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A day before trade minister Piyush Goyal and a delegation of top negotiators are to arrive in Washington for talks on the proposed India-US trade deal, Donald Trump has let…

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday clarified that his comments on the India-Pakistan conflict were made in a personal capacity, as an “Indian and a proud citizen”, and did not…

With a mask on his face and a torchlight in hand, a thief entered a mobile shop in Bengaluru with one crucial thing missing – his clothes.

The Supreme Court has taken a serious note of delay in filing a first information report (FIR) into the death by suicide case of a student in the Indian Institute…

The Delhi High Court has revised its timings for court sittings and lunch breaks for judges and staff, a day after the Supreme Court said high court judges were taking…

A Boeing 747 jet offered to President Donald Trump by Qatar as a temporary flying White House might need fighter jet escorts and could be restricted to flying inside the…

American R&B singer Chris Brown, the former boyfriend of superstar Rihanna, was arrested Thursday in the UK on suspicion of a serious 2023 assault at a London nightclub, reports said.

President Donald Trump on Thursday reiterated his desire to take over the Gaza Strip, telling a business roundtable in Qatar that the US would “make it a freedom zone” and…

Several prominent universities in India have cancelled tie-ups and programmes with Turkey’s educational institutions over the West Asian nation’s military support to Pakistan.

My photographer colleague, Neeraj Paul, and I were tracking a lead to a rundown part of downtown Srinagar. We were blindfolded, bundled into a van, and taken to meet an…

Foreign minister S Jaishankar, speaking of Operation Sindoor and cessation of hostilities with Pakistan, said today that it was clear that who had called for a ceasefire.

When we forget about the wounds of war, we don’t think twice before waging one. The poems of Kishwar Naheed, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, and many more offer…

BJP leader and former Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs John Barla on Thursday joined the Trinamool Congress.

In some relief for singer Sonu Nigam amid the row surrounding his ‘Kannada’ remark, the Karnataka High Court has said that the state government has assured no coercive action will…

Jamia Millia Islamia has suspended all Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs) with Turkish educational institutions, amid escalating calls across the country to boycott Turkey over its vocal support for Pakistan during…

Rolo, a two-year-old female sniffer dog of the CRPF, was the only casualty suffered by the security forces during their biggest anti-Maoist operation at the Korgotalu hills.

In return, Iran demands the immediate lifting of all economic sanctions. When asked if Iran would sign an agreement today if these conditions were met, Shamkhani replied, “Yes.”

Police misspelt the man’s name as Mark Smith, whose real name was Marc Smith.

The Armed Forces launched precision strikes in Pakistan using indigenous missile systems, AI-enabled surveillance drones, and smart munitions.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed a Kashmiri waiter asked her to thank US President Donald Trump for the India-Pakistan ceasefire.

No doubt the Pahalgam assault was condemned by the US and others, but it means little from India’s point of view if they did not take cognisance of Pakistan’s role…

Earlier this week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Punjab’s Adampur air base and interacted with soldiers.

Flowers from foes, fire from friends — this sums up what Congress leader Shashi Tharoor is going through these days. While the Thiruvananthapuram MP has drawn cheers from his critics…

Pakistan has reportedly written a letter to India, urging it to reconsider the decision to put the Indus Waters Treaty into abeyance.

Turkey’s decision to back Pakistan during the recent India-Pakistan stand-off has led to massive outrage against the West Asian nation.

An argument over whether a young man’s cricket ball landed at his teacher’s house took a violent turn when the former assaulted and stabbed the latter in Karnataka’s Bagalkot district.

The Indian Army’s Trishakti Corps conducted an exercise at a field range to validate joint operations and combat in all kinds of terrain, among other capabilities.

Five members of a family were killed and eight others seriously injured in a collision between a car and a speeding truck on the Balrampur-Bahraich National Highway, officials said Thursday.

Unsubstantiated claims of supposed cocaine use by French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on a train to Ukraine last weekend may have started from a French account.

Sensex surged past 1,000 points today after trading flat till noon. Nifty too soared by rising over 1.5 per cent and breached 25,000 for the first time since October 17…

The Delhi Mayor also assured people that the government will soon remove the landfill and work on the beautification of the area.

The Canadian government has announced a significant personal income tax cut to ease financial stress on low and middle-class income families.

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif visited Pasrur Cantonment in Sialkot, a day after PM Modi visited Adampur air base.

US authorities have charged a couple who allegedly forced a teenager to live in a dog cage and abused her for years.

