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Australian police said two people were in custody following reports of multiple gunshots Sunday at Sydney’s famed Bondi Beach, urging the public to take shelter.

A day before rural polls in Punjab, incidents of crime in Jalandhar have been raised by the opposition to flag the law and order situation in the state.

Alleging a “total collapse of law and order” in Kolkata during Messi’s visit, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma blamed what he described as an entrenched VIP culture for ruining…

West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose was on Saturday evening “denied” entry into the Salt Lake Stadium, hours after chaos and crowd trouble at the venue marred an event featuring…

A senior Hamas military commander described by Israel as “one of the architects” of the October 7 massacre was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Saturday.

Videos of a late-night chaos at a pub owned by actress Shilpa Shetty in Bengaluru have gone viral on social media, prompting the police to initiate a probe into the…

New revelations surrounding Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra — principal owners of Goa’s Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub, where 25 people were killed in a devastating fire on December 6 —…

The probe into the nightclub inferno in Goa has uncovered new evidence indicating that the owners, brothers Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, booked flight tickets to Thailand at the very moment…

The BJP government led by Chief Minister Dr Mohan Yadav completed two years in office on Saturday. Just two days before that, on Thursday, Madhya Pradesh achieved a historic milestone…

President Donald Trump said Saturday that “there will be very serious retaliation” after two US service members and one American civilian were killed in an attack in Syria that the…

A 52-year-old Indian-origin man is among four people killed after a four-storey Hindu temple under construction collapsed in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, officials have said.

The Allahabad High Court has given a split verdict in a nine-year-old case involving the fatal shooting of National Investigation Agency (NIA) Deputy Superintendent of Police Tanzeel Ahmed and his…

South Africa is to deport 16 Bangladeshi nationals who arrived in the country on Friday with fake visas, officials said.

A magisterial inquiry committee has questioned original landowner Pradeep Ghadi Amonkar and Arpora-Nagoa sarpanch Roshan Redkar in connection with the devastating fire at the Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub in…

The Haryana Police’s recent security pruning exercise has triggered a political slugfest, riling the BJP’s former ally, the Jannayak Janta Party.

A ‘Babri Masjid’ plan by now-suspended Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir in Murshidabad district has added yet another dimension to what will probably be next year’s most aggressively contested Assembly…

Masood Azhar, the chief of the Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), has admitted he paid a high price for trying to escape from jail in Jammu and Kashmir in the…

The Odisha Police on Saturday took a 14-year-old boy into custody in Kendrapara, after he threatened his school headmaster inside the classroom by allegedly brandishing a country-made revolver.

The BJP has called its Manipur MLAs to Delhi amid speculation over a possible change in the state’s political landscape. The state has been under the President’s rule since February.

A student at Brown University in the United States, where a shooting happened on Saturday, texted his mother that he was barricading himself inside the campus to keep himself safe.

At least 98 students fell ill after consuming food contaminated with a lizard in a school in Odisha’s Koraput district on Saturday.

At least two people were killed and eight others were injured after a shooter dressed in black opened fire at Brown University on Saturday. The shooting happened as students were…

The Delhi government has directed 50% of its employees as well as staff in private offices to work from home as stricter pollution norms under the Graded Response Action Plan…

Security was tightened outside Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s residences in Bhopal and Delhi on Friday after intelligence inputs warned of a potential threat to him from Pakistan’s spy agency…

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has tightened its rules on photographs used for immigration paperwork, introducing stricter limits aimed at reducing identity fraud.

With assembly elections due in five months, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin launched the second phase of the Kalaignar Magalir Urimai Thittam (KMUT), expanding the flagship women’s rights entitlement…

King Charles III has been “deeply touched” by the response to his update on his cancer treatment, Buckingham Palace said Saturday, adding that the monarch is pleased to have highlighted…

Student and veteran journalists say that college newsrooms, independent media and legacy outlets across Chicago are now working together in ways that upend decades of cutthroat competition, building tools to…

CV Ananda Bose’s statement came after angry football fans stormed the field and vandalised Kolkata’s Salt Lake Stadium on Saturday morning

The Delhi Police has arrested three alleged members of a cyber fraud syndicate for duping an 82-year-old woman of Rs 1.16 crore by placing her under digital arrest and coercing…

Three persons died while five others were injured after a truck collided head-on with an auto-rickshaw here on Saturday morning, police said.

