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The drill is designed to test NATO's Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF), established in the wake of the alliance's September 2014 summit in Wales, which focussed on reinforcing the alliance's eastern flank amid jitters over Russia

Eight persons died inside the church, while another one was declared dead at a hospital. The police is searching for a suspect.

Muslims often give to charities during the month, and mosques and aid organisations organise free meals for the public every night. Fasting also is seen as a way to physically and spiritually detoxify through exercising self-restraint.

Researchers have found traces of methane in Martian meteorites, a discovery that suggests the presence of a warm, wet and chemically reactive environment on the red planet where life could thrive.

Sushma Swaraj admitted that she had no objection to Modi's request to be allowed to travel out of UK.

The general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, was also sentenced to death.

Overweight type-2 diabetes patients live longer than those of normal weight, according to a new study conducted in Qatar.

Belmokhtar allegedly masterminded the 2013 siege of an Algerian gas plant in which 38 hostages, mostly Westerners, were killed.

India was represented at the meeting by Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari.

Renowned Indian-American cardiologist Suresh Gadasalli, who performed the world's first simultaneous hybrid revascularisation, was shot dead by his friend and business associate who then committed suicide in Odesaa in the US state of Texas, police said.

Earthquake-battered Nepal will ask international donors to support a reconstruction plans that is expected to cost $6.6 billion over five years.

According to a Wall Street Journal report, US food-safety inspectors have labelled hundreds of made-in-India snacks unfit for sale in America.

Heavy rainfall hampered search and rescue operation on Friday in northeast Nepal where a landslide buried six villages and killed at least 35 people and authorities say the death could go up to 66 as many people are still trapped or missing.

Pakistan Government yesterday ordered international children's aid agency 'Save the Children' to leave the country within 15 days, saying the NGO was involved in "anti-Pakistan activities".

A landslide triggered by heavy rainfall buried six villages in Nepal's mountainous northeast, and at least 15 people sleeping in the homes are believed to have been killed and another 12 are missing, an official said Thursday.

The interior ministry said at least one person had perished in the conflagration in a leafy town called Vasylkiv about 30 kilometres southwest of Ukraine's capital Kiev.