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Shares of Adani Power Ltd (APL) surged in the morning trade on Friday after global brokerage Morgan Stanley initiated ‘Overweight’ on the company with a target price of Rs 818,…

Heavy overnight rains battered Bengaluru, bringing the city to a standstill on Friday with waterlogging in several low-lying areas and traffic snarls on key stretches.

Weeks of heavy monsoon rains have flooded much of the Philippines, showing how vulnerable low-lying towns are, and triggering deep public anger over corruption and the flashy lifestyles of the…

The Macrons in France are fighting a bizarre ‘gender conspiracy’ against the country’s First Lady, Brigette Macron, with President Emmanuel Macron being forced to “prove” that his wife is not…

In a major security breach, a 24-year-old mentally challenged man managed to enter the home of Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) chief Vijay at Neelankarai on the East Coast Road in…

A shocking incident at a junior college in Hyderabad has left an intermediate student with a fractured jaw after he was allegedly attacked by the college’s floor in-charge.

The family of a 30-year-old Indian techie who was shot dead by the California police has said they learnt about the incident through his friends more than two weeks after…

A man died after he jumped from a moving train he had wrongly boarded at Salempur railway station here, police said on Friday.

Opposition in Kerala Assembly on Thursday criticised the state government, accusing it of failing to control rising prices. They claimed that Kerala has recorded the highest inflation in the country…

The accident occurred on the Panathur-Bellandur road.

Four police officers were killed and two wounded in a deadly confrontation in Pennsylvania when a man armed with an AR-15 style rifle opened fire as authorities tried to execute…

Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show was pulled off air over his comments on the murder of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger.

Margherita Ciarletta is the last person in the village who wears Scanno’s centuries-old traditional clothing every single day.

Over a third of the Indian rich prefer not to drink alcohol, a survey released on Thursday said.

Heavy rains lashed Hyderabad over the past few days, leaving multiple parts of the city waterlogged, making it difficult for travellers, especially those on two-wheelers, to commute. The flow of…

Apple’s latest iPhone 17 series hit the shelves in India today, with massive crowds forming early morning queues and even leading to moments of chaos at flagship Apple outlets.

Starbucks has responded to public outrage after a California barista “refused” to write “Charlie Kirk” on a cup, citing the company’s policy.

Apple says the base model iPhone 17 has a brighter, more scratch-resistant screen and will also have a better front-facing camera that will make horizontal selfies look better.

Talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show went off-air on Thursday after Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr called for its suspension.

A fellow inmate of Robert Chambers has detailed what the “Preppy Killer” confessed to him behind bars about the murder of Jennifer Levin.

If you’re a parent or have a chronic health condition that needs quick or frequent trips to the bathroom, you’ve probably mapped out the half-decent public toilets in your area.

US President Donald Trump reignited his feud with London Mayor Sadiq Khan during his state visit to the United Kingdom, unleashing another round of sharp criticism in their long-running clash.

Days after a Jaish-e-Mohamad (JeM) commander exposed Pakistan’s claim of its Bahawalpur camp, a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative has accepted that the terror group’s headquarters in Muridke was destroyed by Indian…

Former Tamil Nadu Congress chief KS Alagiri has sparked a controversy after he said that actor-politician Kangana Ranaut “should be slapped” if she visits the southern state.

Amid speculations that the Karnataka government’s socio-economic survey will be postponed, Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar said that a decision will be made on the matter after discussions with Chief…

A 25-year-old woman from Hyderabad has alleged mental harassment and physical assault by her cop husband in Chicago, and has written to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar for his urgent…

The Securities and Exchange Board of India has dismissed allegations levelled by US short seller Hindenburg Research against Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani and the group’s companies.

Parliamentarian Nishikant Dubey (BJP) ignited controversy on social media with a blistering response to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s recent praise of Gen Z.

Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) terrorist Yasin Malik has said that former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh personally thanked and expressed gratitude to him after he met LeT founder Hafiz…

Mohammed Nizamuddin, a 30-year-old man from Mahabubnagar district of Telangana, was allegedly shot dead by the police in California, United States, earlier this month.

The 30-year-old Indian techie, who was shot by the police in California earlier this month, was reportedly harassed and racially discriminated against by his former employer, colleagues and roommates to…

Three sanitation workers, including one from Rajasthan, died of suspected suffocation while cleaning a ballast tank inside a barge at the Old Port in Thoothukudi district of Tamil Nadu on…

After ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show, congressional Democrats have denounced the Trump administration’s threats against political critics and unveiled a bill that would bolster free speech protections against government…

US President Donald Trump has suggested that the government could punish media networks that criticise him.

