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Amrik Singh, a store owner at a gas station in New York and a father of two, displayed exemplary courage to defeat a robber with a shotgun, using his footwear.

A 34-year-old mother has been sentenced to life in prison in the microwave oven death of her 1-month-old daughter.

In Bihar's Gopalganj district, a woman was barred from cooking mid-day meals by local villagers, allegedly because she is a widow. However,after intervention from district authorities, the woman was reinstated by the school and the villagers dropped their protest.

Pope Francis has recognised a second miracle attributed to Mother Teresa, clearing the path for the nun to be elevated to sainthood next year.

A 12-year-old Texas boy was kept in jail for three days for joking to a classmate that he has a bomb in his backpack, the boy's cousin wrote in a Facebook post this week.

World Bank has approved a $1.5 billion (Rs 10,000 crore loan) to support the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.

An Air India ground crew member died after being sucked into the running engine of a parked aircraft at the Mumbai airport on Wednesday evening.

Three years since the brutal gangrape of a paramedical student in Delhi, Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi has appealed to the people to address her daughter by her name, that is Jyoti Singh.

Kerala’s Jatayu Nature Park is nearly ready and it is to be opened for public from January 2016.

Astronomers have spotted a star, 14 light years away — next door to us in space terms — and has a planet going around it that is able to support life.