AHMEDABAD: An Indian court on Monday commuted the death sentences of 11 men convicted of causing a 2002 train fire that sparked anti-Muslim riots in which more than 1,000 people were killed, reports AFP. The 11 men, all Muslims, will instead face life in jail for causing the fire that killed 59 Hindu…

London: Only 17 years old and he is already a recognised scientist. Muhammad Shaheer Niazi's research on electric honeycomb was recently published…

SRINAGAR: Indian forces said they shot dead a top leader of the Kashmir militant group Jaish-e-Mohammad in a clash in the disputed territory on Monday, reports AFP. The Pakistani national known only as Khalid was trapped in a house after throwing a grenade at a police checkpoint in the northern village…

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa and Chad on Sunday signed an agreement that will see the re-introduction next year of critically endangered black rhino to…

QUETTA: Gunmen Monday killed five people including three Shiite Muslims in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province in the latest sectarian attack on the religious minority, police said, reports AFP. Two men on a motorbike attacked a vehicle carrying four Shiite vegetable sellers as it left the provincial…

The White House has tied any new deal on young undocumented immigrants to a clampdown on illegal immigration, including a border wall with Mexico, reports BBC. US President Donald Trump is asking for funding for the wall, speedier deportations and the hiring of thousands of new immigration officials.…

KATHMANDU: Matina Shakya was only three when she was taken away from her parents to be worshipped as a "living goddess" in Nepal's historic…

 SANTA CLARA: Tens of thousands of Cubans turned out on Sunday to pay tribute to Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary…

BRUSSELS: The EU said the "ball is entirely in the UK court" in the latest round of Brexit talks starting Monday, rejecting British Prime Minister Theresa May's claim the next step lay with Brussels, reports AFP. Officials from both sides are meeting in Brussels, but chief EU negotiator…