Two days after Charlie Kirk was shot dead on a university campus, Erika Kirk told supporters: “The movement my husband built will not die.”

About a dozen New York state and local elected officials were arrested on Thursday during protests at a Manhattan building where US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents operate holding cells…

An Indian national became the first person to be deported from the United Kingdom to France under the new returns treaty between the two European neighbours to curb illegal English…

The United States would help to secure peace after Russia’s war in Ukraine is settled, President Donald Trump said in an interview aired on Fox News on Thursday.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Thursday that Britain “fiercely” protects free speech, but when it was used to incite real harm to children and vulnerable people there was…

Pomp and politics, warm words, tech deals and a sumptuous state banquet. Britain pulled out all the stops to welcome US President Donald Trump.

Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show was suspended indefinitely by TV broadcaster ABC after his comments about the assassination Charlie Kirk prompted criticism from the head of the top U.S. communications…

The Kremlin said on Thursday that Dmitry Kozak, deputy head of Russia’s presidential administration, had resigned, but did not say why or what he would do next.

US President Donald Trump again claimed credit for India-Pakistan cessation of hostilities. However, this time the remark came in the presence of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Police in Noida arrested three cyber criminals on Thursday for defrauding a retired official from the Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry of Rs 1.70 crore by digitally arresting him…

US President Donald Trump concluded his visit to the UK on Thursday. Trump, along with his wife Melania Trump, was forced to switch to a support helicopter while leaving London…

Actor-turned-politician and Makkal Needhi Maiam chief Kamal Haasan has begun consultations with his party functionaries from Tamil Nadu and Puducherry as part of preparations for the 2026 Assembly elections.

The Delhi Police conducted massive raids at criminal hideouts across the national capital and Haryana in the early hours on Thursday, and arrested three people including the father of jailed…

The United States on Thursday again wielded its veto and thwarted a UN Security Council call for a ceasefire in Gaza, shielding its ally Israel from meaningful diplomatic pressure.

A shallow earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck Indonesia’s Central Papua province early Friday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported.

US President Donald Trump said Thursday he disagreed with Prime Minister Keir Starmer over Britain’s plan to recognise a Palestinian state, after the leaders discussed the war in Gaza.

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Kamchatka in Russia’s Far East on Friday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported, days after another strong quake in the area.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has criticised US rhetoric on tariffs and said that such pressure will not succeed and “ancient civilisations” such as India and China will not yield…

The main opposition party in Assam, the Congress, has lodged a complaint with the Guwahati police against the BJP state unit over an AI video that was posted on its…

A previously unknown portrait by Pablo Picasso of one of his lovers was revealed on Thursday after being put up for sale at auction in Paris with a reserve price…

Pope Leo XIV said in his first interview as history’s first American pope that he has no intention of getting involved in US politics but will raise his voice on…

Mexico’s president will host the leader of Canada for trade talks Thursday as they seek to navigate the tariff war launched by Donald Trump despite the existence of a three-way…

US chip giant Nvidia will invest $5 billion in semiconductor maker Intel for joint development projects, the companies said in a statement Thursday.

Chinese AI developer DeepSeek said it spent $294,000 on training its R1 model, much lower than figures reported for US rivals, in a paper that is likely to reignite debate…

Egyptian police said on Thursday they arrested a museum employee and three alleged accomplices after a priceless ancient gold bracelet was stolen from Cairo’s Egyptian Museum, sold for about $4,000…

French police on Thursday shot and killed a man wielding a machete near a school in the southeastern town of La Seyne-sur-Mer, prosecutors said.

Two teenagers have been charged over a 2024 cyberattack on London’s public transport body, Britain’s National Crime Agency said on Thursday.

Russia’s foreign ministry on Thursday dismissed a Yale’s School of Public Health report about the forced re-education of deported Ukrainian children as anti-scientific propaganda that was full of fabrications and…

Ukraine on Thursday received 1,000 bodies from Russia that Moscow said were of fallen Ukrainian soldiers, a Kyiv government agency announced.

US President Donald Trump on Thursday praised ABC’s decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live” off the air, saying the late-night television host had said “a horrible thing” about assassinated political…

Britain has returned the first migrant to France under a “one in, one out” agreement to remove people who arrive on small boats, the interior ministry said on Thursday.

US President Donald Trump on Thursday suggested that Britain call in the military to help it tackle its small boats migrant crisis.

