US President Barack Obama vowed on Tuesday to make a new push to close the American military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as the US military sent extra medical personnel there to deal with prisoners on a hunger strike.

Amid the US ramping up its international outreach for the next step in its effort to get rid of the Assad regime, a media report has said the Obama administration is preparing to supply lethal weapons to the Syrian opposition.

Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who was severely injured in an attack by inmates in a Pakistan jail, has gone into 'non-reversible' coma and is heading to 'brain death', said the doctors struggling to save his life.

Doctors treating comatose Indian death row convict Sarbajit Singh at Lahore's government-run Jinnah Hospital, on Tuesday said his condition has deteriorated, but he has not been declared brain dead.

Reacting to a Delhi district's decision to acquit Congress leader Sajjan Kumar of all the charges that were levelled against him in connection with a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, a verdit that left various Sikh groups in a state of anguish and anger, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Tuesday said that it hoped the Supreme Court would reopen the case against the former.

A Delhi court Tuesday acquitted Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in a case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

Russian and U.S. leaders have agreed to enhance counterterrorism cooperation between the two countries, the Kremlin said on Monday

A Delhi district court will pronounce its judgment in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case in which Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and five others are accused today.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the government to restore the independent position of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) with regard to its probe of coal block allocations

A court in Rawalpindi Tuesday ordered former president Pervez Musharraf to be sent to 14 days judicial remand in the case relating to former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination, a media report said.