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The captains’ meet ahead of the Champions Trophy 2025 has been cancelled, according to a report in Cricket Pakistan. Already there were lot of speculations that India captain Rohit Sharma…
There are no survivors in the midair collision between a US Army Blackhawk helicopter and a passenger jet in Washington DC, a fire official said. Local media reported 28 bodies…
Organisers of the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj spent years preparing for one of the world’s largest religious gatherings, but as the event reached its peak this week, they are…
US President Donald Trump’s military deportation flight to Guatemala on Monday likely cost at least $4,675 per migrant, according to data provided by US and Guatemalan officials. That is more…
The Direct Tax Code – a new income tax bill meant to simplify compliance for individual taxpayers – will be introduced separately, and not as part of the Union Budget…
A day after 30 people died and 60 others sustained injuries in a pre-dawn stampede at the Sangam area of the Maha Kumbh in Uttar Pradesh‘s Prayagraj, the state government…
Indian cricket team star batter Virat Kohli returned to domestic cricket after 12 years as Delhi face Railways in their Ranji Trophy encounter on Thursday. Kohli’s Ranji return sparked massive…
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in conjunction with the ICC will hold the opening ceremony of the upcoming Champions Trophy on February 16 in Lahore. A source in the PCB…
It isn’t every day that Big Bollywood paints the North East on its canvas. Even rarer is when they get it right. The Season 2 of the Amazon original Paatal…
“Drink if you dare” – Arvind Kejriwal‘s dramatic response to the Election Commission‘s demand for proof to back claims the BJP’s Haryana government attempted “genocide” by mixing “poison” in Yamuna…
A man who repeatedly burnt the Koran in 2023 in Sweden, sparking outrage in Muslim countries, has been shot dead, media reported Thursday, with police confirming a man died in…
A US passenger jet carrying 64 people crashed into the Potomac River after a midair collision with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter during a nighttime training exercise. The incident…
A Chinese crane company has reportedly offered its employees a whopping $11 million, approximately Rs 70 crore, in year-end bonuses, with just one condition: you take home as much as…
Mohammed Wajid, a 28-year-old student from Hyderabad, died in a road accident in Plymouth County of Massachusetts in the USA on January 28. Mr Wajid, a native of the Khairatabad…
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has revealed that he experimented with LSD in his youth. His reason? To impress girls. This candid admission forms part of his forthcoming memoir Source Code,…
In an attempt to reduce federal spending, US President Donald Trump has announced buyout offers to more than 2 million employees. The decision affects roughly two-thirds of the federal workforce…
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek claims to have developed an AI assistant with performance comparable to leading Western models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini but at a fraction…
Virat Kohli confirmed to play a Ranji Trophy match after 12 years as Delhi won the toss and elected to bowl first against Railways in their Elite Group D match…
On a late-winter afternoon in Delhi, Shahid Kapoor and Pooja Hegde were to meet the press as part of the promotions of Deva. The two walked in fashionably late, a…
Terrifying footage of a giant fish attacking a young mermaid performer in China’s aquarium is going viral on social media. The incident took place at the Xishuangbanna Primitive Forest Park…
In operations coordinated by the CBI, two fugitives facing Interpol Red Notice and wanted in separate cases in Tamil Nadu and Gujarat were arrested after their return from the US…
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday claimed that Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini “pretended” to drink Yamuna water and then spat some of it back…
Over 7,000 student and exchange visitors from India overstayed in the US in 2023, an expert told US lawmakers and suggested several reforms in the country’s immigration policies, including those…
Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu is an avid social media user. He recently took to Instagram to share that he underwent an incredible weight loss transformation, losing 33 kilograms in less…
S Jonathan Prasad lived a nightmare 11 years back after his 23-year-old daughter Esther Anuhya’s rotten body was found on a Mumbai road. A software engineer with Tata Consultancy Services…
