Markets initially plunged in reaction to Patel’s resignation announcement, after markets closed on Monday, which shocked many investors. read more

Tyerell Joe Przybycien, 19, of Utah in United States, who helped a teenager kill herself and filmed the act to fulfil what prosecutors called a fascination with death, was sentenced to at least five years and up to life in prison. read more

Inside the paediatric complex in Bangui, capital of Central African Republic (CAR), a malnourished girl cries during what has become a daily routine --being weighed on scales in a large blue bucket. One by one, emaciated infants are lifted onto the scales as others wait their turn. Scenes here resemble a war zone. And as conflict tears through the country, civilians are desperately fighting another deadly foe: hunger.

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Dyal Singh Kolianwali, Akali leader and close aide of former Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, is accused of amassing wealth disproportionate to his income during SAD regime in 2007-2017. read more

Media reports have alleged that Ashwini used to administer injections laced with sedatives to the inmates of the home with the help of Madhu, after which the girls would be subjected to sexual abuse read more

Delegates from nearly 200 countries began talks on Sunday on urgent actions to curb climate change three years after the landmark Paris Climate Change Agreement set a goal of keeping global warming below two degrees Celsius. Slated for Dec. 2-14 in Katowice of Poland, the 24th Conference of the Parties (COP24) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) aims to finalise the implementation guidelines and provide clarity on how to carry out the Paris deal fairly for all participating countries. Six months after the 2015 Paris summit, the negotiations on the implementation guidelines were launched and COP24 was set as the deadline.read more

A video clip shows an associate of local MLA ‘leading’ attack read more

Sangeeta Sharma, 37, a factory worker, the sole earning member of her family, was shot dead on June 18 and the impoverished family did not even have money to move her body from the hospital to the crematorium. read more

Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump had a brief meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit on Friday read more

One hundred and twenty-five women and girls have been raped, whipped and clubbed in attacks so shocking that some aid workers in South Sudan say they are left speechless. read more

Ashok Alexander, who headed the Gates Foundation’s HIV\/AIDS prevention programme Avahan for over 10 years, has mentioned in his book true stories of the lives of sex workers in India that are about finding hope and redemption amid heartbreak and des... read more

As against 54,167 positive cases of people living with HIV diagnosed in Maharashtra in 2011, only 15,119 new positive cases were detected in the first nine months of 2018. read more

World AIDS Day 2018: December 1 is marked as World AIDS Day. Here are some simple ways to make a difference. read more

The woman has submitted in her complaint that the husband’s family asked for money from her parents and she obliged. read more

Six Indian states have HIV prevalence that is more than double the national average read more