Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold an informal summit with Russsian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi on May 21, the Ministry of External Affairs has announced. The interaction will be part of the regular consultation between the leadership of two countries. “This will be an important occasio

At least five medical students were killed and over 20 others swept away after an old wooden bridge on a river in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) collapsed on Sunday. According to reports in Pakistani media, the incident took place when the students, who were in their early 20s, were clicking pho

SURABAYA: Suicide bombers who carried out deadly attacks on three churches in Indonesia's second-largest city on Sunday were a family who had been in Syria and included two young children, police said, as the world's most populous Muslim nation recoiled in horror at one of the worst attacks on its C

For the first time, Pakistan’s ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has publicly acknowledged that militant organisations are active in the country and questioned the policy to allow “non-state actors” to cross the border and “kill” people in Mumbai, a media report said. Mr. Sharif, who has been di

In what can be seen as a series of steps to mend their ties, India and Nepal on Saturday agreed to boost trade and economic links, connectivity via air, land and water, people-to-people ties, and mutual trust. A joint statement, issued a day after Indian Prime Modi and his Nepali counterpart K.P.

More than a dozen students at a high school in a Nashville, Tennessee, suburb were injured along with their teacher when a science experiment turned into a chemical fire, sending nine people to the hospital. Merrol Hyde Magnet School, a K-12 institution in Hendersonville just northeast of Tenness

At least 32 people died after a dam burst in central Kenya, sweeping away their homes while many of them were asleep, police said today. After a severe drought, weeks of torrential rains in Kenya have led to flooding and mudslides that have left 164 dead. The private Patel dam, used for irriga

Suicide bombers struck two police stations in Afghanistan’s capital on Wednesday, killing at least two policemen and wounding several other people, officials said. Interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish said the first suicide bomber attacked a station in the western part of Kabul, killing at le

A Russian military helicopter while on a routine flight over Syria crashed, with both the pilots getting killed, the Russian Defence Ministry said to media on Monday. The reason behind the crash is not yet clear. "A Russian helicopter Ka-52 crashed while on a routine flight over eastern regions o

At least two people have been killed in a collision between a passenger and a freight train in Germany. According to German railway company Deutsche Bahn, the accident occurred when the regional passenger train crashed head-on into the standing freight train near Aichach railway station in Bavari

MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin was sworn in for another six years as Russian president on Monday, buoyed by popular support but weighed down too by a costly confrontation with the West, a fragile economy and uncertainty about what happens when his term ends. Standing in the ornately-decorated Andreyevsky

India is doing "extremely well" on electrification with nearly 85 per cent of the country's population having access to electricity, the World Bank has said. Between 2010 and 2016, India providing electricity to 30 million people each year, more than any other country, the World Bank said in its

A Kansas man who opened fire last year in a suburban Kansas City bar, killing an immigrant from India in what federal prosecutors have called a hate crime, was sentenced Friday to life in prison. Adam Purinton, 52, was sentenced for premeditated first-degree murder in the Feb. 22, 2017, death of

LOS ANGELES: "Harry Potter" star Emma Watson on Friday tweeted in support of lawyer Deepika Singh Rajawat, who is fighting the case of a minor girl whose rape and murder in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir sent shockwaves globally. Ms Watson on Friday shared an article about "How the Kathua r

LOS ANGELES: The US state of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupted Thursday, causing lava to spew out of ground fissures in residential areas and prompting thousands of people to flee. The Pacific island state's governor signed an emergency proclamation releasing disaster funds to the Big Island in th

Occupied Jerusalem: The Israeli parliament has approved a law empowering the country’s prime minister and defense minister to declare war without full Cabinet approval in “extreme circumstances.” While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a presentation showcasing intelligence on Iran’s nu

Pakistan on Thursday dismissed rumours that the decision to move Shakeel Afridi, the doctor who helped the CIA track Osama bin Laden, from a prison in Peshawar to Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi was part of a possible deal with the United States government to free him. Afridi was a senior medical offic

India has joined the U.S. and China as one of the world’s five biggest military spenders, reflecting geopolitical tensions as well as the country’s reliance on imported weapons and sprawling personnel costs. New Delhi’s defense spending rose by 5.5 percent to $63.9 billion in 2017 and has now pas