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At least 25 people were killed and hundreds of others were injured in a massive blast that rocked the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas on Saturday.

The school, which shot to fame after it featured in the Aamir Khan-starrer movie “3 Idiots” in 2009, was so far affiliated with the Jammu and Kashmir State Board of…

The letter, penned by Colonel Archibald Gracie just days before the Titanic sank, was written on April 10, 1912, from Southampton.

With Canada’s federal election scheduled for Monday, voters across the nation are preparing to cast their ballots, as Prime Minister Mark Carney, who leads the Liberals and Conservative leader Pierre…

Trump’s trade war and threats to make Canada the 51st state have infuriated Canadians and led to a surge in nationalism, helping the Liberal Party flip the narrative.

Russia detained a man suspected of killing a Russian general in a car blast outside Moscow on Ukraine’s orders, the FSB secret service said on Saturday.

Reacting to an X post on New Delhi setting a deadline for Pakistan nationals to leave India, Fawad Ahmed Hussain Chaudhry, a former minister from the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf,…

Against the labyrinthine workings of Afghan politics, the Americans are demanding weapons handover or control over Bagram.

Every Indian’s blood is boiling and each one of them is feeling the pain of those who lost their own in the terror attack at Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam on…

US President Donald Trump has raised doubts about his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin’s willingness to end the war in Ukraine. Trump suggested Putin has been “tapping me along” and said…

Imran Khan suffered bullet injuries on his right leg during the assassination attempt by two shooters during a political rally in Punjab province’s Wazirabad area.

The fire brigade received a call about the blaze at the multistorey Kaiser-I-Hind building, which houses the Enforcement Directorate (ED) office, around 2:30 am.

In his long career, Lt General Pattabhiraman had also served as Colonel Commandant of The Bombay Sappers.

The bus driver was booked in connection with the incident.

As the world bid farewell to Pope Francis, here’s a look at the family he leaves behind – the ones who knew him simply as Jorge.

President Donald Trump and his administration this week will highlight the accomplishments of his first 100 days in office, while looking toward the next 100 days.

The White House Correspondents’ Association staged its annual gala in a muted celebration amid mounting concerns about press freedom under Trump.

Three American children aged two, four and seven — one of whom has a rare form of cancer — have been deported from the United States alongside their undocumented immigrant…

Hussein al-Sheikh was detained by Israeli forces for 11 years.

Several deaths are being reported from the Canadian city of Vancouver after a driver ran over a crowd at a street festival. The local police said the incident occurred around…

A short duration hot test of the semicryogenic engine was successfully conducted at the test facility in ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC) at Mahendragiri in Tamil Nadu, the space agency said…

In a veiled message after the Pahalgam terror attacks in which 26 people were killed, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has said non-violence is India’s religion and a key part of…

A non-European pope would make sense, given that Catholicism is growing in Africa and Asia, while church attendance is dropping in Europe.

Pope Francis’s successor will face a litany of challenges, from the place of women and the LGBTQ community in the Catholic Church, to diplomatic challenges.

Cardinals electing Pope Francis’s successor will have an easier time than many of their predecessors, who endured spartan conditions and were even locked up so long that some of them…

Cardinals will gather in the Sistine Chapel to elect a successor to Pope Francis in a highly secretive process that could take several days, potentially longer.

Odisha Police on Saturday recovered the bodies of a man and a girl hanging from a tree in Kalahandi district.

The Delhi Police has arrested a 21-year-old engineering student with alleged mental health issues for sending threat mails to the head coach of men’s cricket team and former BJP MP…

Smoke shrouded Iran’s largest commercial port and surrounding areas as a fire following a major blast killed 14 people and injured 750 so far. Strong winds posed hindrances to firefighting…

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has condemned the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam that left 26 tourists dead last week.

Any analysis of the heinous terrorist attack at Pahalgam must begin with an outright condemnation and a deep expression of regret for the loss of innocent lives in the most…

A Pakistani woman, living in India since 2008, has been asked to leave the country as her visa was found to have expired last year, said the police.

Union minister Piyush Goyal has said that terror attacks like the one in Pahalgam would continue to disturb the nation as long as all 140 crore Indians don’t regard patriotism…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas named close confidant Hussein al-Sheikh as his deputy and likely successor on Saturday.

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Saturday issued an advisory directing all media outlets to refrain from broadcasting live coverage of military operations or movements of security forces.

A commentator yells excitedly as hundreds of spectators stand glued to a video of a racecourse — but the athletes they are rooting for are actually tiny sperm cells.

Emphasising the importance of suspending the Indus Waters Treaty, Union Jal Shakti Minister CR Patil has said India will ensure that not even a “drop of water” from the Indus…

Pope Francis was buried inside his favourite Rome church after a funeral mass in St Peter’s Square, the Vatican said on Saturday.

Jacques Moalic, a former Agence France-Presse journalist who survived deportation to the Buchenwald concentration camp in World War II, has died aged 102, his family said.

Pakistani health authorities have initiated “emergency preparedness” measures to secure pharmaceutical supplies in response to the suspension of trade ties with India, according to a media report on Saturday.

In a spirited lead-up to the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) Silver Jubilee celebrations, BRS MLC Kalvakuntla Kavitha on Saturday flagged off 25 cars from her residence in Hyderabad.

US President Donald Trump on Saturday criticised Russian President Vladimir Putin for attacks on civilian areas of Ukraine in recent days, and said, “Maybe he doesn’t want to stop the…

Bangladesh’s turn towards Islamic extremism, its “hobnobbing” with Pakistan and ISIS flags at protest rallies in the country have sparked concern among Indian authorities and members of Sheikh Hasina’s Awami…

“During yesterday’s talks with Trump’s envoy Witkoff, Vladimir Putin reiterated that Russia is ready to resume negotiations with Ukraine without any preconditions,” said Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.

Three workers died of burn injuries after a massive explosion at a firecracker factory here triggered a blaze on Saturday, an official said.

Mehrdad Hassanzadeh, head of the province’s crisis management authority has confirmed to state tv that the cause of the incident was the explosion of several containers.

Hamas is open to an agreement to end the Gaza war that would include the one-time release of all remaining hostages and a five-year cessation of hostilities, an official from…

“The meeting took place and is already over,” Zelensky’s spokesman Sergiy Nykyforov told journalists without elaborating.

The Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old US citizen “with no meaningful process,” a federal judge said on Friday, as the child’s father sought to have her returned…

After US President Donald Trump claimed that Russia and Ukraine were “very close to a deal,” his billionaire adviser, Elon Musk, asserted it was time to end the war.

Adil Ahmed Thoker, one of the terrorists involved in the Pahalgam massacre of April 22, which saw 26 people gunned down, went to Pakistan in 2018 and returned six years…

Mumbai Police on Saturday said that the key conspirator of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, Tahawwur Rana was not cooperating with the investigating agencies and giving evasive replies.

Without mentioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi or his Pakistani counterpart Shehbaz Sharif, Trump said he knew both the leaders.

“I was Pakistan’s daughter, but now I’m India’s daughter-in-law,” says Seema Haider as she fears deportation after the government suspended visa services for Pakistani nationals as part of a series…

The mother of a 17-year-old boy involved in the Pune Porsche crash, in which two persons lost their lives, walked out of jail on Saturday, four days after the Supreme…

Members of the Indian community were holding a protest outside the Pakistan High Commission in London against the Pahalgam attack in Jammu and Kashmir this week.

Medical Superintendent of Safdarjung Hospital, Dr Sandeep Bansal, informed that the adrenal tumour, measuring 18.2 x 13.5 cms, is the largest ever adrenal tumour in the world.

The completion of India’s longest rail tunnel between Devprayag and Janasu in Uttarakhand faced significant challenges, including moments when it seemed the tunnel might collapse and jeopardise the whole project,…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi distributed 51,236 appointment letters to newly-recruited candidates in central government departments and organisations as part of the 15th Rozgar Mela, organised on Saturday.

A 55-year-old Alzheimer’s patient was allegedly brutally assaulted by his male home-nurse at his residence near Kodumon here three days ago, police said on Saturday.

Pakistan’s government is trying hard to counter the terror charges levelled by India after the massacre of 26 tourists by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir. But the latest challenge that…

The case was filed by a relative of VD Savarkar against Rahul Gandhi after he made a statement about the freedom fighter in London.

Pope Francis had been vocal in his criticism of Israel’s military actions in Gaza, suggesting that the international community should examine whether Israel’s actions could be classified as genocide.

Hannah Dugan, a Milwaukee County circuit judge, allegedly “intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject” whom agents were intending to detain at her courthouse, FBI director Kash Patel said…

The fossil of a 113-million-year-old hell ant, believed to have lived among dinosaurs, has now become the oldest ant specimen known to science, according to a new study.

The man and his wife had been in the city just a few days ago to take his NEET-aspirant son back home, but he had refused.

