New Delhi: Senior journalist and editor-in-chief of National Herald, Neelabh Mishra, passed away today at a Chennai Hospital.

He was critically ill and with complications resulting from non-alcoholic liver cirrhosis.

Mishra, 57, was admitted to Apollo Hospital in Chennai earlier this month and developed

Mumbai: Breaking his silence on his alleged sexual assault on a minor girl, Assamese singer Angarag Papon Mahanta, famously known as Papon, on Friday said that it was "just a case of faulty camera angles and an accidental move."

The 'Jiyein Kyun' hit-maker took to his social media to say, "P

Islamabad: Pakistan on Friday said that India's desire to become a "regional hegemon" is casting a "dark shadow" in the region.

Warning that Pakistani forces are ready to defend its borders against any threat, Foreign Office spokesman Mohammad Faisal in his weekly briefing said that &q

Mumbai: Gujarat's Patidar quota agitation spearhead Hardik Patel today said he did not consider Congress president Rahul Gandhi "my leader" and favoured the entry of Priyanka Gandhi into active politics.

The Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) leader also announced that he would not contest next yea

New Delhi: Anita Singhvi, the wife of senior Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi, on Friday filed her response to the Income Tax department, which had issued her a notice to explain certain jewellery purchases from stores owned by beleaguered diamantaire Nirav Modi.

Officials said an authorised representati

Rio De Janeiro: Brazilian Olympic judo champion Rafaela Silva said she was stopped by police on a Rio de Janeiro road Friday and treated as "a bandit" because she is black.

Silva, who won gold in the 2016 Rio Olympics and has been an outspoken advocate of the poor, mostly black inhabitants of Rio's t

New York: Eugenie Bouchard reached a settlement with the US Tennis Association on Friday to end her lawsuit over a locker room fall at the 2015 US Open Tennis Championships, US media reported.

The terms of the settlement were confidential.

The resolution came a day after a jury in US federal court in Bro

New Delhi: Breaking his silence over the Rs 11,400-crore fraud at India's second-biggest public sector bank PNB, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said his government will take stringent action against financial irregularities and not tolerate loot of public money.

Days after the fraud allegedly mastermi

New Delhi: The Supreme Court collegium today made public the names of 37 additional high court judges it has recommended for appointment as permanent judges of the high courts of Allahabad, Rajasthan, Kerala, Gujarat and Bombay.

The collegium in a resolution said it had received certain complaints against som

London: Prime Minister Theresa May will make a keynote speech next Friday on Britain's relationship with the EU after Brexit following a "very positive" meeting of her senior ministers, her spokesman said.

"The prime minister will be setting out more detail of the government's position