Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao today thanked Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) working president MK Stalin for appreciating the Telangana government’s decision to increase reservations for certain backward sections of society.

Rao spoke to Stalin this morning over phone, a release from the Chief Minister&rs

West Palm Beach: The White House is calling the release of a U.S.-wanted militant by Pakistan a “step in the wrong direction” for U.S.-Pakistan relations and says a refusal to re-arrest him would have serious repercussions for bilateral ties and Pakistan’s reputation.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Huc

New Delhi: Independent Rajya Sabha member Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Saturday hit back at the CPI(M) after a party-controlled panchayat served an “encroachment” notice on a firm linked to him in connection with an under-construction resort in Kerala.

Chandrasekhar, who is the vice-chairman of the NDA in Kerala

Dahod: In a veiled dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said the ruling BJP has hired several magicians for poll campaign in Gujarat this time as the party has realised that their own ‘specialist magician’ would fail to charm the people.

Referring to Gujarat

Washington: Both sides of the US political divide are defending Malia Obama’s right to privacy after a video went viral showing the eldest daughter of former president Barack Obama apparently smoking.

Chelsea Clinton and Ivanka Trump were among the numerous defenders of Malia, 19, on Twitter after the video on Fr

Drinking coffee is “more likely to benefit health than to harm it” for a range of health outcomes, say researchers in The BMJ today.

They bring together evidence from over 200 studies and find that drinking three to four cups of coffee a day is associated with a lower risk of death and getting heart disease compared with dr

The most dramatic divergence between humans and other primates can be found in the brain, the primary organ that gives our species its identity.

However, all regions of the human brain have molecular signatures very similar to those of our primate relatives, yet some regions contain distinctly human patterns of gene activity that mark

Heat from the friction of rocks caused by tidal forces could be the “engine” for the hydrothermal activity on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. This presupposes that the moon has a porous core that allows water from the overlying ocean to seep in, where the tidal friction exerted on the rocks heats it.

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Mumbai: The day marks nine years since the Maximum City witnessed the deadly 26/11 attack, which claimed the lives of more than 166 people.

As many as 10 Pakistani terrorists, belonging to the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) group, had unleashed carnage across Mumbai, on November 26, 2008.

Recalling the unfortunate day