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Hanoi: A high-profile Vietnamese activist on Wednesday lost a bid to overturn a 20-month jail term for protesting against illegal land grabs, her lawyer...

Seoul: South Korean opposition parties vowed on Wednesday to push ahead to try to impeach President Park Geun-hye amid a growing influence-peddling scandal,...

Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh): A panchayat official has been suspended and the manager of a college booked for allegedly posting objectionable pictures of Prime...

New Delhi: Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen has called Modi government's demonetisation move "despotic action that has struck at the root of economy...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed that cinema halls across the country must play the national anthem before the screening of a film and...

Moscow: Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said on Wednesday he hoped that the situation in Syria's Aleppo could be sorted out by the end...

New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi was discharged from a private hospital here on Wednesday, two days after she was admitted to the facility...

Seoul: South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Wednesday appointed a special prosecutor to head an independent investigation of a corruption scandal...

New Delhi: Carrying out with its probe in the blasts outside court premises in South India since April this year, NIA on Tuesday arrested two more persons...

Mumbai: Indrani Mukerjea was a "schemer and a lady of dominant nature" who used to interfere in the affairs of a media group through her husband...