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Alvin Hellerstein, the 92-year-old US judge handling the case against deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, has presided over a number of notable trials during his decades on the bench.
Unidentified drones flew over the Miraflores palace in central Caracas and security forces opened fire in response around 8 pm, the source said, hours after Maduro’s deputy Delcy Rodriguez was…
Sarat Mani Chakraborty was reportedly attacked with sharp weapons in the Narsingdi district at around 10 pm on Monday.
US President Donald Trump said the United States is not at war with Venezuela and will not push for elections there in the near term. days after US forces captured…
A special PMLA court here on Monday issued summons to businessman Raj Kundra in the Bitcoin scam case after taking cognizance of the chargesheet filed against him by the Enforcement…
Hilton and local operators of the Hampton Inn Lakeville property released statements within hours apologising and said the messages refusing to serve agents who were focused on immigration enforcement didn’t…
US President Donald Trump on Monday said the US has taken in, and will soon receive, more than $600 billion through tariffs, arguing that the policy has strengthened the country…
A 23-year-old Dalit house surgeon at the Government Medical College in Siddipet district of Telangana allegedly died by suicide after she was “cheated” by a senior resident doctor after he…
Swiss food giant Nestle announced on Monday a recall of batches of infant formula in several European countries, notably France, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy and Sweden, as a precautionary measure.
Barry Pollack – the Washington lawyer who represented WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange – will defend toppled Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in a US drug case that could test immunity claims…
MPESB 2026 exam calendar includes group recruitment, police, nursing, teacher eligibility, and professional course entrance tests across Madhya Pradesh.
Senior Congress leader and former Union minister Suresh Kalmadi passed away in Pune early Tuesday following a prolonged illness, family sources said.
The incident, captured in a viral video, has sparked widespread outrage online and ignited a serious debate about women’s safety and public respect in India.
Footage broadcast on Venezuelan state television in late November showed Maduro bouncing to an electronic beat during a rally.
Venezuela’s vice president and oil minister Delcy Rodriguez was formally sworn in on Monday as the country’s interim president, as US-deposed President Nicolas Maduro appeared in a New York court…
WWF-Pakistan has cautioned that an invasive fish species has been detected in water bodies across Sindh and Lower Punjab, warning that its spread poses a serious threat to aquatic biodiversity…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israel would not allow arch-foe Iran to restore its ballistic missile programme, just days after US President Donald Trump issued a similar threat.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 hit the western Chugoku region of Japan on Tuesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, followed by a series of sizeable aftershocks.
IIT Bombay has postponed the JAM 2026 admit card release, originally set for January 5, with a new date to be announced soon.
The Braille library aligns with the National Education Policy, covering 54 courses with books printed by the university’s Braille press.
The death count in Indore’s Bhagirathpura water contamination outbreak has risen to 17, intensifying fears that the crisis in India’s so-called “cleanest city” is far from over and may be…
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin launched here on Monday the free laptop distribution scheme for college students and asserted that it was not a gift but an opportunity for…
Police on Monday said they have arrested two men in connection with the alleged killing of a 28-year-old man who was pushed from the 15th floor of a residential tower…
The Telangana Panchayat Raj (Amendment) Bill, 2026, has been unanimously passed by the state legislative assembly, officially abolishing the three-decade-old “two-child norm” for candidates contesting local body elections.
The predawn U.S. military operation that spirited Nicolas Maduro and his wife out of Venezuela and into US custody marks a watershed in hemispheric politics.
NATO member Turkey urged Europe on Monday to “assume greater responsibilities” for its own security rather than rely on the United States for protection.
The denial of bail to activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the 2020 Delhi riots conspiracy case is very different kettle of fish from ordinary, everyday crimes for which…
A large bloc of countries has rejected the US operation as a violation of international law and Venezuelan sovereignty.
Crude oil prices are projected to soften significantly to touch around $50 per barrel (bbl) by June 2026, positively affecting the CPI inflation, keeping it decisively below 3.4 per cent…
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi.
The Maharashtra government has formed a SIT to probe alleged irregularities in the Civil Registration System software records after around 27,000 birth and death registrations were generated in a village…
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Monday said that the conditions for a free, fair, and impartial election have “not yet been established in the country,” and accused the government of showing bias…
An emboldened US President Donald Trump has hinted that he has other countries in his sights after toppling Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, leaving the world asking: where’s next?
Elon Musk’s AI tool Grok faced growing international backlash Monday for generating sexualized deepfakes of women and minors, with the European Union joining the condemnation and Britain warning of an…
One in three Americans approve of the US military strike on Venezuela that toppled the country’s president and 72% worry the US will become too involved in the South American…
Denmark’s prime minister warned Monday that any US move to take Greenland by force would destroy 80 years of transatlantic security links, after President Donald Trump repeated his desire to…
An 18-year-old man was killed and another seriously injured after a stabbing incident in northeast Delhi’s Welcome area, police said on Tuesday.
