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Shortly before his first trip to China since taking office, Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad said in an interview that he would like to cancel a pair of Chinese projects he had earlier ordered suspended and probed for its ties to the scandal-ridden 1MDB state-development fund. “We...

India and Pakistan have been embroiled in a dispute over the citizenship of Jhingra, who has been in a Bangkok prison since September 2000. New Delhi: In a big victory for India, a criminal court in Thailand has ruled that a key associate of underworld don Chhota Shakeel, Sayyed Muzakkir...

President Rodrigo Duterte, who has had a thorny relationship with the church, questioned anew in a speech late Friday some of the basic tenets of the Catholic faith, including the concept of original sin, which he said taints even innocent infants and can only be removed through baptism in a...

Just read in social media regarding PM Modi's visit to Indonesia. That Indonesia wanted to send/sent its navy to lay siege to Andaman in order to divert India from 1965 War. I searched and found a little mention in Quora. Not a bit more. Can anyone put some more light/data on this? @SrNair...

Aamir Khan adapting Mahabharata on the big screen and starring in the film has not gone down well with certain sections of Twitter There were plenty unsavoury comments attacking Aamir on Twitter Javed Akhtar lashed out at Twitter trolls You know nothing about our Indian traditions: Javed...

China’s government has denied reports that it spied on the servers at the African Union’s Chinese-built headquarters for more than five years, gaining access to confidential information. In an investigation published by French newspaper Le Monde, China, which also paid and built the computer...

Kapil Mohan, man behind the success of Old Monk, passes away at 88 Brigadier (retd.) Kapil Mohan, former Chairman and MD of Mohan Meakin Ltd and the man behind the rum Old Monk, passed away on January 6. He was 88 years old. As per reports, Mohan, who was keeping unwell in his last years, died...

A Hyderabad-based Islamic seminary has stoked a major controversy after it issued a fatwa saying that consumption of prawn is not permissible for Muslims. Don’t eat Prawns if you are Muslim, says Hyderabad seminary’s fatwa A Hyderabad-based Islamic seminary has stoked a major controversy after...

New Delhi, Dec 7: India’s most wanted fugitive underworld don – Dawood Ibrahim – has gone against the ‘rules’ of the crime world to form a ladies wing to target rich and famous women from the business world. According to sources, Dawood has constituted a special team in his D-Company to extort...

Asteroid Apophis May End Life On Earth, Says NASA Asteroid Apophis May End Life on Earth in 2036: NASA Updated: November 20, 2017 5:51 PM IST By India.com News Desk Email Representational Image New Delhi, Nov 20: After thirteen years of its detection, American Space Agency NASA has said an...

An out of control Chinese space station could smash into a major world city at the beginning of 2018. The European Space Agency said the 8.5-tonne Tiangong-1, or “Heavenly Palace”, satellite could hit "any spot" between two latitude lines in the northern and southern hemispheres. ESA experts...

As many as 24.2 lakh people worldwide have submitted their names for the space agency’s InSight mission. More than 1.3 lakh Indians have booked a flight to Mars which is a part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s InSight mission. InSight, which stands for Interior...

According to his parents, Boriska Kipriyanovich was able to speak months after he was born and would often discuss subjects they had never taught him, such as alien civilisations. (Representational image) New Delhi: Confounding experts with his knowledge on outer space for nearly 20 years, a...

Prince Ali Raza died on September 2 following a brief illness. He was found dead on the floor near his wooden bed when some staff members from the ISRO station next door entered the Mahal to check on him. Prince Ali Raza shifted to Malcha Mahal with his mother, Begum Wilayat Mahal, the...

China is considering handing out three-year jail terms to people who disrespect its national anthem under a new law which could be rolled out to Hong Kong, media said on Tuesday. The strict new rules could spark a backlash in the former British colony where football fans have booed the anthem...

With its sanitary pads for the Indian market, startup company Saathi solves two problems at once. Just 16 percent of women in India use them due to poverty and other reasons, which causes health and social issues. At the same time, manufacturing them wastes millions of gallons of water, and two...

If there's one thing Cui Shuxin can happily live without, it's marriage. The 29-year-old, who works as a director in a global public relations firm in Beijing, doesn’t want to tie the knot with her boyfriend any time soon, unlike her mother, who got married at 20. “I want to focus on career,”...

NEW DELHI: Twenty-two months after Colonel Santosh Mahadik died fighting terrorists in J&K's Kupwara forests near the Line of Control on November 17, 2015, his widow Swati Mahadik on Saturday became an Army officer after 11 months of gruelling training at Chennai-based Officers Training Academy...

A controversy erupted after Medha Khole, who is a senior scientist at the India Meteorological Department here registered a cheating case against her cook, Nirmala Yadav, for allegedly religious sentiments by hiding her caste and marital status and posed as "Brahmin" to get the job. Pune: A day...

What the Union government’s submissions on marital rape in the Delhi high court reveal August 30, 2017, 6:49 pm IST Jiby J Kattakayam in Jibber Jabber | India | TOI The controversy over marital rape stems from the failure of Indian penal law to criminalise it. Section 375 of the Indian Penal...