It is now holding over 25 tmc ft of water and the government has made a decision to fill it up to 30 tmc ft and release excess water into the sea through Prakasam Barrage. Two helicopters of Indian Navy were also kept ready. With Munneru rivulet also in spate, the Prakasam...
More than 150 bodies have been found after a boat carrying hundreds of migrants capsized off an Egyptian coastal town this week, a provincial official says.
Asian stock markets held fairly steady Friday, holding on to gains in the week driven by US and Japanese central bank policy decisions that fueled investors’ belief that low rates will be around for a few more months. On Wall Street, the futures for the Dow Jones industrial...
The Blue Jays (84-69) maintained their hold on the first American League wild-card spot while dealing a blow to the wild-card chances of the Yankees (79-74).
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has accused the Syrian government of killing the most civilians during the country’s five year conflict and said “powerful patrons that keep feeding the war machine also have blood on their hands”.
The Indonesian government will bring back 700 Indonesian haj pilgrims who went to Saudi Arabia through the Philippines before facing legal process, an official has said.
Secretary of State John Kerry was informed of the Syrian military’s decision to restart operations in Aleppo when his chief of staff showed him a headline on his BlackBerry during a meeting of the International Syrian Support Group on the sidelines of the U.N. General...
A one-time high school and college star basketball player was behind bars Wednesday on suspicion of sexually assaulting three young women while working as a driver for Lyft and Uber in northern San Diego County.
Scarlett’s mother Fiona Mackeown, in the media campaign after her daughter’s death, had called for the investigation of drug racket in the state that led to the death of her teenage daughter.