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Schoolgirl was gang-raped twice and then burned to death in Kolkata.

US State Dept’s Bureau of Counterterrorism briefs South Asian journalists on TTP, the new threat and global CT efforts

Works damaged in India on display.

Other recent fatal cases have been reported in Indonesia and Cambodia, in November.

Militants gave all communication companies providing web services a 15-day ultimatum to shut down their operations.

Joyraj had served the park for 65 years until he retired in 2008.

Experts to review situation in Pakistan, lifting ban on imports a possibility.

Facilities only meant for diplomatic staff are being used commercially: foreign ministry spokesperson

Some 4,000 people have sought refuge in makeshift camps since fighting started in December in Karbi Anglong district.

Chief Superintendent Bob Scully of Norfolk Police says bodies of 4 airmen have not yet been removed from the wreckage.

Months of election-related violence disrupts transport and prompts global retailers to curb orders.

The blaze, the cause of which is not yet known, started when the train was in Thane district neighbouring Mumbai.

Some 67% of over 380,000 Pakistanis expelled from Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iran and Oman.

Kamala has the polymorph, the shape-changing powers, revealed Wilson.

The number of cigarettes smoked annually has also risen 26 percent over the past three decades.

Yemen minister for industry meets President Hussain.

Pew Research Center survey shows that Pakistanis who liked US entertainment content, way of doing business doubled.

The materials were loaded onto a Danish commercial vessel today.

Dhoom 3 is the first Indian film to cross the $80 million mark in gross revenues around the world.

100s have died in fatal sinkings, often after boarding wooden boats to try and make the treacherous journey.

Maruha Nichiro says that it had received some 460,000 phone calls from consumers in connection with the incident.

Syrian conflict is estimated to have claimed more than 130,000 lives, and forced millions more to flee their homes.

Immigration is a subject being fiercely debated between the country's main political parties.

United States led international pressure for a swift re-run that would include all the major parties.

Khobragade, who was deputy consul-general in New York, was arrested on Dec 12, charged with one count of visa fraud.

Two delegations of Punjab govt will visit India this week.

Modi’s fans think bloody hands a superpower make; Wilders’ fans think he can safeguard Charlemagne’s Europe from Moors

Pharaoh Sobekhotep I, believed to be the founder of the 13th dynasty 3,800 years ago.

Charges include plotting to blow up an oil refinery on behalf of al Qaeda.

Suspects slaughtered up to 100 sheep a day, pumping bacteria-ridden water into the meat before it was sold.

US only recently transferred prison to Afghan control after it became a serious source of tension with Afghan govt.

They are down from 1,384 the year before and 1,973 in 2011.

Deaths of at least 18 people in election-day violence underlined the polarisation in the country.

If militarism is like Voldemort of Japan, the Yasukuni Shrine is a kind of horcrux, the Chinese envoy wrote.

The building crumbled mid-afternoon on Saturday while over 40 poorly paid daily-wage labourers were on site.

An ailing man’s dying wish is to be buried in his ancestral graveyard in Indian Kashmir.

People now have to travel with their families outside Ireland to sort out visa issue.

Police says at least 13 people were killed and over 200 polling stations were set on fire or trashed.

Victim's husband says he will return to Poland, robbers made off with valuables worth over Rs5 million.

A witness said the building collapsed like "a pack of cards."

Rights group say departure of international troops leaves women exposed to attack, with laws difficult to implement.

Palestinian ambassador's daughter thinks that her father's death was "not an accident."

Over 100 people were killed on Friday during fighting in Ramadi and Fallujah, in the country's deadliest day in years.

Six Taliban suicide attackers launch assault on joint Afghan-NATO base in Afghanistan.

Winter storm in US kills 11 people, cancels thousands of flights and brings freezing temperatures to Canada.

Dozens of polling booths were torched on the eve of Bangladesh's violence-plagued election.

We will continue to seek better relations with our immediate neighbours, Singh says.

President Karzai in a fix as US pushes signing BSA sans conditions.

US NSA is reportedly advancing towards a quantum computer that could crack almost any conventional algorithm.

Deadline, after which carrying a certificate for polio vaccination will be mandatory, extended to February 14, 2014.