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The IMD, along with its technical partners, will soon revise the criteria for declaring heatwave conditions in the country, as the present parameters do not suit India's geographical conditions, ...

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US President Donald Trump on Friday warned Taiwan against formally declaring its independence in an interview with Fox News shortly before the end of his visit to China. During their meetings, Chinese ...

Since Michigan basketball cut down the nets inside Lucas Oil Stadium on April 6, the top priority for men's college basketball programs over the last two weeks has been finding solutions to holes in ...

President Donald Trump before boarding Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Feb. 27. (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images) Nine hundred years ago, the Iranian philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazali ...