New Delhi: People across the country celebrated Dussehra with traditional fervour on Saturday as two Cabinet ministers joined the troops in the festivities, but the mood was sombre in Mumbai which mourned the death of 23 people in a railway station stampede

Arrows were fired to set the effigies of Ravana ablaze at the Parade Groun

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Wuhan: Australia’s Ashleigh Barty crushed French Open winner Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia 6-3, 6-0 on Friday, cruising into the final at the Wuhan Open.

Barty, who began 2017 ranked outside the top 300, will face Maria Sakkari or Caroline Garcia in her first Premier 5 tournament final.

The 20-year-ol

Jodhpur: Rajasthan Congress chief Sachin Pilot today said it is time India gave a befitting reply to the “dastardly” acts of Pakistan.

Pilot met the family of an army jawan from Ganpatram Kadwasra who was killed in cross-border firing along the LoC in the Tangdhar sector in Jammu and Kashmir earlier th

New Delhi: The two-week-long India-US ‘Yudh Abhyas’ military exercise that focused on counter insurgency and counter terrorist operations in urban environment has concluded in Washington.

The exercise ended at Joint Base Lewis McChord (JBLM), Washington, Thursday.

It progressed from platoon-l

New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Thursday detained nine students of the Banaras Hindu University who were on their way from Jantar Mantar to the prime minister’s official residence to submit a memorandum.

The students — eight boys and and a girl — were released later. The Chanakyapuri Police said t

Cairo: The Islamic State group on Thursday released what it said was a new audio recording of its top leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in which he vows to continue fighting and lavishes praise on his jihadis despite their loss of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

Mosul was liberated from IS extremist in July after a

British Prime Minister Theresa May said the London transport regulator’s decision to strip Uber Technologies Inc of its licence to operate in the capital was “disproportionate” and has put thousands of jobs at risk, according to a BBC report on Thursday.

Regulator Transport for London said last Friday that the U.

Mumbai: The kin of people, who died in a stampede at a railway foot over bridge (FOB) here this morning, will get a compensation of Rs 10 lakh each, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said.

Making an announcement here, he said the Railway Ministry, as well as the Maharashtra government, would provide an ex-gratia of Rs

Kabul: At least 12 Afghan security personnel were killed and four injured on Thursday in a suicide attack in Kandahar province, a senior police official said.

“The incident took place in Maroof district. The injured included a police chief,” the official told Xinhua news agency.

The Taliban h