A shallow and powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck off the Pacific islands of New Caledonia Wednesday, US seismologists said, triggering a tsunami warning for the area.
Embattled Mahinda Rajapaksa Tuesday filed an appeal in Sri Lanka's Supreme Court against a court order that barred him from acting as Prime Minister.
Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Power struggle in ruling Cong has 'created massive confusion' in Karnataka: BJP leader Ashoka
Delhi snap losing streak with seven-wicket win against Rajasthan
Karnataka launches state-led Centre of Excellence for Space Technology in Bengaluru
Repolling in 15 polling stations in Bengal on Saturday: EC
Petrol, diesel price rise in near future not ruled out, say govt sources
Teen killed after being hit by private bus in Bengaluru
Bridge portion collapses on Jammu outskirts; 3-4 labourers feared trapped, 1 rescued
Stalin urges Centre to rollback commercial LPG price hike
Delhi Police reunites 194 missing persons with their families
Unruly scenes witnessed in Punjab Assembly
Bhatkal Muslim Jamaat Bangalore to organize two-day Blood donation camp in Bengaluru
The brother of Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja was arrested Tuesday for allegedly framing a love rival as the author of a terrorist hit list.
A Sri Lankan court Monday barred Mahinda Rajapaksa from acting as Prime Minister, in a major set back to President Maithripala Sirisena who had installed his former rival in place of Ranil Wickremesinghe in a controversial decision.
Qatar is to leave OPEC next month, the Gulf state's new energy minister, Saad al-Kaabi, announced on Monday. "Qatar has decided to withdraw its membership from OPEC effective January 2019," Kaabi said at a Doha press conference.
Kamala Harris, the first Indian-origin US Senator, has said that she will decide whether to consider a presidential bid in 2020 during the upcoming holiday season, according to a media report.
China has agreed to scale back tariffs on imported US cars, President Donald Trump said Sunday, one day after agreeing with Xi Jinping to a ceasefire in the trade war between the world's top two economies.
The World Bank on Monday unveiled USD 200 billion in climate action investment for 2021-25, adding this amounts to a doubling of its current five-year funding.
Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Sunday defended his controversial "googly"comments, which drew sharp criticism from India, saying that linking his remarks to "Sikh sentiments" was misleading.
France will consider imposing a state of emergency to prevent a recurrence of some of the worst civil unrest in more than a decade and urged peaceful protesters to come to the negotiating table, government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux said on Sunday.
