Special UN Envoy to Myanmar Christine Schraner Burgener has said that the return of 900,000-plus Rohingya refugees stranded in Bangladesh to Myanmar will take time.


Safe return of Rohingyas to Myanmar 'complex': UN envoy


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A seven-point pledge to ensure women safety at night in London has been unveiled at a City Hall seminar in the British capital.


London unveils seven-point pledge to ensure women safety


National Award winning Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar, whose film "Pad Man" tried to create awareness on menstrual hygiene, has thanked the GST Council for making sanitary napkins Goods and Services Tax (GST) free.


Akshay thanks GST Council for tax exemption on sanitary napkins


She almost took up an engineering job and would love to teach farming to village youth. Fate willed otherwise. Meet Shikha Mandi, 24, the first Indian radio jockey (RJ) to host a programme in the indigenous Santhali language who believes in taking negative feedback sportingly, upholding the unique treasures hidden in her tribal culture and entertaining her listeners.


I want to uphold my tribal culture: First Santhal RJ Shikha


Malaysia's Transport Minister Anthony Loke announced on Friday that the final report on the investigation into Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which went missing in March 2014 with 239 people on board, will be made public on July 30.


Malaysia to publish final report on missing MH370 flight on July 30


An eight-year-old boy from Nigeria who was suffering from a rare life-threatening condition underwent a surgery here in which a portion of his heart was resected in order to correct an abnormal enlargement.


Nigerian boy gets new lease of life in Delhi


Goa Police has started a probe into allegations of molestation raised against a priest attached to the popular Mangueshi temple in south Goa, after a victim filed an FIR, an officer said on Friday.


Goa's Mangueshi temple priest booked for molestation


Actor-comedian Ben Stiller, a newly named goodwill ambassador for UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), says a lot more needs to be done to stand in solidarity with, protect and support refugees in the "current climate".


We need positivity, goodwill toward refugees: Ben Stiller


Doyen of Hindi poetry and legendary lyricist Gopal Das 'Neeraj' passed away at the All-India Medical Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) in New Delhi on Thursday. He was 94.


Doyen of Hindi poetry Gopal Das 'Neeraj' passes away


The Supreme Court has agreed a plea filed by a woman accusing her husband of forcing her to perform "unnatural" oral sex during their four years of marriage.


SC to hear wife's plea against husband forcing her to perform unnatural sex


Thirty-two-year-old Geeta sits patiently, painting pots created by her husband in the small open porch in her house at Kumhar Gram or Potters' Village that interestingly has managed to find space in West Delhi's Uttam Nagar.


Pottery, an underpaying profession, makes surviving a struggle in Delhi


The death toll in the twin-building collapse here in Uttar Pradesh climbed to nine on Thursday, with five more bodies pulled out from the rubble of the residential apartments early in the day.


G.Noida building crash toll rises to 9; may still trapped


Little did Ranjana realise that she was talking to her husband Rajneesh Bhuimali, 36, on the phone for the last time when he called to inform her that he won't be home on Tuesday evening as usual.


Will be home on Wednesday, mason told wife hours before death


Elements of protest, resistance, pride and assertion of identity can be discerned from Dalit writings in English, said Sahitya Akademi K. Sreenivasa Rao at a "Dalit Indian English Poets' Meet" in the Capital on Tuesday.


Poetry on Dalit experience read aloud


Twelve boys and their soccer coach who were last week rescued from a flooded cave in northern Thailand after becoming trapped spoke to the media for the first time on Wednesday.


Rescued boys from Thai cave make public appearance


A 10-year-old Indian boy has been refused an Australian visitor visa for a third time as the Department of Home Affairs feels he does not have "employment or financial incentives" to return back home.


10-year-old Indian boy denied Australian visa


US President Donald Trump has announced a plan to change the blue and white colour scheme of the iconic Air Force One and give it a bold new paint job in red, white and blue colours as part of a series of upgrades to the presidential aircraft.


Air Force One to get red, white and blue paint job: Trump


A protest march taken out here on Tuesday by teachers, seeking implementation of 7th pay commission recommendations for Sarva Siksha Abhiyan (SSA) project teaching staff, was stopped by police using mild force.


Police disperse protesting teachers in Srinagar


Pakistan's agriculture is facing a major blow due to an ongoing water crisis in the country.


Pakistan's agriculture faces major blow due to water scarcity


Hundreds of passengers struggled to get out of the HUDA City Centre Metro Station here on Monday morning when all but one of its Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) gates stopped working.


Gurugram Metro station exits fail, cause overcrowding


A man who robbed almost 50 houses by scaling the outside of the buildings faced court in Australian on Monday.

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