Month: December 2025

Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal delivered a strong observation on the political churn in Pakistan, asserting that “democracy and Pakistan don’t go together.”

Paramount Skydance launched a hostile bid worth $108.4 billion for Warner Bros Discovery, challenging a rival offer from Netflix and injecting uncertainty into the future of Hollywood’s storied media company.

The maker of an iPhone app that flagged sightings of U.S. immigration agents sued the Trump administration for free speech violations on Monday, alleging that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi…

A local Labour Party politician from west London has been fined 40,000 pounds after she lost an appeal against an immigration law breach for hiring an Indian student as a…

Saudi Arabia has taken further steps to relax rules around the sale of alcohol by allowing non-Muslim foreign residents with monthly earnings of 50,000 riyals ($13,300) or more to make…

US President Donald Trump has warned that he may introduce new tariffs on agricultural imports, especially on rice imports from India and fertiliser from Canada, as trade talks with both…

A Brazilian woman with family ties to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will be released from ICE custody while she fights potential deportation, an immigration judge ruled Monday.

The United States has revoked 85,000 visas across multiple categories this year, a senior State Department official said, describing the action as part of an intensified effort to protect American…

Families of the three men from Assam who died in the Goa nightclub fire on Monday said their children were forced to migrate to the western state due to the…

A group of 15 tourists had a narrow escape when the bus they were travelling in caught fire during a safari at Nahargarh Biological Park here, officials said on Monday.

Jailed superstar Darshan is facing charges of subjecting co-accused in the fan murder case to mental and physical torture in the Bengaluru Central Prison, where they are currently lodged along…

India on Monday condemned Pakistan’s fresh attacks on Afghanistan that killed several civilians.

China reacted positively to Putin’s visit to India, framing the three countries as an important part of the Global South and saying that sound trilateral ties are conducive to regional…

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recognised India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) as the world’s largest retail fast-payment system by transaction volume, the Parliament was informed on Monday.

The Enforcement Directorate has filed a chargesheet against AAP leader Satyendar Jain and 13 others under the anti-money laundering law in connection with alleged corruption in awarding tenders for Delhi…

As one Humayun Kabir laid the foundation of a Babri Masjid-style mosque in Murshidabad, while another, 200 km away in Paschim Medinipore’s Debra, fielded nearly 200 donation calls meant for…

The Israeli military said on Tuesday that it struck infrastructure belonging to Hezbollah in several areas in southern Lebanon, including what it described as a training compound used by the…

Jimmy Kimmel has extended his contract with Disney-owned ABC for a year, sources said Monday, months after his late-night show was yanked off the air in a confrontation with President…

The Ministry of External Affairs welcomed the newly released US National Security Strategy 2025 report, noting New Delhi’s strategic importance to Washington and identifying India as a key partner in…

The Reserve Bank of India is set to inject liquidity into the banking system through a long-term USD/INR Buy/Sell Swap auction, marking a key move to ease financial conditions at…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his delight as the 20th session of UNESCO’s Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage commenced in India in the national capital on Monday, marking a significant…

US President Donald Trump warned Monday that Europe was heading in “very bad directions,” in a fresh broadside just days after his new security strategy slammed the continent over mass…

A 25-year-old Swedish man who died after falling from the fourth floor of a Navi Mumbai building had came to attend the wedding of a friend, a police official said…

President Donald Trump says he should get the Nobel Peace Prize for resolving eight conflicts since taking office in January.

Veteran social activist Dr Baba Adhav passed away in Pune on Monday night following a prolonged illness, his aide said.

After facing a configuration glitch that displayed Starlink’s India pricing on its local website, the company said on Monday that the glitch has now been fixed and “those numbers do…

Three men and a woman were seen pushing a stretcher with a body on it in the dead of night in Bihar’s Nawada district.

NCERT’s new Class VII Social Science book has introduced a chapter on India’s neighbours, noting that Pakistan Army-backed terror attacks have hindered India-Pak normal ties.

President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Alina Habba, resigned Monday as the top federal prosecutor for New Jersey, leaving the job after an appeals court said she had been serving…

Hours after Punjab Congress President Amarinder Singh Raja Warring announced her suspension from the party’s primary membership, Navjot Kaur Sidhu on Monday termed him as “insensitive, irresponsible, morally dishonest and…

A director of a care home agency based in south-east England has been jailed for two-and-a-half years after being found guilty of repeatedly employing immigrants from India with no right…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that Kyiv had no legal or moral right to give up land to Russia in any deal aimed at ending Moscow’s nearly four-year…

Only 52 hotels and 38 clubs of the thousands that exist in the national capital possess fire safety certificates, according to the Delhi Fire Services (DFS).

