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Sri Lanka's long-time leader Mahinda Rajapaksa has admitted defeat in the presidential election, his office says. President Rajapaksa has dominated politics for a decade, but faced an unexpected challenge from his health minister Maithripala Sirisena. The statement said Mr Rajapaksa would...

NEW DELHI: Vladimir Putin may be the reigning bad guy in much of the western world, but next week India will signal to him that he remains a friend. Coming to India on his annual sojourn, Putin has been invited to address a joint session of Parliament, an honour last given to US President Barack...

AGARTALA: In a rare instance of bipartisanship, Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar, who leads the sole surviving Marxist regime in the country, has invited PM Narendra Modi to address the state cabinet on his favoured theme of good governance. The meeting is going to be the first of its kind...

A majority of Indian employees are performing intensely and their work engagement level is highest in the world, according to a report by BI Worldwide, an employee engagement solutions provider. At the same time, six out of ten Indian employees are not working to their full potential while the...

“A FIVE per cent per annum rate of increase in real national income seems entirely feasible on the basis of both the experience of other countries and of India’s own recent past. The great untapped resource of technical and scientific knowledge available to India for the taking is the economic...

There is good news for those who dread registering a complaint at a police station. The government may soon launch a hi-tech project that will minimise policemen's interference and make the police accountable for not taking note of complaints from citizens. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be...

The full story of the Kalyan youth's radicalisation, his trip to the ground zero of a terrorist outfit, his trauma and his return Areeb Majeed, who was brought back from Turkey on Friday after his failed adventures with the dreaded Islamic State (IS, earlier known as ISIS), has revealed...

Many sociologists here have questioned whether India was experiencing a true epidemic of rapes or if it was simply going through a media-created frenzy. Surveys around the world have shown that Indian women actually experience comparatively low levels of sexual violence. NEW DELHI — When the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin will seek to bolster energy ties with India on a visit next month, his latest move to expand trade links with Asian nations to counter sanctions from the U.S. and its allies. Oil & Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC), India’s biggest energy explorer, is likely to sign...

Rural India's low-cost sanitary pad revolution

NEW DELHI: Ground realities may be harsh for women in India, but they're still determined to conquer the skies. Almost 600 of the 5,050 pilots in Indian airlines are women, according to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). At 11.6%, this is way above the 3% global average...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will make a two-day maiden visit to Nagaland from November 30, officials said here today. The Prime Minister will arrive in Nagaland on November 30 and will grace the Hornbill Festival on December 1 as chief guest, the officials said. A coordination meeting of the...

HYDERABAD/BENGALURU/CHENNAI: For many years, after he lost office in 2004, Chandrababu Naidu would flinch when complimented on his industry-friendly approach as chief minister of united Andhra Pradesh. He seemed wary of owning up to his past, attributing his electoral loss to the pursuit of...

BENGALURU: All they were looking for was a home to rent, but what the group of 12 engineers from IIT-Bombay found was a blockbuster career path that has catapulted their fledgling venture into one of India's hottest startups. In 2012, when Advitya Sharma and 11 of his friends hunted for a house...

(Reuters) - India has handed Bangladesh a list of 11 men suspected of plotting attacks including one targeting its prime minister, officials said on Wednesday, as the two countries tighten security cooperation against Islamist militants. Indian security officials uncovered the plot against...

TEL AVIV: At the UN General Assembly in New York last September, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set aside time for a critical meeting. But it wasn't President Barack Obama he was keen to see. It was Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Since Mr Modi came to power in May, ties between...

Urban Development Minister Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu today inaugurated the 4th 'Smart City Expo World Congress' at Barcelona, Spain. Shri Naidu was invited as the Chief Guest for the event by the Mayor of Barcelona, a city which is considered as the model smart city in the world. Shri Naidu is...

Investors haven’t been this bullish on India since 2003. But all of that took a turn for the worse with the financial market crash of 2008. While other countries in the emerging markets recovered quite well starting in 2010, thanks to stimulus packages and robust China demand for commodities...

Railways is finding it difficult to meet the spurt in number of passengers fromPakistan travelling to India by Thar Link Express, a senior official said on Saturday. It has reminded Pakistan of the conditions of the MoU, under which the number of passengers from either side would not exceed...

The first unspoken rule of diplomacy might be "Don't hit on the president's wife," but Russia's newly single president Vladimir Putin seems to have missed the memo. Leaders of 21 Asia-Pacific nations including Russia have converged upon Beijing for the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation...