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Thousands and thousands of people who make sure the wheels of democracy are well-oiled and -maintained — who go to every nook and corner of the country, from jungles to…

A 19-year-old man convicted of rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district has been sentenced to death. Mostakin Sardar was arrested hours after…

It’s a very exciting time for Indian cricket. The possibility of a third straight World Test Championship final beckons, along with the chance of completing a hat-trick of Test series…

South Korea’s embattled President Yoon Suk Yeol apologised but stopped short of resigning Saturday over his declaration of martial law, with a vote to impeach him hours away and mass…

In 2011, Daraa city, located roughly 100 km from capital Damascus, became the epicentre of nationwide protests after the Assad government detained and allegedly tortured a group of boys for…

Amidst the ongoing internal struggle within the TMC between veteran leaders and the younger faction, West Bengal Chief Minister and party chief Mamata Banerjee on Friday said any decision regarding…

A 22-year-old Indian student was stabbed to death in Canada’s Ontario by his housemate, who has been charged with second-degree murder by the Sarnia Police. Gurasis Singh, a first-year business…

Insurance exec killer may have fled New York, police say New York, United States | AFP | Friday 12/7/2024 – 03:51 UTC+5 | 612 words New York police said Friday…

The Supreme Court on Friday flagged “disturbing features” in the arrest of former IAS officer Anil Tuteja by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case related to the alleged…

An unidentified person was charred to death after jumping on to the engine of a Goa-bound train in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi on Friday. The person allegedly jumped from the tin…

A US federal appeals court on Friday upheld a law requiring Chinese-based ByteDance to divest its popular short video app TikTok in the United States by early next year or…

They cross glaciers, lug electronic voting machines up mountains on their backs, and work in dangerous areas to ensure every last person can cast their ballot in the world’s largest…

A disturbing video from Madhya Pradesh’s Ratlam, which is being widely shared, shows a 16-year-old boy repeatedly hitting three children – aged 6, 9 and 11 – with his slipper…

AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Friday accused the BJP of orchestrating large-scale deletions of voters’ names from the electoral rolls in the run-up to the Delhi Assembly elections. Kejriwal…

Comedian Kabir “Kabeezy” Singh, best known for his performance as a semi-finalist on ‘America’s Got Talent’, has died at the age of 39. He was reportedly in San Francisco at…

Rohit Sharma‘s return to the Indian team didn’t go as planned, with the India captain only scoring three runs before being dismissed by Australia’s Scott Boland. Rohit returned to the…

A jury in the US state of Florida has awarded $310 million (Rs 2,624 crore) to the family of a teenager who was killed after falling off a Free Fall…

India pacer Jasprit Bumrah had an intriguing exchange with Australia batter Marnus Labuschagne on Day 1 of the pink-ball Test in Adelaide on Friday. The incident happened after the third…

Seeing former India cricketer Vinod Kambli struggle to get up, speak clearly and properly conduct himself during a recent event, many fans’ hearts were broken. Once deemed one of the…

The Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP, which leads the coalition of parties currently in Government in India, has directly accused the US State Department of trying to “destabilise India”. It…

India has, in the past, tended to borrow solutions from the West and is finally being able to frame its own questions about health and seek to answer them –…

Two days after a woman died and her son was critically injured at a theatre during the premier show of ‘Pushpa 2: The Rule’, actor Allu Arjun said on Friday…

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday expressed dissatisfaction with the functioning of the opposition INDIA bloc, signaling her intent to take charge of the alliance if given the…

India on Friday demanded that Pakistan act against terrorist Masood Azhar, chief of banned terrorism group Jaish-e-Mohammed and the mastermind behind terror strikes like the 2011 Parliament attack. The strong…

Tech billionaire Elon Musk spent at least $270 million to help Donald Trump win the US presidency, according to new federal filings, making him the country’s biggest political donor. SpaceX…

