India will be a member of a consortium of countries that will implement the Global Apollo Programme — a plan to find ways within the next 10 years to make green energy clean cheaper to produce than energy drawn from coal, gas or oil. The plan is the brainchild of a ....

Of four questions raised during the survey, the question that continues to see perceptible division between the Sinhalese and the Tamils is about the work done by the government to address the root causes of the ethnic conflict. Thirty five per cent of Sinhalese resp ....

"The government is checking their identity, asking what they want to do and where they want to go," government spokesman Ye Htut told Reuters, without providing further details of the boat's location. "Usually, most of them want to go back to Banglade ....

Rose died in his sleep early on Tuesday in Deerfield, Massachusetts, said spokeswoman Janet Wilson of the University of California, Irvine, where Rose had been a researcher. Rose had a “formidable intellect and unwavering curiosity about fundamental biological ....

Islamic State extremists stormed a police base in Iraq’s western Anbar province Monday in three explosive-laden Humvees set to detonate, killing at least 41 soldiers and Shiite militiamen, Iraqi officials say. Police officials said the three suicide bombers simulta ....

 Sri Lanka’s former first lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa was on Monday questioned by police over alleged corruption in an NGO which she ran during her husband Mahinda Rajapaksa’s presidency, the latest in a series of questioning of his family members. She was ....

 Declining to spell out its response to charges of putting a “technical hold” on India’s calls for UN action against Pakistan-based militant groups, China on Monday said it recognises that India and China faced threat from terrorism and should enhance ....

 Bangladesh has taken up massive preparations to welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his maiden visit to Dhaka on June 6. The Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday, approved drafts of three agreements which will be signed during Mr. Modi&rsq ....

The country’s restive Balochistan province has seen two major attacks in the span of a month, including an April assault on a dam project that killed at least 20 people and Friday’s bus hijackings. In both, gunmen let Baloch people flee while killing others, ....

The appointment of Keith Vaz, the senior Labour Party leader as vice-chairman in charge of the party’s BAME (Black Asian Minority Ethnic) engagement is a sign of the growing realisation across political parties of the ever-increasing weight of minority groups in decid ....