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BHOPAL: Four men of a family who were arrested on Wednesday in Madhya Pradesh's Shivpuri for converting to Islam have done a U-turn. On Thursday, hours after being released by the police, they embraced Hinduism at a local temple in presence of Bajrang Dal activists. Religious conversions are...

WASHINGTON: Al-Qaida, which has announced the creation of a separate wing for India, wants to portray Prime Minister Narendra Modi as an enemy of Islam and as such India should take its threat "very seriously", a well-known American counter-terror expert said on Thursday even as the US tried to...

WASHINGTON: India and the United States are both more popular in Pakistan than the extremists, shows a new opinion survey. The survey by the Pew Research Centre, which was partly released earlier this week, also shows that the price-hike has replaced energy shortage as the country’s number one...

The story of the 1962 war with China has all the elements of a dramatic historical event. Nehru's handling of the crisis and panic reactions were in marked contrast to the cool and confident Kennedy. The generous and prompt response by JFK made him an icon in India. But the US State...

HOUSTON : Pakistani Ambassador in US Mr. Jalil Abbas Jilani has claimed that democracy is getting strengthened in Pakistan. He said American administration is also of the opinion that there is no imminent danger to democracy in Islamabad. He said that Geo is his favorite channel which he...

MUMBAI: Describing India as an "emerging democratic superpower", Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Thursday kicked off his two-day India visit during which the two countries are likely to clinch an elusive civil nuclear deal. Abbott, the first Head of Government outside the leaders of...

A Pakistani national in his 70s who has been extending his Indian visa for decades has been arrested here on charges of buying land in violation of law, police said Thursday. Mohammad Idrees was taken into custody in Nahal village where he had been living with his wife and where his family...

Tony Abbott has defended a foreshadowed agreement to sell uranium to India, describing the South Asian nation as a "model citizen" with peaceful ambitions. The prime minister is expected to sign a long-awaited nuclear safeguards agreement with his counterpart, Narendra Modi, in New Delhi on...

Geneva: India accounted for the highest estimated number of suicides in the world in 2012, according to a WHO report published Thursday which found that one person commits suicide every 40 seconds globally. In the WHO South-East Asia Region, the estimated suicide rate is the highest as compared...

AMETHI: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday stepped up attack against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying that the PM "plays drums in Japan as India reels under a power crisis" Speaking to reporters in his constituency Amethi, Gandhi said that the BJP government, after being in...

Controversial London-based thinker and activist, Anjem Choudary, told RT the geopolitical maneuvers of IS in Iraq and Syria are a direct repercussion of a “detrimental” US foreign policy in the Middle East. The age-old adage that violence begets violence is relevant to any debate on...

Mangli Munda, from a remote village in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, said 'I do' to the stray canine in a lavish ceremony surrounded by 70 friends and family. The wedding was organised by village elders after a local guru led Mrs Munda's parents to believe that she possessed bad luck...

MOSCOW, September 3 (RIA Novosti) – India’s Air Force commanders have expressed interest in the Russian surface-to-air missile systems in the course of the joint Russian-Indian Air Force exercise “Aviandra-2014”, Maj. Gen. Sergey Babakov told journalists Wednesday. “They have expressed great...

Commenting on a statement released by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on the number of casualties suffered by terrorists, a spokesman of the proscribed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) said that contrary to the army’s claim of killing 910 terrorists, between 25 and 30 militants were...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks in Japan of an "expansionist" mindset of some countries have riled the Chinese official media which said the Indian leader is more "intimate with Tokyo emotionally" but he himself on Tuesday preferred to sidestep a question on the issue. On the contrary, a...

SRINAGAR: Firebrand Indian politician Asadudin Owaisi has called upon Indian Muslims to join Pakistani forces in case India attacks the country, a poster making rounds on social media claims. The Hindi poster that has Owaisi's picture reads, "Hindus should not consider Indian Muslims separated...