Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has appointed a team of senior officials to launch talks with the opposition on changes to a peace deal with the Farc rebel group. Santos said this on Monday after meeting with political leaders as the peace deal -- signed last week following nearly four years of negotiations in Havana -- was reje...
The BSF on Tuesday seized an abandoned Pakistani boat from the Ravi river in the border belt of Punjab's frontier district of Gurdaspur, officials said here. The boat was seized in the Dera Baba Nanak sector, the officials said. The Border Security Force officials said the matter was being investigated....
The Pakistan Army started heavy mortar shelling on Indian positions at three places on the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday. According to the police, after violating the ceasefire in Kalsian area of Nowshera sector in the morning, the Pakistan Army has started heavy shelling at Indian posts in thr...
New York Attorney General's office on Monday ordered Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's foundation to cease fundraising immediately after a report revealing that the charity is not properly authorised to seek public donations....
Pakistan political parties on Monday put aside their sharp differences to unanimously back Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on the Kashmir issue and termed the recent Indian claims of surgical strikes as "ludicrous"....
The Congress party on Monday said that surgical strikes were carried out even duing the UPA regime, but it is first time that the government has taken "political ownership" of the military action....
The Shiv Sena on Monday dubbed Congress leaders Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil and his father "earthworms", following which they retaliated by calling the Shiv Sena a "black cobra" and questioned its chief's credentials....
Veteran lawyer Fali S Nariman has declined to represent Karnataka before the Supreme Court in the case on sharing of the Cauvery river water with Tamil Nadu, said an official on Monday....
Following the victory of naysayers in a referendum on a peace agreement signed by Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) with the South American country's government, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said on Monday that the outfit will not return to the gun but instead follow the Gandhian principle of non-violence....
Women relatives of 16 persons arrested in the Dadri lynching case continued to stage their sit-in for the third day on Monday to demand the arrest of Jan Mohammad, a brother of deceased Mohammad Akhlaq who was beaten to death by a mob....
