Sri Lankan authorities said they have arrested 60 people linked to the communal riots as a nationwide curfew was lifted on Wednesday in the island nation, which witnessed Sinhalese mob attacks on Muslim-owned shops and businesses in the aftermath of the deadly Easter blasts.
A 49-year-old veteran Nepali sherpa has scaled Mount Everest for the 23rd time, breaking his own record in reaching atop the world's highest peak, media reports said Wednesday.
Family of five from Bengaluru killed in road accident in Andhra
Man held for molesting, extorting Rs 50,000 from schoolgirl in Thane
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Two Delhi men held for BMTC bus phone thefts in Bengaluru
Two arrested in house theft cases; police recover over Rs 19 lakh in cash, 711gm gold in Bengaluru
Fire guts 22 furniture sheds in Hyderabad
Two college dropouts held with drugs worth Rs 10 crore in Bengaluru
Ramesh flays BJP MPs' praise of Modi, compares Parliament to North Korea's Assembly
Aravindh Chithambaram beats world champion Gukesh
Defence ministry seals contract with HAL for acquisition of 6 military helicopters
With 100 days to go, World Cup faces new challenges with Iran war and Mexico violence
US soldiers were killed in Iranian drone strike on operations centre at Kuwait civilian port
The US State Department on Wednesday ordered all non-emergency staff to leave its embassy in Baghdad and consulate in Erbil, as tensions mount between the United States and Iraq's neighbour Iran.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced identical resolutions in both the US House of Representatives and the Senate that would require the US government to develop a list of scientific and engineering institutions affiliated with the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA).
Ramzan is a "very special" month during which people seek tolerance and peace, US President Donald Trump has said as he hosted an iftar party at the White House and expressed grief over the gruesome terrorist attacks in New Zealand and Sri Lanka.
An Indian-origin woman in the US has been convicted by a jury of killing her nine-year old stepdaughter in 2016 and faces up to life in prison at sentencing.
A powerful remote-controlled bomb blast near a mosque in Pakistan's Balochistan province has killed four policemen and injured 11 others, the second major attack to rock the restive region in the last three days.
A Muslim man was slashed to death in Sri Lanka Monday, police said after imposing a nationwide curfew to contain a violent new backlash against Easter suicide bombings.
Clashes on the edge of a jihadist bastion in northwestern Syria have killed at least 42 fighters in 24 hours, a monitor said Monday, after regime bombardment on the region devastated health services.
The Sri Lankan government Monday blocked social media following rising tensions between the minority Muslims and majority Sinhalese in the wake of the Easter Sunday bombings which killed nearly 260 people.