Thirteen-year-old cricketing prodigy Vaibhav Suryavanshi continued to make headlines in the U19 Asia Cup, showcasing his immense talent in the second semi-final as India defeated Sri Lanka by seven wickets…

A gold biscuit weighing 1 kg, cash exceeding Rs 23 crore, a silver pistol and even silver handcuffs – the Sanwaliya Seth Temple in Rajasthan’s Chittorgarh witnessed an unprecedented outpouring…

An epic incident unfolded on Day 1 of the day-night Test between India and Australia in Adelaide on Friday. India batter KL Rahul seemed to have gotten himself out for…

The ability to praise or see the positives is on a decline, noted Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar, adding that the trend of criticism (ninda ras), on the other…

Chaos erupted in Rajya Sabha this morning after a bundle of cash was found on the seat allotted to Congress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi, who reacted with a blow-by-blow account…

427 years after William Shakespeare wrote it for the first time in the great “tragedy” Romeo & Juliet, England is asking the quintessential question – “What’s in a name?” –…

Doctors at a community health centre in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur Dehat provided treatment to victims of a road accident under the flashlight of their mobile phones during a power cut…

A 63-year-old man and his two sons allegedly died by suicide within 24 hours over a property dispute with relatives in a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri, police said…

A technical glitch by the speed-gun clocked Indian cricket team fast bowler Mohammed Siraj‘s delivery at 181.6 Kmph during Day 1 of the Pink-ball Test against Australia in Adelaide on…

A nun in Italy has been arrested on suspicion of being part of a criminal gang which had links to the country’s most powerful mafia network, the ‘Ndrangheta. According to…

Cheteshwar Pujara believes that India should have batted much better on Day 1 of the pink-ball Test against Australia in Adelaide after the Rohit Sharma-led side was bundled out for…

Bangabandhu (friend of Bangladesh) – the name by which Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had been known, seems quite ironic to what’s happening there, since the country identifies him as a nemesis…

An X user has sparked a discussion online after sharing his journey of leaving a high-paying job without any job offer in hand. Varun Hasija revealed that he made the…

The Congress on Friday called on the Bharatiya Janata Party to respond proactively to protesting farmers’ demands about a legal guarantee for Minimum Support Price, or MSP, and warned the…

NDTV presents the ‘Indian Of The Year’ awards that acknowledge distinguished visionaries, political figures, sports icons, and entertainers who have not only fortified the pillars of our society but have…

Former Bollywood actress Mamta Kulkarni, who starred in several Hindi films, including Karan Arjun in the 1990s, has returned to India after 25 years. Upon her arrival in Mumbai, she…

“Just face it… face your fears” – invaluable advice from Annapurni Subramaniam, an astronomer and the Director of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, and Science Icon Of The Year at…

A US high school teacher has claimed that she was fired over a Facebook post she made criticising president-elect Donald Trump and his followers. According to The Independent, Joanie Garratt…

A high-level investigation has been ordered after a cash bundle was found on the Rajya Sabha seat of Congress MP Abhishek Singhvi. The high-level committee that will oversee the probe…

In the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest where access to healthcare is one of the most pressing problems, one group has been operating boat clinics and working relentlessly for…

Amid global turmoil and geopolitical tensions, the world has hopes from India and one of the key reasons for this is the country’s growth story, which is based on four…

As the election season concludes in 2024, a high-stakes battle for Delhi is set to unfold in February 2025. Delhi stands out as a unique state, characterised by a sharp…

Days after a decomposed body of a woman was found in a drain in the outskirts of the city, the police have arrested her husband from Bihar for allegedly killing…

The statue of the revered Lingayat seer Shivakumar Swami of Bengaluru’s Siddaganga Mutt was vandalised on November 30. The accused, 37-year-old delivery executive Srikrishna, was arrested by the police, but…

Amid talks of his impeachment, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is battling a series of blunders, including the brief but controversial imposition of martial law, to save his political…

