Around 60 prominent national, state and district level leaders of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) along with thousands of party workers joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday in Hyderabad in...

Heavy rain pummelled several parts of North India on Sunday, leaving at least 28 people dead and 22 missing in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Punjab. A flood alert was issued in parts of Delhi,...

Springville High School became the latest school to come under fire for censoring portraits over dress codes that many argue are arbitrary and archaic, keep students from expressing themselves or...

Before the slaughter of dozens of people in Christchurch, New Zealand and El Paso, Texas this year, the accused gunmen took pains to explain their fury, including their hatred of immigrants. The...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh today continued to signal the country's tough stand to Pakistan, suggesting that should bilateral talks happen, it would not be on Jammu and Kashmir, but...

Congress's Haryana stalwart Bhupinder Singh Hooda raised eyebrows today by declaring support for the government's move to end special status for Jammu and Kashmir, deviating from the party line ahead...

The Iranian oil tanker at the centre of a diplomatic dispute has departed from Gibraltar after the British overseas territory rejected a US demand to seize the vessel.

US President Donald Trump on Sunday confirmed his interest in buying Greenland, but said it was not a priority for his administration.

The body of a French hiker who disappeared nine days ago south of Naples was found Sunday, local Italian authorities said.

US President Donald Trump on Sunday warned China that carrying out a Tiananmen Square-style crackdown on Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters would harm trade talks between the two countries.

A man from Shivpuri, Madhya Pradesh, has got government support after a video of him running barefoot for 100 metres in 11 seconds on the road went viral over the internet.

Five people, including the mother, brother and husband of a teenage girl have been arrested on charges of rape and forcing her into prostitution, the police said on Sunday.

US President Donald Trump on Sunday hailed progress in negotiations on an Afghanistan peace deal, saying that talks with both the Taliban and the Afghan government are going well.

At first glance, it looks like hard candy laced with flecks of fake fruit, or a third grader's art project confected from recycled debris. In reality, it's a sliver of Arctic Ocean sea ice riddled...

A 35-year-old man was arrested for allegedly duping people on the pretext of providing work visas, the police said on Sunday.

A 35-year-old woman in Nepal was allegedly beaten up and forced to eat human faeces by a group of villagers over accusations of witchcraft, the police said on Sunday.

The National Register of Citizens (NRC) authority is considering recommending strong action against a senior Assam government official for alleged irregularities in checking documents of people from...

Shiv Sena leader and former mayor of Ahmednagar in Maharashtra, Bhagvan Phulsundar, has been booked for allegedly abetting rape of a dalit woman by two of his brothers over a land dispute, the police...

A joint team of Dogra Scouts and Indian Air Force (IAF) on Sunday recovered parts of AN-12 BL-534 Aircraft that had gone missing over Rohtang Pass in Himachal Pradesh about 51 years ago.

Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal has said that some people criticise him as they are not able to accept his highlights about ancient Indian inventions and knowledge.

Firebrand Maharashtra politician Raj Thackeray has been summoned in connection with a case linked to the collapse of shadow bank Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) late last year by...

Three persons were arrested for allegedly beating a man over charges of theft and attempting to meet some women in the Dodiya Khadi village in Madhya Pradesh's Shajapur, police said on Sunday.

The Madhya Pradesh government has suspended a top medical officer following the loss of vision of 11 patients who underwent free cataract surgery at a private hospital in Indore on August 8. Two other...

A 35-year-old tribal woman allegedly killed her two children in Sohagpur town of Madhya Pradesh's Shahdol district, police said on Sunday.

Three members of a family were shot dead and two injured when a Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel allegedly opened fire on them in Jharkhand's Ramgarh district, police said on Sunday.

Three people, including the wife of the man found dead at Odhania village in Rajasthan's Jaisalmer, were arrested in the case, police said Sunday.

A man working for a food delivery chain has been arrested for allegedly carrying beer cans meant for a customer in Vadodara in Gujarat, a dry state, police said on Sunday.

A self-styled godman has threatened to commit suicide outside Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath's house in Bhopal on Monday if he is not appointed as the chairman of the state's Cow Protection...

The All India Radio for the first time translated and broadcast the entire Independence Day speech of Prime Narendra Modi in 15 foreign languages through its External Services Division (ESD),...

The Supreme Court is likely to pronounce on Monday its verdict on Tehelka magazine founder Tarun Tejpal's plea seeking dismissal of charges in an alleged sexual assault case lodged against him by a...

Chhattisgarh police have arrested two Nigerian nationals from New Delhi for allegedly duping a Rajnandgaon-based woman of around Rs 44 lakh after befriending her on a social networking site, an...

Pakistani troops violated ceasefire by targeting forward posts and villages along the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district for the second successive day on Sunday, a defence spokesman said.

The team behind teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg's yacht voyage to New York on Sunday fended off claims that her trip will create carbon emissions because team members will take transatlantic...

The Khoda police have arrested a man for allegedly killing his seven-year-old niece on Eid al-Adha, said an official here on Sunday.

Two teenage boys were arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Fatehpur district for allegedly gang-raping a five-year-old girl, police said on Sunday.

A 32-year-old woman was allegedly set on fire by her in-laws in south east Delhi's Nizamuddin area, police said on Sunday.

Four employees of an Information Technology company, including a woman, were killed on Sunday after their SUV skidded off the Yamuna Expressway in Greater Noida amid light rains and fell into a 30-ft...

A case has been registered against the Superintendent of Police of Odisha's Sundargarh district for allegedly assaulting a pregnant woman last month which lead to her miscarriage, a police officer...

The Delhi government today sounded a flood alert for the city and asked people in low-lying areas to vacate their place as the water level neared warning level in the Yamuna river, officials said.

Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Sunday said that the condition of people from underprivileged communities like Dalits is deteriorating because of India's economic slowdown.

A sea of democracy activists flooded the streets of Hong Kong Sunday in a defiant show to the city's leaders that their movement still pulls wide public support, despite mounting violence and...

Tiny, cute and furry - these are probably the first words to pop into mind when you see the three German Shepherd puppies. But very soon, these adorable little canineswill be training to become...

President Ram Nath Kovind visited Bharat Ratna Lata Mangeshkar at her residence in Mumbai and wished her good health.

With Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa announcing a CBI probe into the alleged phone tapping case during the previous Janata Dal Secular (JDS)-Congress coalition government, former Chief...

In a major ease for commuters, a 300-metres walkway connecting the interchange metro stations of Blue and Aqua lines was inaugurated on Sunday, officials said.

Residents of Delhi on Sunday breathed the cleanest air of the year so far, thanks to widespread rainfall in the National Capital Region over the past few days, officials said.

Ground Penetrating Radars were put into use on Sunday to locate bodies at Kavalappara in Malappuram and Puthumala in Wayanad, where massive landslides had wiped out two villages, even as the toll in...

The local Indian Meteorological Department on Sunday said Himachal Pradesh received the highest ever rainfall for a 24-hour period, since records began almost 70 years ago.

A fight broke out between police and protestors including the family of a lynching victim at Bhiwadi in Rajasthan's Alwar district on Sunday over the inaction of police in connection with the case.

The crime branch of the Mumbai Police has claimed to busted a sex racket being operated from a spa centre in suburban Vile Parle, police said, adding six Thai women were rescued after a raid was...