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Yaounde: At least 20 people were killed after a boat capsized in Cameroon's Far North region, according to witnesses and security sources. The boat capsized Thursday as it was transporting passengers from Darak island in the Logone-et-Chari division of region, Xinhua news agency reported quoting...

Mumbai: Seventy-eight first-time poll winners will enter the 288-member Maharashtra assembly, comprising about 27 per cent of its strength. Of these, 33 are from the BJP, 14 from the Shiv Sena and eight from the NCP. While the Shiv Sena (UBT) has 10 newcomers, six...

Ranchi: Tribal icon Birsa Munda's great-grandson Mangal Munda, who was undergoing treatment at a hospital here after being injured in a road accident, died of "cardiovascular failure" Friday, an official of the health facility said. He was 45. Mangal Munda breathed his last at 12.30...

New Delhi: Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) will soon be able to offer an option to undergraduate students to shorten or extend their study durations instead of the standard duration of their degree programmes, UGC Chairman Jagadesh Kumar has said. The University Grants Commission (UGC) has...

Beirut: The Israeli military Thursday said its warplanes fired on southern Lebanon after detecting Hezbollah activity at a rocket storage facility, the first Israeli airstrike a day after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah took hold. There was no immediate word on casualties from Israel's...

New Delhi: Hindus have the right to approach courts and seek survey of mosques because it is a truth that many of them were built on ruins of temples demolished by Mughal invaders, Union minister Giriraj Singh said Thursday. He also said Hindus would not...

Dhaka: Bangladesh's deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina Thursday condemned the arrest of Hindu leader Chinmoy Krishna Das on sedition charges and demanded his immediate release, saying that religious freedom and the security of life and property for all communities must be ensured. Hasina, the Awami...

New Delhi: Consular officials at the Indian consulate in Vancouver were recently informed by the Canadian authorities that they have been and continue to be under ‘audio and video surveillance’ and that their ‘private communications’ have also been ‘intercepted’, the Centre informed Parliament Thursday. Minister...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday said the Punjab and Haryana governments have been slow in taking action against farmers burning stubble and a mechanism was required to be devised for a long-term solution to the problem. A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and...

Kolkata/Dhaka: The chief of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in Bangladesh Charu Chandra Das Brahmachari clarified Thursday that the arrested priest Chinmoy Krishna Das was expelled from ISKCON in September for disciplinary reasons. Brahmachari, when asked about Chinmoy Krishna Das – who was taken...