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Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday claimed that the east Indian state of West Bengal, specially Kolkata, had been reduced to an old age home by...

New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's call for an Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)-free India, on Sunday received support from Congress which...

Kolkata: In a heavy turnout amid reports of sporadic violence, close to 80 per cent of the electorate cast their votes till 5pm in the election to 56 West...

Berlin: Two thirds of Germans oppose Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to allow prosecutors to pursue a case against a German comedian who mocked...

Santiago: Heavy rains battering central Chile have left an estimated 4 million people without drinking water as landslides wreaked havoc and rivers breached...

Havana: Future top leaders of Cuba's Communist party should retire at 70 to make way for younger blood, President Raul Castro said on Saturday,...

Baghdad: Hundreds rallied in central Baghdad in support of powerful cleric Moqtada Al Sadr who has threatened to call mass protests if the prime minister...

Milan: Italy said on Sunday it hoped Libya's UN-backed unity government could restore control of the country's borders to limit migrant flows from...

Dubai: Iran showed off parts of its new Russian S-300 missile defence system during National Army Day on Sunday, where President Hassan Rouhani said the...

Dubai: When Dubai businesswoman Negin Fattahi-Dasmal opened the first branch of her luxurious nail salon chain in Iran this year, it was met with both...