Platelets -- found in the blood -- are the first line of defence in patients with malaria, killing up to 60 per cent of the malaria parasites circulating in the bloodstream, finds a study.

Maoists pulled a youth off a bus in Chhattisgarh's south Bastar on Monday and killed him for his failure to return the money he owed to a rebel leader, police said.

Four members of a family were killed in a fire that broke out in their house here on Friday morning, police said.

Cholera infection has killed 1,400 people and infected 218,798 others in Yemen in just two months, the largest epidemic to hit a single Arab country, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced.

Three militants were killed and an Army Major was injured on Thursday in a gunfight between the holed up militants and the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district.

Two militants were killed on Wednesday in a gunfight with security forces in the Kashmir Valley.

An Army Major and four militants were killed in a fierce gunfight near the India-Myanmar border in Nagaland's Mon district on Wednesday, an official said.

Pakistani security forces have killed 12 hardcore terrorists in southwestern Balochistan province, the military said on Sunday.

At least eight civilians were killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul city on Wednesday that targeted a convoy of foreign troops, the Interior Ministry said

At least 12 persons were killed and 12 more injured in a railway tunnel blast in China's Guizhou province, police said on Wednesday