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Colombo: Marxist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake Sunday was declared winner of the Sri Lankan presidential election by the country's Election Commission after an unprecedented second round of counting of votes. Dissanayake, 56, the leader of the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna party's broader front National People's...

Khandwa (MP):  Ten detonators, which the railways terms “harmless”, recently went off on tracks in Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa district, prompting the authorities to briefly halt a “military special train”, officials said Sunday. The incident happened Wednesday near Sagphata between Nepanagar and Khandwa stations of Bhusawal...

Amaravati: Former Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to severely reprimand Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu for hurting the beliefs of crores of people for political objectives by spreading a lie that...

New Delhi: India signed key agreements focused on a clean economy, fair economy and the IPEF Overarching arrangement under the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with the leaders at the Quad Summit in the US, the government said...

Kanpur: An empty gas cylinder was found on the tracks by a goods train loco pilot, who applied emergency brakes and stopped the train near Prempur railway station in Kanpur Sunday, the second such incident in Uttar Pradesh this month. Police said the incident occurred...

Tehran: A methane leak sparked an explosion at a coal mine in eastern Iran, killing at least 30 people and injuring 17 others, Iranian state media reported Sunday. Another 24 miners are believed to be trapped inside. The report said the deaths happened at a...

Colombo: Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the leader of the Marxist JVP's broader front National People's Power (NPP), Sunday consolidated his lead in Sri Lanka's presidential election. Saturday, Sri Lankans voted to elect a new president for the first election since the economic meltdown in 2022. The...

Dubai: Israeli troops raided the offices of the satellite news network Al Jazeera in the Israeli-occupied West Bank early Sunday, ordering the bureau to shut down amid a widening campaign by Israel targeting the Qatar-funded broadcaster as it covers the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza...

Claymont: President Joe Biden told Indo-Pacific allies Saturday that he believes China's increasing military assertiveness is an effort to test the region at a turbulent moment for Beijing. Biden's comments were caught by a hot mic after he and fellow leaders of the Quad delivered...

Washington: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday arrived in the US for a three-day visit to attend a Quad summit and address a key conclave at the United Nations. Modi will also hold separate bilateral meetings with US President Joe Biden and other world leaders on...