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Washington:  US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz has cancelled a crucial trip to India, scheduled for this month, amid strained relations between the two countries over the […]

Juba: The ongoing conflict in South Sudan has already uprooted more than 200,000 people from their homes, a U.N. spokesperson confirmed here on Wednesday. Some […]

Boston: A DEEP freeze has spread from the US Midwest to the east and south, setting record low temperatures from Boston to Birmingham, and leaving […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday said that the Centre directly inviting applications for allotment of coal blocks rather than routing it through […]

PATNA: The deputy mayor of a Bihar town was held with two  girls from a hotel room here, the police said on Tuesday. Gaya deputy mayor […]

Dehradun: Nine passengers died and over ten were injured after a sleeper coach of the Bandra-Dehradun Express caught fire early Wednesday. The fire reportedly broke […]

New Delhi:  The Delhi Police today said two imams arrested for alleged links to Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba tried to recruit men in riot-hit Muzaffarnagar in […]

The nuclear-capable, surface-to-surface missile was test-fired from a mobile launcher in salvo mode from launch complex-3 of the Integrated Test Range at 9.48 a.m. The […]

Chicago: Icy, snow-covered roads and high winds made travel treacherous Sunday from the Dakotas to Michigan and Missouri as much of the US braced for dangerously […]

New Delhi: the Supreme Court on Monday quashed a petition seeking a stay on Centre’s move to remove him as the chief of West Bengal […]

Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad Crime Branch on Sunday registered a First Information Report against social activist Teesta Setalvad, accusing her of misusing foreign funds meant for helping the […]

SRIHARIKOTA: Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on Sunday successfully launched GSLV-D5 rocket, which is powered by an indigenous cryogenic engine, from the Satish Dhawan Space […]

Train movement at the busy Bangalore City Station was affected badly after engines of two trains derailed during shunting operations around 4 a.m. on Sunday […]

Hyderabad: MLAs supporting united Andhra Pradesh created ruckus in the Andhra Pradesh House which met to discuss the AP Re-organisation Bill. Legislators from Telangana joined […]

Jaipur: The met report said on Friday that Fatehpur remained coldest by recording a low of -4.2 degrees Celsius. The met office had reported on […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday expressed its displeasure at and disapproval over the criticism of Union Ministers on the judgment over the refusal […]

Mumbai: Jet Airways will launch a daily flight service from Abu Dhabi to Chennai from 16 January.  In a release, Jet Airways said that the […]

Bureau Report: The poster of the most awaited film of 2014 starrer Shahrukh Khan, Deepika Padukone and Abhishek Bachchan had been launched. The poster shows […]

New Delhi:  In view of security restrictions, entry and exit from three key Metro stations Rajiv Chowk, Barakhamba Road and Patel Chowk will be closed at 7.30 p.m. on December […]

New Delhi:  Capital continued to be chilly on Tuesday, with the minimum temperature recorded at 4 degrees Celsius, three notches below the season’s average. The weatherman has forecast light […]

New Delhi: The body of noted actor Farooq Sheikh, who passed away in Dubai last week, has been brought to Mumbai. The 65-year-old actor died on […]

Muzaffarnagar: The parties are on in Uttar Pradesh as 2013 winds down amid the whiff of the death of children in relief camps for Muzaffarnagar […]