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    German soldiers are on standby to help refugees (AFP)   BERLIN: Germany has placed 4,000 troops on standby for this weekend alone to help...

Beirut: Organisers of mass protests in Lebanon over trash festering in the streets said yesterday the government’s long-awaited plan to deal with the...

Berlin: Chancellor Angela Merkel won a hero’s welcome as she visited a Berlin migrant centre yesterday, with Syrians cheering and taking selfies as...

Moscow: A defiant Russia yesterday said it was ready to increase military support to Syria’s Bashar Al Assad if needed, dismissing suggestions it...

By Venkatachari Jagannathan CHENNAI: The government's decision to allow 100 percent foreign direct investment (FDI) under the automatic route for white-label ATM companies...

  By Chinmaya Dehury BHUBANESWAR: Even as the Odisha government talks about its commitment to the agriculture sector, it is witnessing a surprising trend...

      By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar PANAJI: With uncertainty looming large vis-a-vis Russian arrivals in the forthcoming tourism season due to an economic crisis in the...

  KRYNICA ZDROJ (Poland): Poland cannot afford to accept economic migrants, but it is the biggest central European economy's duty to accept refugees fleeing...

By Vishal Gulati RAMPUR, Himachal Pradesh: Organic rajma (kidney beans) and apricots grown in the cool climes of Himachal Pradesh are finding a...

NEW DELHI: The Border Security Force (BSF) and the Pakistan Rangers on Thursday began high-level talks to address a range of issues, including...

Pakistani lawyer Qamar Nadeem (R), representing doctor Shakeel Afridi who assisted the CIA in their hunt for Osama bin Laden, leaves the court...

DHAKA: Thousands of students staged street protests in the Bangladeshi capital for a second straight day Thursday against a tax on university fees...

BANDUNG:  Uber has fallen foul of authorities in the Indonesian city of Bandung, with the local government banning the controversial taxi-hailing app, the...

  WASHINGTON: Sameer Hinduja, a prominent Indian American and cyberbullying expert from Florida Atlantic University, has received a $188,776 grant from social networking site...

  BEIRUT: Syrian insurgents killed 56 government soldiers during an assault that led to their capture of an air base in the northwest of...

NEW YORK: An Indian American woman has become the first female to be appointed as the postmaster in Sacramento city in California in...

By Prashant Kumar NEW DELHI: The social media attacks against people who criticise Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his governance policies are by...

  By Nina Chestney LONDON: Global nuclear power generation capacity could increase by more than 45 percent in the next 20 years but the...