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Ice loss in Antarctica and its impact on the planet – sea level rise, changes to ocean currents and disturbance of wildlife and food webs – has been in the…

Donald Trump faces a more immediate historical burden that has plagued so many presidents: the “second term curse”. Twenty-one US presidents have served second terms, but none has reached the…

As cities across America prepare for massive July 4 gatherings, federal authorities have sounded the alarm over potential security threats from lone-wolf attackers and unauthorised drone activity.

Thailand’s former defence chief is set to be appointed acting prime minister on Thursday, capping a colourful career for the political heavyweight once nicknamed “Big Comrade”.

An Air India flight from Delhi to Washington was halted at Vienna and cancelled subsequently after an “extended maintenance task” was identified during refueling in the Austrian capital, an airline…

At least four people were dead and dozens unaccounted for Thursday after a ferry sank on its way to the resort island of Bali, according to local authorities who said…

Amid relentless rainfall and deteriorating weather conditions in Uttarakhand, around 40 devotees returning from the Kedarnath Dham were rescued by the State Disaster Response Force on Thursday after being stranded…

Stand-up comedian Saniya Mirwani has said that she pities vegans, adding they need professional help.

A priest’s son who became a lawyer bunks the courtroom, takes on a handout job, and aims to make money through bribes. This is not just corruption, but a deep…

India is engaging with American lawmakers over concerns surrounding a new Russia sanctions bill introduced in the US Congress, Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said on Wednesday.

As recently as 2023, Combs was still on top of the world, but his fame plummeted rapidly in November of that year, when his former partner of 11 years, Casandra…

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has signed a new law halting his country’s cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The step has drawn criticism from the US.

Mexican tourist Rocio Gomez spent an hour boating on Copenhagen’s canals free of charge in exchange for picking up trash in the water, part of a city programme for rewarding…

The number of people joining stock markets are surging continuously in India, now Gujarat has become the third Indian state to cross the 1-crore mark in registered investors, according to…

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his American counterpart Pete Hegseth have agreed to firm up a 10-year framework to further expand defence and strategic ties between India and the US.

The social media accounts of several Pakistani actors and cricketers have been banned once again, briefly after they were made accessible in India on Wednesday.

Rescuers resumed the search operation in Himachal Pradeshs Mandi district on the third day on Thursday to locate 34 people who went missing after cloudbursts and heavy rain triggered massive…

Even as Tamil Nadu reels under public anger over the alleged custodial death of 27-year-old temple security guard B. Ajithkumar in Sivaganga district, a fresh controversy has erupted with the…

A “deranged” cannibal immigrant allegedly began eating his own arms during a deportation flight, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claimed on Tuesday.

Foxconn Technology Group has asked hundreds of Chinese engineers and technicians to return home from its iPhone factories in India, a move that is likely to hamper Apple Inc’s plans…

US State Department Deputy Spokesperson Mignon Houston on Wednesday (local time) stated that student visa applications for the United States are now open and encouraged students to apply.

The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday alleged Sonia and Rahul Gandhi wanted to usurp the assets of Associated Journals Limited (AJL), a Rs 2,000 crore company, the publisher of the National…

A 24-year-old man allegedly attacked another man with a sharp weapon over suspicion that the latter was having an affair with his wife, and then surrendered before police in Mumbai,…

A 7-Eleven employee died, roughly a week after she was allegedly attacked by her manager.

A man allegedly killed his in-laws with a sharp edged weapon after his wife refused to return to her matrimonial home, police said on Thursday.

A man has allegedly been lynched on suspicion of stealing vegetables from a farm in Tripura’s Dhalai district.

Manipur lost a staggering 52,000 acres of forest area in just four years between 2021 and 2025, a study by space analytics firm Suhora said.

Beijing opposed the “hyping up the so-called Chinese spies” narrative after two Chinese nationals were arrested in the United States for espionage and for allegedly seeking to recruit members of…

In the backdrop of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah linking heart-related deaths in the state’s Hassan district to Covid-19 vaccines, the Union Health Ministry has clarified that there is no evidence of…

Illegal bike taxis are not functional in Mumbai, Transport Minister of Maharashtra Pratap Sarnaik was told by a senior official.

In a decisive move to uphold the integrity of the legal profession, the Bar Council of Telangana has cancelled the memberships of nine lawyers found to be practicing with fake…

India on Wednesday expressed deep concern over abduction of three Indian nationals in Mali amid a series of terrorist attacks in various parts of the West African country.

