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A house caved in and a dozen others developed cracks after a land subsidence incident in a Bharat Coking Coal Ltd (BCCL) area, about 19 km from Dhanbad district headquarters…

A five-year-old boy was injured in a stray dog attack in Udaipur district of Rajasthan, police said.

“Extremely Disappointing Behaviour”: Rajnath Singh After Opposition Skips Shubhanshu Shukla Discussion

Mumbai continued to receive heavy rains for the third consecutive day on Monday, leading to waterlogging and heavy traffic jams in many parts of the city.

The wars nowadays are often invisible and technology-driven, industrialist Gautam Adani said at IIT Kharagpur on Monday evening, asserting that algorithms are today’s weapons and not guns.

A stronger and bigger Hurricane Erin pelted parts of the Caribbean and was forecast to create dangerous surf and rip currents along the U.S. East Coast this week.

Russia’s illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014 was quick and bloodless, and it sent Moscow’s relations with the West into a downward spiral unseen since…

Deadly wildfires ravaging Spain have burnt the equivalent of nearly half a million football fields this year, setting a new record for the country, a European monitor said Monday.

US President Donald Trump is set to host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders at the White House on Monday to discuss how to end Russia’s three-year war in…

Delhi becomes paralysed if it rains for two hours, remarked Chief Justice BR Gavai, while a colleague commented on a Kerala instance that travellers must be compensated if they are…

The bench of Justices BV Nagarathana and R Mahadevan called the issue “unfortunate” and said that even if they don’t get ex-serviceman status, measures should be taken to ensure their…

A prominent podcaster’s “Shashi Tharoor in a saree” comment on Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi has drawn a witty response from the senior Congress MP. Mr Tharoor has said he…

An earthquake of 4.3 magnitude hit Assam’s Nagaon on Monday, making it the seventh quake in the state this month and the third in the district, an official said.

A minor girl was allegedly gang-raped by five men in Odisha’s Sambalpur yesterday, adding to a rise in crime against women and children in the eastern state. Three men have…

A minor girl was allegedly gang-raped by five men in Odisha’s Sambalpur yesterday, adding to a rise in crime against women and children in the eastern state. Three men have…

The Opposition is likely to pick the DMK’s Rajya Sabha MP Tiruchi Siva as its Vice-Presidential candidate, in a strategic move that would pit the Tamil Nadu politician against another…

The Supreme Court said it wants defence forces to have “braveheart cadets” who should not be deterred by injuries suffered during training and directed the Centre to explore the possibility…

First, the two parties, Russia and Ukraine, weren’t asking to come to the peace table. Neither one of them is ready yet, apparently. Second, the process was flawed.

President Donald Trump walked into a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin pressing for a ceasefire deal and threatening “severe consequences” and tough new sanctions if the Kremlin leader failed…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that Russia should not be “rewarded” for its war, hours before high-stakes talks with US counterpart Donald Trump.

A 19-second viral video starts with a man sitting on the car top, grooving to the background music while looking into the camera.

As Mumbai battles rain chaos, a heartwarming video of cops rescuing children from a stranded school bus is making the rounds on social media

One person was killed in a bomb explosion outside a school in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Monday, police said.

The Srinagar-Jammu highway was closed for traffic after heavy rain triggered landslides and shooting stones in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district. Hundreds of vehicles were stranded on the highway.

More than 100 workers of a film unit have been hospitalised here due to food poisoning, an official said on Monday, describing their condition as stable.

Asked how India could move from being just a consumer of AI to becoming a producer of such tools, Altman said the shift was “already happening in a big way.”

The US must leverage its economic power against Moscow to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, Senator Lindsey Graham has said. He urged President Donald Trump to expand tariffs on nations…

An Indian woman living in San Francisco has introduced her parents to an autonomous car. Apurva Bendre, a dancer, shared a video showing her parents seated in the back of…

A California teenager, mauled by a pack of dogs last month, asked her mother if she was “still pretty” moments after the attack.

Schools and colleges have been shut, several areas are waterlogged and massive traffic jams have been reported as Mumbai and its surrounding areas received heavy rain this morning.

Heavy rains triggered flash floods in parts of Telangana, inundating low-lying areas, damaging roads and crops. Rivulets, streams, lakes and ponds were overflowing due to incessant rains under the impact…

The Mohammad Yunus-led interim government in Bangladesh is leaving no stone unturned in wiping out former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s legacy from the South Asian nation.

The incident took place on Sunday when Mogulayya, who was riding his two-wheeler towards a bus stand, was hit by a tipper lorry at Shivaji Chowk – a busy one-way…

Varun Gupta copied and shared thousands of files, including the one containing Intel’s pricing strategy, internal presentations, and competitive analysis the tech giant used to run its business.

