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23rd September 2025 Nagaland: High-Level Committee to examine RMSA teachers' grievances

23rd September 2025 CANSSEA stage sit-in protest across Nagaland, submit charter of demands

23rd September 2025 From SRK to Rani Mukerji: A complete list of the 71st National Film Awards winners

23rd September 2025 Rubio hopes to ‘fix’ 25 per cent tariffs on India over Russian oil

23rd September 2025 Over 60 flights cancelled, 42 others delayed at Kolkata airport following heavy rain overnight

23rd September 2025 Twin India meetings in US open avenues for renewing ties

22nd September 2025 Healing History: Nagas on Repatriation Path

22nd September 2025 Nagaland: ‘Peace is a reality to be built now’

22nd September 2025 PM Modi urges people to celebrate GST 'Savings festival' as a memorable milestone

22nd September 2025 Over 30 killed as Pakistan Air Force drops bombs, unleashes terror on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa village

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Thousands of Brazilian soldiers swarm Rio slums in anti-drug war

Residents walk past by Brazilian Army soldiers who patrol during an operation against drug dealers in the Alemao complex slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on August 20. (REUTERS Photo) RIO DE JANEIRO, A

/ 20th August 2018
Talks with India the way forward, says Pakistan's new foreign minister

Pakistan's new Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi listens during a news conference at the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad, Pakistan on August 20. (REUTERS Photo) ISLAMABAD, August 20 (Reuters): Dia

/ 20th August 2018
Iran tells EU to speed up efforts to save nuclear deal

Iran's national flags are seen on a square in Tehran February 10, 2012, a day before the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl/File Photo ANKARA, August 20 (Reuters): Iran

/ 20th August 2018
Pentagon raises alarm about sharp drop in Iraqi refugees coming to U.S.

U.S. soldiers take position on top of Police Building during a training session by U.S. army at al-Karama police headquarter in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad. (REUTERS File Photo) WASHIN

/ 20th August 2018
Pakistan to ban jailed ex-PM Nawaz Sharif from travelling abroad

Ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif sits on a plane after landing at the Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore. (REUTERS File Photo) ISLAMABAD, August 20 (Reuters): Pakistan will bar ja

/ 20th August 2018
Brazil poll shows jailed Lula extending lead for October election

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is carried by supporters in front of the metallurgic trade union in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil on April 7, 2018. (REUTERS File photo) BRASILI

/ 20th August 2018
Assam regularly hit by floods, can relate to Kerala pain: CM

Guwahati, August 20 (PTI): Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal today said Assam can relate to the pain caused by the devastating flood in Kerala, as his state is faced with a similar plight every year. &n

/ 20th August 2018
Congress in Manipur remembers Rajiv Gandhi

Imphal, August 20 (IANS): The opposition Congress in Manipur remembered former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 74th birth anniversary at a solemn function held on Monday in the party office in Imphal. &n

/ 20th August 2018
Couple beaten up in fresh moral policing case in Meghalaya

Tura, August 20 (PTI): In a case of moral policing, an unmarried couple was beaten up by villagers who found them together at a village in West Garo Hills district, police said today. Someone pos

/ 20th August 2018
Curfew lifted completely from 14 affected areas of Shillong

Shillong, August 20 (PTI): Authorities in Meghalaya today completely lifted curfew from the 14 "affected areas" of the state capital imposed for the past 80 days following fight between Sikhs and drivers of

/ 20th August 2018
Manipur 'extra-judicial killings': SC seeks status report from SIT

New Delhi, August 20 (IANS): The Supreme Court on Monday asked the CBI's Special Investigation Team (SIT) to file a status report on the alleged extra-judicial killings in Manipur by the Army, Assam Rifles and

/ 20th August 2018
SC to hear plea on AFSPA dilution on September 4

New Delhi, August 20 (IANS): The Supreme Court will hear on September 4 a plea by a group of serving Army officers against the dilution of AFSPA that gives immunity to military personnel from prosecution for t

/ 20th August 2018
India ready for constructive engagement with Pak: Modi to Imran

A file photo of the then Pakistan MP & Chairman of Tehreek-e-Insaf Party Imran Khan during a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on December 11, 2015. (@MEAIndia/Twitter)

/ 20th August 2018
Death toll nears 400 in flood-hit Kerala, dozens missing

A flood-affected girl eats her food inside a school, which has been converted into a temporary relief camp, in Kochi in the southern state of Kerala, India, August 20, 2018. REUTERS/Sivaram KOCHI/N

/ 20th August 2018
Irish abuse survivors await Pope's arrival with scepticism

Clerical abuse survivor Andrew Madden poses for a photograph after an interview with Reuters in Dublin, Ireland on August 16. (REUTERS Photo) DUBLIN, August 20 (Reuters): Andrew Madden became the first

/ 20th August 2018
Trump has responsibility towards media, U.N. rights boss says

Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein outgoing United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights attends the Human Rights Council one day after the U.S. announced their withdraw at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on

/ 20th August 2018
Argentina's Macri to report Venezuela to ICC over human rights

Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri speaks during a news conference at the Olivos Presidential Residence in Buenos Aires, Argentina on July 18, 2018. (REUTERS File Photo) Buenos Aires, August 20 (

/ 20th August 2018
China defies U.S. pressure as EU parts ways with Iranian oil

A gas flare on an oil production platform in the Soroush oil fields is seen alongside an Iranian flag in the Persian Gulf, Iran. (REUTERS File Photo) BEIJING/SINGAPORE, August 20 (Reuters): China, seek

/ 20th August 2018
Russia says U.S. refusal to rebuild Syria a ploy to slow refugee return

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) and his Lebanese counterpart Gebran Bassil react while entering a hall during a meeting in Moscow, Russia on August 20. (REUTERS Photo) MOSCOW, August 20 (Reu

/ 20th August 2018
Facebook donates Rs 1.75 crore for Kerala flood victims

New Delhi, August 20 (IANS) Social networking giant Facebook is donating $250,000 (nearly Rs 1.75 crore) for relief work in Kerala, which has been battered by torrential rains, floods and landslides, leaving ov

/ 20th August 2018