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New Delhi: Numerous Tibetan refugees on Tuesday staged a protest outside the Chinese embassy here on Tibetan Uprising Day. Holding Tibetan flags, posters and banners with “Free Tibet” written on them, the protesters gathered at the sprawling lawns outside the embassy and raised pro-freedom slogans. Some of them also wore black-coloured masks on their faces […]

New Delhi/Mumbai: Top AAP leaders Manish Sisodia, Gopai Rai, Pankaj Gupta and Sanjay Singh on Tuesday accused fellow party men Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav of conspiring to defeat the party before the Delhi election. In a joint statement, they clarified that the March 4 National Executive (NE) had decided to release Prashant Bhushan and […]

Buenos Aires: At least 10 people were killed when two helicopters collided in mid air in northern Argentina on Monday, according to media reports. The accident occurred, near the town of Villa Castelli (around 1,100 km from Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires), in the province of La Rioja. “There was a crash (involving) two helicopters. There […]

Washington: Pakistan had about 120 atomic weapons, 10 more than India, in its nuclear arsenal last year, according to a new interactive infographic unveiled by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Designed by the Bulletin, founded in 1945 by University of Chicago scientists who had helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project, […]

New Delhi: In a shocking incident, a 27-year-old woman killed her three daughters and attempted suicide by hanging herself from a tree on Monday night here, police said. The incident was reported from south Delhi’s Ambedkar Nagar. Police said the woman was depressed owing to taunts for not having a male child. The incident was […]

A team of engineers at Google is reportedly working to build a version of the Android operating system to power virtual-reality applications

Poppy farmers in Rajasthan's Chittorgarh district are facing a unique problem

Software major Wipro Ltd. today said it has been recognised as the world's most ethical company by US-based Ethisphere Institute for the fourth consecutive year

Anushka Sharma feels that there is disparity in the remuneration of male and female actors in Bollywood, but the actress-producer thanks films like “Queen” and “Mary Kom” for bringing a “stable time” for actresses in the industry

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) won the bid on a unanimous vote to host the Asian Cup in 2019, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) said on Monday

The e-auctions of coal blocks thus far, along with other levies, will yield state governments more than Rs.200,000 and also result in lower power tariff for consumers, Power, Coal and New and Renewable Energy Minister Piyush Goyal said today

In what was the first working of the new transparent regime of coal allocations, the central government in a meeting today with successful auction bidders decided that most clearances required to start mining would be would be incorporated in the "vesting order" transferring rights to the new owner

A 21-year-old student from Assam was allegedly beaten up by some residents of south Delhi's Amar Colony, police said today, denying that it was a racial attack

Prime minister Narendra Modi will embark on a five-day visit to three island nations -- Seychelles, Mauritius and Sri Lanka -- on Tuesday in an outreach that will see unveiling of development projects while boosting economic ties

Two male lions attacked and grievously injured their keeper today at the Bannerghatta Biological Park in Bengaluru, a zoo official said