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New Delhi, Oct 19: President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday again appealed for tolerance as Hindu activists attacked a Jammu and Kashmir legislator with ink while the Shiv Sena forced the BCCI to call off talks with the PCB on reviving…

Title: Good Morning, Mr Mandela; Author: Zelda la Grange If someone thought they were going to be vouchsafed some secret when Nelson Mandela indicated that he wanted to have a "private discussion" with them, they would be left…

Nay Pyi Taw, Oct 15: The Myanmar government here on Thursday signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Accord (NCA) with eight out of the 15 ethnic armed groups involved in the peace deal, signalling an end to nearly six decades of civil conflict.…

Barely three weeks after a democratic federal constitution was promulgated in Nepal, Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli was on Monday sworn-in as the new prime minister heading an eight-member cabinet. President Ram Baran Yadav administered the oaths…

Lima, Oct 9: The World Bank, in its 2015/2016 Global Monitoring Report, has said migration is presently a permanent feature of the global economy and could be an engine of growth. In the report, the institution's President Jim Yong Kim on…

Paris, Oct 5: At least 17 people died in flooding triggered by a powerful storm in France's Cote d'Azur, where the deluge has affected a dozen cities and caused extensive damage, officials said. The toll could rise because four people are…

New Delhi, Oct 2: President Pranab Mukherjee,   Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday paid floral tributes to Mahatma Gandhi on his 146th birth anniversary at Rajghat in the national capital. On his…

New York, Sep 29: President Modi? President Barack Obama referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as president in the middle of a statement he made at the end of their meeting on Monday. In the video of his remarks posted on the White…

United Nations, Sep 6: General Assembly President Sam Kutesa is expected to formally present this week a negotiating document for Security Council reform for adoption before its 69th session ends next week, moving the process forward…

Bhubaneswar, Sep 5: Launching a scathing attack against the Naveen Patanik government’s industrial policy Pradesh Congress Committee president Prasad Harichandan said that the Industrial Policy Resolution (IPR)-2015 was yet another attempt…