Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara resigns to focus on duties as state Congress chief

Home Minister G Parameshwara resigned from the post following the Congress leadership's decision to continue with him as the party's state unit chief ahead of the 2018 Assembly polls.

UN General Assembly elects Slovakia's Miroslav Lajcak as next president

The UN General Assembly elected Slovak foreign minister Miroslav Lajcak to be the next president of the 193-member powerful body.