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Wait for Karnataka Cabinet gets longer as Sonia Gandhi and Rahul travel to US

UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi are travelling to the United States for a medical check-up and will be back in India only in the beginning of June. Hence, the wait for the formation of Karnataka cabinet is likely to get longer.

May 28, 2018

BJP minister warns Congress may form government in Maharashtra if Shivsainiks, saffron party part ways

BJP leader Chandrakant Patil feels that the row over the Wanaga family may take a toll on the chances of BJP to remain in power in Maharashtra in the next Assembly elections.

May 28, 2018

Dangling boy rescued by 22-year-old man in Paris

Watch: 'Spider-Man' climbs four-storey building in Paris to save dangling child

The 22-year-old Mamoudou Gassama, who rescued the hanging boy from the fourth floor, will be honored by French president Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée Palace.

May 28, 2018

Girl dead, 6 injured as 'drunk' operator fails to stop faulty giant wheel in Andhra Pradesh

The mishap at the fair in Anantpur took place when one of the cabins of the giant wheel came crashing down from quite a height as one of the bolts on it came off. Several children were reportedly in the said cabin and a 10-year-old girl also lost her life.

May 28, 2018

Former US President George H.W. Bush hospitalised with low pressure

The former US president was recently admitted at the Houston Methodist Hospital. This was hours after he attended the funeral of his wife and former first lady Barbara Bush, who died on April 17.

May 28, 2018

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Polling begins in high-stakes Kairana bypolls

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath campaigned in the area to ensure that BJP does not lose like it did in Gorakhpur and Phulpur.

May 28, 2018

US, North Korea officials meet ahead of Trump-Kim summit talks

US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are expected to meet for a historic summit in Singapore on June 12.

May 28, 2018

Summers bring Shimla's water woes to a boil

While the residents are grappling with water woes -- not exactly for the first time -- civic body Mayor Kusum Sadret of the Bharatiya Janata Party, which is helming the Municipal Corporation for the first time in three decades since June 2017, is away to China on an official tour.

May 28, 2018

Former Japanese PM Nakasone turns 100, urges constitutional revision

Nakasone, who trod the world stage with Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher during his 1982-1987 tenure, has long advocated amending the U.S.-drafted charter to clarify the ambiguous status of the military - a goal shared by incumbent premier Shinzo Abe.

May 27, 2018

Qatar Airways is evaluating air routes opened by boycotting countries

Qatar bans goods from UAE, Saudi as embargo anniversary approaches

Imports into Qatar plunged about 40 percent from a year earlier in the initial weeks of the boycott, but they have since mostly returned to normal as Doha has found new sources of products in countries such as Turkey, and developed new shipping routes through places such as Oman.

May 27, 2018