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New Delhi: With the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao initiative completing 10 years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday said it has been instrumental in overcoming gender biases and at the same creating the right environment to ensure that the girl child has access to education and...

Washington: External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar participated in the Quad Foreign Ministers' meeting in Washington DC Tuesday and discussed with his counterparts "different dimensions" of ensuring a free and prosperous Indo-Pacific adding in a tweet that "Quad will continue to be a force of...

Washington: Indian-American lawmakers have opposed the executive order by US President Donald Trump on changes in birthright citizenship, a move likely to hit not only illegal immigrants from around the world but also students and professionals from India. On Monday, in the opening hours of...

Mumbai: The Mumbai Police have recovered a piece of cloth from actor Safi Ali Khan's apartment which belongs to accused Shariful Islam Shehzad Mohammad, the Bangladeshi national arrested in the attack case. Sources said the Bandra police recovered cloth from Khan's house, which the accused...

Jakarta: Indonesian rescuers resumed a search Wednesday for people missing after flash floods and landslides on Indonesia's main island of Java that killed at least 17 people. Waters from flooded rivers tore through nine villages in Pekalongan regency of Central Java province and landslides tumbled...

Newark: New Jersey and more than a dozen states said Tuesday they are challenging President Donald Trump's executive order ending the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship. New Jersey Democratic Attorney General Matt Platkin said Tuesday that he's leading a group of 18 states, the District...

Ankara: At least 66 people have died and over 51 others injured in a fire that erupted at a hotel in Turkey's northwestern Bolu province Tuesday. According to the local authorities, the fire broke out at a hotel in the Bolu Kartalkaya Ski Resort post...

Mumbai: Actor Saif Ali Khan was discharged from Lilavati Hospital here Tuesday, five days after he was repeatedly stabbed by an intruder at his house in upscale Bandra. The 54-year-old actor, who suffered multiple stab injuries in the attack in the early hours of January...

New York: President Donald Trump announced Monday that he is withdrawing the US from the World Health Organisation, a significant move cutting ties with the United Nation's public health agency on his first day in office. Trump has long been critical of the WHO, and...

Washington: Hours after President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship in the United States, a coalition of civil rights and immigration groups filed a lawsuit challenging the move, setting the stage for a major legal battle. The executive order, signed...