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The police in Gonda city organised the wedding of a young woman whose family was in dire straits due to the death of its breadwinner among other financial hardships, officials…

The feud between Donald Trump and Elon Musk provoked chatter, mockery and amusement among the ruling class in Moscow, where one senior official joked about hosting peace talks.

The new South Korean president, Lee Jae-myung, calls himself a foreign policy “pragmatist”. He says he is driven by South Koreas national interest, rather than ideology, and has spoken of…

Russian forces launched 400 drones and 40 missiles on Ukraine overnight on Friday, killing at least four people and injuring dozens, Ukrainian authorities said.

Elon Musk’s Starlink has got licence for satcom services in India, Press Trust of India reported quoting sources.

An inquiry has been ordered. Cases have been filed. People have been suspended. Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar spotlighted these to underscore that his government is doing all it…

The director of human spaceflight at Axiom Dr Peggy A Whitson has a message for Prime Minister Narendra Modi – the integration of commercial and government space programmes is the…

If the James Bond movies are to be trusted, your most vicious enemy happens to be a jilted lover or a close accomplice.

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta’s security was increased on Friday after a caller issued a death threat by dialling up the police control room in the neighbouring city of Ghaziabad,…

The salaries of 50,000 government employees, that is nearly nine per cent of Madhya Pradesh’s government taskforce, have not been paid for over six months.

Our own uneasy neighbourhood reminds us daily that lasting peace must be safeguarded by the willingness and the capacity to strike at the root of violence – not just its…

The incident has assumed such dramatic inflexions that it could be straight out of Vanga’s films. Sample the premise: slighted by a woman, man rages in public.

David Beckham will be awarded a knighthood by King Charles III next week in recognition of his football career and his charity work, per reports.

National elections in Bangladesh will be held in April next year, the country’sinterim leader Muhammad Yunus announced amid mounting pressure.

Donald Trump’s aides reportedly scheduled a call between the US President and Elon Musk for Friday morning (Washington time). A White House official privy to the matter had even confirmed…

The Hazaribag district administration has ordered an inquiry after a woman in labour was allegedly denied admission to a government hospital, where nurses declared that her baby had died in…

The Karnataka High Court on Friday, in an interim order, directed the state police not to take any coercive action against the office bearers of KSCA in connection with the…

A Railways official shared that 134 complaints were registered with the national cybercrime portal and they have blocked more than 6,800 email domains.

A Munnabhai MBBS in the making? Two cousins, two years apart ace the tough medical entrance examination or the NEET and secure admissions. Five years later, it now appears that…

In a big sign of India-Canada ties healing after hitting an all-time low under former prime minister Justin Trudeau, his successor Mark Carney has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi for…

In mounting troubles for Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) over its IPL 2025 victory celebrations on Wednesday in Bengaluru that led to a deadly stampede, another police case has been filed…

In another major move a day after it suspended the Bengaluru police commissioner and some other key police officials in the wake of the stampede in the city, the Karnataka…

The body of a Tamil Nadu agricultural labourer in his sixties was mistaken for the corpse of a worker from Bihar, and it was sent to the northern state in…

Jun 6 A sessions court here has enhanced the compensation granted to a woman from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 1 crore in a domestic violence case, ruling that her…

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s use of horses as examples to differentiate between workers and leaders who are working hard for the party and those who are deadwood has drawn criticism…

There are no plans for US President Donald Trump to hold a call with Elon Musk on Friday, a White House source said.

The risk US transportation, environmental, communications and other regulators will take aim at Elon Musk’s many businesses became a real threat after the billionaire’s deep political ties with President Donald…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban prohibited the display of symbols “referring to or promoting” sexual minorities on government buildings, hours before the 30th Budapest Pride festival formally opens on Friday.

Russia will take years to replace nuclear-capable bomber planes that were hit in Ukrainian drone strikes last weekend, straining a modernisation programme that is already delayed.

US President Donald Trump said “Oh it’s okay,” when asked about his very public breakup with former ally and donor Elon Musk, POLITICO reported.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted that Israel is supporting an armed group in Gaza that opposes the Hamas, following comments by a former minister that Israel had transferred weapons to…

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor emphasised that a thaw in relations between Delhi and Beijing over the past few months was “seemingly making good progress” before the conflict.

One would think their money is safest in a bank. But, in a shocking case, this bond of trust was leveraged by a woman officer of a bank in Rajasthan’s…

India is not friendless in the UN Security Council and Pakistan chairing its Taliban Sanctions Committee and being named vice-chair of the Counter-Terrorism Committee is a designation without much practical…

Reserve Bank Governor Sanjay Malhotra on Friday said the India-Pakistan conflict, following the Pahalgam attack in which 26 civilians were killed, had a negligible impact on economic activity.