A man allegedly killed his lover after inviting her to a lodge in Odisha’s Berhampur town and later surrendered to police, officials said on Wednesday.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that the South China Sea was discussed during the Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Washington, as it remains an “issue of great concern” for…

A 72-year-old lawyer in Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam Buddh Nagar was duped of over Rs 3.29 crore after cyber thugs put her under “digital arrest” for several days, police said on…

Cabinet ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party called on Wednesday for Israel to annex the Israeli-occupied West Bank before the Knesset recesses at the end of the month.

India and Ghana signed four Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) on Wednesday to strengthen bilateral cooperation in key areas such as culture, health, standardisation, and institutional dialogue.

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen will face a no-confidence vote put forward by far-right MEPs on July 10 — although it is likely to fail.

At least 61 people were missing after a ferry sank near the popular Indonesian island of Bali late Wednesday night, a local search and rescue agency said.

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha would expand his council of ministers on July 3, sources said on Wednesday.

Putting up a united front, a delegation of 11 parties from the INDIA bloc met the Election Commission on Wednesday to share their concerns over the revision of electoral rolls…

In the past two days, in several districts of Assam, 178 places, including hotels, restaurants and slaughterhouses, have been raided and searched, and 196 people have been detained in a…

Telangana’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has reported a significant surge in enforcement activities during the first half of the year. It has filed 126 cases till June vs 152 cases last…

A Meghalaya court on Wednesday remanded three persons to judicial custody in connection with the murder case of Indore businessman Raja Raghuvanshi in the northeastern state in May.

Sean “Diddy” Combs was denied bail on Wednesday after a trial in which he was convicted on federal prostitution charges but found not guilty of more serious racketeering and sex…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Wednesday conferred with ‘The Officer of the Order of the Star of Ghana’, the country’s national honour, for his “distinguished statesmanship and influential global…

Delhi’s crackdown on end-of-life vehicles continued on the second day with 78 overage vehicles flagged through the Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras across the city.

India and Ghana on Wednesday elevated their ties to the level of comprehensive partnership after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held wide-ranging talks with President John Dramani Mahama.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin vowed Wednesday to completely eradicate Palestinian militant group Hamas, despite pressure from US Donald Trump for a ceasefire in the war in Gaza.

NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar on Wednesday recalled his “experiment” with journalism, sharing that he and Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray had once tried to launch a monthly magazine, but…

The Monsoon session of Parliament will begin on July 21 and continue till August 21, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said on Wednesday.

Joshua Aaron, the creator of ICEBlock, the app that allows users to track the real time location of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers across the US, has compared the actions…

A group of smugglers from Bangladesh attacked Border Security Force personnel who were trying to stop them, resulting in the death of a smuggler in West Bengal’s Nadia district on…

A massive python swallowed a fox near Balediha village in Jharkhand’s Giridih district. The incident occurred on Wednesday in a forest under the jurisdiction of the Sariya police station.

The flood situation in Odisha has worsened with two districts, Gajapati and Balasore, being the worst affected by heavy rain over the last few days.

A man has been convicted for the rape of a nine-year-old in 2021, marking the first conviction in the post-poll violence cases investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)…

A 44-year-old agent of an online food delivery app died after falling into the swimming pool on the 22nd floor of a residential building in South Mumbai, police said on…

An encounter is underway between the Army and terrorists in the Chatroo area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district, officials said.

The ‘Sheeshmahal’ – a name given to former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s official residence is back in the limelight after incumbent Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, from the BJP, took…

Over 15,000 Indians live in the West African country, with some being in Ghana for over 70 years. Some families are now the fourth generation in Ghana with some also…

Sean “Diddy” Combs was found guilty on Wednesday of prostitution-related offenses but cleared of more serious charges of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking.

Mars is thought to currently have all the necessary ingredients for life except for perhaps the most important one: liquid water

Kate, Britain’s Princess of Wales, said that she had to put on a “brave face” throughout and following her cancer treatment last year, describing the ordeal as a life-changing experience.

Kavita dressed her son, Ramdev, in women’s clothing, placed a dupatta on his head, applied kajal to his eyes, and put her own gold jewellery on him. Then her entire…

Uttar Pradesh Police on Wednesday arrested seven men who allegedly impersonated officials from the ED and the CBI to “digitally arrest” a Shahjahanpur resident and swindle more than Rs one…

A man, along with his associates, who strangled and burnt his 19-year-old neighbour in outer Delhi’s Narela area, has been arrested, an official said on Wednesday.

Senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Siddharth Kaushal has announced his voluntary resignation, ending a career in law enforcement across Andhra Pradesh.

France registered its second-warmest June since records began in 1900, said the country’s ministry for ecological transition on Wednesday, as Europe swelters under an early summer heatwave.

