an eruption of communal violence....
The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to order blanket ban on firecrackers on Diwali, and expressed its displeasure over the central government's failure to carry out its earlier directive to give wide publicity to the ill effects the bursting of crackers has and the sound and air pollution it causes....
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday said the world cannot be connected without India....
India has called for reforming the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to reflect the rise of the developing and transitional economies and give them more say in governance. ...
People woke up here to a chilly Wednesday morning as the mercury dipped to below freezing point in most parts of Jammu and Kashmir. ...
The United Nations General Assembly has backed a resolution that Cuba has been submitting every year since 1992 demanding that the US lift the economic embargo it imposed on the communist island more than 50 years ago. ...
BREAKING NEWS: FTII strike called off, peaceful protests to continue...