Metro railway services were halted and an early holiday was declared at the state secretariat as tremors were felt in Kolkata and other parts of West Bengal on Wednesday following a quake in Myanmar. ...
The French police fined a 34-year-old woman on a beach in the country's Nice city as part of a controversial ban on burkini in the wake of recent terror attacks in the country....
Congress's Uttar Pradesh Chief Raj Babbar has said that his party's main agenda in the upcoming UP assembly elections is corruption, and not a fight against any political parties....
The Indian Navy said on Wednesday the leaked documents on the Scorpene submarine not impact its stealth and operational capabilities as the details are "old" and that the vessel's "signature" will be known only once it heads for the open sea. ...
Home Minister Rajnath Singh arrived here on Wednesday morning and chose to be driven through a tense Srinagar amid heightened security and strict curfew almost all over the Kashmir Valley. The Home Minister's two-day valley visit is his second in a month to review security and hold talks with civil society members and politicians in Jammu a...
This city received 1.17 million tourists during the Olympic Games, including 410,000 foreigners, and zero cases of Zika were reported, Rio mayor Eduardo Paes announced. Giving out figures at a press conference, Paes said that for the two weeks of the Games, Rio saw a hotel occupancy rate of 94 percent and each tourist spent an average of ...
With sensitive information related to of combat and stealth aspects of India's Scorpene submarines being allegedly leaked, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Wednesday sought a report from the navy, adding that it appeared to be a case of hacking. The Indian Navy, in a statement, meanwhile said it is analysing the informatio...
At least four people were killed as an earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale struck central Italy early Wednesday, a government official said. At least four people died in the quake whose epicentre was determined at Rieti, around 170 km southwest of Rome, Xinhua news agency quoted central Amatrice town's mayor Sergio Pirozzi as saying. Stron...
North Korea on Wednesday test-fired a ballistic missile off its east coast as tensions heightened on the Korean peninsula after South Korea and the US started annual war games, Seoul's military said. A South Korean defence ministry official told Xinhua that North Korea test-fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) around 5.30 a.m. (local time) off ...
US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton holds a lead over her Republican rival Donald Trump by eight percentage points, according to a new NBC News/SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Online Tracking Poll issued on Tuesday....
