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Chandigarh: Feeling "humiliated" by the recent developments in the Congress, Captain Amarinder Singh resigned on Saturday as Chief Minister of poll-bound Punjab amid dramatic developments and infighting fuelled by state party president Navjot Singh Sidhu.Captain Singh met Governor Banwarilal...

Wellington: New Zealand's indigenous political Maori party has started collecting signatures in support of the petition that seeks to change the country’s official name to the Polynesian "Aotearoa" and to restore the Maori names for all towns, cities and...

Naypyitaw: Aung San Suu Kyi, former Myanmar's State Counselor who was ousted from power by the military junta, was supposed to be tried on Monday, but did not appear before a court due to malaise, media reported.Aung San Suu...

Ahmedabad: BJP MLA Bhupendra Patel, a little known leader outside Gujarat who was elected unanimously as the successor to Vijay Rupani for the top post in the state, is known to be a close aide of former chief minister...

Itanagar: Duda Sora, head teacher of Govt Upper Primary School, APP Complex, Aalo East, West Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh was among the nation’s best 44 teachers who were conferred with the National Awards for Teachers 2021 on the...

Washington: Afghan women in hijab will have access to education and work, Taliban (banned in Russia) spokesman Suhail Shaheen said, adding that the United States should not try to change the culture of the country."There will be no issue...

Peshawar:  Describing China as its "most important partner", the Afghan Taliban has said it looks to Beijing to rebuild Afghanistan and exploit its rich copper deposits as the war-ravaged country faces widespread hunger and fears of an economic collapse,...

New Delhi: Former Rajya Sabha member and senior journalist Chandan Mitra passed away on Wednesday night. He was 65."Since it is already out there; Dad passed away late last night. He had been suffering for a while," tweeted his...

Moscow: The European Union condemns cross-border attacks from Yemen to Saudi Arabia carried out by Houthi rebels, the European Commission's spokesman, Peter Stano, said on Wednesday.A Houthi drone attack on the international airport in Abha, the capital of...

Kabul: European countries are racing to complete evacuation of their nationals ahead of the August 31 deadline – with Britain to end its Afghan evacuation mission on Saturday, while Italy and Germany have flown back the last of their...