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The Justice Department said Wednesday that finishing the release of all of the Jeffrey Epstein files could take a “few more weeks,” further delaying compliance with a Dec. 19 deadline…

An explosion ripped through a mosque in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri and killed at least seven worshippers Wednesday, witnesses and security sources told AFP.

Pope Leo XIV held the first Christmas mass of his pontificate on Wednesday, greeting thousands of faithful in St Peter’s Square before the service in an usually informal style.

Nasry Asfura, a conservative businessman backed by US President Donald Trump, was declared winner of the Honduran presidential vote Wednesday, weeks after a razor-thin election marred by delays and allegations…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Hamas on Wednesday of violating the Gaza ceasefire agreement after a military officer was wounded by an explosive device in Rafah and Israel vowed…

President Trump marked Christmas Eve by quizzing kids calling in about what presents they were excited about receiving, while promising to not let a “bad Santa” infiltrate country and even…

Police have arrested two women, including an artist, for extorting Rs 1.5 crore from a real estate developer in Mumbai by threatening to implicate his son in a false case,…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that the country would invest $110 billion over the next 10 years to develop an independent arms industry.

As the ongoing military conflict between the two nations drags on, New Delhi said that such “disrespectful” acts hurt sentiments of followers around the world and “should not take place”.

Vehicles helplessly waited and onlookers walked by with caution as a Surat businessman blocked a road to light fireworks to celebrate his son’s birthday.

The Department of Justice on Tuesday said that the handwritten letter by Jeffrey Epstein, addressed to convicted sex offender Larry Nassar, that was released as a part of the Epstein…

An FIR has been registered against three persons after an obscene video of two students inside the premium coach of a Namo Bharat train surfaced on social media, police said…

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has recounted a sequence of events that placed him in close proximity to one of the Middle East’s most high-profile assassinations in recent years — the…

Delhi has removed GRAP-4 conditions on controlling air pollution a week after imposing it due to the worsening situation

Russia plans to put a nuclear power plant on the moon in the next decade to supply its lunar space programme and a joint Russian-Chinese research station, as major powers…

There has been violence and tension in Assam’s West Karbi Anglong for the last two days. Kheroni village has been particularly affected.

A Pentagon report submitted to the US Congress has flagged China’s claim over Arunachal Pradesh as part of its stated “core interests”. The document states that China is not open…

As supporters of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) celebrate the return of Tarique Rahman to the country after 17 years, attention has shifted to the policies the party is likely…

After nearly a fortnight of hazardous smog, Delhi’s air quality improved to ‘poor’ at 271 on Wednesday on the back of stronger winds, though the conditions are forecast to worsen…

The survivor in the Unnao rape case and her mother met Congress’s Rahul Gandhi this evening, hours after the elder woman was manhandled by the Central paramilitary personnel.

Illegal mining continues in the Aravalli range in Rajasthan, with official data revealing large-scale violations despite repeated political promises to protect one of India’s oldest mountain systems.

The Civil Aviation Ministry has granted no objection certificates (NOCs) to two new airlines, Al Hind Air and FlyExpress, as it steps up efforts to reduce the dominance of a…

The draft list for the Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls in Madhya Pradesh has been released, triggering widespread concern after approximately 42.74 lakh names were found missing.

A dispute over money ended in gunfire in Punjab’s Batala area after a man allegedly shot his friend during an argument over a long-pending loan. The incident took place in…

Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma said today that the Aravalli mountains are the “breath” of the state, and the current government will not tolerate any interference with this natural heritage.

The BJP government in Rajasthan under the leadership of Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma is committed to preserving the state’s heritage, Deputy Chief Minister Diya Kumari said at the NDTV Rajasthan…

The video caught the attention of local authorities. The Police from Pilkhuwa Kotwali filed a traffic violation case and issued a fine of Rs 31,000 for the reckless ride.

