
Indians' approval of their country's leadership more than doubled after Prime Minister Narendra Modi led BJP to a historic victory in Lok Sabha polls, but it also faces high expectations, according to a Gallup poll....
A senior Al Shabaab commander was killed in southern Somalia in a drone attack, a Kenyan security official confirmed on Friday....
A 35-year-old Kazakhstan woman was gang raped by three people here in a hotel where she had gone to meet them, police said on Friday. The culprits have been arrested....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said Sri Lanka has the potential to be India's strongest economic partner and it will have the first claim on India in its economic development....
Newly elected CPI-Ms' West Bengal secretary Surjya Kanta Mishra on Friday dismissed as a "minor thing" the slapping of a case against his wife and nephew for alleged cheating and misappropriation of funds, saying such "false cases" have been filed against over one lakh Marxist workers during the Trinamool Congress regime....
Surjya Kanta Mishra, now Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal assembly, will be the new state secretary of the CPI-M, the party announced here on Friday....
A month after it vanquished the BJP and the Congress to take power in Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is battling its worst internal crisis, causing widespread dismay in its rank and file. ...
Thiruvananthapuram, March 13 : Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Friday described as "a black day" the violence that rocked the state assembly. "Our assembly has witnessed lot of friction earlier when the rival fronts have lost their temper. But what happened today has never been witnessed in the history of our assembly," he told the media. "O...
India, reacting strongly to the release of Mumbai terror attack mastermind Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi on Friday, summoned the Pakistan high commissioner in New Delhi to lodge a protest....
Two death row Pakistani convicts were executed on Friday in Faisalabad Central Jail. ...