NEW DELHI: Indian police on Thursday briefly arrested leading opposition figure Rahul Gandhi as he tried to reach farmers striking in Madhya Pradesh,…

MAIDUGURI: Eleven people were killed when Boko Haram gunmen and suicide bombers launched a rare combined attack inside the strategic northeast Nigerian…

MANILA: One local politician has been arrested and others are wanted for supporting Islamist militants who have taken over parts of a southern Philippine city, authorities said Thursday, reports AFP. Nearly 200 people have been reported killed since militants flying black flags of the Islamic State…

SRINAGAR: An Indian soldier and three suspected rebels died in a shoot-out along the de facto border that divides disputed Kashmir with Pakistan early Thursday, the army said, reports AFP. Soldiers deployed along the heavily militarised frontier known as the Line of Control (LOC) shot and killed the…

SRINAGAR: An Indian soldier and three suspected rebels died in a shoot-out along the de facto border that divides disputed Kashmir with Pakistan early Thursday, the army said, reports AFP. Soldiers deployed along the heavily militarised frontier known as the Line of Control (LOC) shot and killed the…

The UN has received reports that 231 Iraqi civilians have been killed by so-called Islamic State while attempting to flee Mosul over the past two weeks, reports BBC. At least 204 are believed to have been shot dead by militants during clashes with Iraqi security forces in the Shifa district last Thursday…

 New Delhi: India is now two and a half times more likely to experience a deadly heat wave than a half century ago, and all it took was an increase in the average temperature of just 0.5 degrees Celsius (less than 1 degree Fahrenheit), a new study shows, reports AP. The findings are sobering considering…