Jakarta, Aug 26 (IANS) Continuing their brilliant performance, ace Indian singles shuttlers Saina Nehwal and P.V. Sindhu entered the semi-finals to assure two historic medals of the Asian Games here on Sunday. Olympic silver medallist…
Canberra, Aug 26 (IANS) Julie Bishop resigned as the Australian Foreign Minister on Sunday, after newly-appointed Prime Minister Scott Morrison named his cabinet following his win in a bruising leadership contest. In an online statement,…
New Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that the late Atal Bihari Vajpayee will always be remembered as the best MP, sensitive writer, best orator and the most popular Prime…
New Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) The government on Sunday distanced itself from remarks made by BJP MP Subramanian Swamy suggesting that India should invade the Maldives if rigging happens in the upcoming presidential elections in…
Washington, Aug 26 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has publicly slammed Attorney General Jeff Sessions, saying that Sessions does not understand what was happening under him at the Department of Justice. “Jeff Sessions said he…
Washington, Aug 26 (IANS) John McCain, a proud naval aviator who survived years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam and going on to become a Republican congressman, senator from Arizona and a two-time contender…
Rome, Aug 26 (IANS) Sicilian prosecutors are investigating Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini over his refusal to allow migrants off a coastguard vessel. The Diciotti docked in the Sicilian port of Catania on Monday. The…
Jakarta, Aug 25 (IANS) Tajinderpal Singh Toor became the toast of the nation by winning the men’s shot put title with a new meet record while the squash stars and the bridge teams bagged bronze…
London, Aug 25 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday took a dig at the Modi government’s ambitious bullet train project, saying that the train’s ticket will be costlier than that for an airplane. “The…
Bengaluru, Aug 25 (IANS) Karnataka plans to make a law to get waived the loans farmers and landless agricultural labourers took from moneylenders to provide them debt relief, said an official on Saturday. “The state…
Hyderabad, Aug 25 (IANS) Amid growing talks of early elections to Telangana Legislative Assembly, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. Though officially it was stated that…
Dublin, Aug 25 (IANS) Pope Francis on Saturday said he is ashamed of the Catholic Church’s failure to adequately address the “repellent crimes” of sex abuse by clergy and that the “failure of ecclesiastical authorities”…
Harbin (China), Aug 25 (IANS) At least 19 people were killed on Saturday in a hotel fire in Harbin, capital of China’s Heilongjiang province, officials said. The fire started at 4.36 a.m. at Beilong Hot…
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 25 (IANS) Survivors of Kerala’s worst floods in a century on Saturday set aside their misery, even if only temporarily, to celebrate Onam in numerous relief camps across the state, relishing the traditional…
San Francisco, Aug 25 (IANS) Paying heed to his investors’ feedback, Tesla Chairman and CEO Elon Musk has decided not to veer the electric carmaker off the road and let it remain a publicly traded…
Shimla, Aug 25 (IANS) Traffic on the Chandigarh-Manali national highway has been blocked following a massive landslide along the Beas river in Himachal Pradesh, police said on Saturday. However, there were no reports of any…
Washington, Aug 25 (IANS) A former Trump World Tower doorman has said that he knows of an alleged affair between President Donald Trump and a former housekeeper which resulted in a child out of wedlock,…
London, Aug 25 (IANS) Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday said there is a monopoly of the PMO on the External Affairs Ministry and that External Affairs Minister…
Jakarta/Palembang (Indonesia), Aug 24 (IANS) A best-ever haul in rowing, underlined by a gold medal, a title winning performance in men’s doubles tennis and yet another historic defeat in kabaddi were the highlights of the…
Islamabad, Aug 24 (IANS) Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Friday said that the US handout on a phone call between Prime Minister Imran Khan and US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo which mentioned…