India could witness a near-normal monsoon this season, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecasted, bringing welcome news to the nation’s largely rain-fed agriculture after poor rains and drought last year. The south-west monsoon, which makes its onset over the country in...

Several US lawmakers greeted Sikhs on the occasion of Vaisakhi and lauded their contributions in the economic development of the country. “Today is a historically significant day for our Sikh neighbors across Texas,” Senator John Cornyn said in a tweet, as Sikhs and Indian Americans...

Facebook-owned messaging app Instagram has decided to demote inappropriate content - video snippets, memes and pictures - which are being shared and viewed on its platform by its one billion global users. “We have begun reducing the spread of posts that are inappropriate but do not...

British Prime Minister Theresa May expressed “deep regret” for a colonial era massacre carried out exactly 100 years ago in the north Indian state of Punjab. May’s statement in the House of Commons, however, fell short of a full apology for the events of April 13, 1919, when British...

Hearing a petition challenging the validity of the electoral bond scheme, the Supreme Court on Friday directed all political parties to furnish details of donations received via these bonds and said that the issue raised in the petition is "vital to fairness” of electoral process....