Iran successfully launched on Friday its heaviest space payload, which includes a satellite and a space tug, using a domestically developed satellite carrier, official media reported. Weighing 300 kilogrammes (660…

India’s returning captain Rohit Sharma pulled off a big surprise at the time of the toss during the second Test against Australia on Friday. While the return of Rohit and…

Devendra Fadnavis is one of the quickest learners in Indian politics. Over the past decade, he has evolved from Maharashtra BJP’s state president to an immensely successful Chief Minister, a…

Eknath Shinde was sworn in as Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra Thursday evening, bringing the curtain down on nearly two weeks of ‘will he, won’t he’ suspense over the Shiv…

Union Railway Minister shared a video on the microblogging platform X (formerly Twitter) on December 5, showing the completion of a 410-meter Hyperloop test track, signalling significant progress in India’s…

Shantanu Naidu, the manager and confidant of Ratan Tata, has embarked on a fresh chapter of his life after the billionaire-philanthropist’s death. Mr Naidu is now expanding his passion project,…

The foot march to the Parliament building in Delhi is expected to begin at 1 pm from the Shambhu border protest site. This would be the second footmarch planned this…

Jensen Huang, the 61-year-old co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, is the 10th wealthiest individual in the US with a net worth of $127 billion. When an estate reaches such an…

A 23-year-old Colombian woman has been arrested in connection with several targeted killings, including the recent murder of her former boyfriend. Karen Julieth Ojeda Rodriguez, known to police by the…

Professor James Tooley, the vice-chancellor of University of Buckingham, has been suspended due to “serious allegations”, including his relationship with a woman in India. According to The Telegraph, the allegations…

University professor Ahmed Abu Shaban often gets up at 3:00 am in Toronto to remotely teach his students in Gaza — motivated by loyalty to his trapped pupils, and a…

Twenty-year-old Arjun Tanwar, arrested for killing his parents and sister at their south Delhi residence, had searched online about methods of murder before committing the crime, police sources said on…

The Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council, the largest minority advocacy group in the country, has condemned the recent attacks on Hindus in the eastern Sunamganj district. In a statement…

Rumours about Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan‘s separation have been swirling online. Amid this, the couple attended an event together. Several pictures of the couple from the event have…

Months after the ouster of Sheikh Hasina as prime minister, Bangladesh has begun the process of erasing the image of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman -– her father and the iconic figure…

The United States is pushing back its planned return to the Moon from 2026 to “mid-2027” as it deals with heat shield issues and other troubles plaguing its Orion crew…

The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has decided to keep the repo rate unchanged at 6.5%, marking the 11th consecutive meeting where the key lending rate…

They offered medical degrees, even to class 8 graduates, charging Rs 70,000 each. The gang operating in Gujarat’s Surat, which had a database of 1,200 fake degrees, has been busted.…

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has kept its key lending rate unchanged for the 11th consecutive time citing high inflation and lowered the growth target for the current financial…

A preliminary study by the IIT-Madras researchers on the students of a school, located within the premium institute’s campus here, has stoked a controversy and authorities said on Thursday that…

US President-elect Donald Trump late Thursday named former PayPal chief operating officer David Sacks as White House “AI and Crypto Czar.” The wealthy tech entrepreneur will take on a newly…

A woman being shifted after her baby’s birth to the general room at a hospital in Meerut died after the lift crashed on Thursday. Thirty-year-old Karishma was on a stretcher…

Protests broke out in the posh TDI society here allegedly over a house being sold to a Muslim doctor by a resident. Slogans were raised by the members of the…

“Neeche kar jhula (Bring down the ferris wheel)”, shouted someone from the ground. “Arey Ram Ram (Ram Ram)”, shrieked another as a chorus of concern and appeals went up. This…

PROBA, short for Project for Onboard Anatomy, is a space programme under the European Space Agency or ESA. Under PROBA, there have been a series of satellite launches. Today’s was…

