Washington: The U.S. Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed legislation to avert a government shutdown, sending the measure to the Hous...

New diesel cars from Renault, Nissan, Hyundai, Citroen, Fiat, Volvo and other manufacturers have all been found to emit substantially highe...

Deflation returned to the countries that use the euro in September as prices fell at an annual rate of 0.1%. It is the first time inflat...

A woman in the US state of Georgia has been executed despite a number of last-ditch appeals, including one by the Pope, to try to block he...

Russia has begun carrying out air strikes in Syria against opponents of President Bashar al-Assad, Moscow has confirmed. The strikes rep...

Los Angeles/ Vatican City : Pope Francis secretly met a Kentucky county clerk last week who was jailed for refusing to issue marriage lice...

New Delhi: Locally produced gas in India will cost 18 percent less during October-March compared with the first half of the current fiscal...

Mumbai: Mobile telecoms operator Reliance Communications Ltd will partner conglomerate Reliance Industries Ltd's telecoms unit to trade...

Mumbai: When the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut interest rates by much more than expected this week, government officials hailed it as a v...

Wayne, New Jersey: When Congress designed temporary work visa programs, the idea was to bring in foreigners with specialized, hard-to-find ...

Mumbai: A 21-year-old girl allegedly planned and had her 22-year-old boyfriend murdered at the popular Carter Road promenade in Bandra on M...

India has pulled ahead of China and US to emerge as the world's number one destination for foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2015, ac...

Dadri, Uttar Pradesh: A 50-year-old man was beaten to death by a mob near Delhi on Monday night, allegedly over rumours that his family ha...

Jammu: Voices of dissent have started to emerge in the BJP over the temple Bill, with several party MLAs asking the party leadership not t...

Dehradun : Communal tension gripped Kotdwar town of Pauri Garhwal district following a clash between two communities over a petty issue lat...

Dehradun:  Genetically engineered seeds, use of chemical-based fertilisers and pesticides and climate change are taking a toll on farmers...

Chandigarh: Even four days after an official car belonging to former UT Home Secretary Anil Kumar knocked down a 90-year-old war veteran at...

Chandigarh: Superintendent posted in the pension cell of Panjab University (PU), Naresh Sabharwal, who was arrested yesterday in a financia...

Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh High Court has directed the state government to consider the feasibility of re-introducing freehold scheme. T...

Shimla :Politics could once again cast its shadow on sports as the possibility of Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh giving a miss to the India...

Ambala : An RTI query has brought out that “ineligible persons” are being awarded freedom fighter pension in Haryana. Tarlochan Singh, Am...

Chandigarh: The decision of the Khattar Government to withdraw the 10 per cent quota for Jats and four other castes under the special back...

Amritsar: The rift within the SGPC over the Akal Takht decision to pardon Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh over his alleged ...

Sangrur: Setting aside religious code, two young Sikh men saved a group of drowning boys in Punjab on Sunday. As a cellphone footage of ...

Los  Angeles: The daughter of the late Fast and Furious actor Paul Walker is to sue carmaker Porsche over the crash in which he died, US re...

Celtic's Leigh Griffiths has been given a suspended two-match ban and fined £2,500 after admitting singing an offensive song about Rudi...