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New Delhi: Passenger vehicle major Maruti Suzuki on Tuesday offered enhanced safety features, as an option in its best-selling brands Swift and DZire. “Swift and DZire are two of the most popular cars in India....

Kolkata: Defending champion and top seed, Odisha’s Padmini Rout on Monday retained the Women’s National Premier Chess Championship title with a round to spare at the end of the 10th and penultimate stage here on...

Jeypore: Every day, over 100 women in colourful attire are seen selling forest products, fresh vegetables, fruits and flowers in Jeypore town, the sub-divisional headquarters and nerve-centre of Koraput district, around 600 km from state...

Seven people were killed on Monday when a helicopter carrying Vaishno Devi pilgrims crashed near Katra in Jammu region, police said

London: World number one Novak Djokovic capped a perfect season as he beat six-time champion Roger Federer to win a record fourth straight ATP World Tour Finals title at London’s O2 Arena. The 28-year-old Serb,...

London: There has been a significant reduction in diabetes-related amputations since the mid-1990s thanks to improvements in diabetes care over this period, researchers report. Amputations of the lower limbs are one of the most serious...

Kuala Lumpur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday that India will deepen its defence cooperation with Malaysia. “I am particularly grateful to you for our security cooperation,” Modi said at a joint press conference...

Washington: At least 16 people were injured in a shooting incident at a park in New Orleans city of the US, police said. Officers on Sunday night were on their way to break up a...

Harmanpreet Singh successfully converted four penalty corners as India overpowered traditional rivals Pakistan 6-2 in the final of the 8th Junior Men’s Asia Cup hockey tournament at the Wisma Belia Hockey Stadium here on Sunday

Researchers including one of Indian-origin have developed a new app that allows older people residing in independent living communities play various brain games and also helps them connect with health care providers for better living

Actor-producer Anil Kapoor, who garnered appreciation for his role as Jai Singh Rathore in the drama TV series “24”, says he is “nervous, anxious and super excited” about the second season of the show

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that his government is giving the people of India the fruits of a modern economy

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...