Overall, 15.1 per cent of participants reported lifetime use, 10.3 per cent reported past year use, and 7.2 per cent reported use in the past month of any substance, the…

Hours after pollution norms under GRAP-3 were imposed, Delhi and nearby areas saw the curbs being made stricter on Saturday evening and GRAP-4 being brought in.

Three Americans were killed Saturday in Syria in an ambush attack by an Islamic State group member, US Central Command said.

Ajay Gupta was traced three days after the December 6 Birch by Romeo Lane fire at a Delhi hospital.

A former BJP MLA is among seven persons named in a chargesheet in the vote theft case in Karnataka during the 2023 assembly elections.

A woman was killed by her lover after she attacked and injured his genitals in a hotel room in Punjab’s Ludhiana district.

After Mexico approved a 50 per cent tariff hike on India for select products, New Delhi has warned of taking “appropriate measures” to safeguard its interests, an official said on…

Several Syrian and American soldiers were wounded when shots were fired at a joint military delegation in Palmyra in central Syria on Saturday, state media said.

The investigation into the tragedy is continuing to widen, with the Goa Police recording over 60 statements so far.

As chaotic scenes unfolded during star footballer Lionel Messi’s event at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata, the BJP ripped into West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool…

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has apologised to Lionel Messi and his fans over the chaos that unfolded at his event in Kolkata this morning.

Fighting raged Saturday morning along the border of Thailand and Cambodia, even after US President Donald Trump, acting as a mediator, declared that he had won agreement from both countries…

Russia on Saturday said it hit Ukrainian industrial and energy facilities overnight with hypersonic missiles.

Tens of thousands rallied for the party of Nepal’s ousted prime minister, KP Sharma Oli, on Saturday, in the largest gathering in the Himalayan country since youth-led anti-graft protests forced…

A raccoon that broke into a liquor store in the US and passed out after getting drunk last month has again caused chaos.

Zubeen Garg’s wife Garima on Friday welcomed the chargesheet filed by the Special Investigation Team (SIT), which named four people in connection with the singer’s murder.

Bhagwant Mann’s comments came in the backdrop of fresh statements by Navjot Kaur Sidhu, who recently criticised the Congress leadership in Punjab.

Police sources said they were keeping a close eye on the arrested person, who was allegedly in touch with and supplying sensitive information to individuals linked to a Pakistani spying…

US President Donald Trump said that the newly released photos of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and him with multiple women were “no big deal” and that he had not even…

The bodies of seven workers killed in a road accident in Arunachal Pradesh on Monday were recovered four days after the incident happened.

Rajan warned that this skills gap begins early. “We are failing some of our kids even in childhood,” he said.

Vice President C P Radhakrishnan on Saturday led Parliamentarians in paying floral tributes to those who died fending off terrorists who attacked the Parliament House in 2001.

There cannot be an effective opposition in the country without the Congress, but the party has “somewhere lost ground”, former Union minister Ashwani Kumar said on Friday, adding that it…

The accident took place on the Eastern Peripheral Expressway or Kundli-Ghaziabad-Palwal Expressway, a 135 km long, six-lane wide expressway passing through the states of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.

The woman’s first application, submitted in July last year, was rejected due to confusion caused by the delimitation exercise before the Lok Sabha elections.

Anti-pollution curbs under GRAP-3 were imposed in Delhi on Saturday after the air quality worsened to the ‘severe category.’

Two women in Punjab’s Ludhiana thwarted a snatching attempt and chased away assailants on bike. The incident, captured on CCTV, shows the women confronting the robbers, who were armed with…

Kupiansk, in Kharkiv Oblast near the Russian border, has been a focal point in the recent conflict.

US intelligence officials temporarily suspended sharing some key information with Israel during the Biden administration over concerns about its conduct of the war in Gaza, according to six people familiar…

Alex’s father reportedly removed the brain from the washing machine, returned it to the bag, and took it back to Singh at the funeral home.

The BJP is planning to appoint an OBC leader as the state president, considering the 2027 Assembly elections and trying to consolidate non-Yadav votes.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had proposed to raise the foreign investment limit to 100 per cent from the existing 74 per cent in the insurance sector.

Counting of votes for the Kerala local body elections 2025 is underway across the state.

