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Kolkata: Extending an olive branch, the West Bengal government on Tuesday invited the GNLF for talks on August 29 on the Darjeeling stalemate, but snubbed...

Lahore: Kulsoom Nawaz, wife of Pakistan's ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif, has been diagnosed with throat cancer, a close aide of former premier said...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday made a minor change in one of the conditions it had imposed while granting bail to Lt Colonel Shrikant Prasad...

Washington: The United States is imposing new North Korea-related sanctions, targeting Chinese and Russian firms and individuals for supporting...

Helsinki: A teenage Moroccan asylum seeker who admitted on Tuesday that he had killed two women and injured eight other people in a knife attack in the...

Berlin: Germany's foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel said Berlin and the rest of Europe should back the "democratically minded" majority of Turks...

Moscow: Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said on Tuesday that there was "positive momentum" behind the idea of Pope Francis...

Casamicciola (Italy): An earthquake hit the tourist-packed holiday island of Ischia on Monday night, killing two people, injuring dozens and trapping three...

Muzaffarnagar: Devout Hindu Hari Meena of Rajasthan always took the Utkal Express for his annual pilgrimage from Puri to Haridwar, but vows that he is never...

Baghdad/Erbil: Government forces breached the city limits of Tal Afar in northwestern Iraq on Tuesday on the third day of a U.S.-backed offensive to seize...