Washington,  The death toll from the lightning strike near the White House has increased to three, according to police in Washington D.C.

D.C. police told reporters on Friday that a 29-year-old man died from his injuries caused by the lightning strike in Lafayette Square just north of the White House on

Tokyo,  Japan on Saturday marked the 77th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima that took place in the final days of the Second World War.

A moment of silence was observed at 8.15 a.m., the exact moment when a uranium bomb dropped from a US bomber detonated over the city on August 6, 1945, killi

Moscow,  Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree banning "unfriendly" investors from making transactions with their shares in strategic Russian enterprises and projects until the end of the year.

The decree, published on the country's official portal for legal information, prohibit

Dhaka,  Bangladesh's retail fuel prices have been hiked to levels not seen since the country's independence in 1971.

The Bangladeshi government on Friday night hiked the fuel prices by up to 51.7 per cent with effect from Saturday, reports Xinhua news agency.

According to a price n

Washington,   Ten years after a white supremacist gunned down six Sikh worshippers at a gurdwara in the US state of Wisconsin, the White House is calling for a sharp increase in funding for a federal programme that provides security grants for houses of worship.

But a Sikh-American advocacy group ha

Islamabad,  PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry on Saturday said that the "question" was not about Pakistan's soil being used in the US drone attack that killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman Al Zawahiri, but its airspace as he demanded a formal statement from ministries.

The former minister was seemingly ref

Colombo,  Amid pressure from its immediate neighbour India, Sri Lanka has urged China to delay the entry of controversial Chinese ship 'Yuan Wang 5' into the Chinese controlled port in Southern Hambantota.

In a letter to the Chinese Embassy in Colombo, the Foreign Ministry of Sri Lanka stated, &q

Taipei,  In manoeuvres around Taiwan on Saturday, the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) is performing "what it believed to be a simulation of an attack on Taiwan's main island", according to the Defence Ministry in Taipei.

The Ministry said that numerous military aircraft and warsh

New Delhi,  On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Sri Aurobindo and the 75th anniversary of India's Independence, Doordarshan will premiere the films 'The Transformation' in English and 'Naya Janma' in Hindi on August 14 and 15, respectively. The film is about 54 minutes long.

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Mumbai,  Bollywood actress Urmila Matondkar shared an interesting anecdote about Remo D'Souza that he was with her as a background dancer in 'Rangeela Re', the iconic song from the 1995 movie 'Rangeela' starring Urmila, Aamir Khan, and Jackie Shroff.

During the dance reality show,