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The government has ratified the rate of interest on employees’ provident fund at 8.25 per cent for FY25, enabling retirement fund body EPFO to deposit the annual interest accumulation in…

Two jail guards have been arrested in Assam’s Sribhumi district for allegedly dragging a young, homeless woman, who is mentally challenged, to the compound of the district jail and gang-raping…

A duck rearer in Andhra Pradesh’s Tirupati and his family have been arrested for keeping a woman and her three children from a tribal community as bonded labourers, making her…

French police were investigating a possible arson attack as being the main cause for a power outage which hit the Alpes-Maritimes region in southern France on Saturday, including Cannes which…

A man in Gujarat has been arrested for allegedly sharing key information related to the Indian Air Force (IAF) and the Border Security Force (BSF) with a Pakistani agent, officials…

A 32-year-old man, who came to attend a marriage function in Shahjahanpur district, has been shot dead over an alleged affair.

Taking a keen interest in the airport at Pakyong, which serves Sikkim’s capital Gangtok and has seen no flight operations for nearly two years, Union Minister Pabitra Margherita said he…

A seer of a Ram temple in Karnataka’s Belgaum district has been arrested for sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl, said the police.

Amid a gradual uptick in COVID-19 cases in Karnataka over the past few days, state Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao on Saturday asked people to stay calm and continue with…

The Supreme Court has granted a stay on a Rs 5,712-crore GST notice sent to fintech firm One97 Communications-owned real money gaming platform First Games, a regulatory filing said on…

A 55-year-old woman from the National Capital Region has been tested positive for COVID-19, marking the first case in Uttar Pradesh’s Noida amid the recent surge in cases in India,…

The council, the apex body of Niti Aayog, includes all state chief ministers, lieutenant governors of Union Territories, and several Union ministers. Prime Minister Modi is the chairman of Niti…

On a popular podcast called Pivot, hosted by him, he said that Musk aligned himself with the wrong people and alienated Teslas customer base. Tesla was one of his most…

This announcement comes two days after he told student-led National Citizen Party (NCP) leaders that he was mulling resignation as he felt “the situation is such that he cannot work”.

Shocking allegations of filming and selling pornographic videos have emerged against a government doctor in Uttar Pradesh, after purported visuals of him cross-dressing went viral on the internet.

This was Rahul Gandhi’s second visit to Jammu and Kashmir since the deadly April 22 Pahalgam terror attack.

BRS working president KT Rama Rao said the Chief Minister Revanth Reddy-led Congress government has turned Telangana into an ATM, after the latter was named in the National Herald case…

It is suspected that they died by suicide as they were in depression after Kumar was diagnosed with cancer, police said.

A man allegedly poured toilet cleaner acid on his wife following an argument between the couple over the volume of music playing on his mobile phone.

A Zepto delivery executive allegedly assaulted a customer over a mismatch in address in Bengaluru earlier this week, leaving him seriously injured.

According to meteorologists, there is no direct relationship between the onset date and the total rainfall over the country during the season.

In the footage, the man could be seen beating the child and trying to slam her head against the wall as she cries in fear.

According to a statement from the security forces, the troops spotted one suspicious person advancing towards the border fence after crossing the International Border.

A US court convicted Angad Chandhok in 2022 for being part of an international tech support scam that defrauded citizens.

Police have arrested Ulfa (I) commander Rupam Asom from the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border.

Israel has been bombarding and besieging Gaza since the territory’s ruling group Hamas launched a surprise attack against Israeli border communities on October 7, 2023.

Bangladesh’s interim leader will meet powerful parties pressurising his government later, days after he reportedly threatened to quit.

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology invited international students enrolled at Harvard to continue their studies at HKUST.

Muhammad Yunus, who heads the interim government in Bangladesh, is now aiming for a five-year term as the military pushes for elections in the Southeast Asian country where a deadly…

S Jaishankar’s remarks highlight India’s firm stance on counterterrorism and the strong international support it has received.

Thick black smoke was seen billowing from the multi-storey building, which collapsed after an explosion, as the flames rapidly engulfed the entire structure.

The victim, who was allegedly in a drunken state, was resting under the shade of a tree near his house when the incident took place.

The report mentioned that nine months after the Marubo tribe got internet through Starlink, its teenagers were spending too much time on phones, playing violent video games, watching pornography.