Dior did not say how many customers were involved but it insisted that no financial information, such as bank card numbers, were on the database accessed.

An exhaustive examination of lunar gravity using data obtained by two NASA robotic spacecraft is offering new clues about why the two sides of the moon – the one perpetually…

Karim Khan campaigned to become the ICC’s chief prosecutor in 2020, with backing from then-Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto. He assumed office in June 2021.

Nearly 50 years ago, a Japanese Women’s Everest Expedition (JWEE) team was on its way to climb Mount Everest, and it faced an avalanche.

A commando in an elite Sri Lankan police unit, Sameera Dilshan has an unusual mission — to reclaim farms poisoned by salt, a long-standing problem now accelerating due to climate…

US President Donald Trump on Thursday said the United States was getting very close to securing a nuclear deal with Iran, as he warned Tehran that it was its only…

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, during a speech in Jammu and Kashmir today, sharply criticised Pakistan’s economic condition and its continued dependence on external financial assistance, particularly from the International Monetary…

President Droupadi Murmu’s letter to the Supreme Court, seeking clarity on the judgment that effectively set a deadline for the President and Governors to clear Bills passed by the legislature,…

A layer of dust covered the city on Thursday morning after overnight dust storms, reducing visibility and leading to a dip in the air quality. The dust storms were triggered…

Flight operations across 32 airports in North and West India are expected to return to normal, as cross-border military action between India and Pakistan came to a halt over the…

The Supreme Court directed the government of Telangana to take steps to restore the forest area in Hyderabad’s Kancha Gachibowli, which has seen protests by students and environmental activists over…

US President Donald Trump has told Apple CEO Tim Cook that he does not want him “building in India” and that “India can take care of themselves”.

Indian-origin techie Vishnu Irigireddy was among the three persons killed in a tragic climbing accident in Washington state’s North Cascades Range of western North America.

Indian-origin Judge Arun Subramanian, appointed by former President Joe Biden in 2022, also oversaw the jury selection process.

After decades of a self-reliant policy, the Algerian government is now moving forward with a comprehensive strategy to revive its tourism industry.

The discovery was made less than 12 hours after an unidentified group released a pirate-style map of a “chest worth over $10,000,” which could be located using mysterious clues about…

Global nuclear watchdog IAEA has said there was no radiation leak or release from any nuclear facility in Pakistan during the country’s recent military conflict with India.

US President Donald Trump’s announcement from Saudi Arabia about the United States easing wide-ranging sanctions on Syria sparked festivities in the capital, Damascus, as Syrians hoped for relief after years…

The woman had already consumed half of the ice cream when she discovered a part of a lizard – what looked like its tail – inside the cone.

An encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Awantipora.

A month after the Supreme Court’s landmark verdict in the Tamil Nadu case, which effectively set a deadline for the President and Governors to clear Bills passed by the legislature,…

Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton got into an argument over Princess Charlotte’s bridesmaid dress back in 2018, and the fight reportedly left the two in tears, according to a royal…

Delegations from Kyiv and Moscow are set to hold their first direct talks on the possibility of ending the war in Ukraine.

Cassie Ventura has become the star witness in the high-profile criminal case against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.

War rivals Ukraine and Russia are set to go into their first direct talks in more than three years on Thursday, with Russian President Vladimir Putin not included on the…

Donald Trump vowed to be a dictator only on his first day back in office, but his critics say four months of corruption, “bigger and more brazen” than in his…

Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon official and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, took a jibe at US President Donald Trump’s tendency to claim credit for almost every achievement.

India dominated the Forbes 30 Under 30 2025 list with 94 honorees, the most from any country in the Asia-Pacific region.

The Manipur Police said they found no organisation called ‘Kuki Zo Village Volunteer – Eastern Zone’ (KZVV-EZ) that allegedly threatened members of the Meitei community against passing by Kuki villages…

India on Tuesday issued a six-point rebuttal to recent statements by US President Donald Trump and senior members of his administration regarding the India-Pakistan ceasefire agreement announced over the weekend.

Visuals showed a raging fire with a huge amount of smoke coming out of the windows of the university.

20-year-old Indian national has been sentenced to three weeks’ jail for molesting a stewardess while on board a Singapore Airlines flight from Perth to Singapore.

By shifting the presumption on Pakistan, India has placed upon it the responsibility of stopping the harbouring, training, sponsoring and commission of acts of cross-border terror.

A 24-year-old woman tourist died when a tent she was staying in at a resort near Wayanad collapsed.