Australia has cancelled US rapper Kanye West’s visa over his song glorifying Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, the government said Wednesday.

Sean “Diddy” Combs was convicted of a US federal prostitution felony on Wednesday but acquitted on far more serious charges of racketeering and sex trafficking.

Kate, Britain’s Princess of Wales, said that she had to put on a “brave face” throughout and following her cancer treatment last year, describing the ordeal as a life-changing experience.

Sikkim, which celebrated 50 years of its integration with India less than two months ago, has been called a “neighbouring country” by a Congress leader, sparking furore and prompting a…

The State Bank of India (SBI) has decided to report the loan account of Reliance Communications as “fraud” in a case dating back to August 2015, the company said in…

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday chided municipal bodies for showing “complete apathy and insensitivity” in maintaining public toilets in the capital.

US President Donald Trump said that he will save the New York City from “Communist lunatic” Indian-origin mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. In a post on Truth Social he wrote that…

Glory dissipates fast during peacetime. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is finding that out the hard way. Munir, too, has his own embarrassment to deal with.

The Karnataka cabinet on Wednesday approved the renaming of Bengaluru Rural district as ‘Bengaluru North’.

A heartbreaking video of a 75-year-old farmer tilling his land with his elderly wife in Maharashtra’s Latur has put the spotlight on how farmers with limited resources are struggling to…

Dangling from luxury bags, showcased in unboxing videos, Labubu is now everywhere. But with popularity comes imitation. Enter the Lafufu, a counterfeit version of the toy that has become so…

Domestic carrier IndiGo on Tuesday launched its long-haul international operations with its inaugural flight landing in Manchester from Mumbai.

Hong Kong government said it will propose legislation to recognise some rights of same-sex couples whose marriages are registered abroad, to comply with a 2023 court judgement.

A progressive advocacy platform, called for the deportation of First Lady Melania Trump, her parents, and son Barron Trump–arguing that Trump’s own family should not be exempted from the policies…

Microsoft is laying off as many as 4%, or roughly 9,100, of its employees in the largest round of job cuts since 2023, the Seattle Times reported on Wednesday.

Actor-comedian Dave Chappelle has slammed Palestinian-American music producer DJ Khaled over his silence on Israel’s brutal military campaign in Gaza.

Elon Musk’s X was down for thousands of users in the U.S. on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

Clive Standish, the Swiss bank’s chief financial officer from 2004 until 2007, last year successfully challenged his ex-wife Anna Standish’s original 45 million-pound ($62 million) award from what was then…

A 56-year-old Indian-origin woman succumbed to a head injury suffered during an assault while out on a street in the eastern England city of Leicester and a 23-year-old male suspect…

In a household in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi, affairs, gold theft and a murder. The police have uncovered an alleged conspiracy behind the killing of 54-year-old Sushila Devi.

The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), the official custodian of the Sri Venkateswara Swamy Temple in Tirumala, has issued a strong warning against a fabricated message circulating on social media.

India has taken its first bold steps into space biology with a series of pioneering experiments aboard the International Space Station (ISS), as part of the Axiom-4 mission-referred to by…

Water levels at 11 river monitoring stations across India have breached the warning level, but none have reached the danger or extreme flood thresholds, the Central Water Commission (CWC) said…

The British F-35B Lightning II fighter jet, which made an emergency landing on June 14 at Thiruvananthapuram International Airport due to adverse weather conditions, has now become a part of…

A remote island chain in southern Japan has been shaken by more than 900 quakes in the last two weeks, with residents saying they were unable to sleep.

A group of young men were caught on camera performing dangerous stunts on tractors in Gurugram’s upscale Cyber Hub area.

Four government officials, including an assistant commissioner, were killed and 11 others injured in a bomb blast in Pakistan’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Wednesday, police said.

A punishing heatwave loosened its gripped on western Europe Wednesday and rolled eastwards, with Germany expected to record some of its hottest temperatures this year.

A few hours after the Senate passed the bill on Wednesday, the hashtag #MuskWantsToBuildAnAmericaParty went viral on Weibo, a Chinese social media platform and has received more than 37 million…

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has made it clear that he intends to serve the full five-year term in office, pushing back against speculation of a mid-term change in leadership.

A week before US President Donald Trump reimposes steep tariffs on dozens of economies, including the EU and Japan, many are still scrambling to reach a deal that protects them…

A disturbing video, purportedly from a police station in Tamil Nadu’s Theni district, has surfaced amid ongoing outrage over the recent alleged custodial death of a young security guard, Ajith…