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Sydney: Australia and Papua New Guinea said on Wednesday they had agreed to close a controversial Australian-funded asylum seeker detention centre on Manus...

New Delhi: Former union minister Najma Heptulla was on Wednesday made Governor of Manipur while ex-Rajya Sabha MP V. P. Singh Badnore goes to Punjab in new...

Tokyo: The clear favourite to become the first female leader of Japan's biggest opposition party believes Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's signature...

Srinagar: Militants on Wednesday ambushed an Army convoy, killing two soldiers and a policeman in Indian-administered-Kashmir where curfew remained in force...

Beijing: China will limit the operations of North Korean carrier Air Koryo after one of its aircraft made an emergency landing in a northeastern Chinese...

Muscat: Turkey will release almost a fifth of its convicts to ease congestion in prisons that have been packed with thousands of people arrested in...

Los Angeles: Authorities in southern California ordered the evacuation of 82,000 people on Tuesday, after a wildfire broke out in a mountain pass to rapidly...

Beijing/London: Prime Minister Theresa May has told China's leader that Britain wants to strengthen trade and business ties, an attempt to reassure the...

Patna: Bihar on Tuesday became the first non-National Democratic Alliance state to ratify the Constitution Amendment Bill on Goods and Services Tax (GST)...

New Delhi: Charti Lal Goel, the first speaker of the Delhi Assembly and father of Union Minister Vijay Goel, passed away on Tuesday after prolonged...