Shivraj Singh Yadav, a leader of Samajwadi Party and a close aide of party chief Akhilesh Yadav, sparked a huge controversy with his remark that “Yadavs are not Hindus”.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will undertake a two-day visit to India next week to further shore up bilateral cooperation in a range of areas, including trade, investment and defence and…
A marriage that began in January 2024 has ended in a police complaint over allegations of deception ranging from hidden baldness to international drug smuggling.
Clips showing President Nicolas Maduro’s movement through New York ahead of his first court appearance have been making the rounds on the internet.
Pakistan and Afghanistan on Monday agreed to establish a 13-member joint committee of business leaders to hold formal negotiations for the opening of the border for trade.
Sharjeel Imam’s uncle on Monday expressed shock over the Supreme Court’s refusal to grant bail to his nephew in the 2020 Delhi riots conspiracy case, but said he respected the…
Pratika Rawal had a stellar Women’s World Cup 2025. The batter scored 308 runs in seven games to finish as India’s second-highest scorer in the marquee event
The Supreme Court, while denying bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the Delhi riots larger conspiracy case on Monday, observed that the Constitution guarantees personal liberty, but it…
Purported videos of the January 2 assault, which later went viral on social media platforms, show a group of men beating and kicking a man lying on the road, stripping…
A 33-foot-tall and 210-tonne Shiva Lingam to be installed at the under-construction Virat Ramayan Temple in Bihar’s East Champaran district reached neighbouring Gopalganj district on Monday
Four students suffered severe burn injuries at a school in Odisha’s Rayagada district on Monday while allegedly experimenting with paint thinner on the premises.
Rashmi Verma, a 24-year-old doctor who had been undergoing treatment at the AIIMS, Bhopal, for the past 25 days after she allegedly took an overdose of an anaesthetic injection, died…
Bangladesh’s exiled author Taslima Nasreen finds the current situation in her country of birth worsening through time, even compared to the day she was forced to leave over three decades…
Four Aam Aadmi Party MLAs were suspended on Monday for the remaining three days of the Delhi Assembly’s Winter Session.
The Supreme Court on Monday set aside the Gujarat High Court’s 2019 verdict which had declined to grant relief to Adani Power Limited over levy of customs duty on electrical…
A 34-year-old software engineer died of suspected suffocation after a fire broke out at her rented house in Bengaluru on the night of January 3.
An 11-year-old girl reported missing last week was found raped and axed to death in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district, police said on Monday.
In the fifth Test match of the Ashes series against Australia, England`s batting maestro Joe Root scored an unbeaten 160 runs off 242 deliveries. His knock also included 15 boundaries.…
In the fifth Test match of the Ashes series against Australia, England`s batting maestro Joe Root scored an unbeaten 160 runs off 242 deliveries. His knock also included 15 boundaries.…
In the fifth Test match of the Ashes series against Australia, England`s batting maestro Joe Root scored an unbeaten 160 runs off 242 deliveries. His knock also included 15 boundaries.…
Four students suffered severe burn injuries at a school in Odisha’s Rayagada district on Monday while allegedly experimenting with paint thinner on the premises.
Australia vs England 5th Ashes Test Day 3 Live Score Updates: Australia look to capitalise on their batting prowess to gain control on Day 3 of the fifth Ashes Test…
Novak Djokovic, has decided to pull out of next week’s Adelaide International, the build-up event for the year’s first Grand Slam tournament, the Australian Open.
India`s ODI and Test skipper Shubman Gill was seen practising ahead of Punjab`s Vijay Hazare Trophy match against Goa at the KL Saini Stadium on Tuesday. Earlier, the right-handed batsman…
India`s ODI and Test skipper Shubman Gill was seen practising ahead of Punjab`s Vijay Hazare Trophy match against Goa at the KL Saini Stadium on Tuesday. Earlier, the right-handed batsman…
India`s ODI and Test skipper Shubman Gill was seen practising ahead of Punjab`s Vijay Hazare Trophy match against Goa at the KL Saini Stadium on Tuesday. Earlier, the right-handed batsman…
Playing his fifth Test in the ongoing Ashes series, Travis Head has become the first batter to rack up 500 in an Ashes series with a strike rate of more…
A man choked to death his mother, sister and minor brother at their home in Delhi and then walked into a police station, surrendering himself to the cops, police said.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for respect for the political independence of states after the United States seized Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and said it was in charge…
“I’m innocent. I am not guilty. I am a decent man, the president of my country,” Maduro told a judge, adding he was kidnapped.
