Kuwait on Sunday identified a suicide bomber who carried out the country’s worst militant attack as a Saudi citizen and said it had detained the driver of the vehicle that took him to a Shi'ite Muslim mosque where he killed 27 people. The Interior Ministr ....

Greece’s banks are on the front line as Athens moves towards defaulting on a €1.6 billion payment due to the IMF on Tuesday. Freeze on funds The ECB had made it difficult for the banks to open on Monday because it decided to freeze the level of funding ....

“The Embassy regrets to inform about the death of two Indian nationals in the bomb blast at Imam Sadiq Mosque in Kuwait on June 26,” the Indian mission said in a statement. Both the victims — Rizwan Husain (31) and Ibne Abbas (25) — were takin ....

Additional Sessions Judge Neena Bansal Krishna, who was scheduled to pass the order today, said that the order sheet is not prepared yet. The court fixed the matter for pronouncement of order on July 25, saying that it will seek clarifications, if any, in the matter. ....

The third-seeded Indian combo outplayed the Japanese pair of 21-17 21-16 in their semifinal match that lasted just half-an-hour. The bronze medal winners of the 2011 World Championship, Jwala and Ashwini will clash with the top seeded Dutch pair of Selena Piek and Ee ....

Former Indian Premier League (IPL) chief Lalit Modi alleged on Saturday that Indian cricketers Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja and West Indian Dwayne Bravo had taken bribes from a bookie who was also a builder. The trio are all members of IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings ....

International Cricket Council (ICC) chairman N. Srinivasan said here on Sunday that the recent rule changes in the ODIs was to “restore balance between the bat and the ball in the game.” He was speaking after inaugurating a new automated irrigation system at the ....

Saina Nehwal hopes she can come out on top in her engrossing rivalry with Wang Shixian. The two have played 13 times in all, with the Chinese player shading the head-to-head record 7-6. They met at the Australian Open and the Indonesian Open most recently, with Saina los ....

The seemingly ironic fact that both these documents had remained beyond the public domain for close to seven decades has been revealed by the Central Information Commission (CIC) to an Odisha-based Right to Information (RTI) activist in an instant, though landmark, deci ....

In contrast, a substantial number of popular Tamil movies of 2013 and 2014 had backward caste lead characters. For an insight into the depiction of caste in Bollywood, The Hindu analysed all Hindi movies released in 2013 and 2014 for which information was publicly av ....