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Chandigarh: A special CBI court in Panchkula on Thursday sentenced Dera Sacha Sauda sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh to life imprisonment in...

Bengaluru: Buoyed by the return of its “prodigal” MLAs and failure of “Operation Lotus” against the JD(S)-Congress coalition, Karnataka’s ruling Congress Legislature Party...

New Delhi:  Alleging links between National Security Advisor Ajit Doval’s son Vivek opening a hedge fund in the Cayman Islands soon after 2016...

ISLAMABAD:  Aasia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian acquitted of blasphemy, still lives the life of a prisoner, nearly three months after her release from...

WASHINGTON:  A North Korean envoy arrived in Washington on Thursday for expected talks with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and a possible encounter...

Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal has been thrown out by Parliament. She’s now in talks with rival politicians to find a way...

Belgrade:  Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called for stability in the Balkans during a pageantry-filled visit to Serbia, a key Moscow ally....

Totalán, Spain:  The search for a toddler who fell down a well in Spain in a tragedy that has gripped the country ran...

Tunis:  A public sector strike brought Tunisia to a standstill Thursday as workers heeded calls from a powerful trade union to stay home...

Nairobi:  Kenyan authorities on Thursday arrested nine more people for their alleged involvement in the deadly extremist attack on a luxury hotel complex...

Gaza City: Hamas said Thursday it had allocated new homes funded by Iran in Gaza to former Palestinian prisoners who had been held...

NEW DELHI:  The president of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, Amit Shah, said on Wednesday he was being treated for swine flu, the...

Chennai/Bengaluru:  India will open its 2019 space programme account on January 24 launching imaging satellite Microsat-R for Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) and...

LONDON:  Britain's last-minute scramble to shape an EU exit, its biggest policy upheaval in half a century, stalled on Thursday as Prime Minister...

Kuala Lumpur: A Malaysian taxi driver who killed a pregnant cat by putting it into a laundrette dryer was jailed for two years...

Paris:  The French government has activated its plans for handling the effects of a no-deal Brexit, which has become "less and less unlikely",...

Tokyo: Hitachi said Thursday it would freeze construction of its stalled nuclear power station in Wales due to problems financing the project, a...

NAIROBI: Nineteen people remain unaccounted for two days after Somali militants attacked a hotel complex in Nairobi and killed at least 21 people,...