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The onset of winter in the national capital was perceptible with a crisp chill in the air on Saturday.

Two days after NDTV’s report revealed that students at Hullpur Government School in Sheopur were being served their midday meals on sheets of waste paper, the district administration swung into…

The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) on Saturday called for urgent and coordinated action by Punjab to curb stubble burning incidents, even as it said that Haryana has shown…

A 40-year-old woman allegedly strangled her newborn son to death, just hours after giving birth at a government hospital in Rajasthan’s Churu district.

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Saturday said that Hindus are “responsible” for Bharat, asserting that the RSS aims to organise Hindu society for the glory of the nation,…

ISRO on Saturday said it has collected advanced data from the Chandrayaan-2 lunar orbiter to gain a deeper understanding of the Moon’s polar regions, including parameters describing the physical and…

Police in the Mirzapur district on Saturday arrested a woman accused of attempting to convert a man through financial inducement and other allurements, officials said.

Own a Thar or a Bullet? You are making a statement and you’re probably crazy, at least according to the Haryana Director General of Police.

An elderly woman was murdered, her body kept hidden inside a house for two days, and later dumped near a lake, said police in Karnataka.

Delhi Health Minister Pankaj Kumar Singh on Saturday issued a warning to the heads of all government hospitals, demanding that medicine shortages be addressed within 10 days, amid ongoing concerns…

Aviation Minister Rammohan Naidu reviewed the on-ground situation at the Air Navigation Services (ANS) Centre near Delhi Airport following a major technical glitch in the Air Traffic Control (ATC) messaging…

A Surat resident has been arrested for allegedly helping a gang of cyber fraudsters transfer Rs 10 crore to a Pakistan-based cryptocurrency wallet, officials said on Saturday.

A court here has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for killing his wife last year. The convict had roamed around the village with his wife’s severed head in his…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday said President Vladimir Putin’s latest instructions about studying the feasibility of resuming nuclear tests “is being worked on.”

The RJD on Saturday lodged a complaint before the Election Commission of India (ECI) alleging suspicious activities at a strong room in Hajipur, Vaishali district.

There are over 90,000 stray dogs in Mumbai, but the number of shelters for them is only eight, civic officials said on Saturday.

Flight operations were temporarily suspended at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport after problems occurred in the runway’s lighting system on Saturday.

Three first-year IT students went missing after they reportedly fell into a waterfall in Assam’s Dima Hasao district, the police said.

Six students from the Culinary Academy of India (CAI) in Hyderabad were arrested for consuming ganja (weed) during a birthday party.

A two-year-old girl sustained serious injuries after being attacked by a stray dog in Maharashtra’ Thane district.

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat said on Saturday that Hindu society is at the height of its glory, and always wants to unite the world.

Tej Pratap Yadav, the estranged son of Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Yadav, wants to blaze his own trail and not live under the shadow of his younger brother, Tejashwi…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday met veteran BJP leader and Bharat Ratna awardee Lal Krishna Advani at his residence and extended birthday greetings, wishing him good health and a…

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday said action in the Pune land deal case is being taken as per law and there is no question of saving anybody.

A 15-year-old girl was gang-raped by two men and a minor inside the premises of a government primary school in Madhya Pradesh’s Mauganj district on Friday.

Allegations of major security lapses and preferential treatment at Bengaluru’s Parappana Agrahara Central jail have surfaced after videos showed notorious inmates, including an ISIS recruiter, using mobile phones and watching…

Facing a volley of attacks from the Opposition over the alleged sale of government land in Pune worth Rs 1,800 crore for just Rs 300 crore to a firm in…

Gaza health officials said Saturday that over 69,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war so far, as Israel and Hamas completed the latest exchange of bodies under the…

The boyfriend of a woman who had installed a hidden camera in a bathroom of a women’s hostel in Tamil Nadu’s Hosur was arrested in Delhi on Friday.

As Delhi’s air quality entered the “severe” category in multiple areas on Saturday, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta announced a targeted push to eliminate traditional cooking fuels in slum clusters, while…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday advocated for simplifying the language of law so that it is easily understood by the local populace and said ease of justice must be…

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Saturday that the era of “katta” and “laltane” is over in Bihar, and the state is poised to produce missiles and cannons in place…

Underscoring that the DMK was not formed overnight, DMK chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin said the party was built through years of struggle and sacrifice, sending a…

An assistant returning officer was suspended on Saturday and a case registered against him after a large number of VVPAT slips were found on the roadside in Bihar’s Samastipur district,…

Being falsely accused of setting fire in the Amazon with funds from an Oscar-winning actor eventually became a blessing in disguise for Caetano Scannavino, the founder of a nonprofit organisation…

Delhi’s air may be showing signs of improvement compared to last year, but it’s still far from clean.

