Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange fell as upbeat US data further buoyed speculation that the federal reserve is moving toward the rate hike....
Welcoming the upcoming meeting between the national security advisers of India and Pakistan, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on both countries to exercise "maximum restraint" along the Line of Control (LoC) and protect civilians....
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday hit out at Narendra Modi government with his "suit-boot sarkar" jibe, saying his party wants a "kurta-pyjama sarkar" which works for the common man, farmers and labourers....
Police have arrested top rankers in the Telangana State Education Common Entrance Test (EdCET) on charges of impersonation....
Myanmar's parliament speaker U Shwe Mann on Tuesday hoped the country would witness the democratic reform in a smooth and stable way, Xinhua reported. ...
The UN Security Council has condemned attacks against civilians in Syria and underscored the need for a political transition to end the conflict that has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the country. ...
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has announced that she will form an alliance with Shwe Mann, the ousted chairman of the governing Union Solidarity and Development Party....
Iraq's former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Tuesday slammed as having "no value" a parliamentary report which held him and dozens others of security and political officials responsible for the fall of Iraq's northern city of Mosul to the Islamic State (IS) militant group last year. ...
Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Justice of India H.L. Dattu and Congress president Sonia Gandhi were among a host of dignitaries who visited Rashtrapati Bhavan to pay their tributes to President Pranab Mukhejee's wife Suvra Mukherjee who died on Tuesday....
Ask any Bengali "who is your hero", and an overwhelming majority will say "Netaji". ...