Indian cricket team star batter Virat Kohli‘s long-awaited return to domestic cricket was marred by chaos at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi during the Ranji Trophy match between…
The US Department of Justice’s (DoJ) indictment of billionaire Gautam Adani is a strategic blunder with severe geopolitical consequences, leading American publication Forbes has said. In an article titled “The…
Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the “basic building blocks” for life, shedding new light on the perennial question of how life began on our planet.…
AAP leader Priyanka Kakkar on Thursday lashed out at Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini who took a sip of Yamuna water to counter accusations made by Arvind Kejriwal and…
Indian carmaker Tata Motors fell more than 7% in early trade on Thursday after reporting a bigger-than-expected drop in quarterly profit, which pushed a slew of brokerages to slash price…
Washington DC Plane Crash LIVE Updates: An American Airlines regional passenger jet carrying 64 people crashed into Washington DC’s Potomac River on Wednesday after colliding mid-air with a US Army…
Visuals showed the night sky lit up with what appeared like a massive firework as the plane and the helicopter came crashing down into the Potomac River in Washington. The…
The state of cricket stadiums in Pakistan has sent shockwaves across the global cricketing spectrum, with the slow renovation progress leaving all the stakeholders worried. While India are supposed to…
Cricket has its fair share of bizarre ways of getting out. Be it being timed out for entering the field too late or being run out at the non-striker’s end…
The stampede at Maha Kumbh on the early hours of Wednesday took place because the crowd had gathered ahead of time and broke the barriers, the Uttar Pradesh police have…
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday (local time) signed the first law of his second administration– the Laken Riley Act. The legislation gives federal authorities broader power to detain and…
NASA on Wednesday (local time) said it was working with billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX to safely return the astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who are for months struck at…
Former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, bearing the brunt of criticism over his pre-poll allegation that Haryana is poisoning waters of the Yamuna, Wednesday responded to the Election Commission with…
A large amount of cash and liquor have been seized from a car with a “Punjab government” sticker in election-bound Delhi, police said yesterday, adding that AAP pamphlets were also…
A jet from the US state of Kansas, carrying around 60 passengers, crashed into Washington’s Potomac River after colliding mid-air with a military helicopter near Reagan National Airport today. Rescue…
Mithila Palkar’s new and cosy Mumbai home is calm and charming enough to be an escape from the city bustle. The cute and comfortable 700-square-foot house is designed by Mithila’s…
A 30-year-old woman was allegedly raped and poured acid on in front of her two children in Assam’s Cachar district, police said on Wednesday. The incident took place on January…
There’s been a different flavour to the atmosphere around the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi ever since Virat Kohli’s participation for Delhi in their Ranji Trophy match against Railways,…
Two brothers allegedly stabbed their mother’s lover to death, sliced his intestines and tossed them in the air in a grisly crime in Gujarat earlier this week. The two siblings…
US President Donald Trump unveiled a surprise plan Wednesday to detain thousands of undocumented migrants in Guantanamo Bay — distracting from spiraling confusion after the White House withdrew a shock…
A small aircraft crashed in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport late Wednesday, and fire boats were on the scene, the Washington fire department said. The District…
For former Australia captain Ricky Ponting, it is hard to argue against Steve Smith deserving to be considered the finest player of his generation on numbers alone. On the opening…
Thirty people were killed in the stampede that happened just before dawn at the Maha Kumbh venue in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj, the police chief that oversees security at the massive…
A rare pre-historic fossil, possibly 35 to 40 million years old, has been stolen from a village in Meghalaya, leaving people in shock and outraged. The fossil was discovered in…
On January 7, Ramesh Baghel’s father died. No one could have imagined that the cremation of a pastor from a village in Bastar would reach the country’s Supreme Court. His…
A Palestinian prisoners advocacy group said Israeli authorities would release 110 prisoners, including 30 minors, on Thursday as part of an exchange under a Gaza ceasefire deal agreed with Hamas.…
Meta has agreed to pay President Donald Trump $25 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit he filed claiming he was wrongfully censored by Facebook and Instagram after the US Capitol…
Rafts of government aid programs and the health care system for millions of low-income Americans were up in the air after Trump ordered a halt to potentially trillions of dollars…
The ‘poison in the Yamuna water‘ controversy rumbled on Wednesday evening after Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Saini took a sip of water “without hesitation” and directly from the river as…
A man who had recently brought his family back to Pakistan from the United States on Wednesday confessed to shooting dead his teenage daughter, motivated by his disapproval of her…
A new chapter is set to be added in the long-standing cricket rivalry between India and Pakistan as the two teams play against each other in a Champions Trophy game…
India may cut tariffs on a few high-end goods – such as a special kind of steel, expensive motorcycles, and electronic items – imported from the United States, sources told…
The Haryana government on Wednesday has filed a case against former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal over his remarks alleging the BJP government in Haryana has “poisoned” the Yamuna water.…
A top official of Assam’s Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) has requested the two communities in Manipur that have been fighting since May 2023 to stop violence and start dialogue for…
A report by a Canadian commission looking into alleged foreign interference in its electoral processes and democratic institutions said “no definitive link” with a “foreign state” in the killing of…
Weeks after experiencing neck pain during a gym workout, a young woman who reported feeling a “crack” in her neck died following chiropractic treatment, an inquest heard. After injuring her…
Colombian President Gustavo Petro became the first major casualty of Trump 2.0’s no-nonsense approach—some might argue, his unchecked ire. The US President wasted no time in showing the world that…
Alibaba has launched a new version of its AI model, Qwen2.5 Max, claiming it performed better than DeepSeek’s AI, OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Meta’s Llama. The Chinese tech company’s cloud division…
Air India will showcase its premium cabin product and in-flight offerings at Asia’s most influential travel trade show to be held from January 30 to February 1 at Mumbai’s Jio…
Alibaba has launched a new version of its AI model, Qwen2.5 Max, claiming it performed better than DeepSeek’s AI, OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Meta’s Llama. The Chinese tech company’s cloud division…
The US has temporarily suspended foreign assistance to Pakistan for re-evaluation following an executive order issued by President Donald Trump, according to a media report on Tuesday. This move has…
Star batter Virat Kohli on Tuesday checked in for a training session with his state team after more than 12 years. The former India captain will feature in Delhi Ranji…
As global tensions rise and climate threats loom, the Doomsday Clock, a symbol of humanity’s precarious position, has been moved to 89 seconds before midnight – the closest it’s ever…
Piles of clothes, shoes, bags and other discarded belongings were seen on the ground after a stampede broke out at Prayagraj’s Maha Kumbh, the world’s largest religious gathering, this morning.…
India’s successful run in the ongoing T20I series against England came to a sudden halt after they faced a shocking 26-run defeat in the third match. Playing in Rajkot, the…
A former assistant of Sean “Diddy” Combs has accused the music mogul of forcing him to engage in sexual activity to prove his loyalty. Phillip Pines, who claims to have…
At a time when the newly elected U.S. President, Donald Trump, is making a pitch to reshore manufacturing to America, its companies operating out of China are having second thoughts…
A US Air Force fighter jet crashed during a training exercise at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska on Tuesday. The pilot flying the single-seat F-35 fighter was safe after…
The Indian Space Research Organisation or ISRO on Wednesday celebrated its 100th rocket mission with the successful launch of a navigation satellite. The early morning launch from Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota…
A real estate businessman in Prakasam district has been arrested for allegedly murdering his divorced and childless younger sister to claim a Rs 1 crore insurance payout. Malapati Ashok Kumar…
The ‘water war’ between Delhi’s AAP and the BJP and Congress – ramped up several notches Wednesday morning after Chief Minister Atishi‘s letter to Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena, in which…