Two days after the Pune land-grab allegations involving his grandnephew set off a political storm, NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) chief Sharad Pawar broke his silence, saying the matter should be investigated…

A shocking incident of violence against medical staff was reported at R.N. Cooper Government Hospital in Mumbai, where three doctors on emergency duty were allegedly assaulted by the relatives of…

In a quiet hamlet deep inside Sundarbans, where mangrove forests guard a maze of rivers and traditions run long and deep, two young women stood before a village temple and…

India took a powerful stand at the UN Climate Change Conference (CoP30) Leaders’ Summit in Belem, Brazil, asserting that global climate action must be rooted in equity and the principle…

An elderly couple filed a petition filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking the removal of a stray dog from near their house, after municipality failed to act on…

The Delhi Traffic Police has issued an advisory ahead of the “Akon India Tour 2025”, scheduled to be held on November 9, 2025, at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (JLN Stadium), New…

The fourth Khangri glacier expedition, a major scientific mission to study the response of Himalayan glaciers to climate change, commenced on Saturday in the Mago Chu basin under the towering…

A Rapido bike taxi rider in Bengaluru has been arrested and charged for allegedly trying to grab a woman passenger’s legs during a ride in the city, police said.

Expressing confidence that the NDA will return to power with over 160 of the 243 seats in Bihar, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said infiltration is a big issue…

A 60-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death by his sons in Uttar Pradesh’s Kaushambi over a property dispute.

In Indian elections, few strategies have proven as effective as targeted welfare schemes. The 2024 Maharashtra and 2023 Madhya Pradesh assembly elections offer compelling evidence.

A scooterist was left shocked when he received a challan of nearly Rs 21 lakh for not wearing a helmet. The irony was that the scooter he owned cost him…

The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Headquarters Office, has provisionally attached eight immovable properties valued at Rs 67.03 crore, beneficially owned and controlled by the banned organization Popular Front of India…

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor reposted a six-year-old post to highlight the deteriorating air quality in Delhi, adding that it was “sadly still relevant”.

More than Rs 1.01 crore in cash and two luxury cars were seized in West Bengal after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted simultaneous raids as part of a money laundering…

An eagle crashed into the windscreen of a train in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district, landing inside the cabin and causing minor injuries to the locomotive pilot on Saturday.

34-year-old Mamdani has still not decided if he would move to Gracie Mansion, the official residence of the mayor of New York City. Currently he stays with his wife, Rama…

The system failure incident that happened at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport on Friday could possibly have been prevented, an organisation of air traffic controllers has said.

The controversial land deal linked to Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar’s son, Parth, has given a new handle to the NCP stalwart’s traditional political rivals to target him over his…

Does Chirag Paswan have chief ministerial ambitions? The Union minister and LJP (Ram Vilas) chief chose diplomacy to answer the question, trying to skirt around the domain that has been…

Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor on Saturday claimed that migrant workers and the youth are the real “X factor” of the ongoing assembly elections in Bihar, and not the…

The NDA is united in Bihar this time and will put up a record performance, LJP (Ram Vilas) chief and Union minister Chirag Paswan has said.

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has snubbed the BJP’s charge that the Opposition uses infiltrators as a vote bank,accusing the NDA combine in Bihar of defaming the Muslims after ignoring their…

The latest round of Afghanistan-Pakistan peace talks in Istanbul has ended in deadlock, exposing Islamabad’s insincerity and its veiled attempts to shift blame onto Kabul.

The Election Commission of India has received multiple complaints filed against Booth Level Officers (BLOs) by various political parties in West Bengal for distributing the enumeration forms for Special Intensive…

The accused were allegedly running an illegal call centre in West Delhi, posing as recruiters for reputed airlines.

In 2010, Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), in alliance with the BJP, triumphed in 206 of the 243 seats.

Indian Railways now operates a total of 164 Vande Bharat Express train services across the country after Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday flagged off four new Vande Bharat trains…

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said he is looking forward to a “constructive and meaningful” winter session of Parliament.

The Patna District Administration on Saturday clarified on a video circulating on social media regarding ink marks on both fingers of LJP (Ram Vilas) MP Shambhavi Chaudhary after she cast…

A court has restrained a Bengaluru restaurant from using the name ‘Carnatic,’ saying it was deceptively similar to the mark of Delhi-based Carnatic Cafe.

