
Petrol pumps in Rajasthan began an indefinite strike from Friday morning with the petroleum dealers association demanding reduction of VAT on petrol and diesel....

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un headed straight to an aircraft plant that builds fighter jets after arriving in Russia's Far Eastern city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur on Friday, following his rare summit with President Vladimir Putin earlier this week, according to media reports....

The people in Yemen, already burdened by the years-long civil war, now face another challenge posed by the unrelenting severe drought, a disaster brought on by climate change....

Police in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) on Friday said that a woman died in hospital after she was tasered and shot with a bean bag round during a standoff with officers. ...

A Bangladesh court has jailed two prominent human rights activists for two years each over their "distorted report and doctored images" on security force killings published in 2013, the media reported on Friday....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday praised Australian diplomats for their love for Hindi. ...

Union Minister for Tourism and Culture and state BJP president G. Kishan Reddy was leading a bike rally on Friday as part of Telangana Liberation Day celebrations....

The ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) in Kerala is scheduled to meet here on Friday to reportedly deliberate on the Pinarayi Vijayan cabinet reshuffle. ...

Karnataka police on Friday arrested a woman and her associate here for allegedly blackmailing a female MBA student with her private video. ...

Nine people were killed in two separate road accidents in Andhra Pradesh's Annamayya and Chittoor districts on Friday....