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Pijush Ganguly passes away; Bengali actor's death leaves fans shocked

Bengali actor Pijush Ganguly dies on Sunday after he met with an accident on 20 October.

Oct 25, 2015

Narendra Modi: Highlights from prime minister's 'Mann Ki Baat'

Stresses on encouraging organ donation in the country, announces plan to counter corruption at lower-rung of government.

Oct 25, 2015

An 'artivist' drives a social media campaign for peace across Indo-Pak borders

"People will use #ProfileForPeace to fight for peace wherever two nations are fighting," says Ram Subramanian.

Oct 25, 2015

Drunk driver slams car into Oklahoma crowd: 4 killed, dozens injured

Eleven of the nearly four dozen injured were children and a toddler died of his injuries.

Oct 25, 2015

India seeks S-400 missile systems; Moscow may link deal to FGFA project

The Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft project has been pending since a pact was signed in 2010.

Oct 25, 2015

Massive fire breaks out in Mumbai's Crawford Market; no casualties

The fire broke out early in on Sunday morning and engulfed some 50 shops.

Oct 25, 2015

Syria's Assad says ready to hold presidential elections, says RIA

Free Syrian Army rejects Moscow's idea of elections, calls it insincere.

Oct 25, 2015

China to the rescue in Nepal; prepares to supply fuel for blockaded nation

The Madhesi agitation and blockade has hit fuel and essential commodities supplies to the Himalayan nation.

Oct 25, 2015

Vatican synod offers hope to divorced Catholics; gays still unwelcome

It marked a victory for conservatives on homosexual issues and for progressives on the thorny issue of remarriage.

Oct 25, 2015

Israel: CCTV shows Palestinian being beaten by Israeli soldiers

A Palestinian man said on Friday (23 October) he was beaten and kicked by Israeli soldiers before being arrested whilst he was at work earlier this month. Ansar Aasi works at a factory located near a military post in the West Bank. He said that he was at work when clashes erupted nearby between Palestinian youths throwing stones at Israeli troops

Oct 24, 2015

Ashura: Millions gather across Iraq to commemorate slaying of Hussein

At mosques and shrines across Iraq, millions of Shiites, Iraqis and foreigners, commemorated the slaying of Prophet Mohammads grandson Hussein at the battle of Kerbala in 680 AD, an event that defines Shiism and its rift with Sunni Islam. Loudspeakers blared Ashura chants across the city of Kerbala, where hundreds of thousands of pilgrims dressed in black gathered outside the golden-domed Imam Hussein shrine.

Oct 24, 2015

IUML rules out any alliance with CPI(M) despite LDF overtures

We are steadfastly attached with the UDF, said IUML leader Shihab Thangal.

Oct 24, 2015

France: First bodies of bus crash victims removed

Experts continued investigations on Saturday (24 October) at the site of the crash between a bus and a truck where at least 43 were killed near Puisseguin in France, as a convoy took away the first bodies of the victims. The bus and the truck collided early on Friday (23 October) near a forested bend on a two-lane road cut into a hillside about 35 miles east of Bordeaux

Oct 24, 2015