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New Delhi: The government has notified a 2.57-time hike in basic salary of one crore government employees and pensioners following implementation of the 7th...

New Delhi: Eminent diplomat Arundhati Ghose, who was India's ambassador to the UN and played a decisive role in India's negotiations on...

Sydney: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Tuesday ordered an inquiry into the treatment of children in detention after the airing of video...

Vientiane: US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday he supported the resumption of talks between China and the Philippines over the South China Sea,...

Kabul: IS militant group is threatening more attacks against Afghanistan's Hazara minority after Saturday's suicide blasts in Kabul that killed 80...

Dhaka: Police in Bangladesh killed nine militants on Tuesday who were believed to have been plotting an attack similar to the one on a cafe on July 1 that...

Sagamihara (Japan): A knife-wielding man broke into a facility for the disabled in a small town near Tokyo early on Tuesday and killed 19 patients as they...

Jakarta: Indonesia will execute several people including a Pakistani on Friday, a Pakistani embassy official said, its first executions since last year...

Ankara: Turkey's religious affairs directorate has so far removed a total of 1,112 personnel, including preachers and instructors in the Koran, since...

Paris: Assailants loyal to IS forced an elderly priest to his knees before slitting his throat and took several worshippers hostage in a French church on...