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India and Israel will elevate their ties to a strategic partnership during Narendra Modi's visit of "unprecedented importance" to that country from July 4, the first ever by an Indian prime minister.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi has accepted the resignation of the party's Goa unit chief Luizinho Faleiro who stepped down from the post last week, senior leader Chandrakant Kavlekar said in Panaji on Wednesday.

With the GST rollout just two days away, the south film fraternity is a worried lot. Despite several attempts to make sure that the tax slab for cinema tickets is not as high as a 28 percent, the Centre turned a deaf ear to their pleas.

The benchmark Sensex on Wednesday came down by 124 points and the NSE Nifty settled below 9,500 as investors hit the sell button ahead of the expiry of June derivatives.

The pressure Andy Murray feels at Wimbledon actually helps him concentrate better, the defending champion has said.

This year's festival will be held from the 10 to 22nd August and will have diversity as its central theme.

A superstitious 80-year-old Chinese woman delayed a flight in Shanghai after throwing coins at the engine for good luck, but will not face charges, the official media reported on Wednesday.

BMW India is all set to launch the new 5-series tomorrow, on 29th June, 2017. The BMW 5-series borrows most of its design cues from the 7-series.

A man was beaten up and his house set on fire by a mob after they allegedly found a dead cow outside his house in Deori, Jharkhand.

The luxury label has released the first color and black and white stills of its new campaign, shot by Steven Meisel and starring young model rebel Simone Thompson, alias "Slick Woods."

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government says that by replacing several federal and state taxes, the new Goods and Services Tax (GST) will make life simpler for business

Saudi Arabia has reiterated that its demands on Qatar were not negotiable, as US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson held talks with the Qatari foreign minister on the Gulf states crisis.

Britain's royal family is set for a bumper year of income as it embarks on a 10-year renovation of Buckingham Palace, royal officials have said.

Indian food essentials - chana and chana dal - are among the many new entries in the 'Oxford English Dictionary' (OED) unveiled on Tuesday.

Russia denounced a US warning that the Syrian leadership will pay a heavy price for any chemical weapons attack, and dismissed White House assertions that a strike was being prepared as "unacceptable".

The Delhi Development Authority's (DDA) much-awaited new housing scheme with 12,000 flats on offer is "almost certain" to roll out on June 30, officials said on Tuesday.