On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. With a stroke of a pen, Tsar Alexander II had ceded Alaska, his ...

The Centre is focusing on bridging the North-South divide by encouraging investments in underdeveloped northern states.

Overall, 80.1 per cent of the respondents said they support the idea of holding Lok Sabha and all state Assembly polls simultaneously ...

A handful of cases of the Human Metapneumovirus have been confirmed in India but officials say there's no cause for alarm, ...

Researchers are working on understanding how four major migrations shaped the Indian subcontinent and the genetic make-up of its people.

Three people are believed to have died after nine men became trapped in a coal mine in India’s north-eastern Assam state.

The Tibetan plateau is known to be prone to heavy earthquakes as it sits right over the place where the tectonic Eurasian and ...

At least 95 people were killed and 130 injured as a strong earthquake struck the Tibet region on Tuesday morning. The quake ...

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday alleged that the BJP-led Centre has snatched away the official residence of Delhi Chief Minister Atishi by cancelling the allotment due to political vendetta. At a ...

The White House says President Joe Biden will establish two new national monuments in California that will honor Native American tribes ...

The Chuckwalla National Monument would protect public lands in southeastern California and is supported by Arizona tribes.