The President has handed over a cheque of $5 million to the Palestinian government as a budgetary support, Anil Wadhwa, Secretary East at the External Affairs Ministry, told the accompanying media delegation after high-level talks. Both countries have also announced ....

Mr. Oli, 63, was administered the oath of office and secrecy by President Ram Baran Yadav at his official residence here. He also has formed a small Cabinet incorporating two Deputy Prime Ministers and five ministers as he chaired his first Cabinet meeting here. Allo ....

The joint Hand-in-Hand counter-terrorism exercises between India and China started on Monday, following the arrival of 175 personnel from the Naga Regiment of the Eastern Command in Kunming. An equal number of Chinese personnel from the Chengdu-based 14 Corps are partic ....

Drawn from Scotland Yard’s private collection, the show charts more than a century of violence and suffering, from the murders of Jack the Ripper to IRA and al-Qaeda bombings. But it also celebrates the brains, bravery and scientific advances that helped catch per ....

Pentagon officials were expected to officially announce the end of the program Friday, as Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter leaves London after meetings with his British counterpart, Michael Fallon, about the continuing wars in Syria and Iraq. “I wasn’t ....

Mr. Stone, 23, was knifed three times in the upper body but was expected to survive after about two hours of surgery, said Dr. J. Douglas Kirk, chief medical officer at UC Davis Medical Center. “This incident is not related to terrorism in any way,” Deput ....

 The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize went to the National Dialogue Quartet in Tunisia. The prize was awarded to the group “for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011”. The N ....

“Pakistan has been asked to consider what are described as ‘brackets’,” The Washington Post quoted a source familiar with the talks between the two countries as saying. It said Pakistan would agree to restrict its nuclear programme to weapons and ....

Hillary Rodham Clinton has joined her Democratic presidential rivals in opposing President Barack Obama’s Pacific trade deal, delivering a major blow to a Democratic president as she works to court her party’s liberal base. The now-united opposition from the ....

 The Nobel Prize 2015 in Literature went to 67-year-old Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich. The Nobel was awarded “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time”. Ms. Alexievich is the 14th women Literature Laureate. ....