Blazes across Europe this summer, especially in the Iberian peninsula, caused the continent’s largest recorded wildfire carbon emissions in nearly a quarter-century, the EU climate monitor Copernicus said Thursday.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he was working to “get back” the Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, which the United States gave up control of shortly before the Taliban takeover…

British police arrested on Thursday three people suspected of assisting a foreign intelligence service, saying the investigation related to Russia, the latest allegation of spying activities on behalf of Moscow…

Welcoming SEBI’s clean chit in the allegations made by short seller Hindenburg Research, Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani has said it reinforces what the group has always maintained – that…

The Delhi Public Works Department has been fined Rs 5 lakh by the Supreme Court after its labourers were found cleaning sewers outside the court building manually — a process…

The CBI filed a chargesheet on Thursday against Anil Ambani and others over alleged fraudulent transactions causing a loss of Rs 2,796 crore to the bank, officials said.

The European Union must look to trade deals with countries like India to reduce dependencies, with higher US import tariffs pushing the bloc to diversify its ties, President Ursula von…

The European Union (EU) on Wednesday unveiled a new strategic agenda to significantly ramp up its engagement with India in a range of key areas such as defence, trade and…

The Calcutta High Court has declared the Kurmi community’s plan for rail and road blockade on September 20 unconstitutional and illegal. The agitation was called to press the community’s demand…

The Madras High Court on Wednesday directed the Tamil Nadu government to frame uniform guidelines applicable to all political parties for granting permission to hold rallies and public meetings.

Allotment of residential accommodation cannot be based purely on whims of the authorities, the Delhi High Court said in a plea filed by Aam Aadmi Party seeking a bungalow for…

Police have filed an FIR against three persons here for allegedly kidnapping and beating an Engineering student for “not accepting” the friend request of a woman on Instagram.

French protesters were on Thursday staging a day of nationwide disruption in a show of anger over President Emmanuel Macron’s budget policies, with mass protests expected, transport chaos and clashes…

A class 11 student was allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped by two men who she met on social media, police said on Thursday.

Ukraine said on Thursday that its drones had struck a major oil processing and petrochemical complex and an oil refinery in Russia, part of an intensifying campaign to disrupt Moscow’s…

The office of the Karnataka Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) on Thursday said all available information with the Election Commission of India (ECI), regarding alleged attempts to delete 6,018 votes in…

Donald Trump claimed that his Russian counterpart let him down during the process of solving the Ukraine war. Keir Starmer also criticised Putin and said that he showed his “true…

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that artificial intelligence was taking over the world and he hoped tech bosses knew what they were doing, because he didn’t.

Deposed prime minister K P Sharma Oli has moved from the army barracks to a private place, after spending nine days under the Nepalese Army security.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer, on Thursday, welcomed Donald Trump to his country home of Chequers for talks on difficult issues, including trade, Ukraine, and Gaza, after the US president hailed…

The Holy See is not ready to declare Israel’s campaign in Gaza genocide, Pope Leo XIV said in an interview given in July but published Thursday.

Attempting to burnish his credentials as a solver of conflicts, US President Donald Trump said he had imposed “sanctions” on India to help end the war between Russia and Ukraine…

A man and his three-year-old daughter were killed on Thursday after their motorcycle collided with a container truck in Bhiwandi in Thane district.

A fresh political controversy erupted in Madhya Pradesh with the Navratri festival around the corner, after the BJP MP from Bhopal, Alok Sharma, issued a warning against the participation of…

Two students of a private university in Assam have been detained after a girl student alleged she was raped, a senior police officer told reporters today.

Indian photographer Prasenjeet Yadav’s image of a black tiger from Odisha’s Similipal National Park has featured on the cover of National Geographic magazine’s upcoming October 2025 edition.

An Air India Express flight from Visakhapatnam to Hyderabad with 103 passengers made an emergency landing here on Thursday, following an engine problem after a suspected bird hit mid-air, said…

Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan on Thursday asserted that ‘fauj’ is the only place where there is no nepotism, as he urged children to aspire to join the…

In a Bengaluru lab, a blueprint of a futuristic Indian lunar village is being built with the help of astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, months after he returned to Earth aboard the…

A couple from Vadodara has claimed their 28-year-old son has been held captive for five months in Thailand, prompting police to launch a probe into the matter, an official said.

Actor-turned-politician and BJP MP from Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi, Kangana Ranaut, on Thursday expressed her distress over financial losses at her restaurant in Manali when she met residents affected by floods…

A wife pressurising her husband to sever ties with his family members amounts to cruelty, the Delhi High Court has said and upheld an order dissolving an estranged couple’s marriage.

An Indian-origin man, who has lived in the US for more than 30 years, has been kept in detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for almost a month over…