Colombia's government and FARC guerrilla force have agreed to set up a "rapid and effective" process to "quickly" salvage a hard-won peace deal that was nevertheless rejected at the polls. ...
The dry reservoirs -- despite an average monsoon -- of south Karnatakas Cauvery basin illustrate Indias rainfall trends over 65 years: A drop in moderate monsoon rainfall and an increase in extreme events, such as deluges and dry spells, as IndiaSpend reported in April 2015. ...
High profile Republicans have publicly condemned the party's presidential nominee Donald Trump following the emergence of a 2005 video in which he admits to sexually assaulting women. ...
After a scintillating start, the Durga Puja spirit soared on Saturday which marked Maha Saptami -- day two of the Puja -- as thousands of revellers decked up in their best hit the streets of the metropolis and the districts of West Bengal. ...
Growing addiction to online gaming among youth has alarmed the Chinese government which is mulling banning people under the age of 18 from playing on the internet after midnight....
The internet whistleblowing group Wikileaks released over 2,000 emails involving Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. The release comes the same day the State Department published 350 emails previously deleted from Clinton's private server....
Investment banker Sanjay Nijhawan, 46, killed his wife Sonita Nijhawan, 38, with an axe and a knife in front of their four-year-old son at their $2.4 million (£2 million) mansion in Weybridge, Surrey, on May 21....
The Union government on Friday told the Supreme Court that 'triple talaq', 'nikaah halaal' and polygamy as practised by the Muslims in India were not "integral to the practices of Islam or essential religious practices."...
The 50th edition of the IFFI in Goa will be held at a new permanent venue, which will be constructed under PPP mode and ready to function by November 2019, Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar said on Friday. ...
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday asserted that India will completely seal its border with Pakistan by December 2018. ...