A Florida mother has been arrested after reportedly sending her child to school with a loaded gun concealed in their backpack and giving them instructions to “return” it to their…

Three people were killed on Florida’s Turnpike on Saturday after a semi-truck made an illegal U-turn, causing a collision. The tragic incident also set off a tornado of racist taunts…

In Egypt’s Wadi al-Gemal, where swimmers share a glistening bay with sea turtles, a shadowy tourism deal is threatening one of the Red Sea’s last wild shores.

Amid the nationwide debate over stray dogs, civic staff of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Municipal Corporation are on the lookout for a stray dog that has injured 14 people so far

Two girls, aged 13 and 10, ran away from their homes in Karnataka’s Uttara Kannada district on Monday after scoring low marks in school exams and fearing academic pressure from…

Inspector General Raipur Range, Amresh Mishra, called it the success of the police force and added, “This is an unprecedented success for Gariaband Police, this area, and for the state.

At least 25 girls had a narrow escape when a fire broke out in a hostel room of a residential school in Jharkhand’s Latehar district on Monday morning, police said.

Former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday lashed out at the BJP, saying its “four-engine” government has failed to maintain law and order after three schools in the national…

Mumbai continued to receive heavy rains for the third consecutive day on Monday, leading to water-logging in some low-lying areas, officials said.

Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal on Monday said the company has begun integrating its indigenously developed lithium-ion batteries into its vehicles.

Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) has joined the elite 100-million-plus club of global airports, with an annual passenger-handling capacity of 109 million.

Amid its face-off with the Election Commission over allegations of vote fraud, the INDIA Opposition bloc is considering bringing a motion to remove Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, sources have…

The role of three gangsters has emerged in the firing outside controversial YouTuber Elvish Yadav’s home in Gurugram yesterday.

A Covid-19 infection can accelerate ageing in blood vessels around five years, particularly in women, according to research.

Surrendering Ukrainian land to Russia had never been acceptable to President Volodymyr Zelensky, but that’s exactly the offer he will reportedly receive when he meets US President Donald Trump this…

Two persons allegedly cheated a 48-year-old man from Maharashtra’s Thane city of Rs 40.99 lakh in a fake online trading scheme, police said on Monday.

At least seven people were killed and many others were injured in two separate incidents of cloudburst and landslide in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district, officials said on Sunday.

The floodwaters swept away a car in Uttarakhand’s Dehradun after its driver attempted to cross a submerged stretch on Sunday. The overflowing rivers and streams, a direct result of heavy…

Hearing petitions challenging the Supreme Court order to round up stray dogs in Delhi and move them to shelter homes, another bench of the court today asked why authorities in…

An overnight Russian drone strike on Kharkiv killed three people, including a child, and wounded more than a dozen others, Ukrainian authorities said Monday.

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said India’s purchases of Russian crude were funding Moscow’s war in Ukraine and had to stop, adding that New Delhi was “now cozying up…

A small aircraft crash-landed on a Sydney golf course in Australia on Sunday afternoon. The plane had two men, both in their 50s, onboard when it went down. They sustained…

The Prince and Princess of Wales are all set to relocate their family from Adelaide Cottage to Forest Lodge, a larger and more private residence in Windsor Great Park, Britain’s…

The BJP has announced that CP Radhakrishnan will be the NDA candidate for the post of Vice President, weeks after the resignation of Jagdeep Dhankhar.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will begin his two-day visit to India on Monday, where he will hold a crucial bilateral meeting with External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), once a modest initiative launched from a church in a fishing village in Thumba, Kerala, has now become a global symbol of frugal innovation…

Several schools in the national capital received a bomb threat in the early hours of Monday, officials said.

A 21-year-old nurse was found dead in the bathroom of the hospital she worked at in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur on Sunday, with the police suspecting it to be a death…

Indian Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi today evening at his 7 Lok Kalyan Marg residence in New Delhi.

Words popularised by Gen Z and Gen Alpha including “skibidi”, “delulu”, and “tradwife” are among 6,000 new entries to the online edition of the Cambridge Dictionary over the last year,…

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bodyguards reportedly carried a “poop suitcase” to collect his faecal waste during the Friday Alaska summit with US President Donald Trump, as reported by The Express…

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has explained why America has spared China — Russia’s biggest oil buyer — from any secondary sanctions, even as 50 per cent tariffs were…

Indian-origin law graduate Krishangi Meshram has become the youngest solicitor in England and Wales in recent years. She is 21.