In a road rage incident in Gurugram, the occupants of a Scorpio being driven in the wrong direction were seen threatening a car driver.

An Indian-origin entrepreneur is facing serious charges in California after an alleged arson attempt at a winery escalated into a high-risk police confrontation.

A public listing would open SpaceX to a broader and more diverse pool of investors, including individual buyers, while giving existing shareholders an easier path to cash out and realize…

Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado had to disguise herself and move through choppy, cold seas as part of a secret mission to leave the…

K Balu said the purpose was his visit was to invite the TVK to participate in their December 17 protest in Chennai, demanding a caste-based survey in the state.

Residents of Delhi woke up to smog on Saturday, with the air quality nearing the ‘severe’ category. According to data from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the Air Quality…

A man posing as an IAS officer for the past six months was arrested here, police said on Thursday. They said they nabbed Lalit Kishor of Sitamarhi (Bihar), who posed…

Unidentified fraudsters extorted Rs 30 lakh from a 67-year-old woman in Indore by claiming that her name had surfaced in a terror case investigation and putting her under so-called digital…

A man, sentenced to life imprisonment in an 1986 acid attack case, and absconding ever since he was released on bail around 37 years ago, has been arrested from Madhya…

An attempt to rescue his pet macaw (a type of parrot) turned fatal for a 32-year-old businessman in Bengaluru after he accidentally touched a high-voltage line and got electrocuted.

The Delhi High Court has quashed an FIR registered against a private hospital and one of its senior doctors after noting that the medical negligence dispute had been “amicably resolved”…

G Parameshwara had said the state government was considering “razing down” the homes of the drug peddlers.

Canara Robeco Asset Management Company will meet on December 16 to consider declaring an interim dividend.

The Delhi government has notified the Delhi School Education (Transparency in Fixation and Regulation of Fee) Act, 2025, bringing into effect a new framework for regulating fees in private schools.

A lawmaker in Australia was left in udder disbelief when he came home to discover his pet dog had let a bull and a horse into his living room. Andrew…

The brokerage is doubling down on Loan Against Securities (LAS)a low-risk, asset-backed model aligned with its investor base.

The photo release included images of the right-wing political operative Steve Bannon, billionaires Richard Branson and Bill Gates, filmmaker Woody Allen, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and law professor Alan…

Data from mid-2025 shows that SIP exits spike precisely when markets dip

Three Indian-origin truck drivers have been arrested after a shootout between two rival tow-truck groups in Canada. The search is still on for another suspect, said Peel Regional Police, sharing…

With the 2026 Assembly elections approaching, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit West Bengal On December 20. During his visit to Bengal, PM Modi will be addressing a…

Twenty US states filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s decision to impose a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa petitions, arguing the policy is unlawful and threatens essential public…

Shehbaz Sharif met Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the International Forum dedicated to the International Year of Peace and Trust in Turkmenistan.

A US special operations team in the Indian Ocean raided a ship headed to Iran from China last month and seized military-related articles, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday,…

The Trump administration diverted more than $2 billion from US military funds in 2025 to support immigration enforcement operations, weakening military readiness and straining servicemembers, according to a report released…

Imran Khan’s detention has become a focal point of Pakistan’s deep political divisions following his removal from office in April 2022 and the subsequent crackdown on his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)…

Iran has seized an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman, Iranian media said overnight Friday to Saturday, adding that 18 crew members from India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh were…

The Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab has been hit by two sharp setbacks in a span of days.

Women from Manipur including senior citizens participated in a run in honour of the 86th Nupi Lan (Women’s War) Day, in memory of revolts by the women of Manipur against…

President Droupadi Murmu today reminded the people of Manipur that the strength of the “beautiful land” they call home lies in its diversity.

Three members of the US House of Representatives on Friday introduced a resolution aimed at terminating President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration that imposed tariffs of up to 50 per…

Following a week of deadly border clashes that have killed at least 20 and displaced around half a million people, US President Donald Trump on Friday announced that Thailand and…

Iranian security forces on Friday detained the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi along with at least eight other activists in an arrest condemned as “brutal” by the Norwegian…

Rajnath Panghal had to drive hundreds of kilometres to make sure his son reaches his school in time ahead of exams.

A woman from Assam’s Sonitpur district has been arrested after the police found suspicious foreign-linked financial transactions. She was purportedly married to a Pakistani national in Dubai.