United Nations, Aug 19 (IANS/WAM) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has renewed the world body's commitment to life-saving relief efforts, and called for honouring the "heroic aid workers", who rush bravely to help people in need, and those who died ...

Geneva, Aug 19 (IANS/EFE) The outbreak of the Ebola virus disease in West Africa has caused 1,229 deaths and has affected 2,240 people so far this year, according to new figures released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) Tuesday. The UN health ...

The Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has reviewed international prices of crude oil and petroleum products during the 1st fortnight of August 2014. Accordingly, the under-recovery on High Speed ...

India captain M S Dhoni might have refused to blame IPL for his team's shambolic show in the five-Test series against England, but former English skipper Michael Vaughan feels the young Indian players must come out of the cash-rich league's shadow and ...

Washington, Aug 19 (IANS US President Barack Obama Monday vowed to pursue a long -term strategy to turn the tide against the Islamic State (IS), as Iraqi and Kurdish forces retook the Mosul Dam from the group under US air cover. The president, who ...

Israel's nearly two-month military campaign against the Gaza Strip has cost the coastal enclave an estimated six to eight billion dollars, a senior Palestinian official said Monday. After over 40 days of an Israeli war and blockade, "the territory is now a ...

Pope Francis Monday left South Korea for the Vatican after wrapping up his first visit to an Asian country since taking over the papacy in March 2013. The Pope left for the Vatican at 12.50 a.m. from an airport in Seongnam, southeast of Seoul, Xinhua reported.

Pope Francis Monday left South Korea for the Vatican after wrapping up his first visit to an Asian country since taking over the papacy in March 2013. The Pope left for the Vatican at 12.50 a.m. from an airport in Seongnam, southeast of Seoul, Xinhua reported.

Breaking from the past, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday delivered his Independence Day speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort minus the usual bullet-proof glass enclosure. As the prime minister spoke for over an hour, the entire area around the Red ...

US President Barack Obama today said that the successful American military air strikes and humanitarian mission in the last few days has broken the Islamic State's seize of Iraq's Sinjar mountain where thousands of refugees were trapped. "The situation on ...

Monrovia, Aug 14 (IANS/EFE) A doctor who led the fight against the Ebola virus disease in Sierra Leone has died from the virus, several weeks after the death of another infected specialist with a key role in the effort to stop the spread of the disease in the ...

The United States has reportedly said that it is unlikely to launch a rescue operation to evacuate the Iraqis trapped by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants on Mount Sinjar. The Pentagon said in a statement that security forces hads observed that ...

The US has said any evacuation mission on a mountain in northern Iraq besieged by Islamic State extremists is now "less likely" after its assessment that there are "far fewer" members of the Yazidis minority group than previously feared. The Pentagon made ...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Wednesday called for United Nations system-wide support to the World Health Organisation's (WHO) efforts to fight Ebola. "This morning the secretary-general chaired a UN system-wide coordination on Ebola," Xinhua ...

Do Indian classical music and Sanskrit have a direct correlation with mathematics? In case you are confused, ask Manjul Bhargava. The mathematics professor at Princeton University who just turned 40 took inspiration from both music and Sanskrit to pursue ...

Israeli and Palestinian negotiators in Cairo were today locked in "difficult" talks to find a long-term solution to the crisis in Gaza, even as the 72-hour truce took hold for the second day allowing people in the Hamas-ruled area to fix the destruction. "We are ...

Indirect talks between Israel and Hamas in Cairo to broker an end to the Gaza conflict have so far made no progress, a senior Israeli official said today. "The gaps are still very wide. There has not been progress in the negotiations," he told AFP. His remarks ...

Oil prices fell in Asia today on easing concerns about supply disruptions arising out of conflicts in Ukraine and Iraq, analysts said. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for September delivery eased 27 cents to $97.81 while Brent crude for September was ...

Nigeria has banned movement of dead bodies from within and outside the country as part of its measures to avoid the spread of the Ebola virus. Nigeria's Minister of State for Health Khaliru Al-Hassan declared Sunday that anybody who died should be buried ...

Ghana's health ministry has issued a red alert Saturday on the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)in the country. "It has been confirmed that some Ghanaian fishermen living and fishing along the borders of Liberia have been returning home with symptoms of EVD," ...