For the present idea of Bangladeshi nationalism, a Hindu factory worker claiming that God is one and the same for everyone, despite different names, is an inconvenience. It hasn’t been…

Viraansh Bhanushali, a Mumbai-born law student at Oxford University, has recently gone viral for his hard-hitting address at a high-profile debate on India-Pakistan relations at Britain’s prestigious Oxford Union.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has revealed details of the latest US-led plan to end the war in Ukraine, saying it had been agreed between negotiators from Kyiv and Washington and…

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday launched an attack on the Centre after disturbing scenes emerged from Delhi involving the Unnao rape survivor and her elderly mother.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis dismissed the alliance between the Thackeray brothers, saying it was politics of opportunism that landed them there and it would not make any difference to…

The Union cabinet has approved three new metro corridors of a total length of 16 km under the Delhi Metro Phase 5(A). These are RK Ashram Marg to Indraprastha (9…

Shocking scenes played out on the roads of the national capital as paramilitary personnel blocked the Unnao rape survivor and her mother from addressing the media and also forced the…

The weather in the remote snow-capped Himalayas has deteriorated significantly these days. Temperatures in Ladakh, Kargil, Galwan, North Sikkim, the Shamshabari Range, and the Greater Himalayan region have plummeted to…

A major cyber fraud has been reported from Mumbai, where an 85-year-old man from Mumbai’s Thakurdwar area was cheated of nearly Rs 9 crore by fraudsters posing as police officers.

Adani Power Ltd has raised its long-term installed capacity target to 41.87 gigawatt by FY32 and committed capital expenditure of about Rs 2 lakh crore.

The Cyberabad Special Operations Team in Telangana has dismantled a sophisticated interstate syndicate that was buying and selling infants across states for lakhs of rupees.

A video posted online captures the moment a small, fast-moving Ukrainian interceptor drone closes in on — and destroys — a Russian jet-powered Shahed suicide drone at altitude.

As the conflict between Thailand and Cambodia drags on, a Cambodian official has accused Bangkok of destroying a statue of Lord Vishnu in a disputed border area.

A video posted online captures the moment a small, fast-moving Ukrainian interceptor drone closes in on — and destroys — a Russian jet-powered Shahed suicide drone at altitude.

A small airplane landed safely on its own, using a special autopilot system called Garmin Autoland, after an in-flight emergency in Colorado, US.

Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan on Wednesday visited Tadepalli mandal in Guntur district, fulfilling a promise he had made before the elections almost two years ago.

Uddhav Thackeray’s faction of Shiv Sena is going ahead full steam with Raj Thackeray’s MNS for the civic elections in Mumbai.

A junior Commissioned Officer of the army has been killed in a firing incident inside an army camp in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir. An investigation has been launched…

The Congress is undergoing a big churn that may see a meatier and bigger role for Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

The opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in Maharashtra, which fought last year’s Lok Sabha elections and the Assembly elections together, has now gone for a split in the upcoming Brihanmumbai…

The latest Jeffrey Epstein documents reveal that investigators were exploring charges against those beyond Epstein and his former partner, Ghislaine Maxwell. Emails from July 2019 mention “10 co-conspirators.”

The Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has registered a case against the deputy transport commissioner of Mahabubnagar district for possessing assets wildly disproportionate to his known sources of income.

Three people were killed by a bomb on Wednesday in Moscow after two police officers approached a man acting suspiciously near the site where a senior general was killed two…

Delhi’s toxic air has drawn strong remarks from within the ruling BJP, with Union Minister Nitin Gadkari saying that two days in the national capital gives him an infection.

A six-year-old girl from Maharashtra’s Thane died over a month after being bitten by a street dog, a civic official said on Wednesday.

YouTuber and travel vlogger Adam Williams, popularly known as Adam the Woo, left fans in shock after posting a cheerful holiday video just a day before his body was discovered…

A major accident was narrowly avoided when a Vande Bharat Express train spotted an auto rickshaw on the railway track near Akathumuri Halt station in this district.

US border patrol agents have arrested 30 Indian nationals, living illegally in America, operating semitrucks with commercial driver’s licenses.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday congratulated ISRO for placing the heaviest satellite in orbit from India using the LVM3 rocket and strengthening the foundation for future missions such as…

The Chinese military is in the midst of a “historic military buildup” that has made the US homeland “increasingly vulnerable,” according to the latest edition of a Pentagon report on…

US trade officials determined that China should be punished for employing unfair tactics to dominate the semiconductor industry, but will wait 18 months to impose tariffs, American authorities said Tuesday.

In a significant H-1B visa policy overhaul, the Trump administration in the United States is replacing the random lottery system that selected beneficiaries with a process that gives greater weight…

Dr Raghav Narula, suspended after a video of him thrashing a patient at Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) in Himachal Pradesh’s Shimla went viral, says he has no regrets.

A professor at Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) was suspended after a question he set in a semester examination triggered controversy and outrage on social media.