A two-day Telangana Rising Global Summit was inaugurated Monday by Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, laying out a transformative economic roadmap to make the state a $3 trillion economy by…

A high-level delegation from the office of the US Trade Representative, led by Deputy US Trade Representative Ambassador Rick Switzer, will visit India from December 9-11, 2025.

“It is shocking that the police are working so negligently in such a heinous and sensitive matter,” a Delhi court said on Monday while hearing a case regarding the brutal…

Delhi’s air quality remained locked in the ‘very poor’ category on Monday, with the air quality index (AQI) staying above 300, while forecasts suggest that pollution levels are likely to…

A 38-year-old man, a native of Uganda, was arrested for allegedly duping a Delhi resident of Rs 1.9 lakh after posing as a woman on a dating app by using…

Ten days. 33 surrenders. And for the first time in more than three decades, the Maharashtra-Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh (MMC) special zone, once the toughest Maoist theatre in central India, has shrunk…

UK’s former Prime Minister Boris Johnson celebrated his daughter Romy’s birthday dressed as a pixie and performed the popular “Cha Cha Slide”.

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta’s remarks about the government using mist sprayers to contain pollution at hotspots has drawn a stinging response from her predecessor Arvind Kejriwal.

A trainee aircraft crashed after it hit a 33 kV high-voltage power line in Madhya Pradesh’s Seoni district on Monday.

The family of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, the writer and composer of ‘Vande Mataram’, on Monday, hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s gesture to mark the 150 years of the country’s National…

Suspended TMC MLA Humayun Kabir on Monday made a U-turn on his earlier stand, saying he would not resign from the West Bengal Assembly, days after laying the foundation stone…

Plans to airlift Bangladesh’s ailing former prime minister Khaleda Zia to London for advanced treatment suffered a fresh setback on Monday after the German air ambulance hired for her travel…

Congress Suspends Navjot Kaur Sidhu, Navjot Sidhu’s wife, Days After Controversial Comment

A woman killed her 14-year-old son in their home in Bengaluru and then died by suicide along with her mother on Monday.

A crackdown on houseboats, hotels and guesthouses have started in Srinagar to curb the unlawful stay of foreign nationals in Jammu and Kashmir.

Kashmir valley is facing a severe water crisis due to low rainfall consistently, experts said. The lack of snowfall has also shrunk rivers, tributaries and natural springs.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Raghav Chadha on Monday called the country’s highway toll collection an “organised loot”, saying mismanagement and excessive charges were placing an “unbearable” burden on commuters.

The Himanta Biswa Sarma-led Assam government distributed scooters to 11,250 meritorious students on Monday under the Dr Bani Kanta Kakati Merit Award Scheme at the Srimanta Sankardev Kalakshetra in Guwahati.

A 26-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a quack in front of her child in Jharkhand’s Palamu district, police said on Monday.

Bhojpuri star Pawan Singh has allegedly received a threat from unidentified persons claiming to be members of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang who warned him against sharing the stage with actor…

The Adani Group is setting up a 48-megawatt cutting-edge AI green data centre in Telangana at an outlay of Rs 2,500 crores, said Karan Adani, Managing Director of Adani Ports…

More than 100 people, including dozens of children, were killed in attacks on a kindergarten in Sudan that continued even as parents and caretakers rushed the wounded to a nearby…

President Donald Trump on Sunday claimed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “hasn’t read” a US-authored peace proposal aimed at ending the Russia-Ukraine war.

Rating agency Moody’s on Monday upgraded the rating of two entities of Adani Green Energy Limited (AGEL) — AGEL-RG1 and AGEL-RG2 — to ‘Ba1/Stable’ from the earlier ‘Ba1/Negative’.

IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers and COO Isidre Porqueras have filed replies to the show cause notices issued by the aviation safety regulator DGCA over the airline’s massive flight disruptions, an…

Japan’s Meteorological Agency said a powerful earthquake hit off the Japanese northern coast on Monday, triggering a tsunami alert.