The United Nations Security Council on Thursday formally recommended former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres to succeed Ban Ki-moon as the next UN Secretary-General from January. ...
Voices favouring action against terror groups are growing louder in Pakistan with ruling as well as opposition lawmakers asking the government to stop protecting terrorists like Hafiz Sayeed whose activities have plunged the country into diplomatic isolation....
Bracing for a category four Hurricane Mathew, which left around 269 people dead in Haiti, airlines and airports in the US are on an war footing. Around 3,862 flights have been scheduled to be cancelled between Wednesday and Saturday....
The death toll from Hurricane Matthew, which barrelled towards the southeastern United States, in Haiti has climbed to 264, authorities said, forcing the US President Barack Obama to declare a state of emergency....
India's telecom spectrum auction -- touted as the largest, given the quantum of airwaves on the block -- ended in a virtual failure, closing within five days with a total commitment of only Rs 65,789 ($9.8 billion) crore, or about 11.6 per cent of the expected Rs 5.66 lakh crore ($8.5 billion)....
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa is making gradual progress and will require longer stay at the hospital, Apollo Hospitals said on Thursday....
Four surgical strikes were carried out by the Indian Army during the then UPA government's rule but were never publicised, Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar said on Thursday. ...
The Modi government and the BJP are trying to convert the army's surgical strikes "into political grandstanding and to whip up jingoistic chauvinism", the CPI-M has said...
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Thursday said there is no reason to release the video of the surgical strikes across the Line of Control after what has been brought out by the media on the army action....
A Kerala man who was arrested on Wednesday for joining and supporting the activities of the IS, had undergone arms training and fought for the terrorist organisation in Iraq, said the National Investigation Agency on Thursday....