The suspension of former Bengaluru Police Commissioner B Dayananda and the arrest of four people in connection with the Chinnaswamy stadium stampede have sent the wrong message and “demoralised” the…

A day after getting an interim relief from the Calcutta High Court, social media influencer Sharmishta Panoli walked out of jail after she was arrested over a communally charged video…

As India prepares to send Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla into space aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon, a new chapter in the country’s space journey is being written, not by ISRO…

Union Minister Hardeep Puri on Friday blamed the Bengaluru stampede deaths on a lack of planning by the Karnataka government, when 11 people died in a crowd crush outside a…

Hours after a public fallout between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, a former close aide of the US President questioned the immigration status of the Tesla CEO.

The Chenab bridge has become a new milestone in pan-India connectivity, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi remarking that the phrase “Kashmir to Kanyakumari” has now become a reality even in…

Covid is growing milder with time but an occasional surge in cases is expected because the virus that causes it is now endemic and constantly evolving, say scientists while assuring…

If one of Britain’s most prestigious universities can’t protect a postgraduate researcher, what hope is there for smaller institutions? What message does this send to academics investigating authoritarianism, state violence,…

The Trump administration has moved to end deportation protections the United States granted to thousands of Nepalese people after a 2015 earthquake devastated the country, according to a government notice…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a direct attack on Pakistan today over the neighbouring country’s open support to terrorists.

US President Donald Trump has imposed a ban on citizens from 12 countries, along with entry restrictions on nationals from seven other nations, citing national security and immigration enforcement concerns.

Clark described Dubais rapid development as being “on steroids” from the early 90s. He admitted that he could never anticipate the magnitude of Dubais future success.

AI-generated videos and audios of Pope Leo XIV are populating rapidly online, racking up views as platforms struggle to police them.

The global auto industry has been rocked by China’s decision to restrict exports of rare earth magnets that are crucial to making vehicles. Beijing is using this as a key…

As Elon Musk and Donald Trump traded publicly fought on Thursday, an unlikely name emerged, putting the US President at a spot. The name was Jeffrey Epstein, the late convicted…

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, who just last week stood together in the Oval Office to proclaim their lasting friendship, traded barbs and insults in real time on Thursday.

MNS leader Amit Thackeray has said that alliances do not happen by making statements before the media and asserted that party chief Raj Thackeray and Uddhav Thackeray should talk to…

The Bengaluru police have made four arrests over the stampede that claimed 11 lives during the RCB victory celebration at the M Chinnaswamy stadium on Wednesday.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is conducting raids at actor Dino Moreas Mumbai house in the Mithi River money laundering case.

The brother of a newly married woman who went missing during her honeymoon in Meghalaya has told the police their family suspects she has been kidnapped.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ recent ex-girlfriend described enduring drug-fueled sex marathons until the hip-hop titan’s arrest in September as the key witness began testimony on Thursday.

A 50-year-old Mumbai-based doctor lost a part of his arm after he and his wife fell on the railway tracks during a robbery on a moving train.

A nearly century-old building that was originally constructed as a prime recreational centre in the famed railway town of Khagaul in Patna district has been significantly demolished to make way…

In his first visit to Jammu and Kashmir since the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22, which left 26 people dead, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated key infrastructure projects that…

The Left government in Kerala on Friday made it clear that it was not in agreement with the use of the Bharat Mata portrait at the Environment Day event at…

US President Donald Trump often says the 2026 World Cup and 2028 Los Angeles Olympics are among the events he is most excited about in his second term.Yet there is…

The police have recovered whale vomit, or ambergris, valued at about Rs 10 crore from three persons in South Goa, an official said on Friday.

To mark Eid al-Adha, Muslims traditionally slaughter a sheep or cow and give away part of the meat to the poor as an act of charity. Then they have a…

Musk’s and Trump’s insults at each other peaked as Trump threatened to cut government contracts for Musk and the latter claimed that the Trump administration had not released the records…

The Chenab bridge, the world’s highest railway bridge, is among the key infrastructure projects inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today in Jammu and Kashmir.

Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, known for her fiery speeches in the Parliament, married former Biju Janata Dal (BJD) parliamentarian Pinaki Mishra.

