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A man fleeing immigration authorities outside a Home Depot store in Southern California was struck and killed by an SUV when he ran across a nearby freeway.

Former swimmer Bula Chowdhury, a Padma Shri awardee, alleged that it was the third theft at her Hindmotor residence.

A man from Uttar Pradesh, who was on the run for 26 years after committing a murder in Saudi Arabia, was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from…

The accused Thar driver, Amarinder Singh Sodhi, fled immediately, leaving his car behind.

Scientists have recorded a real-time 3D video of a human embryo implanting into the uterus for the first time. They have used a synthetic uterus model to show how the…

Rescuers were struggling to retrieve bodies from debris after flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains across northern Pakistan killed at least 321 people in the past 48 hours.

Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky will head to Washington on Monday to discuss “ending the killing and the war” with US President Donald Trump.

Kuwait’s health ministry said 63 people had suffered methanol poisoning from contaminated alcoholic drinks in the five days to Wednesday, resulting in 13 deaths and 21 cases of blindness or…

Air Canada’s flight attendants went on strike Saturday, as the airline announced a complete shutdown of operations, creating summer travel chaos for its 130,000 daily passengers.

After a man threw rice inside a courtroom, a Delhi court sentenced him to imprisonment till its rising intentionally interrupting a public servant sitting in a judicial proceeding.

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has successfully implemented the ‘FASTag Annual Pass’ facility at about 1,150 toll plazas on National Highways and Expressways across the country.

US President Donald Trump spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after his summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Alaska.

Trump-Putin Alaska Meet Live Updates: Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, did not reach a deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine after talks in Alaska.

A seven-year-old boy fell into an open drain while trying to catch a kite in Northeast Delhi’s Welcome area on Friday evening, prompting a search and rescue operation that was…

The government has warned against imposing a timeline on the President and Governors for clearing bills, differing with an earlier Supreme Court order.

Mumbai has been witnessing heavy rainfall today, causing waterlogging in many parts of the city, including Gandhi Nagar and Kings Circle.

A pregnant Bangladeshi prisoner has escaped from Mumbai’s JJ Hospital, bringing into intense scrutiny the security protocols in place for prisoners. Mumbai Police has begun a city-wide search operation after…

Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, astronaut and India’s 21st century space hero, may meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi this Monday and apprise him of his experiences that will help India in…

Food delivery major Swiggy has once again hiked its platform fee for food delivery orders, now by Rs 2. Citing a rise in customer transactions during the festive season, the…

Putin got a red carpet welcome and even rode in Trump’s presidential limousine from the tarmac to the summit venue.

A US senator on Friday announced an investigation into whether Meta AI chatbots were allowed to engage in potentially harmful online exchanges with children.

US President Donald Trump said on Friday his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agrees with him that letting voters send in ballots by mail puts honest elections at risk.

The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) has begun celebrating a three-day Krishna Janmashtami in a festive atmosphere in Bangladesh, priests said on Saturday.

The sartorial choice of Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s top diplomat, during US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Alaska meeting on Friday drew the attention of many across the…

Ukraine has called the abductions of tens of thousands of its children taken to Russia or Russian-occupied territory without the consent of family or guardians a war crime.

US President Donald Trump seems to have softened his stance on Moscow’s oil trade after meeting Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.

When a US President hosts a foreign leader, the playbook is clear: the American leader speaks first at a joint press conference. But in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday, Russian President…

US President Donald Trump on Friday claimed Russia lost India as one of its oil clients after Washington announced a penalty on New Delhi over the purchases.

In a landmark and historic first in Seattle, the flag of India was raised on top of the Space Needle today in honour of India’s 79th Independence Day celebrations.

The Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) youth wing on Friday announced to support Delhi University students wishing to contest union elections but unable to afford the costs.

The Democratic panel’s remarks came in response to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s warning New Delhi of increasing secondary tariffs over the Russian oil trade.

India’s 79th Independence Day was celebrated with patriotic fervor at the Consulate General of India in Houston on Friday, with a large turnout from the Indian diaspora in the early…

Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the joint briefing after meeting US President Donald Trump in Alaska on Friday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin offered Friday to host US counterpart Donald Trump in Moscow, extending the apparent invitation during a press conference.

Delhi Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) President Saurabh Bhardwaj on Friday urged the government to take immediate on-ground action after a roof collapse at the Dargah Sharif Patte Shah premises claimed…

Donald Trump said Friday the onus was now on Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky to build on the Alaska summit between the US leader and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and secure…

The United States’ military might was on full display on Friday at Alaska when a B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber flanked by US fighter jets thundered across the sky above Russian…

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to hold its parliamentary board meeting on August 17 at the party headquarters in New Delhi.

A boy’s body and his barely breathing sister – both aged between five and 10 years – were found in a car in Patna.

Jharkhand Education Minister Ramdas Soren died on Friday, JMM national spokesperson Kunal Sarnagi said.

At the joint press conference that was held after the Alaska meet with US President Donald Trump, his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin said that the conflict in Ukraine would not…

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to hold its parliamentary board meeting on August 17 at the party headquarters in New Delhi.

US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin met for about 2.5 hours on Saturday at a high-stakes summit in Alaska that could shape the future of the…

US President Donald Trump on Friday said he had a “very productive” meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on ending the Ukraine war, saying “we didn’t get there but…

The Delhi government has notified the Delhi School Education (Transparency in Fixation and Regulation of Fees) Act, 2025, aimed at ending arbitrary fee hikes by private schools.

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta marked Independence Day with the announcement of a series of tourism projects aimed at boosting the capital’s cultural, spiritual, and heritage appeal.

The US has had internal discussions on using Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker vessels to support the development of gas and LNG projects in Alaska as one of the possible deals to…

President Donald Trump greeted Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Friday with a handshake, a smile and a ride in the presidential limousine before talks aimed at ending the conflict in Ukraine.

A man who was waiting for a hearing in court over a domestic dispute was tied to a tree and thrashed by his in-laws in Odisha’s Gajapati district.

In his longest Independence Day speech in the last 12 years, PM Modi focused on building a Viksit Bharat (developed nation).

Six people were killed after part of the roof of a dargah, or the tomb of a Muslim saint, collapsed in Delhi’s Nizamuddin area Friday evening.

One person was killed and another wounded Friday in a shooting near a mosque in southern Sweden, an attack police said they believed was linked to feuding organised crime gangs.

China filed a complaint with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over Canadian steel import restrictions on Friday, the commerce ministry said, escalating simmering trade tensions between Beijing and Ottawa.

The cutting down of an olive tree planted in memory of a young French Jewish man tortured to death in 2006 stirred outrage in France on Friday, with President Emmanuel…

Aboard Air Force One, US President Donald Trump said he would not negotiate on behalf of Ukraine in his Friday meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and would let Kyiv…

Exiled Russian opposition figure Yulia Navalnaya on Friday urged presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump to strike a deal to free Russian and Ukrainian political prisoners held captive by Moscow…

The nation’s capital sued to block President Donald Trump’s takeover of its police department in court on Friday, hours after his administration escalated its intervention into the city’s law enforcement.

Nagaland Governor La Ganesan died on Friday while undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Chennai, a Raj Bhavan official said.

Housing Delhi’s 10 lakh dogs would require at least Rs 10,000 crore in construction alone, more than half of Delhi’s entire Rs 17,224 crore capital outlay for all development in…

The Centre has proposed that only two slabs for Goods and Services Tax (GST) be retained – 5 per cent and 18 percent – as per sources.

The upcoming civic polls in Mumbai and key cities may see cousins Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray, earlier not on amicable terms, form an alliance, said Shiv Sena (UBT) leader…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday expressed grief over the death of Tamil Nadu Governor La. Ganesan who passed away in Chennai at the age of 80.

Zelensky said it was important that Friday’s Russia-US summit in Alaska opened up a path towards a “just peace”, as well as substantive three-way talks between the leaders of Ukraine,…

US President Donald Trump might receive a Nobel Peace Prize nomination from one his most bitter political rivals Hillary Clinton, if he can end the Russia-Ukraine war without Kyiv ceding…

Russia is preparing to test its new nuclear-capable, nuclear-powered cruise missile and if successful, plans to use the results to bolster its negotiating position with the West, Ukrainian military intelligence…

AIMIM leader Imtiaz Jaleel on Friday organised a “biryani party” at his residence here to mark his protest against the local civic body’s order to keep the meat shops in…

Ten pilgrims from Bihar died and 35 others were injured as their bus rammed into a truck parked on the roadside in West Bengal’s Burdwan town on Friday, officials said.

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray on Friday targeted the BCCI over India Pakistan cricket matches in the Asia Cup.

In a landmark moment for the Malayalam film industry, popular actresses Shwetha Menon and Kukku Parameswaran have been elected as president and general secretary, respectively, of the Association of Malayalam…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday that Moscow was still killing people and not showing that it wanted to end the war, hours before the start of a summit between…

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Friday launched ‘Stree Shakti’, a statewide free bus travel scheme for women, in the presence of NDA leaders here.

Amid rising communal violence and worsening law and order, the British Parliament decided that the colonial rule in India would end on August 15, 1947.

Global leaders and neighbours extended greetings to India on the 79th Independence Day on Friday while reaffirming strong bilateral ties with the country.

The bodies of two children were found under mysterious circumstances in a car in Bihar’s Patna.

Jammu and Kashmir National Conference Chief Farooq Abdullah believes over 500 people continue to be trapped.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday urged Donald Trump to convince Russia to halt its invasion at the US leader’s high-stakes summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday urged shopkeepers and traders to put up boards outside their shops declaring that they sell only Indian products.

India’s 21st-century space hero, astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, is on his way back to India. Mr Shukla spent 18 days at the International Space Station on the Axiom 4…

“HIGH STAKES!” That’s what US President Donald Trump posted on his social media company Truth Social ahead of the flight to Alaska where he is scheduled to meet his Russian…

A nurse was found dead at a nursing home in West Bengal’s Hooghly district, police said on Friday.

A chance discovery of a 25 million-year-old fossil on an Australian beach has allowed paleontologists to identify a rare, entirely new species that could unlock mysteries of whale evolution.

US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, are scheduled to meet on Friday in Alaska in a high-stakes and high-risk summit that could prove decisive for the…

A 10-year-old boy died while nine others were injured in a cylinder blast in central Bengaluru’s Wilson Garden this morning.

India is set to witness major reforms in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime this year. These “next-generation” reforms would drop by before Diwali, Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised…

Flash floods triggered by heavy rains killed at least 49 people in Pakistan over the past 24 hours, officials said Friday, as rescuers evacuated 1,300 stranded tourists from a mountainous…

Talks aimed at striking a landmark global treaty on plastic pollution fell apart Friday without agreement, as countries failed to find consensus on how the world should tackle the ever-growing…

The world’s first-ever humanoid robot games began Friday in Beijing, with over 500 androids alternating between jerky tumbles and glimpses of real power as they compete in events from the…

US President Donald Trump insisted Thursday he would not be intimidated by Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the eve of a high-stakes summit and said Ukraine would be involved in…

US President Donald Trump is meeting face-to-face with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday for a high-stakes summit that could determine not only the trajectory of the war…

The body of a man was found in the tunnel of Kolkata Metro’s Blue Line in the early hours of Friday, officials said.

The US and Russian presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are to meet at a US air base in Alaska on Friday for talks on the Ukraine war.

An event marking India’s 79th Independence Day outside the Consul General in Australia’s Melbourne was disrupted by pro-Khalistani individuals.

The White House, and Trump himself, have played down expectations of an imminent breakthrough towards peace in Ukraine, claiming that this would be “a feel-out meeting” to determine whether a…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said India will not compromise on the interests of farmers, livestock rearers and fishermen, asserting that he is standing like a wall to protect…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s caution against “infiltrators” posing a threat to national security has drawn a backlash from the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and party leader Mallikarjun Kharge skipped the Independence Day celebrations at the Red Fort on Friday, sparking speculation about the reason behind their absence.

Gautam Adani, Chairman of the Adani Group, on Friday renewed the pledge towards ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ — helping the nation build mighty bridges to modern ports and more.

Rajesh Chaudhary, a BJP MLA from Mathura, engaged in a heated argument with his party colleague from Varanasi, Saurabh Srivastava, during a discussion on ‘Vision 2047’.

n his speech, the Prime Minister presented India’s roadmap for self-reliance by 2047 and announced several schemes to empower youths, women and business.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday highlighted the success of home-grown Unified Payments Interface (UPI), stating that UPI alone accounts for 50 per cent of real-time transactions in the world.