Marking another major success in India's reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Saturday jointly inaugurated the Afghan-India Friendship Dam, earlier known as Salma Dam, built with Indian aid. Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, Ghani said that with India's help a longst...
Maharashtra Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse, the de facto No.2 in the BJP-led state government, quit on Saturday after getting embroiled in multiple controversies, including graft allegations in a questionable land deal and his alleged links with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. Khadse, who also held nearly a dozen other major portfolios in the state gov...
At least two policemen were killed and four others were injured when militants attacked a police checkpost in south Kashmir's Anantnag town on Saturday. "Militants fired at security forces on K.P. Road in Anantnag town on Saturday morning," a senior police officer told IANS. "Two policemen, an Assistant Sub-Inspector and a Constable, have been martyred in t...
"After a 32-year battle with Parkinson's disease, Muhammad Ali has passed away at the age of 74," spokesman Bob Gunnell said on Friday, Xinhua news agency reported....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday left for a five-nation tour that will take him to Afghanistan, Qatar, Switzerland, the US and Mexico....
Oil prices ended lower as investors were sifting through the downbeat US jobs data and the outcome of an OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) meeting....
Leander Paes and Martina Hingis won the mixed doubles title at Roland Garros beating Sania Mirza and Ivan Dodig in a thrilling encounter 4-6, 6-4, 10-8 after being locked at one set all.'...
But deep down, its ambition primarily was to grab government-owned prime real estate in this Hindu holy city and create an empire of their own in the growing market-mix of politics and sprituality....
The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Madhya Pradesh government to pay Rs 10 lakh compensation to an NRI doctor and her septuagenarian mother, a practising lawyer in Pune, Maharashtra, for unlawfully arresting them....
Four nominees of the ruling AIADMK for the Rajya Sabha and two of the opposition DMK were declared elected unopposed from Tamil Nadu on Friday at the end of deadline for withdrawal of nominations, an official statement here said...
