Geneva, At least 3,700 children in West Africa have seen one or both parents die because of the Ebola epidemic, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said, and many are being rejected by surviving relatives out of fear of infection. Many children in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone feel unwanted andRead More

Kabul, Officials from Afghanistan and the United States on Tuesday signed a long-delayed security agreement to allow American troops to stay in the country after the end of the year, filling a campaign promise by new President Ashraf Ghani. National security adviser Hanif Atmar and US Ambassador James Cunningham signedRead More

Dharamsala, Revered by the Tibetans as a ‘living god’ and idolised in both the Orient and the West, the Dalai Lama, known for his simplicity and typical jovial style, transcends all barriers of religion, language and even distances. He stepped back from an adminstrative role almost three years back butRead More

New York, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that terrorism in india was not “homegrown” and expressed regret that many countries have never understood the real danger of terrorism. He said terrorism is a danger that needs to be taken very seriously and India’s Muslims will not respondRead More

New York, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met former US president Bill Clinton and his wife and former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton who were full of praise for his efforts at cleaning the Ganga river. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj was also present during the meeting. Hillary Clinton andRead More

New Delhi/Washington,  As Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached the White House for the private dinner hosted by President Barack Obama, India and the US on Tuesday issued a vision statement “Chalein Saath Saath: Forward Together We Go” that called for a joint endeavour for prosperity and peace.“As leaders of twoRead More

Narnaud (Hisar), BJP President Amit Shah on Tuesday hit out at Om Prakash Chautala, a former chief minister of poll-bound Haryana saying his “arrogance” remains the same despite his sentencing in the teachers’ recruitment scam. He also attacked chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda led Congress, accusing the party of pushingRead More

Bangalore, AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa will have to remain in jail till October 6 with the Karnataka High Court adjourning her plea seeking bail and challenging her conviction in the disproportionate assets case.As the matter came up, G Bhavani Singh, who was the Special Public Prosecutor in the Special Court onRead More

Mumbai, The RSS has criticised the state BJP for snapping the 25-year-old partnership with it last week, the Shiv Sena said in its party mouthpiece on Tuesday.In a front-page revelation in ‘Saamana’, the Shiv Sena has said that three days after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) broke the alliance, a secretRead More

Bhubaneswar, The Odisha High Court Tuesday granted anticipatory bail to BJD MLA Pravat Tripathy in the multi-thousand-crore-rupee chit fund scam case being probed by the CBI. The court, which had reserved its order after hearing Tripathy’s bail plea Monday, granted anticipatory bail to the ruling party MLA who was alsoRead More