Soon after Devendra Fadnavis took oath as Maharashtra Chief Minister, his wife Amruta Fadnavis, who was trolled by a Congress leader for making reels on Instagram, was trending on X.…

A woman accused of evading airport identity and ticket checks and sneaking onto a flight from New York to Paris was charged Thursday with being a stowaway. Svetlana Dali, a…

Hyderabad Police have registered a case against Telugu actor Allu Arjun and several others in connection with the stampede that erupted outside a Hyderabad theatre and left one woman dead…

The BJP and the Congress traded blows in a verbal battle in Parliament Thursday, after the former accused Rahul Gandhi of being a “traitor of the highest order” in an…

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, in his first comments to the media after the oath ceremony and his first cabinet meeting this evening, expressed hope that the state would not…

India vs Australia 2nd Test LIVE Updates: The India vs Australia Day-Night Test is here. Both teams will enter the Adelaide Oval on Friday knowing fully well that a win…

Pollution curbs have been eased in Delhi and its neighbouring areas after the city witnessed an improvement in air quality. The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) – the body…

The New York Police Department released new photos that showed the face of the man wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of insurance chief Brian Thompson, as the search…

A powerful earthquake struck Thursday off the coast of California, sparking a tsunami warning, US seismologists said. The 7.0-magnitude quake was recorded at a depth of just 10 kilometers (six…

Business tycoons, Bollywood actors, celebrities descended Thursday on Mumbai’s iconic Azad Maidan, the venue for Devendra Fadnavis’ swearing in as Maharashtra Chief Minister. Mr Fadnavis, who had famously said “I’ll…

After making an effort to suspend civilian rule in South Korea and impose martial law, President Yoon Suk Yeol stands facing impeachment. But that’s not the only downfall the country…

The Directorate of Education (DoE) on Thursday issued a circular announcing the resumption of physical classes in all government and private schools in Delhi. The decision comes after the Supreme…

BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis takes oath as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra for the third time, after Mahayuti’s landslide victory in the Assembly Elections 2024. Mahayuti, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led…

The International Cricket Council has reached a consensus to conduct next year’s Champions Trophy in a hybrid model, allowing India to play its share of matches in Dubai while agreeing…

Three people died, and 23 others fell ill, in Pallavaram near Chennai on Thursday after reportedly consuming drinking water contaminated with sewage. Tamil Nadu health minister Ma Subramanian has ordered…

To prevent the recurrence of military standoffs along their contested border, India and China on Thursday reflected on the lessons learnt from the eastern Ladakh face-off that ended a few…

As Delhi gets respite from toxic air with improved air quality, the Commission of Air Quality Management (CAQM) has lifted stringent pollution curbs under stage 4 of GRAP in the…

Jay Shah, new ICC chairman, recently called for a Board Meeting that was supposed to start at 5pm IST on Thursday, according to a report. However, that meeting has been…

Taking a swipe at his estranged brother-in-arms Eknath Shinde as the new Mahayuti government preps to take the oath, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut said the “Shinde era is…

Actor-comedian Sunil Pal has recalled the harrowing 24 hours he endured after being kidnapped. Speaking about the traumatic experience, he said, “I need time to think about it. I am…

Russia will set up manufacturing plants across India, Vladimir Putin said today as he praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his “India-first” policies. President Putin, who spoke at an investment…

Shiromani Akali Dal veteran Sukhbir Singh Badal – the object of an attempted assassination Wednesday at the Golden Temple in Amritsar – has thanked the policemen who saved his life.…

A two-seater BMW Z4 speeding near Delhi Gate, crashed into a divider, with the car’s bumper and bonnet crushed by the impact. A boy in class 6 – the co-passenger…

Devendra Fadnavis took oath as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra at a star-studded event at Mumbai’s Azad Maidan today that was attended by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP National…

Rajesh Kumar (51), his wife Komal (46) and their daughter Kavita (23) were found dead at their home in Delhi’s Neb Sarai on the morning of December 4 — the…