An Indian court Thursday cleared three defendants over a series of bomb blasts in New Delhi in 2005 that killed 62 people, but jailed one of them for his links with a banned group. New Delhi's...
An ally of disgraced Indian politician VK Sasikala was Thursday appointed the next leader of Tamil Nadu state, ending a weeks-long succession war marked by bitter in-fighting and plot twists....
play videoPart of the birth was shown in a video clip posted by the hospital A 64-year-old woman has successfully given birth to healthy twins - a boy and a girl - in Burgos, northern Spain. The...
Extravagant Indian weddings in palaces featuring elephants, foreign dance troupes and seven-course meals could become a thing of the past if one politician fed up with the excess gets her way....
India has awarded drilling rights for 31 small oil and gas fields as it looks to reduce its costly dependence on energy imports. In its first such auction in six years, contracts for the fields were...
The worst excesses of the Indian wedding industry may soon be curbed if a new bill is approved. The proposed bill will not only limit the number of guests and dishes served to avoid waste, but also...
The only person convicted in the 1985 Air India bombings that killed 331 people is now free, Canada's parole board said Wednesday. Inderjit Singh Reyat had been ordered to live at a halfway house...
The only person convicted in the 1985 Air India bombings that killed 331 people is now free, Canada's parole board said Wednesday. Inderjit Singh Reyat had been ordered to live at a halfway house...
About 40 illegal foreigners have been arrested in a police operation against illegal foreigners staying on the Indian Ocean Island of Mauritius. Africanews correspondent in the country, Yasine...
THE Irish arm of the governing Ghanaian New Patriotic Party finally held their 2016 General Elections Victory Celebrations / Party over the weekend with the Centre Right Irish Government Party...
A politician fighting to clear his name over the death of a celebrity horse was among candidates trying to woo voters as the Indian state of Uttarakhand went to the polls Wednesday. Uttarakhand is...
Disgraced Indian politician VK Sasikala prepared Wednesday to hand herself over to begin a four-year jail term for corruption, days before she had been due to become chief minister of Tamil Nadu....
Political communication is not particularly different from other ways of using language. It is only sensitive and more political. Every one of us is, after all, a rhetorician. A mother cajoling...
Half a million Indians have set a new world record by performing a mass rendition of their national anthem, as patriotic sentiment rises under a nationalist government. The "Jana Gana Mana" anthem...
Local pharmaceutical manufacturers are scaling up their investment in plants, machinery and new technologies in order to increase their share of the market, currently dominated by imports from mainly...
Former skipper Steve Waugh has warned that Australia's only hope of beating India in their upcoming series is by taming Ravichandran Ashwin, branding the record-breaking spinner "the Bradman of...
The former Chief of Defense Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces, Brigadier General Nunoo Mensah says he can even work with the devil if given the opportunity. The just outgone Human Security Coordinator...
India successfully put a record 104 satellites from a single rocket into orbit on Wednesday in the latest triumph for its famously frugal space agency. Scientists gathered for the launch in the...
So many people do not know anything about this Valentine’s Day ban… The celebration of St. Valentine’s Day is not allowed in all parts of the world as some people may be thinking. In fact, the...
A cabinet minister who claimed to have ordered police to torture rape suspects should be investigated for human rights abuses, Amnesty International has said. Uma Bharti, in charge of water...
