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Rescuers recovered at least 94 bodies a day after a landslide struck a habitation at a jade mine in Myanmar's Kachin state, officials said on Sunday

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will meet heads of state-run banks on Monday to take stock of their distressed assets, or bad loans, as well as the situation following the Reserve Bank of India's latest...

Ahmedabad: Ballotting was under way in Gujarat on Sunday for the first phase of the two-phase local body elections in 572 municipal wards to pick four candidates each. Voting began at 8 a.m. at 13,000...

New Delhi: Delhi government on Sunday held its second car free day and held a rally in Dwarka. “This is the second car free day and we are happy to organise the event at Dwarka...

Sheikh Qayoom Srinagar: Electric power woes in winter have become endemic in Jammu and Kashmir and, for the moment, there is no light at the end of the tunnel. People of the state have become...

Monrovia: Two months after Liberia was declared free of Ebola, three confirmed cases of the deadly disease have emerged in the West African nation, a media report said. The nation’s health ministry on Saturday said...

Kabul: At least 45 Taliban militants were killed in an airstrike in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, police said on Sunday. “At least 45 militants were killed in the airstrike conducted on militants’ position in Sangin district...

Mumbai: Low-cost airline GoAir has launched a special Christmas offer wherein every 25th passenger will win free ticket to any GoAir sector for travel between December 1-25 this year, the airline announced on Saturday. To...

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New York: Yeasts used to ferment cocoa during chocolate production can modify the aroma of chocolate — resulting into a new era of boutique chocolates, Belgian researchers report. “The discovery makes it possible to create...

London: A team of Swedish researchers, by using living roses, has created analogue and digital electronic circuits inside living plants, calling them “electronic plants”. The experiment demonstrates wires, digital logic and displays elements — fabricated...

Chennai: Actress Ruhi Singh, best known for her performance in Madhur Bhandarkar’s “Calendar Girls”, will make her Tamil debut with the upcoming road thriller “Bongu”. It was the film’s script that persuaded Ruhi to amke...

Mumbai: Actress Deepika Padukone says that her “Bajirao Mastani” co-star Priyanka Chopra became her first friend in Bollywood — even before she had entered the film industry. “Priyanka is the first film person I ever...

Scientists have developed a way to monitor food security using a smartphone app, which combines weather and soil moisture data from satellites with crowd-sourced data on the vulnerability of the population to malnutrition and other...

India and China on Saturday agreed to boost cooperation in combating terrorism and decided to set up a high-level meeting mechanism led by India's home minister and China's minister of public security

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday asked the global investment community to set up shop in India and benefit from its fast growth, strong fundamentals, constant reforms and a welcoming environment

Rohan Bopanna and Florin Mergea played some scintillating tennis to earn a straight sets win here on Saturday and enter the men's doubles summit clash at the $7 million ATP World Tour Finals being played...

The ruling BJP in Gujarat will face its first election in Narendra Modi's absence in over a decade, as the first phase of polling in the two-tiered elections to 323 local bodies take place on...

Defending champion International Master Padmini Rout of Odisha and WGM Swati Ghate of LIC continued to lead the fray with 6.5 points each after the eighth round of the women's national premier chess championship here...

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