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The Delhi Police have arrested two cybercriminals accused of impersonating bank officials and defrauding people of their money.

There is a story behind Metro Feeder Bus 314A/1, launched on July 19 by Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) to serve the residents of Kaggadasapura and C V Raman Nagar.

Clocking in 7,000 steps a day could lower overall death risk by 47 per cent, dementia by 38 per cent, and depression by 22 per cent, a new study published…

Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for helping later serial sex offender Jeffrey Epstein recruit young girls for sexual abuse, is reportedly planning to meet with federal…

Nearly three decades before Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in a Manhattan jail, Ghislaine Maxwell mourned the death of another powerful man under mysterious circumstances: her father, Robert Maxwell.

Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya administered oath of office to Justices Vinod Kumar, Shail Jain and Madhu Jain. The swearing-in ceremony was held in the high court premises.

Regional governor Vasily Orlov said that according to preliminary data, there were 43 passengers, including five children, and six crew members on board.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Dr Mohan Yadav played a key role in the formation of Ratapani Tiger Reserve, spread across Raisen and Sehore districts in Madhya Pradesh.

The horses began fighting furiously at the busy Nagrath Chowk on Wednesday, ignoring attempts by locals to chase them away. In the chaos, the animals barged into a nearby showroom,…

The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday said it has provisionally attached more than Rs 127 crore worth of shares “beneficially owned” by the son of former Trinamool Congress MP and businessman…

In the advisory, the police stated that the GT Road, from Apsara Border to Shahdara, Seemapuri to Apsara Border, Anand Vihar to Apsara Border, and the GT Road to Vivek…

The next Vice President will be a veteran leader from the BJP, top sources in the party have told NDTV, ruling out speculation that the BJP may consider key allies,…

Former BJP MP Kirron Kher has been issued a notice seeking payment of Rs 12.76 lakh in dues as licence fee for a government-allotted house in Chandigarh.

A Hindu temple in Melbourne was defaced with hateful slurs demanding, “Go Home Brown C**t”, in the latest incident of racism in Australia.

Russia allegedly had damaging intelligence about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s “psycho-emotional problems” during her 2016 presidential campaign against Donald Trump, according to a newly declassified intelligence report.

Japan and the Philippines take to five the number of countries that have concluded trade deals with the United States ahead of an August 1 deadline set by President Donald…

A Mumbai-bound Air India Express plane, with around 160 passengers onboard, aborted takeoff due to a technical snag at the Delhi airport on Wednesday evening, according to a source.

In a major crackdown on a suspected kidney transplantation racket, the Tamil Nadu government has suspended the kidney transplant licences of two private hospitals following a preliminary probe conducted by…

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a prosecution complaint under the provisions of the PMLA before a special court in Patna against a quack and his assistant in a case…

The world in 21st Century will be multipolar instead of bipolar and would come with a new set of global institutions, non-state actors and challengers, said RSS’s Ram Madhav in…

With a new report claiming that US President Donald Trump knew his name was present in case files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, the White House on Wednesday pulled…

Ukraine on Wednesday proposed direct talks within weeks between its President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, but Moscow tempered prospects for progress at a fresh round of talks in…

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi told President Donald Trump in May that his name appeared in investigative files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the Wall Street Journal reported…

A silver pistol, bullet and garlic offered at the Sanwaliya Seth temple add to a growing list of extravagant offerings by devotees at the shrine.

A 56-year-old pilot was allegedly cheated of Rs 3.16 crore by cyber fraudsters under the guise of offering attractive returns in share trading, Mumbai Police said on Wednesday.

India and China on Wednesday reviewed the overall situation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh and prepared the ground for the next edition of the Special…

Britain and India will sign a landmark free trade agreement on Thursday during a visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, sealing a deal to cut tariffs on goods from textiles…

Another man has been beaten up in Maharashtra by MNS workers for not speaking in Marathi and saying, “I will not speak in the language. What will you do?”.

A judge on Wednesday rejected a Trump administration request to unseal transcripts from grand jury investigations of Jeffrey Epstein years ago in Florida, though a similar records request is pending…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in London on Wednesday evening for his two-day visit to the United Kingdom (UK), and said that a “strong friendship between the two countries is…

The deployment of the medical team comes as part of India’s response to the recent fighter jet crash in the Diabari area of Bangladesh’s Dhaka, for which India has offered…

Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, on Wednesday released a slew of documents that she said implicate members of the Obama administration for weaponising US intelligence.

Three states in the northeast have issued an alert cautioning against the entry of illegal migrants from Assam, where the Himanta Biswa Sarma government has been carrying out massive eviction…

Shiv Sena legislator Sanjay Gaikwad and AIMIM leader Imtiaz Jaleel have engaged in a fresh war of words, taking forward their face-off, which started when the former assaulted an MLA…

A theft, involving luxury fittings worth approximately Rs 35 lakh, was reported from a five-star hotel in Kolkata’s Esplanade area, currently undergoing some renovation work since last year, police said…

The Supreme Court on Wednesday recalled its order on compensation awarded over a land in Gautam Budh Nagar in Uttar Pradesh acquired by the Noida authority, saying it was obtained…

Israel and Ukraine said Wednesday they had agreed to start talks on countering the “threat” posed by Iran, in a sign of deepening ties between the two countries.

