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New Delhi: Union Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave on Friday expressed hope that India, home to 70 per cent of world's tiger population, would be...

Kolkata: Thousands of people from all walks of life on Friday filed past the body of Mahasweta Devi to pay their last respects before the eminent writer and...

Chennai: Dhanalakshmi was 14 and pregnant when she was rescued from a children's home in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. She had been entrusted...

Paris /Saint-Etienne-Du-Rouvray: France's government faced criticism of its security record on Wednesday in the wake of revelations that one of the...

Berlin: Chancellor Angela Merkel interrupted her vacation on Thursday to face down accusations at home and abroad that her open-door refugee policy allowed...

Philadelphia: President Barack Obama painted an optimistic picture of America's future and offered full-throated support for Hillary Clinton's bid...

Brussels: A French politician who introduced a swathe of European financial regulation after the financial crisis was named on Wednesday to represent...

Dubai: Iran will hold its next presidential election in May 2017, state news agencies said on Wednesday, a vote in which President Hassan Rouhani may seek a...

Beirut: A large truck bomb blast claimed by IS killed nearly 50 people and wounded scores more in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli near the Turkish...

Los Angeles: Crews battling a deadly wildfire in rugged, drought-stricken terrain north of Los Angeles on Wednesday made steady progress in containing the...