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Beijing: China on Thursday launched its first Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) satellite in a fresh search for smoking-gun signals of the invisible material that scientists believe makes up most of the universe’s mass. The...

Canberra: The number of Australians who have funded international terrorist organisations, including the Islamic State, has tripled in the past 12 months, a report said on Thursday. The report was by Australia’s financial intelligence agency,...

Vienna: The police in Austria have arrested two suspects with potential links to the Paris terror attacks at a refugee shelter in Salzburg, the prosecutor’s office there revealed on Wednesday. While Robert Holzleitner from the...

Jammu: An Indian national was handed over by Pakistani Army in Jammu as a goodwill gesture. “Muhammad Rashid, son of Sattar Din Poonch district’s Degwar Teruan village who claimed to have inadvertently crossed over to...

Hollywood buffs in the country have a reason to rejoice as Fox Star Studios has unveiled a list of films ranging from animated films like "Kung Fu Panda 3" to superhero ones such as "Deadpool"...

President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday extended his greetings and felicitations to Bhutan on its National Day

Google will build a new campus at Hyderabad, hire more people even as it is working towards including as many people as possible to use the internet in India, Google chief executive Sundar Pichai said...

Thiruvananthapuram: Global travel and logistics technology major IBS Software on Wednesday announced that it will receive $170 million private equity investment from funds managed by Blackstone in exchange for a minority shareholding. Blackstone is the...

Beijing: Chinese authorities on Wednesday handed over a South Korean fugitive on Interpol’s Most Wanted List to their South Korean counterparts. The handover took place at Nanjing airport in China’s Jiangsu province, Xinhua news agency...

Pyongyang: A South Korea-born Canadian pastor was sentenced to lifetime labour for subversion, the Supreme Court of North Korea announced on Wednesday. Seoul-born Hyeon Soo Lim, 60, was accused of trying to overthrow North Korean...

Washington: With the opening of hatches between the International Space Station (ISS) and an arriving Soyuz spacecraft, three new Expedition 46 astronauts joined the three ISS residents to continue key research that advances NASA’s journey...

Gurgaon: Mysore’s Yashas Chandra turned out to be the surprising leader when he carded four-under 68 on Day 1 of the 115th Amateur Golf Championship of India at the Classic Golf Resort here on Tuesday....

Mumbai: India’s limited overs skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni was the top draw in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2016 draft here on Tuesday and was picked up by the Sanjeev Goenka-owned Pune franchise at the...

New York: Researchers led by an Indian-origin scientist from Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered how humans can categorise data using less than percent percent of the original information. They validated an algorithm to explain...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday appointed Justice Virendra Singh, – former judge of the Allahabad High Court – as the Lokayukta of Uttar Pradesh and expressed its disapproval of the way constitutional authorities...

Mumbai: Actor Hrithik Roshan, who played the role of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s younger brother in Karan Johar’s “Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham…”, has asked the filmmaker to shoot the sequel to the 2001 drama...

New Delhi: History will record the disruptions being witnessed in India’s parliament to the detriment of the reforms process, when it talks about the proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST), Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said...

New Delhi: Google will build a new campus at Hyderabad, even as it is working towards including as many people as possible to use the Internet in India, its chief executive, Sundar Pichai, said here...

New Delhi: With the Indian basket of crude oils going below $35 a barrel, state-run Indian Oil Corp (IOC) on Tuesday announced price cuts on petrol by 50 paise a litre, and of diesel by...

New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha on Tuesday witnessed a ruckus over CBI raids at the Delhi chief minister’s office as well as convening of the Arunachal Pradesh assembly session by the governor, forcing three adjourments...