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The administration has launched an operation to rescue them, police said. District Collector K Rajamani has reached the spot and is monitoring the operation.

Asian shares started Monday on the backfoot as investors grapple with skyhigh valuations against the backdrop of a global economy in the grip of a deep coronavirusinduced recession while oil prices dropped sharply.

Shawn Langdon powered to his first Top Fuel victory since 2016 on Sunday, beating Leah Pruett in the DENSO Spark Plugs NHRA U.S. Nationals at Lucas Oil Raceway.

Novak Djokovic apologised for his actions that led to him getting 'defaulted' from US Open and he would have to 'turn this all into a lesson' for his growth.

The blast happened around 5.30 pm and it partially damaged a shanty in the congested Dhobighat area near the India Foils factory, Barrackpore Police Commissioner Manoj Kumar Verma told PTI.

The first run will start on the Purple Line from Monday while the trains on Green Line will operate from September 9.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched Sunday to the outskirts of the presidential residence in the capital of Belarus, calling for the country's authoritarian leader to resign as protests against President Alexander Lukashenko entered their fifth wee...

Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday faced growing pressure to reconsider Germany's Nord Stream 2 pipeline project with Russia following the suspected poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

Pope Francis urged the faithful on Sunday to steer clear of gossip, calling it worse than the coronavirus and saying it could be used to divide the Roman Catholic Church.

Candidates engaging with the QAnon conspiracy theory are running for seats in state legislatures this year, breathing more oxygen into a onceobscure conspiracy movement that has grown in prominence since adherents won Republican congressional primaries th...

A social media post by the Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman apparently ridiculing Serbias president after he signed a U.S.sponsored agreement between Serbia and Kosovo has triggered a rare spat between traditional allies Moscow and Belgrade.

A senior Arunachal Pradesh police officer had said on Saturday that the cops have launched a probe after reports stated that five people, who had gone hunting in a forest in Upper Subansiri district on the Sino-India border, were allegedly kidnapped by th...

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Census Bureau for the time being to stop following a plan that would have had it winding down operations in order to finish the 2020 census at the end of September.

A Saudi court has sentenced three people to death for their involvement in an attack in Jeddah when two men blew themselves up after a shootout with police, staterun Al Ekhbariya television said on Sunday.

Protesters in Portland threw rocks and fire bombs at police who in turn used tear gas on Saturday night and at least one person was injured, on the 100th day of demonstrations in the Oregon city against racism and police brutality.

A number of stabbings in the centre of the English city of Birmingham that resulted in injuries on Sunday looked to be related, West Midlands Mayor Andy Street told the BBC.