A stampede-like situation broke out at the Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj in the early hours of Wednesday ahead of the ‘Amrit Snan’ on ‘Mauni Amavasya.’ According to officials, a large…
Nenmara town in Kerala’s Palakkad district is on the boil after a shocking double murder. Local resident Sudhakaran, 55 and his mother Lakshmi, 75, were brutally stabbed to death at…
At exactly 9am when his jet black Porsche zoomed in through the Feroz Shah Kotla ground’s ‘Virender Sehwag Gate’, it was homecoming for Delhi’s very own Virat Kohli, who checked…
A 32-year-old pregnant woman in Maharashtra’s Buldhana district has been detected with ‘fetus in fetu’, an extremely rare condition in which a malformed fetus is located within the body of…
Many deaths are feared and over 30 pilgrims were injured when a stampede-like situation unfolded at the Maha Kumbh on the morning of Mauni Amavasya, considered the most significant day…
Multiple casualties were feared after a “stampede-like” situation broke out at the Sangam on Wednesday amid the ongoing Maha Kumbh, as millions of pilgrims turned up for a holy bath…
China’s groundbreaking AI model, DeepSeek, has taken the tech world by storm, outperforming prominent AI players like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude AI. The chatbot has catapulted to the top of…
The latest Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) for 2024 was released on Tuesday highlighting significant improvement in reading and arithmetic skills of students. According to the findings of the…
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek has sent shockwaves through the tech community, with the release of extremely efficient AI models that can compete with cutting-edge products from US companies…
A contract killer in Canada was convicted on Tuesday (local time) of murdering an acquitted suspect in 1985 Air India bombings that had claimed 331 lives. Tanner Fox was sentenced…
The parliamentary panel reviewing the Waqf bill circulated a 655-page report today, incorporating all the changes suggested by its members. The Opposition, though, has alleged that none of its amendments…
An IndiGo flight from Rajasthan’s Jodhpur was ready to leave for Bengaluru this morning. All passengers boarded the aircraft and the cabin crew began the flight safety demonstration, and the…
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi‘s broadside on Arvind Kejriwal Tuesday – naming the former Delhi Chief Minister as the “architect of the liquor scam” and raking up the ‘sheeshmahal‘ jab, a…
The Congress has blamed “half-baked preparations and “focus on self-publicity” for the stampede at Mahakumbh in Prayagraj. While Congress leaders have said several people died in the stampede, the state…
“PM Modi spoke to me at least 4 times, administration acting swiftly,” says Yogi Adityanath after stampede at Maha Kumbh
Around 30 women were injured when a stampede-like situation unfolded at the Maha Kumbh on the morning of Mauni Amavasya, prompting Akharas to call off the holy dip. As crores…
Around 30 women were injured when a stampede-like situation unfolded at the Maha Kumbh on the morning of Mauni Amavasya, prompting Akharas to call off the holy dip. As crores…
Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal has been asked to furnish proof backing his allegation that the BJP government in Haryana has poisoned the Yamuna water. The Election Commission, which…
In a crucial verdict dealing with paternity and the notion of legitimacy, the Supreme Court today balanced an individual’s right to know his biological father with another’s unwillingness to agree…
Billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday (local time) said that US President Donald Trump had asked him to facilitate the return of the two Boeing Starliner astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch…
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched their GSLV-F15 carrying the NVS-02 on 6:23 AM at Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, marking ISRO’s 100th rocket mission. The mission is also the…
India rejected “insinuations” levelled by a Canadian commission report of interference in Toronto’s elections by certain foreign governments. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) also hit back at Canada’s interference…
Virat Kohli, former Indian cricket team captain, trained at the Arun Jaitely Stadium in New Delhi on Tuesday ahead of Delhi’s Ranji Trophy game against Railways starting Friday. The match…
Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad president Mahant Ravindra Puri on Wednesday said that due to the stampede-like situation at Maha Kumbh, the seers have called off their Mauni Amavasya’s Amrit Snan.…