US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday and conveyed that India was an important strategic partner for the US and his country's policy of "re-balance" in Asia complimented New Delhi's Act East policy....
Pre-monsoon rains brought down temperatures in some states while monsoon seemed set to hit Kerala within 48 hours, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Wednesday....
Six people were arrested from state capital Thiruvananthapuram and are related to Raj, while three revenue department officials were arrested from Kochi....
The government is weighing the option since these expatriates face difficulties in returning home due to unavailability of sufficient seats on airplanes and exorbitant air fares around this time of the year....
FDA deputy director Jyoti Sardesai told reporters in Panaji that tests conducted on Maggi products, both at the local production unit and retail stores, showed that monosodium glutamate (MSG) and lead levels were within accepted limits. ...
The Kerala government is committed and will go ahead with the proposed Vizhinjam port, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said on Wednesday....
Neelander Neel Sirohi, 31, had earlier pleaded not guilty to the rape charges at an Australian magistrate's court but changed his plea to guilty on Wednesday before the Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court, the Canberra Times reported. ...
Terming recent media reports "untrue", the government of Qatar, which will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, in a statement denied that Indian and Nepali workers' have died during construction work and said that not a single life has been lost....
A Tehran court has sentenced a woman artist to 12 years in prison for drawing satirical cartoons of Iran's parliamentarians who approved restricting women's access to birth control, media reported on Wednesday....
An India-born IT professional in Britain stabbed his wife and two daughters to death after researching how to cut someone's throat -- then lived with their bodies for a weekend before hanging himself, an inquest has heard....