Another high-profile student caught between the crosshairs is Princess Elisabeth of Belgium. She is the heir to the Belgian throne and has just completed her first year in a two-year…

The official said CCTV footage revealed the accused, Chotya Sundar Khobragade, allegedly sexually assaulting one of the horses.

Pappu Lohara, who was carrying a reward of Rs 10 lakh,was the leader of the Jharkhand Jan Mukti Parishad, a renegade Maoist outfit.

A third-year MBBS student was allegedly raped in Maharashtra’s Sangli district by her two classmates and one of their friends after they spiked her drink, police said on Friday.

The Governing Council, the apex decision-making body of NITI Aayog, includes all Chief Ministers, Lieutenant Governors of UTs, and several Union Ministers.

Upholding the right to privacy in an alleged extramarital affair case involving two senior Army officers, a Delhi court has rejected a request seeking CCTV footage from a hotel.

Harvard University’s links to China, long an asset to the school, have become a liability as the Trump administration levels accusations that its campus is plagued by Beijing-backed influence operations.

Several recent studies have found that there is not enough evidence to support astronomers’ claims of the most promising hints of alien life yet on a distant planet.

Elias Rodriguez told the police that he was inspired by a US airman, who set himself ablaze outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC last year.

President Donald Trump said that the tariffs he threatened against Apple Inc earlier Friday would also be aimed at a wider range of device makers, including Samsung Electronics Co, to…

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited Lithuania this week to inaugurate Berlin’s brigade to help protect the eastern flank of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

The Trump administration has accused Harvard of maintaining an unsafe campus culture that gives unfair treatment to Jewish people.

An animal advocacy group released a distressing aerial footage of orcas – Wikie, 23, and her son Keijo, 11 – swimming in the abandoned Marineland Antibes near Cannes, France.

AAP MP Raghav Chadha, an alumnus of Harvard University, expressed solidarity with students affected by the policy.

Tensions between India and Pakistan have increased following the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam last month.

China will safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of its overseas students and scholars, the foreign ministry said.

The Auschwitz museum warned against Facebook posts with “harmful” AI-generated fictional images of victims of the Nazi German death camp, condemning them for “falsifying history”.

A French court convicted the jewel thieves who in 2016 tied up US reality TV star Kim Kardashian at gun point before making off with her $4 million engagement ring…

SpaceX said it will make another launch attempt next week of the massive Starship rocket — key to CEO Elon Musk’s long-term vision of colonizing Mars — after two consecutive…

Before leaving for five countries to share India’s stance against terrorism, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Friday said that the country will not be silenced by terrorism.

Shiv Sena Social Media In-charge, Rahool Kanal, in letters addressed to the Maharashtra Governor C.P. Radhakrishnan, has made a strong plea for the suspension of flights from Mumbai to Istanbul…

After the Uttarakhand Madrasa Education Board announced to introduce ‘Operation Sindoor’ in its madrasa’s curriculum, a similar demand was raised here in Madhya Pradesh

Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Friday evening visited ailing former Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik at RML Hospital.

Chhonzin Angmo, a tribal woman from a remote village in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district, suffers from total blindness but she has never let her visual impairment stand in the way…

King Charles III is coming to Canada to deliver a message: Canada is a sovereign nation distinct from the United States.

Australian authorities started clean-up efforts after floods claimed five lives and inundated more than 10,000 properties in the country’s southeast.

The Justice Department said it reached a preliminary agreement with Boeing to settle a long-running criminal probe into deadly 737 MAX crashes, drawing condemnation from some crash victim families.

The United Nations said it feared that 427 Rohingya, Myanmar’s persecuted Muslim minority, had perished at sea in two shipwrecks on May 9 and 10 off the Myanmar coast.

One of California’s largest utilities is to pay the US Forest Service $82.5 million for a wildfire that burned tens of thousands of acres of woodland.

A group of US senators said they felt hope after meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney towards repairing bilateral relations and securing a new trade and security deal.

The fatal shooting of the young couple after an event at a Jewish museum has deeply shaken the US capital’s Jews, and has led to a review of security protocols…

India is currently witnessing a modest rise in Covid-19 infections, with the Union Health Ministry reporting 257 active cases so far. Kerala, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu account for over 85…

The internal differences within the Bharat Rashtra Samithi came to the fore on Friday with party MLC K Kavitha taking exception to the letter she wrote to her father and…

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Punjab Police inspector Ronnie Singh Salh in connection with the assault case of Army Colonel Pushpinder…

Princess Elisabeth is studying Public Policy at Harvard, a two-year master’s degree program that according to the university’s website broadens students’ perspectives and sharpens their skills for “successful career in…

Trump moved to dramatically downsize the National Security Council, that could see the group responsible for coordinating and implementing foreign policy at the White House cut in half.

