MUMBAI: On the eve of Narendra Modi government's 100 days in office, institutional buying took the sensex to a new peak and closer to the 27,000-mark while Nifty, for the first time ever

GENEVA: Both Islamist fighters and, to a lesser extent, Iraqi government forces have killed civilians and committed atrocities in three months of fighting, a senior UN official said in an emergency debate on the conflict on Monday.

 BRUSSELS: Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said he had "good discussions" with EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and Tehran was committed to an accord over its contested nuclear programme.

KIEV: Ukraine's military said on Monday it had pulled its forces back from defending a vital airport in the east against Russian tanks, as President Petro Poroshenko accused Moscow of "direct and open aggression".

HYDERABAD: One of the most successful coach-player partnerships in Indian sport may be coming to an end.

WASHINGTON: The head of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee called on Monday for supplying Ukraine with weapons to fight what he called a "direct invasion" of the country by Russia.

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama faced criticism over his foreign policy from both Democratic and Republican lawmakers on Sunday as he wrestled with crises in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Ukraine.

 LONDON: Conservative lawmakers could pledge to support Britain leaving the European Union, irrespective of what powers are returned to London from Brussels, newspaper The Independent has reported.

BOSTON: Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev asked on Friday to delay his trial until at least September 2015.

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama conceded on Thursday that his administration did not have a strategy yet to combat the extremist Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) even as reports surfaced that ISIS men