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An extraordinary meeting between the heads of the Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches takes place at Havana airport today.

PRANAV KULKARNI puts together details of the three-decade-old war at the world’s highest battlefield

Now, as 26/11 reconnaissance operative David Headley’s testimony to a Mumbai court transfixes India, stories of what happened to those men is important to recount.

Foreign investors who have already sold a net $1.9 billion (around Rs 13,000 crore) in shares so far this year are expected to pull out more funds if the US Fed hikes rate again.

Earlier this week the Backward Classes Commission recommended up to 27 per cent reservation in the private sector. The new Clause 5 in Article 15 allows for reservations to be valid for unaided educational institutions

Congress and AAP are not impressed by each others’ “catches”. The former claims there is a vacuum of leadership in the AAP and more “opportunists” would join them. AAP claims it is the most sought

The CBI filed chargesheets against seven police officers including three from the Gujarat cadre IPS, and four IB officials in the Ishrat encounter case. Currently, all seven police officers who were charge-sheeted are out on

All eyes are on Fadnavis; each side, while adamant on its stance, is hopeful the CM will decide in its favour. Sarpanch Balasaheb Bankar believes he will weigh in on the side of “tradition”

Currently, men enter the Dargah through the south entrance; women through the east. Women are allowed upto a 200-square-foot area 10-12 feet from the tomb.

ASI lets Hindus pray at the shrine on Tuesdays and on Basant Panchami, and allows Muslims to offer namaaz on Fridays — an arrangement that, however, goes haywire when the festival is on a Friday.

Amid expectations worldwide that the announcement will be about the discovery of gravitational waves Einstein spoke of.

Animals don’t stray and know how to be discreet. They want us to give them space and handle accidental face-offs better.

The lifting of the ‘blockade’ was not officially announced - its imposition on September 20 which coincided with India’s curt response to the promulgation of Nepal’s new Constitution had also been without fanfare.

One of the most used terms in the banking and financial sectors over the last few years, leading RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan to express concern over the health of public sector banks. So what does

As Finance Minister Arun Jaitley gets ready to present his Budget, there appear to be some parallels from then — the banking sector crisis.

The parents of a 7-year-old thalassaemic child who died waiting for a stem cell transplant have dragged the hospital and stem cell registry to court after the donor backed out at the last minute.

The Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), a part of the Central Armed Police Force of India, organised a 184-km expedition to their high altitude posts situated along the Indo-Nepal international border in January this year.

In Uttar Pradesh the most common request at the gate of any minister’s house is, leave your firearms at the gate.

The miraculous survival of the jawan and the incident itself, has generated a debate on the tough conditions close to 3000- 4000 men belonging to three battalions served under at the highest battlefield in the

Sushil Koirala spent nearly 11 years in India in exile from 1968 and always had close links with Indian politicians, mainly the socialists.

India and the UAE decided to call on all countries to dismantle terrorism infrastructure where they exist and bring perpetrators of terrorism to justice.

Oli, who is now visiting New Delhi, has invitations from both the prime ministers of India and China.

The results of this year’s nomination will be announced in June 2017.

Last week, the NIA informed a special court that it intended to drop charges under the stringent MCOCA against the 11 accused in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case. Indian Express explains the case, the one

In the past few months, the cooperation has yielded benefits, with at least a dozen individuals being sent back to India for alleged terror activities.