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New Delhi: The slow progress of the south-west monsoon has led to overall deficiency of rains by 22 per cent over the last fortnight, the MeT department on...

New Delhi: India plans to urgently immunise around 300,000 children against the crippling polio virus after a strain of the highly contagious disease was...

New Delhi: In a major reform of the aviation sector, government on Wednesday scrapped the 5/20 overseas flying norm for domestic carriers in its new civil...

Abidjan: Scouting for new avenues for Indian businesses, President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said that a considerable amount of the capital generated in...

London: Brexit campaigners sent a flotilla of fishing boats up the River Thames on Wednesday decked in colourful flags and anti-EU banners, in an...

Bengaluru: A Mangaluru-bound Jet Airways flight with 65 passengers and four crew members on board on Wednesday returned to the airport here shortly after...

Peshawar(Pakistan): Pakistani troops fired heavy artillery at Afghan forces at their main Khyber Pass border crossing on Wednesday, the Pakistani military...

Florida: An alligator dragged a two-year-old boy into a lagoon at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida late on Tuesday, defeating the father's...

Beijing: The wife of former Chinese domestic security tsar Zhou Yongkang has been jailed for nine years for corruption, a court said on Wednesday, the...

United Nations: The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday unanimously authorized a crackdown on arms smuggling in the high seas off Libya by allowing...