Days after Bangladesh student leader Sharif Osman Hadi died after being shot in the head in Dhaka, his brother has accused a section within the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government of…

Union Minister Piyush Goyal’s first visit to Chennai after being appointed BJP’s Election In-Charge for Tamil Nadu has sent a strong political signal that the NDA alliance is intact and…

India’s Baahubali’ rocket, Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (LVM3)-M6, took off from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh carrying BlueBird 6,a next-gen communications satellite from US innovator AST SpaceMobile.

A 30-year-old Indian origin woman was killed in Toronto, Canada, in what police believe is an act of intimate partner violence.

A man killed his wife in Bengaluru today, a week after she sent him a divorce notice.

In a strong show of action following public outrage, police in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday paraded a man who allegedly assaulted a pregnant woman.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched the ‘Baahubali’ rocket, Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (LVM3)-M6, from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, carrying the United States’ new generation BlueBird Block-2 communication satellite.

The body of an unidentified woman was found stuffed in plastic sacks on the porch of a house in the Shastri Nagar area here on Tuesday morning, police said, adding…

As Delhi struggles with air pollution, a fresh political battle erupted on Tuesday after Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena sent a sharply worded letter to former Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi…

A gas explosion at a nursing home just outside Philadelphia triggered a plume of black smoke and trapped people inside the building, authorities said.

Over 24.08 lakh electors were deleted from the voter lists in Kerala as the Election Commission of India (ECI) published the draft electoral roll on Tuesday after the Special Intensive…

Libya’s prime minister said the chief of staff of the country’s army was killed in an airplane accident in Turkey on Tuesday after he visited Ankara.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday stated that he is “closely monitoring” the situation in West Karbi Anglong after two people lost their lives during the violent protests…

The US Supreme Court dealt a blow to President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown on Tuesday by blocking his deployment of National Guard troops in Chicago.

Australia’s most populous state passed sweeping new gun and anti-terror laws following the recent mass shooting on Bondi Beach, tightening firearm ownership, banning public display of terrorist symbols and strengthening…

The Bombay High Court asked fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya when he intends to return to India and told his counsel it would not hear his plea against the Fugitive Economic…

The ISRO has taken a cautious approach and decided to delay the launch of the Launch Vehicle Mark 3 M6 flight by 90 seconds.

The Delhi BJP on Tuesday summoned and reprimanded councillor Renu Chaudhary for her threatening remarks against an African football coach over not learning the Hindi language.

The Donald Trump administration in the United States has announced that it is replacing its longstanding H-1B work visa lottery system with a new weighted approach that prioritises skilled, higher-paid…

A thick blanket of toxic smog engulfed the national capital on Wednesday morning, pushing air pollution levels into the “very poor” category.

A 27-year-old man hanged himself in a hotel room here after putting up a WhatsApp status with a photograph of his first wife, police said on Tuesday.

Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday claimed that Assam will “automatically be included” in Bangladesh if the number of people from the neighbouring country residing in the northeastern state…

A man was arrested in Assam’s Kamrup district on Tuesday for allegedly making a social media post in support of the lynching of a Hindu youth in Bangladesh, police said.

India and New Zealand concluded a landmark Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on Monday, aimed at boosting trade, investment, and mobility between the two nations. Negotiations for this had begun in…

What began as a routine case of illegal timber smuggling in the tribal heartland of Madhya Pradesh has now exploded into a multi-agency national security investigation, raising chilling questions.

Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav, facing questions on the Aravallis, mounted a strong defence of the Centre on Tuesday, alleging that the controversy is being driven by misinformation and political motives…

The United States and Iran traded barbs at the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday over conditions for reviving nuclear talks, with the US saying it remains ready for direct…

The draft electoral roll prepared after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Madhya Pradesh was released by the Election Commission of India on Tuesday, following a meeting with political…

Bangladesh’s Finance Advisor Dr Salehuddin Ahmed said on Tuesday that the interim government does not want a “bitter relationship with a big neighbour like India”, and that they are aiming…

Donald Trump said he believed “people are very angry that pictures are being released” that connect them to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, days after the Justice Department released a…

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday offered talks to the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf to ease political tension in the country, days after the party founder Imran Khan and his wife…

The newest US document dump on Jeffrey Epstein is sprawling, uneven and heavily redacted — but tucked inside are moments that have sharpened scrutiny on President Donald Trump’s long-acknowledged past…

The elections to the Brihanmumbai Corporation may see rapprochement on both sides of the political divide. While the Thackeray brothers are all set to announce their reunion tomorrow, the two…