India continued to reel under heatwave conditions on Monday with the day-temperature soaring to 47 degrees Celsius in Maharashtra's Chandrapur. The death toll in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana rose to 517 with more people succumbing to heat stroke. ...
Asserting that his government has delivered the promised "achche din" (good days) to the people, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday that the promise was not for those who looted the nation....
Asserting that his government has secured the promised "achche din" (good days) for the people, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said he did not promise good days for those who looted the nation....
Forty-seven state buses, and dozens of private vehicles and taxis carrying over 2,000 Pandits left in a convoy in time to attend their holiest festival of Mata Kheerbhawani, a senior state government official told IANS here....
Pramu Sudheer, 41, was found hanging from a ceiling fan in his Muharraq City labour accommodation along with a suicide note on Saturday morning, the Gulf Daily News reported....
Malaysian nationals with a student status in Syria need not fear jail terms upon returning if they were not involved with the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group, Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said on Monday....
Reiterating its demand for the resignation of state Finance Minister K.M. Mani for allegedly accepting a bribe from bar owners, the CPI-M on Monday said that he too should undergo a lie detector test. ...
Ariel Runis, a manager at the Population, Immigration and Border Authority, killed himself shortly after writing a Facebook post in which he addressed allegations that he had behaved in a racist manner towards a black female client, Haaretz reported....
An increasing number of Indian students are coming to study in China, mostly in the medical field, while the number of Chinese students studying in India is holding steady, media reported on Monday....
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called for strict punishment to migrants, who illegally leave Bangladesh and set out towards Southeast Asia by sea, and the human-traffickers who assist them, media reported on Monday....