Agencies

A woman attending her son's wedding was left in tears after she identified the bride as her long-lost daughter. The incident happened in Suzhou, Jiangsu province in China on March 31.The mother-in-law noticed a birthmark on her new daughter-in-law's...

Moscow: The Cuban Foreign Ministry has summoned the US charge d'affaires to reject the allegations regarding Cuba in the US State Department's annual report on the human rights situation in the world.On March 30, US State Department published its...

Seoul: North Korea said it will not participate in the Tokyo Olympics because of the coronavirus pandemic.A website run by the North's sports ministry said the decision was made during a national Olympic Committee meeting on March 25 where...

Donetsk: Kiev is waiting for Washington's go-ahead to resort to the forceful scenario in Donbas, Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) Foreign Minister Natalya Nikonorova told Sputnik."Kiev is hyping up the escalation in the media field in order to ask the...

New Delhi: Veteran NCP leader Dilip Walse Patil is widely tipped to take over as Maharashtra's new Home Minister after the resignation of Anil Deshmukh.Patil, a seven-time MLA, began his political career as personal assistant to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)...

Mumbai: Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh resigned Monday, "on moral grounds", hours after the Bombay High Court ordered the CBI to carry out a preliminary probe within 15 days into former Mumbai police chief Param Bir Singh's allegations against...

New Delhi: Dassault, the manufacturer of French fighter jet Rafale, paid one million Euro to a middleman in India just after the India-France deal for 36 Rafales was signed, French publication "Mediapart" alleges citing an investigation by the country's...

Mumbai: Equity benchmark Sensex tumbled over 1,400 points in the morning session on Monday, dragged by massive losses in financial stocks amid concerns over spiking COVID-19 cases in the country.After touching a low of 48,580.80, the 30-share BSE index...

Raipur/New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said that the government is determined to take the ongoing fight against the unrest created by Naxals to its logical conclusion.The minister, who is on a visit to Chhattisgarh, made...

Haflong: Total 171 votes were cast in a booth in Assam's Dima Hasao district, even though 90 people were eligible to exercise their franchise, officials said on Monday, revealing a massive irregularity.The booth is in the Haflong constituency, which...