
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday underwent a surgery and was fitted with a pacemaker at Sheba Medical Center in Israel's Tel Hashomer, a doctor from the medical facility said. ...

The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan has termed the reports on the presence of the Daesh or Islamic State (IS) outfit in the country as baseless and utterly rebuffed them, according to its foreign ministry. ...

At least 11 people were killed and six others injured after a man who was removed from a bar for disrespecting women, returned and threw a lit object in San Luis Rio Colorado city in Mexico's Sonora state, said local authorities....

At least four people were killed after a hot water pipe burst at a shopping mall located in western Moscow, an official said. At least four people were killed after a hot water pipe burst at a shopping mall located in western Moscow, an official said....

The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Saturday afternoon sent a MI-17 V5 helicopter to evacuate at least 40 villagers marooned in flood waters at Anandnagar-Tanda village of Mahagaon in Yavatmal, officials said here....

Kerala has always been a testing laboratory for political formulations and during the late 1960s, the state experienced the politics of coalitions....

The bait is the single Lok Sabha seat of Darjeeling in North Bengal, a major part of which covers the hill areas in Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Kurseong and parts of the plains of Terai and Dooars in North Bengal...

Once a stronghold of the Congress, the eight northeastern states are now dominated by the BJP and the state parties, which are indispensable for the national parties to govern the region....

In the rainbow-coloured Indian democracy, hundreds of big and small political parties -- representing varied ideologies, vote-banks, pressure groups or interests -- seem to co-exist, including in Maharashtra....

The BJP is in talks with several regional parties which are willing to join the NDA and a positive outcome is likely to emerge in the coming days, a senior party leader has said....