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New Delhi: BJP on Wednesday appointed Nityanand Rai and Manoj Tiwari, both first time Lok Sabha members with contrasting background, as chief of its Bihar...

Manila: Troops in the southern Philippines retook a disused building from militants on Wednesday, ending an intense five-day siege that killed dozens of...

New York/qwWashington: US President-elect Donald Trump vowed on Wednesday to step back from running his business empire to avoid conflicts of interest,...

New Delhi: Heavy fog engulfed the national capital on Wednesday - the first this season - delaying 18 flights and 50 north-bound trains. Five of the flights...

Jammu: The three heavily-armed militants killed by Border Security Force in Samba district had infiltrated into Jammu and Kashmir to carry out a chain of...

Kigali: Rwanda has launched an inquiry into the possible role of at least 20 French military and other officials in the 1994 genocide, the prosecutor...

Hanoi: A high-profile Vietnamese activist on Wednesday lost a bid to overturn a 20-month jail term for protesting against illegal land grabs, her lawyer...

Seoul: South Korean opposition parties vowed on Wednesday to push ahead to try to impeach President Park Geun-hye amid a growing influence-peddling scandal,...

Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh): A panchayat official has been suspended and the manager of a college booked for allegedly posting objectionable pictures of Prime...

New Delhi: Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen has called Modi government's demonetisation move "despotic action that has struck at the root of economy...