Long considered Delhi’s most flood-prone traffic bottleneck, Minto Bridge, for a change, saw a smooth traffic despite heavy rainfall on Wednesday morning.

Ghislaine Maxwell’s meeting with a federal prosecutor has sparked speculation about a possible deal that could expose long-guarded details of the Jeffrey Epstein case.

A doctor who supplied Matthew Perry with ketamine pleaded guilty on Wednesday in connection with the 2023 drug overdose death of the “Friends” star, US media reported.

For over a century, the Rothschilds, a Jewish banking dynasty that began in 18th-century Frankfurt, quietly helped lay the economic, political, and physical foundations of the state of Israel.

A Hong Kong court struck down laws on Wednesday criminalising people for going into public toilets designated for the opposite sex, a ruling hailed as “a forward step” for transgender…

Delhi recorded its cleanest July in ten years on Wednesday, with the city’s average Air Quality Index (AQI) dropping to 67, according to data released by the Central Pollution Control…

Two Rolls-Royce cars, each registered in the names of two Bollywood superstars, were fined more than 18 lakh and nearly 20 lakh, respectively, for failing to pay road tax in…

Four terrorists linked to al-Qaeda involved in running a fake currency racket and spreading the global terror group’s ideology have been arrested by the Gujarat anti-terrorist squad (ATS). One of…

Two days after the resignation of Jagdish Dhankhar from the post of the Vice President, the government is brainstorming ways to undo the damage he caused by accepting the Opposition…

Union Food Processing Minister Chirag Paswan on Wednesday stressed the need to correct the false narrative that processed food is bad for health.

With the support of international partners and the mobilization of $115 million, the UN cultural agency UNESCO recently helped rebuild the Iraqi city of Mosul after it was devastated by…

Time allotted for discussion on Operation Sindoor will be extended by nine hours. The debate is expected to remain a focal point as the House grapples with multiple contentious issues.

A 25-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly killing her husband in Delhi’s Nihal Vihar, with the police en route to Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly to question his cousin over a…

Israel on Wednesday hit back at growing international criticism that it was behind chronic food shortages in Gaza, instead accusing Hamas of deliberately creating a humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian…

IIT Guwahati students are protesting fee hike. They allege they were promised a revision in hike but nothing happened and on Tuesday, the day of registration for the July-November semester,…

A global attack on Microsoft server software used by thousands of government agencies and businesses to share documents within organisations is likely the work of a single actor, a cybersecurity…

The World Health Organization’s chief warned Wednesday of widespread starvation in Gaza, saying food deliveries into the war-ravaged Palestinian territory were “far below what is needed for the survival of…

Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Wednesday demanded former Union Minister and ex-Governor Bandaru Dattatreya, an OBC leader from Telangana, be made the Vice President of India.

Rashtriya Janata Dal’s Tejashwi Yadav has alleged that the Election Commission is taking its orders from the ruling BJP and in such circumstances, holding an election in Bihar has become…

Bhopal’s glittering nightlife and gym culture have been jolted by a sensational police revelation that exposes a chilling nexus of drug trafficking, blackmail, and sexual exploitation all allegedly backed by…

The Economic Offence Wing (EOW) has raided the properties of Tribal Welfare Department’s deputy commissioner Jagdish Prasad Sarvate in three cities and found assets worth Rs 6.75 crore, officials said…

The incident in which a receptionist in Kalyan near Mumbai was assaulted and slammed to the ground by a man who was allegedly stopped from walking into the doctor’s chamber…

Assam Chief Minister Himanta today said indigenous Assamese people face the threat of becoming minority in their own state due to what the BJP has been claiming “population explosion” of…

When a Bangladesh Air Force fighter jet crashed into her school and erupted in a fireball on Monday, Maherin Chowdhury rushed to save some of the hundreds of students and…

Tokenization has long been a buzzword for crypto enthusiasts, who have been arguing for years that blockchain-based assets will change the underlying infrastructure of financial markets.

At a recent White House event, US President Donald Trump caused fresh controversy by praising Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard as “the hottest one in the room”.

For 200 years, Britain shaped India’s trade rules to its advantage – plundering raw materials, taxing salt, killing industries in the name of “free markets”. Now, as post-Brexit UK shops…

A 32-year-old woman from Tamil Nadu’s Ramanathapuram district has died after setting herself on fire, allegedly in protest against sustained sexual harassment by her father-in-law and years of dowry-related abuse…

The ruling BJP’s key ally in Tripura, Tipra Motha Party (TMP), on Wednesday met the Election Commission of India to press for its demand for a Special Intensive Revision (SIR),…

Six gelatin sticks, which are the latest form of dynamites, and some detonators, were found in a plastic carry bag near a toilet at a government bus stand in Bengaluru…

Only four of the 16 elections for the post of the vice president of India have been won without a contest, while two elections witnessed a multi-cornered fight.