Indian-origin professor Ganesh Thakur has been named president of the Texas Academy of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology (TAMEST), becoming the first University of Houston (UH) faculty member to hold…

The recent military action between India and Pakistan was the first instance of two nuclear weapon states engaging in continuous strikes and counter-strikes, which sparked global tensions, Dr Walter Ladwig,…

An Indian Army officer jumped into a stream in Sikkim to save a fellow soldier, eventually drowning himself after being swept away by the current.

India on Friday slammed Pakistan at the UN Security Council, saying it has experienced decades of Pakistani sponsored terrorist attacks ranging from the 26/11 Mumbai attacks to “barbaric mass murder”…

The police on Friday arrested four of the seven prime accused in a gang rape case — who were out on bail — for parading the streets of Akki Allur…

Following the Donald Trump administration’s decision to bar Harvard University from enrolling international students, US Congressman Ro Khanna criticised the move and challenged prominent tech figures including Elon Musk to…

A local court in T. Narasipura issued summons on Friday to Kannada actor Darshan and his wife Vijayalaxmi, directing them to appear before the court in connection with the illegal…

US Vice President JD Vance said on Friday that the United States under President Donald Trump will choose carefully when to use military force and will avoid involvement in open-ended…

A new study proves that a type of genetic element called ‘introners’ is the mechanism by which many introns spread within and between species.

The decline in net migration has been welcomed by the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, who stated that “the 300,000 drop in net migration since the election is important and welcome…

A US-backed organization aims to start work in the Gaza Strip by the end of May, overseeing a new model of aid distribution in the Palestinian enclave, but the United…

Oracle will spend around $40 billion on Nvidia’s higher-performance chips to power OpenAI’s new US data center, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders Friday to boost nuclear energy in the United States, including by rolling back regulatory processes on a still divisive technology.

The Israeli military said it had received a report on Thursday that Israeli civilians had vandalised property in the area of the village, in the northern part of the West…

Germany police on Friday said they had arrested a woman after at least 12 people were injured in a knife attack at the main station in the northern city of…

The individual who was allegedly behind the Instagram handle which shared photographs of women commuters on the Bengaluru metro network has been taken into custody.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit his home state, Gujarat, on May 26 and 27, for the first time after Operation Sindoor. The Prime Minister will attend programmes…

India on Friday extended the closure of its airspace for flights operated by Pakistan airlines by another month till June 23, according to sources.

Expressing strong support for India after the Pahalgam attack and Operation Sindoor, Germany has said that the country has every right to defend itself against terrorism.

In an incident that feels like it is from another century, a policeman in Lucknow was attacked using a bow and arrow near the office of the Central Bureau of…

There are 6,800 international students in Harvard that make up about 27% of Harvards enrollments this year. About one-third of its foreign students are Chinese and 700 are Indian.

At least 12 people were injured in a knife attack in Hamburg station on Friday evening, Germany’s Bild newspaper reported, and local police confirmed they had arrested the suspected assailant.

Moscow has played down the idea of the Vatican being a potential location for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, calling it a “fantasy” that many people are talking about.

Making an important observation and calling for reform, Supreme Court judge AS Oka, whose last working day was on Friday, said the court is Chief Justice-centric and needs to change.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday said India has zero-tolerance for terrorism and New Delhi will “never give in to nuclear blackmail”.

A major accident was averted in Tamil Nadu’s Dindigul district on Friday, when an alert conductor of a private bus pressed the brakes of the moving vehicle with his hands…

Kannur native and a resident of Qatar, Safrina Latheef was a banker and a baker before she turned to mountaineering, a long term desire of hers, and became the first…

A US judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from revoking Harvard University’s ability to enroll foreign students, a move that ratcheted up White House efforts to conform practices in…

This move is a response to the growing trend of customers using politicians’ names as nicknames when ordering drinks, often accompanied by messages of support or opposition.

German sportswear maker Adidas said on Friday an unauthorised external party had obtained certain consumer data through a third-party customer service provider albeit not passwords or credit card data.

A domestic flight from Delhi to Srinagar went through a chaotic situation on Wednesday, after the IndiGo aircraft encountered a violent hailstorm and severe turbulence, triggering multiple warnings, an 8,500-feet-per-minute…