Warning that if it comes to war, North Korea will be "totally destroyed", the US has called on China to show leadership and cut off oil supplies to pressure Pyongyang following its latest missile test. US Permanent Representative Nikki Haley told the Council on Wednesday that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un was bringing "th...
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro will seek another term in next year's election, Vice President Tareck El Aissami has said. ...
North Korea has said the missile it tested on Wednesday held a warhead capable of re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. ...
Ven Parameswaran Senior White House Advisor, and daughter of President Trump, Ms. Ivanka Trump, arrived in India today to participate and deliver a keynote address at the 7th Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES)...
A major controversy broke out on Wednesday over Rahul Gandhi's visit to Somnath temple with the BJP questioning his faith, while the Congress hit back accusing the BJP of playing dirty politics and maintained he was a "devout Hindu"....
The Election Commission will get 40 lakh VVPAT machines and EVMs by September 2018 for use in the 2019 general elections, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) A.K. Joti said on Wednesday. The VVPAT (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail) machine attached to an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) generates a paper slip with the name of candidat...
China on Wednesday said that it was seriously concerned about and opposed to North Korea's test-firing of a newly-developed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). "China strongly demands the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) abide by the UN Security Council resolutions and refrain from actions that heighten the tension on t...
Pope Francis on Wednesday urged Myanmar's ethnic minorities to resist the temptation to exact revenge for hatred and rejection, preaching a message of forgiveness in a historic mass to 150,000 worshippers in the predominantly Buddhist country. The pontiff's first visit to Myanmar, and the first ever by a sitting Pope, comes amid...
BSF Director General K.K. Sharma on Wednesday said Pakistan has not stopped its infiltration bids into Jammu and Kashmir, and added that routes used by militants have been identified and the BSF is ready to tackle future attempts. He also said the neighbouring country was making repeated ceasefire violations despite both issues bei...
Senior Communist Party of India (CPI) leader and former Kerala Minister E. Chandrasekharan Nair passed away on Wednesday. He was 88. According to the party, he was suffering from age-related illness and breathed his last at a hospital here. He was to have turned 89 on Saturday. A lawyer by profession, Nair is survived by his wife, a son and ...