Patna, With campaigning for assembly elections on at full swing in Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former Congress president Rahul Gandhi will add further heft and heat to the proceedings from Friday.

Prime Minister Modi will launch his campaign on Friday by addressing a rally at Dehri in Rohtas district.

Chennai, The Customs department said here on Thursday that it has seized 114 gm gold valued at Rs 6 lakh from a passenger who flew in from Dubai.

As per a statement issued here by the Commissioner of Customs, Chennai International Airport, 50-year-old Keedir Naina Mohamed of Tamil Nadu arrived here from Dubai

New Delhi, In a strange circular, the Lok Sabha Secretariat has directed all the staff and officers working in the Parliament House complex to desist from washing their utensils and lunch boxes in its premises.

The reason behind the official note mentions "blockage of drainage system" and "cleanline

United Nations, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed concern about intensified geopolitical competition in Southeast Asia and beyond, which, he said, has led to a deepening of global divisions with the risk of miscalculation, confrontation or even a new Cold War.

Speaking at an annual ministerial me

Kathmandu, The office of Nepals Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has confirmed that Samant Kumar Goel, chief of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India's external spy agency, held a meeting with Oli on Wednesday evening.

Amid media reports that Goel held a meeting with Oli and other leaders from ruling and opposit

Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday reported 116 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the total tally to 40,626 cases, the country's Ministry of Public Health confirmed.

"Within the past 24 hours, 440 suspected cases were tested, out of which 116 cases were tested coronavirus positive in 13 provinces of the country

Beijing, Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality saw its foreign trade increase by 11.4 per cent year on year to nearly 461.4 billion yuan (around 69.4 billion US dollars) in the first three quarters of this year, customs data showed.

Chongqing's exports reached 291 billion yuan during the period, a year-

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin is expected to chair a special meeting with his Cabinet at his office in Putrajaya on Friday morning, sources said.

Sources privy to the matter confirmed with The Star that the meeting would take place at 9.30am (local time) and attending ministers are r

Beijing, A team of researchers here has linked elevated birth weight with developing a common heart rhythm disorder atrial fibrillation later in life.

Chinese researchers from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China said that the risk of atrial fibrillation in adulthood may be higher for large newborns (over 4 k

New York, New research adds to the growing body of evidence that air pollution is significantly associated with an increased risk of hospital admissions for several neurological disorders, including Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and other dementias.

For the study, published in the journal The L