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Beijing: A fishing ban on China’s Yangtze river will be extended this year from three months to four months, the authorities said on Saturday. The ban will last from March 1 to June 30, covering...

Bangkok: Surin Pitsuwan, former Asean secretary general, has denied a report that he intends running for leadership of the Democrat Party, nurtured by an ambition to be Thailand’s prime minister, the media reported on Saturday....

Chennai: Actor-producer Suriya’s third instalment in the “Singam” franchise will finally go on the floors next week in Vishakhapatnam. The film, which was originally slated to get rolling in December, had to be postponed on...

Mumbai: Filmmaker Prakash Jha has refuted “misleading” reports of his forthcoming film “Jai Gangaajal” getting stuck in the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) swirl over certification. He says he never made any voluntary cuts...

Mumbai: The wait to get the first glimpse of “Ki and Ka” is over and it is all about intense romance and mushy things. The first look unfolds romantic page of the R. Balki’s directorial...

Mumbai: Kapil Sharma will infuse a comical element into the upcoming 22nd Annual Star Screen Awards as its host. For the past three years, the event was anchored by superstar Shah Rukh Khan. Viewers will...

Mumbai: Adnan Sami is rejoicing in his “New Year gift” in the form of Indian citizenship and the noted singer says he has finally made it home after a long journey. Born in Britain with...

New Delhi: Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said India will not tolerate any terror attack and will give a “befitting response”. His comment came after four terrorists were killed in an attack on the...

New Delhi: Tremors were felt across north India on Saturday as a moderate intensity earthquake hit Afghanistan, the authorities said. The earthquake originated in the Hind Kush mountains, near Jarm in Afghanistan, at 2.07 p.m....

Vadodara: India is no stranger to palaces. Whether in the north – Rajasthan in particular – or in the south, we can never tire of marvelling at the beautiful architectural remnants of the royal past....

New York: Ancient monkeys used auditory cues similar to humans to distinguish between low and high sound notes, say researchers, adding that pitch perception may have evolved more than 40 million years ago to enable...

New Delhi: Smartphone users who get annoyed with ill-fitting USB connectors, tangled cables and slow data transfer speeds have a solution in Flippy – the world’s first reversible micro-USB cable. Flippy is a patent-pending technology...

London: British Prime Minister David Cameron in his New Year message for 2016, said his country was in “one of the great reforming decades in history”. In his message on Friday, Cameron outlined plan for...

By Saeed Naqvi One enters 2016 with some happy thoughts. Some anxieties too. Of New Delhi’s umpteen dailies, three had photographs of spin bowlers on the shoulders of their page one on the last day...

Jammu: Extra ordinary security precautions were taken here in winter capital on Friday after sealing the Pathankote-Jammu national highway following terror attack in neighbouring Punjab. Union railway minister, Suresh Prabhu, who arrived in Jammu on...

Pathankot: Terrorists attacked the Indian Air Force (IAF) Station in Pathankot town in north Punjab early on Saturday, triggering a fierce gunfight. Unofficial reports said that two terrorists, from a group of 4-5 terrorists, were...

Sean David Gerard Whitesell, a writer and producer for television shows including “Oz” and “The Killing”, is dead. He passed away after a long battle with cancer

Reeling under inordinately long power cuts, Nepal will buy 90 MW of electricity from India by the end of January, an official here said on Friday

Noted singer Adnan Sami, who is of Pakistani descent, was on Friday granted the certificate of Indian citizenship from Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju here. Describing it as his "new birth", he has...

An air purifier company on Friday announced the launch of a free cab service in a bid to make the Delhi government's odd-even scheme a success