Assuring "all possible help" to the Indian contingent at the Rio Olympic Games 2016 scheduled to begin on August 5, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday hoped that Indian sportspersons will be able to win hearts of people from across the world....
US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Saturday rejected a Muslim lawyer's assertion on the Democratic convention stage that the businessman-turned-politician has "sacrificed nothing and no one" for the country....
The accident occurred shortly after 7.40 a.m. local time on Saturday near Lockhart, when the hot air balloon with at least 16 people on board crashed into a pasture, Xinhua news agency quoted the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as saying in a statement on Saturday....
In what has come as a shocking development, over 10,000 Indian workers in Saudi Arabia are facing a "food crisis", External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Saturday. ...
Following pressure from its main ally RJD chief Lalu Prasad, the Bihar government led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Saturday took a U-turn by lifting the ban on the sale and consumption of toddy in the state. ...
A Kerala Police officer who forcibly took away four media persons attached to Asianet TV channel from a magistrate's court to a police station in Kozhikode has been suspended for misconduct....
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday claimed the state's gross domestic product has more than doubled since 2010. ...
A 60-year-old cleric has been arrested for allegedly marrying a six-year-old girl in Afghanistan's Ghor province, poli...
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's son, Rakesh Siddaramaiah, died of multi-organ failure at a hospital in Belgium on Saturday, official sources said....
Hundreds of Indians in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have been rendered jobless and their salaries not paid after factories were shut down. India is arranging for food packets for over 800 of these workers who have been starving for the past three days in Jeddah....