Poland’s foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski poked fun at Elon Musk late on Thursday, returning to a social media spat from March after the Tesla and SpaceX boss spectacularly fell out…

More than two dozen railway stations, including Reasi, Katra, Banihal, Qazigund, Sangaldan and Budgam, have made transportation easy, connecting the Kashmir Valley with other major cities.

With the flagging of the Katra-Srinagar Vande Bharat Express by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday shared eight notable features of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL)…

For the first time during the anniversary of Operation Blue Star, the acting Jathedar of Akal Takht, the highest temporal body of Sikhs, Kuldeep Singh Gargaj, did not deliver the…

In the middle of what’s been a never-seen-before public fallout between arguably two of the most powerful men in the world, US President Donald Trump said that billionaire Elon Musk…

The action against a RCB member and three others in connection with the stampede outside Chinnaswamy Stadium was taken on the basis of an FIR that was registered, Bengaluru Police…

Senior IPS officer Seemanth Kumar Singh was on Thursday posted as Bengaluru Police Commissioner until further orders, an official notification said.

A fire broke out in one of the rooms of the Revenue Building in ITO here on Friday, an official said.

Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka assembly R Ashoka has alleged Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy DK Shivakumar were directly responsible for the stampede outside a Bengaluru stadium that…

The Donald Trump-Elon Musk bromance is over, and it continues to implode in public, one social media post and one reaction at a time.

The Indian benchmark indices surged on Friday after the RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra announced a jumbo 50 bps rate cut from 6 per cent to 5.5 per cent and a…

Mars mission would pursue scientific objectives like determining whether Mars ever hosted life and charting the evolution of its surface, as well as answering broader questions — such as the…

Starting at dawn, the more than 1.6 million Muslims taking part in the pilgrimage will throw seven stones at each of three concrete walls symbolising the devil in the Mina…

Amazon has cut jobs in its books division, including at its Goodreads review site and Kindle units, the company said on Thursday.

Parle-G biscuits, a staple in Indian households, associated with childhood and low-cost nutrition, were never intended to be a luxury. But in wartorn Gaza, where food scarcity has turned into…

Musk also took a shot at Trumps election win. Trump had claimed that he would have won Pennsylvania even without Musk, but the tech billionaire says that Trump only won…

A man accused of abduction and rape of a three-year-old girl in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, was killed in an encounter with police on Friday.

Indian Air Force (IAF) Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla’s mission to the International Space Station (ISS) next week will not be affected by the ongoing feud between US President Donald Trump…

The feud between the two started when Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that he was “disappointed in Elon” for coming against his “Big Beautiful Bill.”

Minute by minute, post by post, Elon Musk’s very public, extremely online feud with President Donald Trump sliced into his vaunted status as the world’s richest person. The final damage…

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has slashed its key lending rate, or the repo rate, by 50 basis points to 5.5% as inflation softens within its comfort level.

A 48-year-old autorickshaw driver from Maharashtra’s Thane district suffered burns after his wife threw hot oil on him during a fight, an official said on Friday.

A three year old girl was allegedly raped and is said to be in a critical condition, police here said on Thursday.

A stray bull attacked a man standing by the roadside in Delhi’s Chattarpur area, and the horrific incident was caught on CCTV footage.

Of the 272 km long Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla rail route, about 119 km journey passes through 36 tunnels, including T-50, India’s longest railway tunnel.

Russia mounted an intense and sustained barrage of Kyiv overnight, with missiles and drones targeting the Ukrainian capital where there was a succession of large explosions, Reuters reporters in the…

For months, Tesla shareholders were tormented by Elon Musk’s role in the Trump administrationTrump. But any relief brought by his formal government exit last week quickly turned to fear as…

Delhi Court recently acquitted an army colonel and his friend accused of raping an advocate noting the delay in FIR and contradications in the testimony of victim and absence of…

Harvard University won a temporary reprieve from President Donald Trump’s ban on its international students entering the US, a legal setback for the administration in its high-profile fight with the…

Delhi becomes unlivable for three months a year, noted G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant, underlining the severe economic and health burden of air pollution.

Shashi Tharoor made it clear at the outset that the person questioning him at the press conference is his son, Ishan Tharoor, adding with a big smile that “it shouldn’t…

Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar on Thursday said there would be no compromise on the presence of Bharat Mata’s portrait at the Raj Bhavan.

A special court has allowed Maharashtra minister Chhagan Bhujbal and his son Pankaj to extend their international travel, considering that their passports got damaged due to a fire at the…

A 60-year-old man and his wife who were sitting by the roadside were killed after a car hit them in Bihar’s Saharsa district, police said on Thursday.