The Election Commission on Wednesday said 1 lakh electors remain “untraceable” in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar while enumeration forms of 7.17 crore have…

A Diu-bound IndiGo flight from Ahmedabad carrying around 50 passengers and crew members aborted take-off at the last minute on Wednesday due to a technical issue, sources said.

Beijing has issued a detailed statement defending the project, calling it a matter of national sovereignty and clean energy development.

In the Japanese city of Seki, famed for its razor-sharp artisan knives, news that incoming US tariffs will be lowered is welcome but not entirely unexpected.

The United Nations’s top court announced Wednesday that if countries fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate change, they could be in violation of international law.

In a high-risk rescue operation, the Indian Army, along with the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), local police, and civilian divers, successfully rescued a minor boy who was trapped in…

Famiangi, believed to be the oldest woman in all of northeastern states, died at the age of 117 on Tuesday morning at her home in Mizoram’s Pangkhua village in southern…

Women killing their husbands has been making headlines recently, and so have spurned lovers who have murdered people for rejecting them. In Navi Mumbai, however, a spurned lover killed a…

A BSF constable, who joined the force a month ago, was arrested for robbing a Delhi jewellery store with a toy gun in broad daylight, after allegedly getting inspired by…

The Monsoon session of Parliament has, as expected, been a stormy one, but behind the headlines about repeated adjournments lies a real cost – Rs 2.5 lakh for every minute…

In a major development in the 2020 Bengaluru riots case, a special NIA court has sentenced three accused to seven years of rigorous imprisonment after they pleaded guilty during the…

The former partner at McKinsey & Company says Europe may be on the cusp of a transformation in defence innovation akin to the Manhattan Project – the scientific push that…

A swanky two-storey building, four cars with diplomatic number plates parked outside, a name plate that read, “Grand Duchy of Westarctica” and “H E HV Jain Honorary Consul” — the…

US National Nuclear Security Administration was among those breached by a hack of Microsoft’s SharePoint document management software, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing a person with knowledge of the…

The row over Bihar’s voter list revision snowballed in parliament today as the government refused to answer the Opposition’s queries, arguing that it is not competent to do so since…

They say, “What’s in a name?” Well, it meant a lot in a bizarre case in Bengaluru when two high-end cars with the names of two Bollywood superstars as owners…

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Wednesday called for an assessment of the impact of emerging technologies on society and the labour market, saying it must be ensured that they do…

India’s space odyssey is poised to take a historic leap forward, one that would include the country’s daughters among its astronauts.

A former award-winning captain of the national kabaddi team fell into the Ganga River in Uttarakhand’s Haridwar this morning. The incident led to a flurry of rescuers immediately launching a…

A shooting in a rural area of Northern Ireland left two people dead and two others seriously wounded, police said Wednesday.

Ukrainian frontline units are leading the way in drone warfare, offering useful lessons and new ideas for the US military.

The evacuation of a stranded British F-35B jet from Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday rekindled memories of a similar problem the Indian Air Force faced two decades ago – one of its…

Three men have been arrested for allegedly running a child sex abuse operation inside an underground bunker in Brent, Alabama. The suspects are accused of raping, sodomising, and trafficking six…

India has approximately 7.23 million tonnes (MT) of Rare Earth Elements Oxide (REO) contained in 13.15 MT monazite (a mineral of Thorium and Rare Earths) occurring in the coastal beach,…

Alaska State Troopers used a helicopter to evacuate the woman off the Basher Trail to a hospital, Anchorage Police spokesperson Christopher Barraza said. Her injuries are considered non-life-threatening, he said.

The Enforcement Directorate has given a fresh date of August 11 to actor Rana Daggubati after he failed to appear on Wednesday for questioning in a money laundering case linked…

An elderly British couple detained for months in Afghanistan are receiving medical care, the Taliban government’s top diplomat said Wednesday, after UN experts warned they were at risk of dying.

Nestled in forests around the world, a gentle army of giant wooden trolls want to show humans how to live better without destroying the planet

The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) officially opened a new SRIVANI Darshan Ticket Centre. The state-of-the-art facility, strategically located opposite Tirumala Annamayya Bhavan, was inaugurated on Tuesday evening by TTD Chairman…

The families of two Air India crash victims in the United Kingdom have alleged that the bodies repatriated to them were misidentified, according to a lawyer representing them.

Japan’s far-right populist Sanseito party was one of the biggest winners in the weekend’s upper house election, attracting many voters with its “Japanese First” platform.

The erosion of trust has triggered apprehensions among the public about air travel. I know of many erstwhile frequent fliers, who thought nothing before taking a flight for work or…