Five passengers, including two children, were killed when a private bus caught fire in the Mohanlalganj area here early Thursday, police said.

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is under scrutiny for repeatedly referencing the “white genocide” in South Africa – a right-wing conspiracy theory – even in responses to unrelated queries.

Twelve men have been arrested for cheating people online, extorting money from them with the promise of jobs.

A single bench of Justice Arun Kumar Singh Deswal made the remarks while hearing a petition to quash the chargesheet, cognisance, and summons order against a man, Furkan, issued by…

Since May 7, the day of India’s strategic strike across the border, an advanced Command Center was established within the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

A Mexican social media influencer was shot dead while live-streaming on TikTok. Valeria Marquez, 23, was murdered by a man who entered her beauty salon in Guadalajara city of Mexico’s…

MrBeast, the world’s most subscribed YouTuber, is in trouble again, this time with the Mexican authorities over a video shot at multiple federally protected archaeological sites such as Calakmul, Chichen…

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday represented India at the BRICS Transport Ministers’ Meet in Brasilia, Brazil, articulating India’s commitment to building a sustainable, resilient, and future-ready transport infrastructure.

At least 10 militants were killed in a gunfight with an Assam Rifles unit in Manipur’s Chandel district on Wednesday, officials said.

Dismantling years of US government policy of treating Syria like a pariah, President Donald Trump on Wednesday met Syrias interim president, Ahmad al-Sharaa.

Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon official and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, took a jibe at US President Donald Trump’s tendency to claim credit for almost every achievement.

In a big reveal, the Government of India on Wednesday, said that the Indian Air Force had successfully jammed Chinese air defence systems that Pakistan had installed all along its…

When President Donald Trump announced in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday that he would lift all sanctions on Syria, the decision – which will boost a country devastated by 13 years…

Ben Cohen, cofounder of Ben &Jerry’s ice cream and a longtime progressive activist, told AFP he was speaking for millions of Americans outraged by the “slaughter” in Gaza after his…

British MP Bob Blackman has condemned the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmirs Pahalgam, which claimed 26 lives, mostly tourists.

A tigress — suspected to be turning into a man eater — was caught from inside a hotel in Rajasthan’s Ranthambore today. The animal was hiding behind a cottage meant…

Slamming the Congress and other opposition parties, the BJP on Wednesday asserted that Operation Sindoor is still going on and it has been stopped only temporarily, asking them to refrain…

Turkish news broadcaster, TRT World and the account of the Chinese state-run propaganda mouthpiece, Global Times, are now available in India.

A suspected spy was arrested in Panipat district on Tuesday for allegedly supplying sensitive information to some individuals in Pakistan, Haryana Police said.

India Pakistan Ceasefire Highlights: Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security on Wednesday, the first since the pause in hostilities between India and Pakistan.

Britain and Germany will jointly develop a new “deep precision strike” weapon with a range exceeding 2,000 kilometres (1,242 miles), the British government said on Thursday, as Europe’s two largest…

Qatar’s offer to donate a luxury jet to the United States was not a personal gift to President Donald Trump but a “government-to-government transaction,” the Gulf nation’s prime minister said…

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has notified amendments to its regulations, permitting foreign lawyers and law firms to practice foreign law within India.

At least 21 people died in an auto accident on Wednesday on a highway connecting Mexico’s Oaxaca and Puebla states, a top state official said.

Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (Ireda) on Wednesday said it filed a bankruptcy application against beleaguered Gensol Engineering before the National Company Law Tribunal.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced the names of officials who will represent Russia in the renewed negotiations with Ukraine, set to take place in Turkey today, TASS reported.

The United States on Wednesday unveiled fresh sanctions against six people and 12 firms — including several Chinese nationals — for their support of Iran’s ballistic missile program.

A US judge ordered the release from custody on Wednesday of an Indian researcher at a top American university who is facing possible deportation for alleged Hamas ties.

A 17-year-old boy died by suicide by jumping from the 15th floor in Tata Primanti society in Sector 72 on Wednesday, police said.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday hailed the “fantastic” Free Trade Agreement (FTA) clinched with India as he came down heavily on the Opposition Conservative Party for wanting to…

Lee, along with Illinois Representative Mary Miller, unveiled the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act (IODA), which seeks to redefine “obscenity” for the internet era.

All strikes under Operation Sindoor were executed without any loss of Indian assets. The Indian Air Force bypassed and jammed Pakistan’s Chinese-supplied air defence systems, completing the mission in 23…