Gurgaon: The classmates of a student apprehended for the killing of seven-year-old Pradhuman Thakur in Ryan International School alleged today he often showed “rude behaviour” and was ready to slap others.

The students did not want to be named and the two- storeyed house in the posh Defence Colony area of S

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to step back into the years-long feud over patents between the world’s top smartphone makers, declining to hear Samsung’s appeal of a lower court ruling that reinstated a jury award of about $120 million in favor of Apple.

The justices left in place a 2016 ruling by the U.S. Court of

New Delhi: Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram has suggested that the media ask the government for release of his reply to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, who had reportedly asked him to look into the allegations of harassment of private firm First Global, the financiers of ‘Tehelka’.

‘Tehelka’ m

Islamabad: Unidentified gunmen on Monday shot dead a senior Pakistani official near his residence in Afghanistan’s eastern Jalalabad city, embassy sources said.

Two gunmen riding a motorcycle sprayed bullets at Nayyar Iqbal Rana, Assistant Private Secretary at the Pakistani consulate, outside his residence i

Washington DC: Comcast’s Internet service, Xfinity, was recently facing outages across the United States. Some reports state that other Internet service providers too have been facing problems.

A user-generated outage map on DownDetector.com showed that it was down in large cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and Bost

Chandigarh: Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar today rejected the accusation of the Congress that he was a “government agent” as regards the mediation in the Ram Temple dispute in Ayodhya.

“I have always worked on my own and I am not working at the instance of anybody,” he told reporters here

JeM Chief’s newphnew and two militants were neutralised in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district late on Monday evening in an encounter in which an Army jawan was also killed, officials said.

Three militants have been killed and the firing has stopped, Army officials said.

Interestingly, Pakistan has owned up that the

New Delhi: Delhi woke up to ‘severe’ air quality today under a blanket of thick haze, as pollution levels breached the permissible standards by multiple times.

The rapid fall in air quality and visibility began last evening itself as moisture combined with pollutants shrouded the city in a thick cover of ha

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Belgium s King Philippe today held talks to strengthen bilateral ties.

Ahead of the meeting with Modi, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj called on the visiting dignitary, who arrived here on Sunday on a week-long trip, his first state visit to India following his ascens

Washington: India’s massive effort towards renewable energy has resulted in considerable drop in solar price and the country now believes that the solar power is cheaper than coal without subsidy, US lawmakers have been told.

“I was really struck by just the transition in this single year between April