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Portuguese authorities say one firefighter has died and six were injured as they battled a wildfire in a remote and hilly region. A civil protection agency official confirmed the death and injuries, but said he could not immediately provide more informati...

At least one person was killed and ten others injured on Thursday when a bomb went off outside a paramilitary force's headquarter in Pakistan's largest city Karachi. The explosion occurred outside the Rangers Headquarters in Korangi area of Karachi.

Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Thursday ordered initiation of relief measures to people affected by flood in Sahibganj and Jamshedpur districts.

Moving to negate Supreme Court ruling on immediate disqualification of convicted lawmakers, the Cabinet on Thursday gave its nod to a proposal under which such MPs and MLAs will retain their membership till pendency of appeal but will be barred from votin...

India's inflation could accelerate in the current fiscal year due to the rupee's sharp depreciation, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in a report on Thursday.

Observing that SC/ST officers were not represented in senior positions in Ministries and public sector firms due to existing policies, a Parliamentary panel on Thursday asked government to ensure that their adequate presence is ensured there.

A top US Air Force official's remarks that his country is planning to station a military aircraft in Thiruvananthapuram as part of it's policy of encircling China with defence bases has created flutters here and the government has dismissed any such possi...

Yun said he was impressed and would participate in the second edition of the IBL.

Disgraced Chinese Communist Party leader Bo Xilai sprang a surprise on the first day of his high profile trial on Thursday by defiantly going back on his earlier testimony, calling a witness a "mad dog" and describing his wife's evidence against him as "l...

Salman's career is enviable for most of his contemporaries. The actor today completes 25 years in Bollywood.

TRAI said phone connections of banks, insurance firms and realty players will be disconnected if rules of unwanted calls are flouted by them.

Bhullar said he will return in October to defend his Macau Open title which he won in emphatic style last year.

Police on Thursday rescued a youth, abducted for a ransom of Rs 60 lakh, from a jungle in Munger district, Senior Superintendent of Police Manu Maharaj said.

Five years after a one-man commission was set up in September 2008 to probe the cause of an embankment breach in the Kosi river that triggered the worst floods in Bihar in 50 years, killing at least 250 and rendering nearly three million people homeless,...

The GJM, demanding a Gorkhaland state, on Thursday called a fresh 48-hour shut down in Darjeeling from August 24 after the arrest of two of its top leaders, even though the Calcutta High Court has expressed displeasure at violation of its order holding su...

It will be a test of character for Sardar Singh and his young team, and former India captain Pargat Singh concurs.