Afghan security forces have retaken a district in the north of the country, killing 30 Taliban fighters and capturing vehicles and weapons from the insurgents, the Defence Ministry said on Sunday. The recapture is a welcome piece of good news for government forces, ....

Mr. Jaishankar is expected to meet Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera among other dignitaries, a report in the Daily Mirror online said. According to the report, during the course of his visit, Mr. Jaishankar is ex ....

A Pennsylvania couple is struggling to sell a house used as the home of psychotic killer Buffalo Bill in the film The Silence of the Lambs. Scott and Barbara Lloyd listed the house last summer, but they’ve dropped the asking price from $300,000 to $250,000. The ....

 A Syrian suicide bomber detonated a bomb in a historic district of Istanbul popular with tourists on Tuesday morning, killing at least 10 people and wounding 15 others, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. Mr. Erdogan said in televised remarks that both Tur ....

“The future we want,” he insisted, “is within our reach.” But opportunity and security for American families “will only happen if we work together ... if we fix our politics,” he added. The nation’s goals must include “ ....

“In the next twelve days, apart from the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, External Affairs Minister is scheduled to meet all the 22 foreign ministers of the Arab League which is significant since the Arab League is favouring Saudi Arabia in its tense confrontation ....

As many as 36 whales, part of the group which survived the beaching, were rescued in a joint operation by several government agencies and pushed back to sea. Marine scientists working in the Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve say that the short-finned pilot whales are ....

The Bench of Justices Dipak Misra and N.V. Ramana prima facie agreed with the arguments made by a batch of petitioners, led by Animal Welfare Board of India, that Jallikattu is "inherently cruel" and bulls cannot be used or tortured as performing animals for h ....

The Nair Service Society, the Akhila Bharatha Ayyappa Seva Sanghom, and Sabarimala Tantris (chief priests) have strongly opposed the idea of permitting women of all age groups entry to the Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple. Responding to the observations made by the Supreme Cour ....

Central intelligence agencies were unaware that the phones belonging to former Gurdaspur Superintendent of Police Salwinder Singh and his jeweller friend Rajesh Verma were in the custody of the terrorists till they dialled a Pakistani number already under the surveillance o ....