Haryana: The Haryana Police has lodged a case against four men, including a police constable, for allegedly holding a Dalit woman captive for nine days and raping her, news agency PTI reported. In her statement, the Dalit woman, who is in her late 20s, alleged that

Rome: Pope Francis on Wednesday left the Rome hospital where the head of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics had undergone an operation on his colon on July 4. The 84-year old was whisked away from the Gemelli University Hospital in a car with tinted windows and

London: Britain will work with the Taliban should they enter the government in Afghanistan, British Defence Minister Ben Wallace told the Daily Telegraph in an interview. "Whatever the government of the day is, provided it adheres to certain international norms, the UK government will engage with

Islamabad: Ahead of a fresh push by Afghan politicians to break the stalemate in Afghan peace talks, Pakistan once again urged Kabul and the Taliban leadership to show flexibility by agreeing to a political settlement so that further violence and bloodshed could be avoided. This message

London: Campaigners are hailing the end of opencast coal mining in Britain after a long battle to see off the final applications for new mines in former coal heartlands. The Banks Group’s decision not to appeal against the rejection of a proposed scheme on the outskirts

New York: Carlos Ruiz Massieu, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Verification Mission in Colombia, briefed ambassadors on latest developments under the accord that ended five decades of fighting between the Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP). The peace

Geneva: The UN Human Rights Council called for those behind “massive scale” enforced disappearances in Syria over the past decade of conflict to be held accountable. The resolution, presented by Britain and a number of European countries, along with the US, Turkey and Qatar, decried that