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The West and Ukraine blamed Russian forces for the incident, while Russia said it’s the fault of Ukrainian forces.

British economist Angus Deaton won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics Sciences for “his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare”, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday. How poor countries treat young girls. He had been in the running for the prize...

Labor has criticised Malcolm Turnbull’s personal investment in a so-called “vulture fund” held in a Carribean tax haven.

The bottom line, says Laurenti, is that the importance of the 10 elected council members has diminished. Ukraine has contended that the Russian loan, which was extended to then-President Viktor Yanukovych in 2013 a few months before he fled the country, was a de-facto bribe for...

The minister further said that on the behest of PTI, the Judicial Commission (JC) was formed, the army was deployed in the constituencies where by-elections were being held, and CCTV cameras were also installed.

Anyone who has seen the SAS campus, which has its own gym, medical facility, cafeterias offering a wide variety of food, and endless free M&Ms, as well as a site featuring sculpture and art, doesn’t have much trouble understanding how SAS continually ranks as a best...

The next president will become the third US commander-in-chief to oversee the war and try to bring it to a close. On Wednesday, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said, “Over the last seven years we’ve made a lot of important progress”.

September imports sank 20.4 percent to $145.2 billion in dollar terms, the customs department said – worse than forecast in a survey of economists by Bloomberg News.

Former Canadian diplomat Ken Taylor, fondly remembered as a hero for his role in sheltering six US citizens during the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis in Tehran – a real-life drama known as the Canadian Caper – has died.

Chief Information Commissioner Th Ibobi Singh said that numerous public authorities are not fully aware of the RTI Act and they tend to ignore it.

The investigation was opened after the Catalonian autonomous community government under Mr Mas went ahead with the referendum in November 2014, defying a ruling by Spain’s Constitutional Court.

This time around they hope they’ve found the right formula.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said that he hopes for global cooperation in the space industry at the new Vostochny Cosmodrome in the country’s Far East.

While setting aside the appointment of Yadav as the UPPSC Chairman, a division bench of the court comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice Yashwant Verma held that the same was “arbitrary”, “illegal”, “ultra vires of Article 316 of the...

A SOLDIER was killed in an encounter with terrorists as Army troops foiled an infiltration attempt from across the Line of Control (LoC) in Krishna Ghati sector of Poonch district on Wednesday afternoon.