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Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. (Photo: AFP)

CIA reveals Rajiv Gandhi was genuinely interested about US military...

According to report of August 1985, three signals emerged from Gandhi's foreign visits about his 'evolving personal and...

4 Aug 2017 4:45 PM IST

Sikkim, which became a part of India in May 1976, is the only state which has a demarcated border with China. (Photo: Representational/File)

Amid border stand off, China says India building up troops along its...

The stand-off has ratcheted up tension between the neighbors, who share a 3,500-km (2,175-mile) frontier, large parts of...

4 Aug 2017 4:26 PM IST

An untold number of people -- some estimates say up two million -- died in the savage violence that followed (Photo: AP)

Hindus killed Muslims, they are to be blamed for 1947 partition:...

August marks 70 years since the subcontinent was divided into two independent states -- Hindu-majority India and...

4 Aug 2017 3:46 PM IST

American student Otto Warmbier speaks as he is presented to reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea. Warmbier, an American college student who was released by North Korea in a coma last week after almost a year and a half in captivity, died Monday, June 19, his family said. (Photo: AP)

Door remains 'open' for American tourists: North Korea after US' ban

Tour companies say some 5,000 Western tourists visit the North each year, with US citizens making up about 20 percent of...

4 Aug 2017 3:22 PM IST

Maduro faces accusations at home and abroad of trampling on democracy with the election last weekend of the assembly. (Photo: AFP)

Venezuela heads for showdown to inaugurate new constituent assembly

The opposition says turnout was closer to 3.5 million, mostly state employees fearful for their jobs.

4 Aug 2017 2:07 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: AP)

Narendra Modi has ushered in a golden age for BJP: US think tank

BJP is the new centre of political gravity in a country long controlled by the storied dynasty of Congress Party,...

4 Aug 2017 1:47 PM IST

The President tomorrow will be taking off for Bedminster for a working vacation. (Photo: File)

Trump to go on two-week working vacation to his golf club in New...

Trump, who used to be critical of his predecessor Barack Obama taking his annual vacations to Hawaii and Martha's...

4 Aug 2017 1:47 PM IST

Civilians were also reported to have been wounded in the nighttime attack. (Photo: Representational/AFP)

NATO soldier killed in Aghanistan suicide bombing, 6 injured

Qarabagh district is located 50 kilometres north of the capital Kabul and is near Bagram Airbase, the largest American...

4 Aug 2017 1:31 PM IST

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. (Photo: AP

Amidst refugee deal, relations with Trump 'warm': Australian PM

The January phone call between Trump and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was widely reported at the time.

4 Aug 2017 12:44 PM IST

Abbasi is likely to continue as premier for the remaining 10-month tenure of PML-N. (Photo: AP)

US says -"looks forward-" to working with new Pak PM for mutual...

Abbasi, was endorsed by Sharif to hold the post for interim arrangement of 45 days (till mid-September) till Shahbaz...

4 Aug 2017 12:15 PM IST

newly-elected Prime Minister of Pakistan Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, takes oath from Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain at the Presidential palace in Islamabad, Pakistan. (Photo: AP)

Pakistan's new PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi sworn in

The new Cabinet largely retained old faces but some new leaders were included as ministers and ministers of state.

4 Aug 2017 11:45 AM IST

Sikkim, which became a part of India in May 1976, is the only state which has a demarcated border with China. (Photo: Representational/File)

Sikkim standoff: Our restraint has 'bottom line', China tells India

The standoff began on June 16 after Chinese troops began constructing a road near the tri-junction with Bhutan.

4 Aug 2017 11:40 AM IST