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Prime minister Narendra Modi today began his official visit to China from the historic city of Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi province, going round the Terracotta Warriors Museum and the ancient Da Xingshan Buddhist temple where he offered prayers

Washington: Enheduanna, the name suggested by Gagan Toor of India, is one of the winners of a contest to name five new craters on the planet Mercury. Toor chose the name after Enheduanna, a princess of the Sumerian city of Ur in ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq and Kuwait), the first known poet and author, according […]

Benign oil prices, likely monetary policy easing by the Reserve Bank and lower inflation will help the Indian economy to grow in the range of 8.1- 8.5 percent in the current fiscal, the parliament was told yesterday

A confident India outfit pulled off a 2-0 win over Japan in the second match of the four Test series here yesterday

Indian hockey team defender Birendra Lakra said that their upcoming bilateral Test series against Japan is a good opportunity of getting the playing XI right

Anger over poor governmental relief ignited protests in Nepal today as the death toll from the horrific temblor crossed 5,000, with thousands battling for life

A third flight of the Indian Air Force landed here today evening with 266 people onboard from Kathmandu, taking to 1,342 the total number of Indian nationals evacuated from quake-hit Nepal since the first plane landed late on Saturday night

President Pranab Mukherjee today condoled the deaths due to the earthquake in India and spoke with the governors of the affected states to inquire about the relief operations being undertaken

Over 700 people were killed and many more injured when a massive earthquake -- lasting about 20 seconds -- and several strong aftershocks caused widespread devastation in Nepal. India too was affected

The Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu was indefinitely shut today after a massive earthquake rocked Nepal just before noon, resulting in the cancellation of all the eight subsequent return flights from India bound for the capital city

The Indian women's hockey team were once again drubbed by the US, losing 0-3 in the 5-8 position classification match of the Hawke's Bay Cup here today

The bullish projections for the Indian economy continue. A week after it revised its outlook on India to positive from stable, global ratings major Moody's pegged the country's growth at 7.5 percent for 2015, while the Economist Intelligence Unit said a 7.1 percent expansion will be sustained over the next four years

India's merchandise exports in March at $23.95 billion took a major hit and were down 21 percent from the same month of last year, official data showed today

A week ago, the Houthi rebels, backed by Iran, had a free run of Yemen. In Tikrit, Iraq, the Shia militia, led by Iranian officers, and helped by the largely Shia Iraq army, had cornered the ISIS in Saddam Hussain’s palaces. The fall of Tikrit would add to the halo on the Iranian-led Shia fraternity

India's foreign exchange reserves increased by $1.38 billion to $341.37 billion for the week ended March 27, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data showed on Friday