North Korea on Sunday successfully launched a Kwangmyongsong-4 satellite, the Korean Central Television (KCTV) reported. ...
The toll from a powerful earthquake that struck Taiwan reached 17 by Sunday, according to the local fire agency. ...

Kazunori Kunizuka, who worked as an interpreter with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose from 1943 to 1945, is still alive and has recorded in graphic detail in his diary the last days of Bose and his death as a result of a plane crash at Taipei on 18 August 1945, claims a website....
Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan on Saturday claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had met underworld don Dawood Ibrahim at the residence of his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in Lahore in December last year. The government termed it as baseless, unfounded and totally false....
A final review meeting was held here on Saturday to finalise the programme for the February 20 opening of Kerala's much-delayed mega IT project- the Kochi Smart City . ...

Indian sportspersons maintained their traditional dominance over their regional rivals, winning most of their contests with ease on the opening day of the 12th South Asian Games (SAG) on Saturday....
Thirteeen people were killed and 32 seriously injured in a head-on collision between a state transport bus and a truck in Tamil Nadu's Madurai district on Saturday, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa said. ...
Former students of St. Stephen's College, including historian Ramchandra Guha, on Saturday alleged that they were stopped from entering the college premises to attend a prayer meeting for a man identified for generations with the iconic dhaba on the campus....
The Congress on Saturday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for taking potshots at the party leadership, saying the "Gandhi family" was an integral part of the Congress and Modi cannot separate the party and its leadership....
The Congress has accepted the apology of its Mumbai unit chief Sanjay Nirupam over a controversial article in December in its mouthpiece "Congress Darshan", a party leader said here on Saturday....