At least 137 people were killed and scores injured when a major fire engulfed a multi-storey garment factory on the outskirts of
Six new cardinals, including an Indian, today joined the elite club of red-robed churchmen who will elect the next pope, bringing a more geographically diverse mix
Farmers in the village of the Pakistani gunman executed Wednesday for the 2008 Mumbai massacre lashed out at India and hounded out journalists who asked about
Amid a raging debate on the country’s strict abortion laws, Ireland’s Catholic bishops have said that the church “has never taught that the life of a child in the womb
The case filed against a young Pakistani Christian girl, who was detained for three weeks after being falsely accused of blasphemy by an Islamic cleric, was
Israel bombarded as many as 80 locations in the narrow Gaza enclave overnight, flattening Gaza’s police headquarters and taking the Palestinian death toll to nearly 100 in six days of onslaught.
Record-setting Indian-American NASA astronaut Sunita Williams along with two other cosmonauts will return to Earth today, after four months in orbit. Williams ceremonially handed over
An Indian-American physician from California has become only the third person of Indian-origin to be elected to the US House of Representatives, attesting to the incremental progress the thriving
With an Indian dentist’s tragic death igniting protests over right to abortion in Ireland, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has said he is awaiting a report by an expert group
In a scathing attack on the government on the 2G spectrum auction issue, BJP today said low bidding has vindicated the CAG stand that not going for auctions in 2008 had led to a huge loss.
World’s largest retailer Walmart today said it is investigating allegations of corrupt practices against it in foreign markets, including India. In March 2011, the US-based company had started a worldwide
This was one ’love affair’ that did not have a happy ending. After professing love over a year over mobile phone, a 23-year-old engineering post-graduate had the shock of her life on seeing at their first meeting that
US President Barack Obama has invited at least three Indian-Americans, including PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi, as part of his wider consultations with leaders from
The United States will overtake Saudi Arabia and Russia as the world’s top oil producer by 2017, the West’s energy agency said on Monday, predicting
A medical report submitted today by the police in a court here after investigation confirmed Asian Games gold medal winner Pinki Pramanik to be a male.