Male: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India will help promote cricket in the Maldives and fulfil President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih's mission to develop the sport in the country to consolidate people-to-people relations.

The United States on Friday gave Turkey until the end of July to abandon a deal made with Russia to buy an S-400 missile defense system, which Washington considers incompatible with Ankara's participation in the F-35 fighter jet program.

Brussels: Dr. Kaup Mohamed, the Dean and Managing Director of London American City College and its sister concern, who is also the Adjunct Professor of the Madonna University, Michigan, USA received the Certificate of Accreditation for London American City College from the European Council for Business Education for the Advanced Diploma and Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration at Brussels, Belgium.

New York: Three Indian-origin women have been named by Forbes among America's 80 richest self-made women, the "ceiling crashers" and "overachievers" blazing their own trails as they create new businesses and amass fortunes.

 A Sikh airman has been allowed by the United States Air Force to serve with a beard, turban and unshorn hair, making him the first active-duty airman to be granted such a religious accommodation.

China successfully launched a rocket from a mobile platform at Yellow Sea for the first time on Wednesday, sending two technology experiment satellites and five commercial satellites into space.

India's economy is projected to grow at 7.5 per cent in the next three years, supported by robust investment and private consumption, the World Bank has forecast, in some good news to the new Indian government. 

Egyptian security officials say Islamic militants attacked a checkpoint in the restive northern part of the Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 10 policemen.