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Noida: Giving a push to government's financial inclusion programme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched the Stand-up India scheme under...

New Delhi: Heralding a new era of semi-high speed trains in the country, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Tuesday flagged off the first such train which...

Baghdad: A US de-mining company is removing explosives and training Iraqis to dismantle the devices planted by IS in the largest Iraqi city retaken from the...

United Nations: Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark said on Monday she would campaign to be the next UN secretary-general, pledging to improve...

Beijing: China on Tuesday accused one of its former top military officers of taking "huge" bribes for promotions, as President Xi Jinping presses...

Washington: Climate change can be expected to boost the number of annual premature US deaths from heat waves in coming decades and to increase mental health...

Seoul: North Korea can mount a nuclear warhead on a medium-range missile, a South Korean official said on Tuesday in a new assessment of the capability of a...

Charikar(Afghanistan): A suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up near a school north of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Tuesday, killing at least six...

Beijing: China on Tuesday banned imports of gold and rare earths from North Korea as well as exports to the country of jet fuel and other oil products used...

Hanoi: Mosquitoes have infected two women with the Zika virus in Vietnam, health authorities said on Tuesday, in the country's first cases of a disease...