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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday met his predecessor Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi to discuss the contentious Goods and Services Tax (GST) bill and though no breakthrough was achieved, they...

Panaji: India is going through tough times and we need a person who can ask questions, director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra said here on Friday, while defending actor Aamir Khan for his comments on intolerance. Speaking...

Abuja: A suicide bomber hit a Muslim procession in Dakasoye town of Nigeria’s northwestern state of Kano on Friday and casualties were feared, security sources told media. The bomber blew himself up amid the crowd,...

Chandigarh: Haryana’s outspoken Health and Sports Minister Anil Vij on Friday ordered a woman police officer to “get out” of a meeting. When she refused, he himself stormed out in a huff. The outburst came...

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday got permission from a city court to conduct a lie-detector test on former media baron Peter Mukherjea as he was “evasive” and “not cooperating” in...

New Delhi: With the arrest of driver Pradeep Shukla, Delhi Police on Friday claimed to have solved within 10 hours the sensational bank van heist in which the cash van driver allegedly drove away with...

Abuja: At least 35 bodies were found in a commercial town of Bama in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno, a local official has said on Friday. The bodies were decomposed when found in the ruins...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday described the constitution as his government’s “only holy book” and India first its “only religion” as he sought to reach out to the opposition at the beginning...

Paris: France held a national memorial service on Friday for the 130 people killed on November 13 in the Paris terror attack. Around 1,000 people attended the service in central Paris, including President Francois Hollande,...

Turkeman tribesmen, on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, calling themselves the Syrian Liberation Army, are actually in harness to protect routes on which oil tankers have been plying regularly from Syria to...

New Delhi: Refusing to permit custodial interrogation of former communications minister Dayanidhi Maran in a case of alleged commercial use of high-speed Integrated Digital Switch Network for family-owned Sun TV, the Supreme Court on Friday...

Chennai: Multinational banking major HSBC on Friday announced its decision to exit private banking business in India while offering its existing clients the HSBC Premier, a global retail banking and wealth management proposition. There will...

India, or at least parts of it, is going through a weird phase of fetishised nationalism and knee-jerk rejectionism. The divide is between those who profess unquestioning nationalism and are staunch supporters of Prime Minister...

New York: Last year when Italy sent an espresso machine up to the International Space Station (ISS), researchers wondered how astronauts would sip their double shot espresso in a zero-gravity situation in space. They came...

Mumbai: Actor Emraan Hashmi, who was once tagged as Bollywood’s ‘serial kisser’, says censorship of films in India seems like it’s “going to the dark ages”. “I feel that it’s going back to the dark...

Mumbai: The Indian rupee dipped in the early hours of trade on Friday to its lowest level against the US dollar in over two years, mainly on account of the gaining strength of the American...

Patna: In a bid to keep up another election promise, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has directed officials to provide free electricity connection to everyone in Bihar by November 2017. Providing free electricity connection to all...

Dibrugarh: BJP president Amit Shah on Friday accused the Congress government in Assam of allowing illegal immigrants from Bangladesh to enter the north-eastern state for vote bank politics, which threatened national security. The Bharatiya Janata...

Nagpur: India rode on a superb performance from off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin to beat South Africa by 124 runs in the third Test and take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the four-match series at the Vidarbha...

Russia have accepted the full suspension from athletics over widespread doping without requesting a hearing, the sport's world governing body IAAF has announced after a council meeting in Monaco