A 22-year-old Indian man who was recently harassed with racist slurs and assaulted with a knife by three teenagers in Ireland has narrated the turn of events that left him…

The police in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh opened fire in self-defence on Sunday, apprehending a notorious drug smuggler who attempted to run them over with his car to evade…

A 35-year-old employee of a bank was booked for attempt to murder after he pulled the trigger of an air gun following an argument with a person over the delayed…

Tata Group-owned private carrier Air India on Sunday said it cancelled its Milan-Delhi flight of August 16 after detecting a maintenance issue at the last minute.

The Jammu and Kashmir government on Sunday ordered the closure of all educational institutions in the Jammu region on Monday in view of the inclement weather conditions, officials said.

A 20-year-old student of the BITS Pilani campus in Goa has been found dead in his hostel room, police said on Sunday.

The opposition INDIA bloc leaders are likely to discuss their joint candidate for the post of vice-president at a meeting of floor leaders on Monday morning.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday inaugurated the state’s first and the country’s second green hydrogen plant at Khanimpur village in Gorakhpur district, set up by Torrent Gas…

Tamil Nadu BJP president Nainar Nagendran also slammed the ruling DMK for its refusal to extend support to CP Radhakrishnan in the Vice Presidential race.

With Maharashtra Governor CP Radhakrishnan named as the National Democratic Alliance’s candidate for Vice President, the BJP has made a calculated move that blends hard electoral arithmetic with a deeper…

The list of names deleted from Bihar’s draft electoral rolls following special intensive revision has been posted on the websites of district magistrates following the Supreme Court’s orders, Chief Election…

US President Donald Trump, ahead of his meeting with Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday, asserted that the Ukrainian leader can end the war with Russia “if he wants to”.

Volodymyr Zelensky finds himself in an impossible bind: risk Donald Trump’s wrath or accept a quick deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine by paying the disastrous price of ceding…

The United States monitors the India-Pakistan situation “every single day”, said US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday, reiterating claims by American President Donald Trump of having helped in…

A man’s rotting body has been recovered from a drum on the first floor of his rented home in Rajasthan’s Alwar, said the police Sunday.

Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Sunday said instances of a person holding multiple voter identity cards arise due to migration or administrative lapses and the poll authority is working…

In a shocking case of alleged negligence at Rajasthan’s Ranthambore National Park, a group of tourists were left stranded in the park’s zone 6 for nearly 90 minutes in a…

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday claimed that the Modi government announced a caste census only under pressure and it would neither get a “true” caste census done nor remove…

The streets of Tehran have become a confusing maze for driver Farshad Fooladi amid widespread GPS disruption, still ongoing nearly two months after the end of Iran and Israel’s unprecedented…

Multiple sclerosis is a disease that results when the immune system mistakenly attacks the brain and spinal cord. It affects nearly one million people in the US and over 2.8…

Rose Hammond pushed authorities for years to lower the 55 mph speed limit on a two-lane road that passes her assisted living community, a church, two schools and a busy…

Terence Stamp, the British actor who often played the role of a complex villain, including that of General Zod in the early Superman films, has died. He was 87.

Two passengers were killed and 12 others injured when a Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) bus rammed into a stationary lorry near here, police said on Sunday.

New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) Bilateral trade between India and the Maldives has registered a more than 3-fold jump over the past seven years from $223 million in 2017–18 to…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said NDA Vice Presidential candidate C P Radhakrishnan has always focused on empowering the marginalised and has distinguished himself with dedication, humility and intellect.

The NDA candidate for the post of Vice President is CP Radhakrishnan — the Governor of Maharashtra and one of the party’s tallest leaders from Tamil Nadu – the BJP…

A man received an electric shock while withdrawing money from an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) in Tamil Nadu’s Kancheepuram on Sunday, triggering panic.

The sixth round of talks scheduled to finalise the outline of the proposed bilateral trade agreement (BTA) between India and the US has been postponed.

The Yamuna is once again swelling to alarming levels, with authorities issuing multiple advisories and flood warnings after heavy rainfall in the upper catchment and massive releases from the Hathni…

Eight persons, including five women and two children, were charred to death after the car carrying them collided with an SUV, landed in a roadside ditch, and burst into flames…

BJD chief and Leader of the Opposition in Odisha Assembly, Naveen Patnaik, was admitted to a private hospital here on Sunday due to age-related ailments, party leaders said.

A 22-year-old man was allegedly strangled to death by the family of his girlfriend in Jharkhand’s Palamu district, police said on Sunday.

Former chief justice of India Sanjeev Khanna has told a parliamentary committee scrutinising the simultaneous election bill that the constitutional validity of a proposal in no way amounts to a…