The tally of victims killed in this week's brutal attack on a small town in central Haiti by heavily armed gang members has risen to at least 70, the UN human rights office said Friday.     Bodies lay ...

Jurors picked for the trial of a man who severely injured author Salman Rushdie in a knife attack likely won't hear about the fatwa that authorities have said motivated him to act, a prosecutor said ...

Police on Friday arrested the main accused in the fatal shooting of a Dalit school teacher, his wife and two minor daughters here, with officials saying that the incident was a fallout of an illicit ...

A court here on Friday sent arrested former principal of R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, Sandip Ghosh, and now-suspended police officer Abhijit Mondal to 14-day judicial custody. A special CBI ...

The US military struck more than a dozen Houthi targets in Yemen on Friday, going after weapons systems, bases and other equipment belonging to the Iranian-backed rebels, US officials confirmed.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday met Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and discussed “ways to deepen ongoing cooperation and strengthen India-Sri Lanka ties,” and assured ...

The Congress has now become a party of leaders dealing in cocaine, the BJP alleged on Friday as it intensified its attack on the party over Tushar Goyal's arrest in a case of seizure of banned drugs ...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday asked senior police officials to look into the recent incidents of railway track obstruction and ensure they are not repeated. The chief minister ...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday spoke on the phone to the Dalit man whose son, daughter-in-law, and two granddaughters were shot dead by unknown assailants in Amethi.      Senior Congress ...

The chief of the RSS-affiliated Rashtra Sevika Samiti V Shanta Kumari on Friday emphasized the need for strict laws to curb crimes against women. Addressing a gathering at the 'Vijayadashmi Utsav' ...

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament has decided to review the functioning of top regulatory authorities in the country and has called heads of SEBI and TRAI for deposition on October 24.

The Union Home Ministry on Friday strongly rejected the suggestion that there is an attempt to curtail the powers of the soon-to-be-elected chief minister or the next elected government in Jammu and ...