Ever since India and Sri Lanka signed the 1987 Accord, New Delhi has been stating that the 13th Amendment, an outcome of the Accord, should be implemented fully. The Amendment, despite weaknesses, paved the way for the establishment of Provincial Councils all over the c ....

Mr. Al Hussein told a press conference at the end of his four-day visit to Sri Lanka that “while some land has been returned in the Jaffna and Trincomalee areas, there are still large tracts which can and should be swiftly given back.”   (According t ....

China has reported its first case of the Zika virus in a man who recently travelled to Venezuela. The National Health and Family Planning Commission says the 34-year-old man from the southern city of Ganzhou had been treated in Venezuela on January 28 before returning ho ....

Lahore High Court Justice Khalid Mahmood Khan on Monday overruled the objection by the court’s registrar office to the petition which has named Queen Elizabeth II and British High Commission in Pakistan respondents in the case. What is the basis? The plea fi ....

Late on Monday, in the neighbourhood of Mong Kok — a shopping district, which was one of the epicentres of student protests in 2014 — clashes broke out after police ordered illegal street food hawkers to disperse. The quarrel apparently triggered a wave o ....

 Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley today continued his deposition for the second consecutive day before a court here. Headley, appearing from an undisclosed location via video conferencing, continued to spill the beans on LeT involvement with the 26 ....

The soldier of 19 Madras Regiment was rescued alive on Monday night, six days after their camp was struck by a massive avalanche that killed nine of his colleagues, and four days after the country’s leaders, including the Prime Minister and the Defence Minister, m ....

 Science doesn’t usually like the word “miracle,” but few other words can describe the recovery of Lance Naik Hanumanthappa Koppad’s still-breathing body after being buried in an avalanche in the Siachen Glacier. Were one to be trapped in an ava ....

Former Minister and Kapu leader Mudragada Padmanabham on Monday declared that he and his wife Padmavathi had ended the hunger strike following an assurance from Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu. Mr. Naidu’s emissaries, Labour and Sports Minister Kinjarapu Atchan ....

According to Andhra Pradesh Government’s Special Representative in Delhi, K. Rama Mohana Rao, the Chief Minister also requested for sanctioning a separate freight corridor, new lines and expeditious completion of pending projects. Earlier, Mr. Naidu also called ....