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While such whirlwind hectic discussions were going on July 16 and 17 at National Capital, the news of killing of two NSCN (K) cadres by the Assam Rifles troops in Avangkhu and the controversial and mysterious subsequent killing of two young students at Phor Village under...

BJP national spokesman Sudhanshu Trivedi said on Friday that his party did not believe in caste, nor had its president Amit Shah referred to PM Narendra Modi as belonging to the “OBC” category around a week ago.

The historic shift was publicly memorialized later Monday when Cuban officials formally inaugurated their embassy in Washington and Cuba’s blue, red and white-starred flag flew for the first time since the countries severed ties in 1961. A few USA lawmakers, including...

He was escorted from the courtroom by security men and refused to return.

033-c-08-(Peter Orsi, AP correspondent)-“normalizing the relations“-AP correspondent Peter Orsi reports there’s a long way to go for the US and Cuba even with the opening of embassies”.

REP. ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN (R), Florida: I look forward to working with my colleagues in Congress to try to block the expansion of a U.S. Embassy in Cuba, to try to stop the confirmation of a US ambassador to the island. By midmorning, the Cuban government had pulled back several...

The B.C. Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a man shot in an altercation with RCMP in Dawson Creek. That is a mask used by Anonymous, which claims the victim was one of its own.

French ferry workers have caused mayhem for British tourists after they set FIRE to stacks of tyres and blocked access to Calais port and the Eurotunnel.

The winger has signed a two-year contract with the Championship side side with an option for a further 12 months, subject to worldwide clearance and Football Association approval.

The BJP party’s campaigning for Bihar Assembly polls will be launched by BJP President Amit Shah by rolling out 160 “raths” (chariots) today which will fan out in different directions and traverse the length and breadth of the state. He also castigated Nitish...

Two teenaged students were killed in the cross-firing while a local woman, an officer and a jawan of the Assam Rifles sustained bullet injuries, they said. The crackdown of the insurgents is part of government’s initiative to check the growing insurgency in the region.

A 63-year-old Indian woman has been dismembered and beheaded by machete-wielding villagers who accused her of practising witchcraft.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is “obsessed with the idea of testing NATO”, says ex-president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili in an exclusive interview to The Independent.

The earlier version said the compensation would be paid for “up to five years”.

The BRICS group of emerging economies launched its New Development Bank (NDB) in China on Tuesday.