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Mumbai: Thousands of people and mascots of lions swarmed the weekend opening of a "Make in India" drive to attract foreign direct investment,...

Kabul: Civilian casualties of the war in Afghanistan rose to record levels for the seventh year in row in 2015, as violence spread across the country in the...

Mumbai: Promising stable and predictable tax regime, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said this was the best time to invest in India as the...

Munich/Bratislava: French Prime Minister Manuel Valls rejected on Saturday the idea of a permanent quota system for distributing refugees across Europe,...

Beirut:The Syrian army intends to advance into IS-held Raqqa province having captured positions at the provincial border of the extremists' stronghold,...

Chennai: Burying the Lankan Tamils issue that had rocked their nine-year-old alliance in 2013, Congress and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on Saturday came...

Bogota: More than 5,000 pregnant Colombian women are infected with the mosquito-borne Zika virus, the country's national health institute said on...

Perth: Doctors at an Australian hospital are refusing to release a baby girl facing repatriation to an offshore immigration detention camp, after she was...

Srinagar: In a major success, army killed five suspected Laskhar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants while losing two soldiers during an overnight encounter that ended...

Yangon: Myanmar's powerful army chief Min Aung Hlaing and his deputy are slated to extend their terms for another five years, a local newspaper said on...