BEIJING: China has cut its GDP growth target to 6.5 per cent in 2017, a 25-year low, as the world's second largest economy braced...
NEW DELHI: Dismissing reports of misuse of biometrics data, the government has said Aadhaar-based authentication is "fully safe and secure".   Moreover, subsidy transfers linked to...
NEW DELHI: Hopeful of the GST rollout from July 1, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said it will create one of the world's biggest...
LONDON: Scotland Yard is facing allegations of using hackers in India to illegally spy on email accounts of British journalists, environmental campaigners and activists,...
UNITED NATIONS: India has ranked a lowly 131 among the 188 countries surveyed for human development, a new UN report has said, bracketing the...
UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council has called on Afghanistan's government to tackle the "alarming threats" posed by the Taliban, al-Qaida, Islamic State affiliates...
BEIJING: China today skirted a direct response to Pakistan's plan to declare the Gilgit-Baltistan region as its fifth province and said the Kashmir issue...
BEIJING: China plans to step up military cooperation with "all weather" friend Pakistan to produce ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and a multi-role combat aircraft,...
UNITED NATIONS: Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday warned against an abrupt cut in US funding to the UN, saying the reduction by the biggest...
SEOUL: Military action by the United States against nuclear-armed North Korea is an "option on the table" if the threat from the rogue regime...