An FIR has been registered against an Instagram user for allegedly creating and circulating a fake video, created using AI technology, depicting Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar pushing Chief…

A 32-year-old woman and her eight-year-old daughter were found dead with severe injury marks on their bodies in their rented house in Kota’s Rojadi area, officials said on Saturday.

The Delhi Police arrested a 37-year-old man for allegedly creating a fake social media account using his former employee’s photograph to harass and defame her online after she demanded her…

The Opposition alliance includes Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Congress, and the Left parties as the main constituents.

A peaceful Friday evening turned into a scene of tragedy and carnage on the Neemuch-Jawad Road in Madhya Pradesh after an Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) allegedly drove drunk and rammed his…

A woman who entered a jewellery shop in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad with the intention of robbing it ended up being slapped nearly 20 times in 25 seconds by the shopkeeper after…

“Jungle raj” is an apparent reference to the time when Bihar was under the rule of RJD chief Lalu Yadav.

Speaking to NDTV two days after Bihar went to polls in the first phase of assembly elections, Asaduddin Owaisi rejected the Opposition’s claim that the AIMIM is a “vote cutter”…

The simultaneous searches were conducted at the Central Jail, Srinagar, and District Jail, Kupwara, sources said.

The boy, who also has a beard drawn on his face, waves to them, imitating none other than Zohran Mamdani, the new Mayor-elect of New York.

Two IIT Kharagpur graduates and Forbes 30 Under 30 alumni were subjected to racist trolling shortly after they revealed that their San Francisco-based startup, Giga, had secured $61 million in…

Peace talks between Pakistan and Afghan Taliban ended without any agreement to tackle the thorny issues of cross-border terrorism as the deadlock persisted, according to top officials.

Two terrorists were killed by security forces in an ongoing encounter in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, officials said on Saturday.

PM Modi inaugurated the new Vande Bharat trains on the Banaras-Khajuraho, Lucknow-Saharanpur, Firozpur-Delhi, and Ernakulam-Bengaluru routes.

Mohammad Aan, a resident of Rampur, had begun staying at a hostel in Rawatpur four days ago.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used to preserve the voices and stories of the dead. From text-based chatbots that mimic loved ones to voice avatars that let you “speak”…

Two IIT Kharagpur graduates and Forbes 30 Under 30 alumni were subjected to racist trolling shortly after they revealed that their San Francisco-based startup, Giga, had secured $61 million in…

Officials said that 129 flights (53 arrivals and 76 departures) have been delayed on Saturday – as compared to the nearly 800 delays witnessed on Friday.

Four-time Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member, Kalyan Banerjee, reportedly lost Rs 55 lakh in an online financial fraud in West Bengal.

The air quality in the national capital remained in the ‘very poor’ category on Saturday morning as Delhi’s overall Air Quality Index (AQI) reading stood at 355, as of 8:00…

The Delhi High Court has issued a notice on the plea of Samir Modi for quashing of FIR in an alleged rape case. An FIR was registered at Police Station…

Janshakti Janata Dal founder Tej Pratap Yadav and BJP MP Ravi Kishan were seen together at the Patna airport on Friday, raising eyebrows amid the assembly elections.

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Sabarimala gold heist has secured the remand of the former Thiruvabharanam Commissioner till November 21 in connection with the case on Friday.

43-year-old Johnkennedy Chukwuemeka Okoro, a resident of Imo State, Nigeria, had initially arrived in Mumbai in 2012 on a business visa.

The United States Department of Labor (DOL) recently revealed that it launched at least 175 investigations targeting a potential abuse of the H-1B Visa Program, according to a report by…

Nitish Kumar, sworn in as Bihar Chief Minister for the fifth time on November 20, 2015, returned to Raj Bhawan with Lalu Yadav’s RJD and the Congress.

A man who had come to attend his nephew’s funeral in Uttarakhand’s Haridwar district was killed allegedly by his relative by slitting his throat following a family dispute, police said…

One person died after a massive fire broke out in a slum area near Rithala Metro Station in the national capital on Friday night, officials said.

Vivek Ramaswamy is “something special”, US President Donald Trump has said in a social media post, throwing his weight behind the Indian-origin billionaire Republican for the 2026 Ohio Governor race.

Police have arrested a BSc student in Uttarakhand’s Haridwar for allegedly attempting to extort Rs 30 lakh from a businessman in the name of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, officials said.

The United States on Friday formally removed Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa from a terrorism blacklist, days before the former jihadist is set to make a landmark visit to Washington.

James Peraire-Bueno, 29, and his brother Anton, 25, argued their actions were fair game in an unregulated market.