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New Delhi/Darjeeling: The Centre on Tuesday despatched 600 paramilitary personnel to assist the West Bengal government in restoring normalcy in violence-hit...

Erbil (Iraq): About 800 people fell ill in a mass outbreak of food poisoning at a camp for displaced people east of the Iraqi city of Mosul, officials and...

Washington: North Korea has released Otto Warmbier, a U.S. university student held captive there for 17 months, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said...

Budapest: Hungary's parliament approved on Tuesday strict new rules for non-government organisations with foreign funding in a further escalation of the...

Budapest: Creating a two-speed Europe with deep divisions between core euro zone and periphery states could be the end of the European Union in its present...

Aizawl: Eight persons have been killed and six others are missing after flash floods caused by heavy rainfall wreaked havoc at Tlabung in Mizoram's...

Moscow: The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russian authorities would not pay attention to U.S. calls to release anti-government demonstrators who were...

Moscow/Chisinau: Allegations that five Russian diplomats expelled from Moldova last month recruited fighters for the Moscow-backed separatists in Ukraine...

Abu Dhabi/Beirut: Syria has received 225,000 tonnes of Russian wheat, part of a 1.2 million tonne wheat deal struck in February through its state grain...

London: Vijay Mallya, the embattled tycoon who is wanted in India on loan defaults to several banks, on Tuesday claimed that he has "enough...