Acknowledging the urgency of the situation, Mr. Sharif placed the call from Colombo, during his state visit there, and the conversation indicated that both Prime Ministers were in favour of continuing the recently renewed diplomatic engagement. In the call that laste ....

 Security forces continued search and combing operation inside the Pathankot airbase on Tuesday — the fourth day after the attack on the frontline Air Force Station (AFS) by terrorists. The operation was stepped up on Tuesday, an Air Force official told IANS. ....

At least 15 tigers are believed to inhabit the vast scathes of the 2,000-sq km area of the sanctuaries in Chamarajanagar, according to a study by Nature Conservation Foundation. Claiming it to be the first time the population of the endangered species has been enumer ....

“In truth, this is the second time the project has come up. We have been opposing this for a very long time, since its inception during the DMK regime,” explains R.Elango, former president, Kuthambakkam Village Panchayat. “The main reason for that is t ....

Amid the pall of gloom that descended on the remote village of Elambulassery, near Mannarkkad, in Palakkad, hundreds bade a tearful adieu to Lt. Col. E.K. Niranjan. A long way from there, at Garnala, near Ambala, in Haryana, slogans of Bharat Mata ki Jai rent the air ....

Sri Lankan gemmologists say the sapphire was found in the city of Ratnapura, in southern Sri Lanka, which is known as the ’City of Gems.’ It could fetch $175 million It has now been valued at $100 million with estimates that it could even be sold at au ....

A hydrogen bomb is generally more powerful than a nuclear bomb. Last December, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un claimed his country had developed a hydrogen bomb, a step up from the less powerful atomic bomb. More... South Korean officials said they detected an &ls ....

Siddhartha Dhar, also known as Abu Rumaysah, had skipped bail and fled Britain in 2014 with his wife and four children to join the IS in Syria. Born a Hindu, the 32-year-old ran a business renting out bouncy castles in London before converting to Islam and joining th ....

 China’s first landing of a plane on one of its new island runways in the South China Sea shows Beijing’s facilities in the disputed region are being completed on schedule and military flights will inevitably follow, foreign officials and analysts have said ....

“We want to see these kinds of tensions solved bilaterally,” said John Kirby, State Department spokesperson. Secretary of State John Kerry and several other officials are in touch with Iranian and Saudi functionaries to diffuse the situation, but Washingt ....