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Mahatma GandhiWorld
South African living museum to reflect Mahatma Gandhi's contribution,...

The 1860 Heritage Centre is the culmination of many years of negotiation between the local Indian community and...

2 Jun 2017 3:12 PM IST

US President Donald Trump (Photo: AP)World
Trump will not move US embassy to Jerusalem for now: official

Palestinian leaders, Arab govts and Western allies had urged Trump not to proceed with the embassy relocation.

2 Jun 2017 2:56 PM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. (Photo: AP/File)World
Pak: Sharif's younger son appears before panel probing graft charges

The appearance comes a day after the SC was angered over a lawmaker's comments equating Sharif's govt with the Sicilian...

2 Jun 2017 2:27 PM IST

Pakistans leading lawyer Sharifuddin Pirzada. (Photo: AFP)World
Pak's leading lawyer Sharifuddin Pirzada passes away at 93

All legal proceedings at the Sindh High Court were temporarily suspended as a mark of respect for the eminent Pak legal...

2 Jun 2017 1:53 PM IST

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. (Photo: AP)World
Trump's climate decision a 'disappointment: Justin Trudeau

Trudeau also conveyed his intention to continue working with international partners to address climate change.

2 Jun 2017 1:48 PM IST

Yazidi survivor Nadia Murad (Photo: AP)World
Hoped to die, not to be sold, raped: Iraqi ISIS slave Nadia on...

24-year-old Murad, who made her escape in November 2014, was taken in the summer of 2014 to Mosul, ISIS's de facto...

2 Jun 2017 1:47 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Photo: PTI)World
Russia to supply S-400 Triumf anti-aircraft missile systems to India

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said that the pre-contract preparations were underway.

2 Jun 2017 1:29 PM IST

Syrian citizens and civil defense workers gathering next of burning car at the explosion scene, in Azaz town, north Syria. (Photo: Representational/ AP)World
Syria: 19 including rebel fighters dead in blast

Syrian forces have been occasionally accused of planting explosives to target opposition fighters.

2 Jun 2017 12:28 PM IST

President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Photo: AP)World
Trump's call to quit Paris accord takes 'America First' to 'America...

Trump announced the withdrawal the same day he pulled back from another campaign promise: to move the US Embassy in...

2 Jun 2017 12:26 PM IST

Satyarup Siddhanta. (Photo: Twitter)World
Fraud At 8,848 Metres: Are Mount Everest ascents too easy to fake?

Satyarup Siddhanta realised that he was at the centre of an Everest fraud when a couple doctored his summit photo.

2 Jun 2017 11:41 AM IST

Italian Prime minister Paolo Gentiloni, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed their strongest commitment to swiftly implement the Paris accord and urged all the other partner countries \to spead up their action to combat climate change.\ (Photo: AP)World
Paris agreement irreversible, cannot be renegotiated: world leaders

The nations dismissed US President Donald Trump's suggestion of revising the global pact, hours after he decided to...

2 Jun 2017 11:01 AM IST

NBC journalist Megyn Kelly, right, smiles as she interviews Indias Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Photo: AP)World
Social media reacts to NBC reporter asking Modi are you on Twitter'

Megyn Kelly, who interacted with the Prime Minister and President Putin, set Twitter on fire for asking the former the...

2 Jun 2017 10:33 AM IST

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