The World Bank has announced an 18-month work plan to bolster reforms in Myanmar, which will focus on budget, regulatory and private sector.

The strategy, endorsed by the bank's board of directors, w

A man killed a six-year-old girl and slit the throat of another child for being 'noisy' in a school campus in Jharkhand, police said on Friday.

Furious at the school children for making constant nois

Believe it or not, but Koshik, an Asian elephant, can reproduce human speech, especially words in Korean. And researchers from an Austrian university have authenticated this.

The pachyderm accomplish

Karam Chand and his wife Katari, who have eight children and 28 grandchildren, have been married for 87 years, making them the world's longest married couple.

The pair say that the key to success is

The last rites of Telugu Desam Party's senior leader and former central minister K. Yerran Naidu, who died in a road accident in Andhra Pradesh's Srikakulam district early Friday, will be performed Sa

Three days after Hurricane Sandy slammed into the US East Coast, hitting New Jersey and New York the hardest, millions of Americans are now confronted with gas shortages and an overwhelmed mass transi

Telugu Desam Party's senior leader and former central minister K. Yerran Naidu died in a road accident in Andhra Pradesh's Srikakulam district early Friday. He was 55.

The mishap took place when a ca

The Congress on Friday challenged Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy to prove his allegations of wrongdoing against party president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi.

"We don't take him (Swamy)

The CBI told the Supreme Court on Thursday that it would file a status report next week on its probe against former telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran for his alleged involvement in the controversial Ma

On a day Sachin Tendulkar answered his detractors by smashing a 136-ball 137 in a Ranji Trophy match in Mumbai Friday, Australian legend Adam Gilchrist lent his voice to the chorus singing maestro's p