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Union Health Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda visited SUM hospital in Bhubaneswar where 20 people were killed in a fire mishap on Monday, amid massive protest by agitated locals.

The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) said that the liberation of Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State (IS) must be followed by genuine dialogue, a UN spokesman said.

Indian-American hotelier Vikram Chatwal has been charged with criminal mischief for allegedly trying to light two dogs on fire.

India on Sunday received strong support from Bhutan over cross-border terrorism with the Himalayan nation terming it as the "worst form of terrorism".

"I look forward to working with Prime Minister Modi," he said, adding that the Indian leader is very energetic.

Delhi Police have arrested a murder convict from Mangolpuri area here, who after jumping parole from a Haryana jail, killed three more persons and had a list of "18 people who he planed to kill".

Police on Friday took action against 64 'pan' stalls for selling cigarettes and tobacco products in the vicinity of schools and colleges in the city.

In a possible breakthrough, India and the US on Friday agreed to bring an ambitious amendment to the Montreal Protocol to phase out the climate-damaging Hydrofluorocarbons used in air-conditioners and refrigerators by advancing the "freeze year" by two ye...

Our Army doesn’t speak, it acts, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said after inaugurating a martyrs’ memorial in Bhopal on Monday.

The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has nabbed two persons allegedly working as spies for Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI, police said.

Curfew on Thursday remained in force in interior areas of Srinagar as a precautionary measure even as normal life remained affected in the Valley for the 97th day.

AAP national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will meet family members of Patidar youths, who were killed in the quota stir violence last year, during his Gujarat tour beginning on Friday, a move dubbed as "casteist politics" and "stunt"...

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Wednesday rejected claims that surgical strikes were undertaken during the UPA regime and asserted that a "major" share of credit for the army action last month goes to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Noting that politics has become a "shelter" for corrupt people, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Wednesday reiterated his demand for immediately abolishing currency notes of Rs 1000 and Rs 500 denominations to curb black money in the...

As the debate over Triple Talaq heats up with the Centre telling Supreme Court that the practice violates fundamental rights, a Muslim women body has gone a step ahead and demanded a new Muslim Marriage Act on the lines of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955.

An FIR as been lodged against Prakash and Sukhdevi and the woman’s body has been sent for postmortem, police said.