External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today raised the issue of terrorism and H-1B with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson as the two leaders met for the first time in a bilateral setting.
Written by Saurabh Gupta | Friday September 22, 2017, NEW DELHI
The day after the high court cancelled unusual restrictions imposed in West Bengal on Puja processions this year, the Mamata Banerjee government on Friday decided that people will have to seek police permission for immersion of Durga idols on Muharram, the Muslim day of mourning.
Indonesian officials raised the highest possible alert for a volcano on the resort island of Bali late Friday, after tremors prompted thousands to flee over fears it could erupt for the first time in more than 50 years.
The goal was an ambitious one: Create an underwater, "Iron Man"-inspired jetpack capable of propelling someone through water faster than Olympian Michael Phelps on his best day in the pool.
Reuters | Friday September 22, 2017, SEOUL/NEW YORK
North Korea said on Friday it might test a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean after President Donald Trump vowed to destroy the reclusive country, with leader Kim Jong Un promising to make Trump pay dearly for his threats.
Twenty homes caught fire and a bomb was detonated near a mosque in Myanmar's Rakhine state, the government said Friday, the latest unrest in a region that has seen hundreds of thousands of Rohinyga Muslims flee in under a month.
Reuters | Friday September 22, 2017, SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico
Hurricane Maria lashed the Turks and Caicos Islands on Friday after destroying homes, causing widespread flooding, crippling economies and killing at least 25 people on Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands.
Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh used to organise a 'Bigg Boss'-like show in his secret cave involving couples, Honeypreet Insan's former husband today claimed as he also dismissed as a sham that she was the Dera Sacha Sauda chief's adopted daughter.
Members of the Baloch and Sindhi community today held a joint protest outside the UN headquarters against atrocities and human rights violations by Pakistani security forces in Balochistan and Sindh.
Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's wife Mehajabin Shaikh had visited Mumbai to meet her father last year, police officials said, quoting the fugitive gangster's brother Iqbal Kaskar, who has been held in an extortion case.
Written by Pallava Bagla | Friday September 22, 2017, New Delhi
A boat lab to study biodiversity, and a fashion parade to showcase it - the unique natural resources of the northeast were highlighted this month in two first-of-their-kind initiatives.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has hit out at Pakistan, saying its army had launched a "heinous" military operation in 1971 which triggered a "genocide" during the liberation war, killing 3 million innocent people.
Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday proposed a two-year transition period for Britain after it leaves the EU, suggesting that the UK would continue to "honour its commitments" under the bloc's current budget.
The CBI has received a notification for taking over investigation into the killing of Pradhuman, a seven-year-old student of Ryan International School in Gurgaon, and is all set to register an FIR in the matter, agency sources said today.
