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Beijing/Shanghai: China said on Wednesday the governor of the US state of Iowa, Terry Branstad, was an "old friend" after a report that he had...

Islamabad: A Pakistan International Airlines plane with 47 people on board has crashed near a hilly area near the garrison town of Abbottabad while it was...

Mumbai: The demonetisation decision was taken after detailed deliberations and not in haste, while nearly Rs 11.85 lakh crore or 80 per cent of junked notes...

Sydney: A New Zealand man of Asian descent had his passport photograph rejected when facial recognition software mistakenly registered his eyes as being...

Kabul: Brushing aside suicide bombings and public scorn, the young women of Afghanistan's first freestyle cycling club hope their pop-a-wheelies,...

Alipurduar (West Bengal): Two persons were killed and six others injured when two coaches and engine of the Guwahati-bound Capital Express derailed in north...

Bengaluru: India on Wednesday successfully launched its latest remote sensing satellite, RESOURCESAT-2A, which would be useful for agricultural...

Dhaka: Bangladesh's Supreme Court upheld death sentences on Wednesday for three members of an outlawed militant group in connection with a grenade...

Lahore: A Pakistani court has charged four men with the murder of a woman social media star, including her brother, but all four deny involvement in her...

Karachi/Lahore: Taxi-hailing service Careem introduced women drivers in Pakistan on Wednesday, a rare initiative in a country where women account for only...