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Manila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has asked Congress for funds to recruit 20,000 new soldiers to battle rising threats from pro-IS militants in...

Bengaluru: The Income Tax Department on Wednesday conducted searches at 64 locations and properties linked to Karnataka Energy Minister D K Shivakumar, who...

New Delhi: Top U.S. bosses are backing a new effort to build strategic ties with India, following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent first meeting...

Mumbai: India's monsoon has delivered 1 per cent more rain than normal so far this year, but erratic distribution has flooded some areas and left others...

Mumbai: India, one of the world's largest markets for pharmaceuticals, is drawing up its first set of marketing rules for drugmakers, restricting gifts...

Sydney: Australian police said on Tuesday they had released one of four men arrested in raids last weekend that foiled a plot to bring down a plane. Local...

Bangkok: A Thai court on Wednesday dismissed a case against former prime minister Somchai Wongsawat, a brother-in-law of deposed former prime minister...

Wellington: New Zealand's charismatic new Labour leader, who took over in a desperate gamble to revive her struggling party seven weeks out from an...

Hanoi: A crackdown on communist Vietnam's increasingly vocal dissidents has become the biggest in years and activists say authorities have been...