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BEIJING: Beijing's air quality target for 2017 is more than double the acceptable standard set by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the mayor...

MANILA: Extremist militants in the Philippines allied with IS freed on Saturday a South Korean cargo ship captain and a Filipino member of his crew held...

SYDNEY: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met his Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull in Sydney on Saturday where the pair agreed to deepen defence...

DHAKA:- Bangladesh police said on Saturday they had arrested one of the men behind a militant attack on a Dhaka cafe last year that killed 22 people, mostly...

Washington: U.S. President Barack Obama surprised Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday by awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction in...

New Delhi: Delhiites on Thursday woke up to the coldest day of the season with the mercury plummeting to 2 degrees Celsius in parts of the national...

New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday declared the names of its candidates for 17 seats in Punjab but withheld the announcement for six...

Seoul: Special South Korean prosecutors questioned the head of top conglomerate Samsung Group on suspicion of bribery on Thursday in an influence-peddling...

New Delhi: Saudi Arabia has increased India's annual Haj quota from 136,000 to 170,000 biggest such expansion in last 29 years, Union Minister Mukhtar...

Jammu: Two terrorists were killed by the army as it foiled an infiltration bid along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch sector of...