UN General Assembly President Peter Thomson lit the traditional lamp at a ceremony here yesterday to celebrate Diwali at the UN Secretariat.
The United States today asked its citizens in India to keep high level of vigilance citing reports indicating that terror group ISIS desires to attack "targets" in India.
An Indian man in Dubai is being charged with forgery and fraud after he duped an Egyptian businessman of more than USD 250,000 by selling him a flat he didn't own.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has said she is open to having First Lady Michelle Obama in her Cabinet if she wins the November 8 polls.
A 32-year-old British-Kashmiri musician who set up his One Love party last year has announced his candidacy for a by-election for a west London constituency next month.
A 30-year-old Indian-origin woman, Pardeep Kaur, who had been missing for nearly a fortnight, was found murdered on wasteland near London's Heathrow airport, with Scotland Yard on Tuesday appealing the public for information about the incident.