Speculation about a cabinet reshuffle in the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has intensified after the chief minister visited Delhi and met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit…
Congress Working Committee member Shashi Tharoor, whose recent statements and article had put the party in a defensive mode, on Monday said that he had never deviated from the party…
The Delhi Development Authority or DDA, which sought permission to cut 473 trees in the Delhi Ridge area to complete a road leading to the Central Armed Police Forces Institute…
The Special PMLA Court in Shimla has declared Ashoni Kanwar and her son, Mandeep Rana, as Fugitive Economic Offenders (FEO) in connection with a multi-crore fake degree scam.
Former world billiards champion Manoj Kothari, one of the most influential figures in Indian cue sports, died on Monday following a massive cardiac arrest at a hospital in Tirunelveli.
India`s ODI and Test skipper Shubman Gill was seen practising ahead of Punjab`s Vijay Hazare Trophy match against Goa at the KL Saini Stadium on Tuesday. Earlier, the right-handed batsman…
India superstar Virat Kohli will not feature in Delhi’s fixture against Railways in the Vijay Hazare Trophy on Tuesday, head coach Sarandeep Singh said.
India on Monday advised its nationals to avoid non-essential travel to Iran until further notice, owing to the recent developments in the country.
A recent media report claimed that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 86, is preparing to leave the country along with 20 close family members amid growing anti-government protests.
A Bangladesh court on Monday set January 21 as the date for framing charges in a sedition case against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 285 others.
Before deposed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was brought to the United States to face drug-trafficking charges, another Latin American leader had already stood trial in a US court for similar…
The Swiss government said Monday that it had decided to freeze any assets held in Switzerland by the deposed Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro or his associates “with immediate effect”.
The Delhi government is gearing up to roll out a new Electric Vehicle (EV) Policy 2.0, aimed at fast-tracking clean mobility across the national capital.
The Tata Group has begun scouting for a suitable candidate to head Air India, as the tenure of the incumbent, Campbell Wilson, will end next year, sources have said.
DMK’s parliamentary party chief and head of the party’s manifesto committee for the assembly elections, Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, is keen to contest the coming elections to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly,…
Pregnant Bengali woman, Sunali Khatun, who returned to India in December last year — six months after being deported to Bangladesh on suspicion of being a citizen of the neighbouring…
The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has carried out search operations at nine locations across Delhi, Mumbai, Surat, Lucknow and Varanasi on December 31, 2025 and January 1, 2026 in connection…
Deposed Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro arrived at a New York court on Monday, just days after being seized in Caracas in a shock US military operation that paved the path…
Over 40 students were taken ill after a jaundice outbreak at the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) in Odisha’s Khurda district, officials said on Monday.
Uttarakhand left-arm pacer Rajan Kumar has failed a dope test and has been handed a provisional suspension by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) in a rare case involving a cricketer
Skipper Sikandar Raza feels that the upcoming T20 World Cup 2026 is the perfect opportunity for Zimbabwe to regain its presence on the cricketing map. Zimbabwe has been placed in…
Indian cricket team fast bowler Mohammed Shami and his brother Mohammed Kaif have been issued notices to appear for Special Intensive Revision (SIR) hearing before the Election Commission.
Vaibhav Suryavanshi hammered a 24-ball 68, a blazing knock that included 10 sixes, as India U-19 recorded an eight-wicket win via the DLS method to take an unassailable 2-0 lead…
Amid the ongoing tension between the two neighbours, the Bangladesh Government has ordered an indefinite ban on the telecast of the Indian Premier League (IPL). The development comes after Kolkata…
Marnus Labuschagne was the centre of attention on Day 2 of the fifth Ashes Test in Sydney, making his presence felt with both bat and ball, and engaging in a…
West Ham signed Lazio striker Valentine “Taty” Castellanos on Monday in a move credited to under pressure coach Nuno Esprito Santo.
The Paris court found Monday 10 people guilty of cyberbullying France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, by spreading false online claims about her gender and sexuality, including allegations she was born…
In a dramatic overnight raid, US forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, and Washington officials made no secret of their primary objective: preventing America’s adversaries from exploiting Venezuela’s vast oil…
Days after US special forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores from the capital Caracas in a nighttime airborne raid, President Donald Trump once again expressed…
A 40-year-old Hindu woman has allegedly been gang-raped by two men, who also tied her to a tree and cut off her hair in central Bangladesh’s Kaliganj, a sub-district of…
In yet another incident of a Hindu man being killed in Bangladesh, a 45-year-old factory owner, who was also the acting editor of a newspaper, has been shot in the…
School Assembly News Headlines Today January 6, 2026: Stay updated and be ready to share your thoughts in the morning with these School Assembly News Headlines.
UP Police 2026 Recruitment: CM Yogi has granted 3 year age age relaxation for all category candidates applying for the 32,679 posts of Police constable and other posts.