A 4.4 magnitude earthquake jolted Swat and its surrounding area in mid noon hours.

India plans to launch a space probe that will orbit Mars in November 2013, a senior official from the country's space research establishment said on Monday.

Cancer has replaced heart disease as the leading cause of death among US Hispanics, likely reflecting the large number of young, working-age Hispanics in America, according to a report by the Ameri

Mines in the western Indian state of Goa were ordered to close on Tuesday after a government-backed inquiry estimated illegal trade in iron ore had cost more than $6.0 billion in five years.

As least forty-six people were killed in separate incidents of electrocution and structure collapse, as late monsoon rains unleashed devastation in Punjab and Sindh provinces.

Heavy rains and flooding since the start of June have claimed 18 lives in Burkina Faso and made more than 21,000 people homeless, an emergency aid official said Thurday.

The Lahore High Court on Thursday sought a reply from the ministry of Foreign Affairs, ministry of Law & Justice and ministry of Water & Power within two weeks on a petition seeking directi

India's Sesa Goa must shut its 280,000 tonnes per annum metallurgical coke unit in western Goa state after complaints of pollution by locals, a State Pollution Board official said on Tuesday.

A total of 157 cases of dengue virus have been reported in Sindh, of which 156 cases were reported in Karachi while one from Hyderabad.

A strong earkthquake measuring 7.4 shook an area in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of El Salvador early Monday, the US Geological Survey said.