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Washington: The Justice Department faces a Friday deadline to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender and wealthy financier known for his connections to some of the world's most influential people, including Donald Trump, who, as president, had tried to keep the...

New Delhi: Twenty-six Indians working in the Russian armed forces have reportedly died, while seven have been marked as missing by the Russian side, the government told Parliament Thursday. In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for External...

Muscat: Oman Sultan Haitham Bin Tarik conferred 'The First Class of the Order of Oman' on Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday - an award that has previously been presented to Queen Elizabeth, Queen Maxim, Emperor Akihito, Nelson Mandela and King Abdullah of Jordan. This is...

New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a Jammu and Kashmir resident, a close associate of suicide bomber Umar-un-Nabi, in connection with the Red Fort area blast, making it the ninth arrest in the case, officials said Thursday. Yasir Ahmad Dar allegedly played...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday allowed petitioners requesting more time for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Kerala and Uttar Pradesh to submit their representations to the Election Commission of India (ECI), which will decide on the requests by December 31....

Dhaka: India Thursday resumed operations at its visa application centre in Dhaka, a day after closing it over escalated security concerns, but closed two other identical facilities in other parts of Bangladesh, officials and reports said. The Indian Visa Application Centre (IVAC) at southwestern Khulna...

New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor Thursday called for cricket matches between mid-December to mid-January to be scheduled in South India instead of the north, which experiences heavy fog during the period, so cricket lovers don't feel cheated. His remarks came a day after the...

Kolkata: Two senior IPS officers, including the state police chief, and a top government official submitted their responses to the West Bengal government Thursday regarding the show-cause notices issued over the mismanagement and vandalism during Argentina’s football icon Lionel Messi’s event at Salt Lake Stadium...

Dungarpur: An overnight sit-in protest was staged outside the Peeth police outpost in Dungarpur district of Rajasthan after a 16-year-old girl allegedly died by suicide following harassment by a youth in the Dhambola police station area. The protesters demanded action after the girl died after...

Kochi: The Kerala High Court Thursday stayed the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) notices issued in connection with funds raised through Masala Bonds by the Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB), granting interim relief to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, former Finance Minister Thomas Isaac, KIIFB CEO K.M....