News brief: Big stories of the day

The 12 boys of a local football team and their coach, who spent more than a fortnight in a flooded cave in Thailand, today said "hope kept them going" as they interacted with the media.

Some of Pakistan's hardline Islamic groups, who defend the blasphemy law, and have been accused of playing a role in global terrorism and murders of religious minorities, would be contesting the July 25 general elections, triggering concerns of further radicalization of the conservative country.

Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Wednesday accepted a no-confidence motion moved by the opposition against the government.

The European Union slapped Google with a huge 4.34-billion-euro fine for abusing the dominance of its Android operating system on Wednesday in the biggest antitrust penalty in the bloc's history.

Hundred militants and 43 security personnel were killed in Jammu and Kashmir in the first six months of this year, Union Minister Hansraj Gangaram Ahir said today.