Aviation watchdog DGCA on Saturday issued an advisory to airlines on providing proper communication and in-flight catering services to passengers as international flights are having longer flying time due to…

The actions were taken in Shopian, Kulgam, and Pulwama districts as the security forces have intensified the crackdown on LeT operatives and suspects linked to the deadly Pahalgam attack.

The glossy wooden table on which the Simla Agreement was signed is kept at the Kirti Hall in the Raj Bhawan in Shimla.

The jury in the criminal sex trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs will watch the footage of the music mogul physically assaulting his former girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, a New York…

Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Friday led a candle march to protest the Pahalgam terror attack, which claimed 26 lives, and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to give…

As diplomatic and military tensions between India and Pakistan simmer following Tuesday’s deadly terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Iran has stepped forward with a formal offer to mediate between the two…

The UNSC has “condemned in the strongest terms” the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir, stressing that those responsible should be held accountable and the sponsors of this “reprehensible act…

The Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act, 1974 (COFEPOSA), has been invoked against arrested Kannada actress Ranya Rao in connection with a gold smuggling case, sources…

Pakistani troops opened “unprovoked” fire at Indian posts across the Line of Control for the second night as tensions escalated between the two countries over the massacre of 26 civilians…

Pakistani Hindu refugees living in India are gripped by fear as the deadline approaches for Pakistani nationals to leave in the aftermath of the Pahalgam attack.

Pakistan has claimed it may put the 1972 Simla Agreement “in abeyance” after India’s move to put a hold on the Indus Waters Treaty following the barbaric attack on tourists…

Swarms of fake and misleading content interrupted the global rush of condolences that poured online for Pope Francis ahead of his funeral Saturday.

Ms Lloyd first entered the Circle posing as Raymond Lloyd back in 1991.

Pope Francis died at the age of 88 on April 21 due to a stroke, weeks after he returned home after battling double pneumonia.

Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal on Friday assured a smooth Amarnath Yatra, which is set to commence on July 3 this year, despite the Pahalgam terror attack.

A Kerala woman, her father and twin sons were enjoying a horse ride in Pahalgam, when gunshots rang through the Valley.

Finding “a worsening religious and political climate of fear, intolerance, and violence” for minorities in Pakistan, US Commission on International Religious Freedom has asked Trump’s administration to take strong measures…

Maharashtra minister Nitesh Rane on Friday said Hindus should ask the religion of shopkeepers before buying anything from them, controversial remarks coming in the backdrop of the Pahalgam terror attack.

Three girls and a woman returning from a wedding were gang-raped by six adults and a minor in a forest in Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat district on Friday.

Admiral Arun Prakash (retired) has cautioned people against going on a path that Pakistan’s ISI wants Indians to take amid the rising tension between the two neighbours, days after Pakistan-linked…

A “metal object” that fell from an Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft caused severe damage to a house in Madhya Pradesh’s Shivpuri district on Friday, but nobody was injured, police…

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the terror attack in Jammu & Kashmir’s Pahalgam was carried out with an intent to “divide society” and urged the nation to stand…

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Friday said the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) with Pakistan that has been put in abeyance by the Centre in the wake of the…

Luigi Mangione last year allegedly tracked UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York, walked up behind him and fired several gunshots from a pistol with a silencer.

Virginia Giuffre, who accused disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein and Britain’s Prince Andrew of sexual abuse, has taken her own life at her home in Australia, her family said Saturday.

President Droupadi Murmu on Friday paid homage to Pope Francis at the Basilica of St Peter here.

The Deputy Chief of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Yaroslav Moskalik, died in a car explosion in Balashikha near Moscow on Friday,…

The United States on Friday abruptly paused the cancellation of student visas issued to international students, according to reports.

US’ Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, paying homage to those who were killed in the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s…

US President Donald Trump said Friday that Russia and Ukraine were “very close” to a ceasefire deal, and urged the two sides to meet and finalize it.

President Donald Trump’s administration has abolished the office that runs US climate diplomacy, potentially meaning the world’s largest economy will be a no-show at November’s COP30 summit in Brazil.

Offence of dowry death strikes at the foundations of dignity, equality and justice in domestic life, but there is no blanket prohibition against the grant of bail in such cases,…

A man was booked for allegedly cheating a BMC job aspirant who had raised Rs 8 lakh for the purpose by mortgaging his mother’s gold jewellery, a Mumbai police official…

India and Pakistan will figure out relations between themselves, US President Donald Trump said on Friday as tensions soared between the two neighboring countries after a terror attack in Jammu…