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India and Australia inked six pacts including one aimed at boosting counter-terrorism cooperation after talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull in New Delhi. The two leaders held comprehensive discussions on bilateral, regional and international issues of mutual interest and concern. At a joint press event with Mr. Turnbull, Mr. Modi said they reviewed the entire gamut of ties and took many “forward looking” decisions including one on early holding of the next round of talks on comprehensive economic cooperation agreement. Emphasising on peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region, Mr. Modi said challenges like terrorism and cyber security require global strategy and solutions. The two sides inked a pact to boost counter-terrorism cooperation which was signed between the Ministry of Home Affairs and its counterpart Australian ministry. While Mr. Modi noted that Australia was ready to supply uranium to India, Mr. Turn...

Two youth dug out the dead body of a 26-year-old woman from the grave who was cremated just two days ago. Thereafter, the two sick-minded men had sex with the woman's dead body. Only for the sexual satisfaction, some lecherous men did something so gruesome that has put the humanity to shame.Two youth dug out the dead body of a 26-year-old woman from the grave who was cremated just two days ago. Thereafter, the two sick-minded men had sex with the woman's dead body. The incident took place in Talheta village of Ghaziabad. The incident came to light when in the morning, people saw the dead body of the woman lying 20 feet away from the grave. The villagers immediately informed the family members and they further called up the police. According to reports, on Thursday night, two men blinded with lust dug out the dead body. They took it nearly 20 feet away from the grave and gang raped her. The family members said that the woman lost her life while delivering the baby. Two days ...

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) says the country is on an average 0.6 degree Celsius hotter than a century ago. 2016 was the warmest year since 1901. Until 2015, 13 of India’s 15 warmest years ever were after 2000. Heat waves are a sharply defined concept, as per Indian meteorology. Depending on whether a place’s historical temperature is 40C or less, a 4.5C (or greater) rise in temperature counts as a ‘heat wave’ and 6.5C and more, a ‘severe heat wave.’ The IMD counted the number of heat wave days in 110 weather stations nationwide and, in a 2013 report, found that between 1960 and 2010, there were about 510 ‘heat wave days’ every year in the decades 1961-70 and 1971-80. This decreased to 470 in (1981-90) and jumped to about 580 days/year and 670 days/year respectively in the decades (1991-00 and 2001-10). The same roughly holds for severe heat waves. From an average 74 days/year in the 1961-70 decade, it has jumped to 98 days/year in the last decade (2001-2010). Given tha...

At least 11 people were killed in a Sunday bombing at a church in Alexandria, Egypt's health ministry said, hours after a bomb killed 25 worshippers at a church north of Cairo.  According to the country’s Health Ministry a suspect device went off at Saint Mark's church in Egypt's second largest city. An earlier blast at a church in the Nile Delta city of Tanta, north of Cairo, killed 25 people and wounded dozens, officials said, in an apparent attack on Coptic worshippers. There was no immediate claim of responsibility and the cause of the blast, just one week before Coptic Easter and the same month as Pope Francis is scheduled to visit Egypt, was not known. Islamic State’s branch in Egypt, which has waged a low-level conflict for years in the Sinai peninsula, has stepped up attacks on Christians in Egypt in recent months. A suicide bombing at Cairo’s largest Coptic cathedral killed at least 25 people and wounded 49 in December 2016, many of them women and ch...

At least 10 people have been killed in explosions at underground stations in St Petersburg, Russian media report. News agencies reported the blasts hit the Sennaya Ploschad and nearby Tekhnologichesky Institut stations in the centre of the city. Images posted on social media showed a carriage in Sennaya station with its doors blown out with casualties nearby. President Vladimir Putin said all causes, including terrorism, were being investigated. The Interfax and RIA news agencies reported that at least 50 people had been injured. Interfax said one of the blasts may have involved a device filled with shrapnel. President Putin was in St Petersburg earlier on Monday but is now outside the city, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. "I have already spoken to the head of our special services, they are working to ascertain the cause," he said, at a meeting with Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko. Moscow metro officials said they were introducing extra security mea...

The Ministry of Human Resource Development adopted the National Institutional Ranking Framework which lists out the ranking of best colleges and universities in India. Below are the top 10 colleges, universities and management institutes in India. Top 10 colleges in India 1. Miranda House, New Delhi 2. Loyola College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 3. Shri Ram College of Commerce - New Delhi 4. Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu 5. Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College, New Delhi 6. St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, West Bengal 7. Lady Shri Ram College of Women, New Delhi 8. Dayal Singh College, New Delhi 9. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, New Delhi 10. The Women's Christian College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu Top 10 universities 1. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 2. Jawaharlal Nehru College, New Delhi 3. Banaras Hindu University 4. Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research 5. Jadavpur university 6. Anna University 7. University of Hyderabad 8. Univer...

Myanmar’s de-facto leader, former democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, in a televised speech on March 30 on occasion of the one-year anniversary of the installation of her government, for the first time acknowledged disappointment over the state of the country. She said she was prepared to step down if people are dissatisfied with her leadership. “When I joined politics, I said I promise one thing: that I will do my best’. That’s all. I can’t do better than that,” Suu Kyi said. “So, if you all think I am not good enough for our country and our people, if someone or some organisation can do better than us, we are ready to step down,” she added. Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy took power last year amid high expectations after a landslide election victory which ended five decades of military rule in the impoverished country. But while her government has started enacting major reforms, many believe its performance has fallen shor...