The blasts came as Secretary of State John Kerry said that a “provisional agreement” has been reached on a cessation of hostilities that could begin in the next few days. But he acknowledged that it’s not finalised and all parties might not automatical ....

The Department of Fisheries and Wildlife wants to make a Quabbin Reservoir island home to the venomous timber rattlesnake, which is indigenous to the state. Governor Charlie Baker is on board for using the unpopulated island for that purpose. He calls the project ....

 The FBI’s request to Apple to unlock iPhone of a dead terrorist is not unreasonable as it does not require the technology company to redesign a product or create some sort of backdoor, the White House has said. “The request that the FBI has put forward ....

The U.S. airstrikes in northwestern Libya on Friday, which demolished an Islamic State training camp and were aimed at a top Tunisian operative, underscore the problem, Western officials said. The more than three dozen suspected IS fighters killed in the bombing were re ....

 The JNU administration has called a meeting of the top university officials to discuss the resurfacing of five students on the campus who are wanted by Delhi Police in connection with a sedition case. A team of police officials from the South district has been camp ....

As the arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar, a 28-year-old student leader at Jawaharlal Nehru University, mobilised a massive crowd of demonstrators on the streets of Delhi on Wednesday, the left parties construed it as a victory against the BJP government. But back in the campus, ther ....

Supporting the right to dissent and political disagreement in JNU, U.S. Ambassador Richard Verma on Monday described “diversity and debates” as the “hallmark” of academic life in the United States and India. “Both Indian and American Constit ....

Talat Ahmad, the university vice chancellor, recently went against the will of the campus faculty and students and invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a convocation programme. And Mr. Modi didn’t show up. In 2008, Mr. Modi, who was then the Gujarat Chief Mini ....

Indications of a tumultuous beginning of the session emerged at the all-party meetings convened by Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu with the Opposition accusing the government of “setting the agenda for disrupt ....

The young supporters of Iran’s reformist movement gathered behind the safe walls of a sports hall last week to campaign for elections on Friday for Parliament and an influential clerical council. Their longstanding demand has been tangible change, but the forced a ....