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New York/Washington: US President Donald Trump has said that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told him that 35 million people would have died if it were not for his intervention in stopping the war between India and Pakistan. In his over 100-minute-long State of the...

Washington: President Donald Trump declared during Tuesday's State of the Union that "we're winning so much," saying he'd sparked a jobs and manufacturing boom at home while imposing a new world order abroad - hoping that offering a long list of his accomplishments can counter...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday left for Israel for a two-day visit during which he will have discussions with his counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, address the Israeli Parliament, Knesset, and interact with the Indian diaspora. In his departure statement, the prime minister said India...

New Delhi: Aviation watchdog DGCA Tuesday said safety lapses cannot be simply blamed on pilots as it announced a slew of strict safety measures for non-scheduled flight operators, including public disclosures of aircraft maintenance history and a safety ranking mechanism, in the wake of recent...

London: Britain's House of Commons Tuesday approved the release of papers related to former Prince Andrew's appointment as a trade envoy. The approval came in a voice vote. It was unclear when the release could occur, as the former prince was arrested last week on...

New Delhi: A multi-billion-rupee Nepal project, a part of China's ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), has been dropped from election pledges by former Kathmandu Mayor Balen Shah, who is contesting against former Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli in the latter's bastion of Jhapa-5 constituency,...

Colombo: Sri Lankan Navy has arrested 12 Indian fishermen and seized their boat for allegedly poaching in the island nation's waters, an official statement said Tuesday. Sri Lanka's North Central Naval Command on Sunday spotted a group of Indian fishing boats engaging in illegal fishing,...

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Tuesday approved a proposal of the Kerala government to change the name of the state to Keralam, Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at...

New Delhi: "Corruption" massive backlog of cases, and lack of an adequate number of judges are among the "challenges" faced by the judicial system, according to the new social science NCERT textbook for Class VIII. The section "corruption in the judiciary" in the new book...

Toronto: Ahead of Prime Minister Mark Carney's visit to India, the Canadian government is pushing to revoke the citizenship of a Pakistan-born businessman, Tahawwur Rana Hussain, accused of playing a key role in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack. Rana, 64, is a Pakistan-born Canadian national...