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Ticketing site BookMyShow crashed today just seconds before sale for Coldplay’s Mumbai concert began. Coldplay will be bringing their much-anticipated Music Of The Spheres World Tour to India, and tickets…
Amid the massive row over allegations that animal fat was used in the preparation of Tirupati laddus, former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has written to Prime…
US President Joe Biden commended Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his historic visit to Ukraine and his message of peace amid the war with Russia. The US also backed permanent…
Osaka University has officially announced the registration schedule for the 2025 intake of its MEXT-funded Master’s and PhD programs in Robotics Engineering and Bioengineering at the Graduate School of Engineering…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today gifted an antique silver hand-engraved train model to US President Joe Biden. The Prime Minister, who is in the US for a three-day trip, met…
The semiconductor industry comprises companies that design and manufacture semiconductors and devices such as transistors and integrated circuits. Recently, US President Biden and Prime Minister Modi discussed establishing a new…
The US has handed over to India 297 antiquities during the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. These antiquities were smuggled out of the country and were recovered. Trafficking of…
At least 10 detonators were found on a railway track in an attempt to blow up the train carrying Army personnel in Madhya Pradesh’s Burhanpur district, officials said today. The…
PM Modi has already met some members of the Indian diaspora. After he arrived at Hotel Lotte Palace in New York, the diaspora members greeted with a dance performance to…
India has launched a new initiative to offer fifty Quad scholarships, valued at $500,000 (around Rs 4,17,40,225), to students from the Indo-Pacific region. These scholarships will support students pursuing a…
The mother of Georgia school shooter Colt Gray, who allegedly killed four people at Apalachee High School last month, is now facing disturbing charges of her own. Marcee Gray, 43,…
A 21-year-old man has been arrested after he allegedly stabbed his colleague and her parents at their home in west Delhi’s Khyala neighbourhood yesterday. The woman and her parents are…
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Atishi today took oath as the new Chief Minister of Delhi, days after Arvind Kejriwal got bail in the Delhi liquor policy case and announced…
The idea of the Quad is now almost two decades old, emerging for the first time after the tsunami in 2004. Yet, a tone of tentativeness seems to surround this…
Ravichandran Ashwin has insisted that people have doubted his credentials a Test cricketer for India throughout his career, mainly because he made his name as a bowler in the Indian…
The capital city of Madhya Pradesh has witnessed reports of a series of child sexual abuse cases that have emerged within four days, raising concerns about the safety of children…
The Indian cricket team ended its 92-year-long wait as it defeated Bangladesh in the first Test of the 2-match series in Chennai. The 280-run victory for India at Chepauk resulted…
The White House today met with a group of Sikhs who are sympathisers for the Khalistan movement This is the first time ever that they have officially engaged with such…
The controversy surrounding the ghee used in making laddoos at Andhra Pradesh’s Tirupati Temple has escalated into a public spat between actor-politician Pawan Kalyan and actor Prakash Raj. Pawan Kalyan…
US President Joe Biden, one of the architects of the Quad grouping, was asked ahead of the Quad summit in Delaware if it would survive beyond November elections. The question…
Having clarified his remarks on reservation, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday broke his silence on the other statement – on religious freedom – he had made during his recent…
India and the United States today firmed up multi-billion dollar drone deal as PM Modi met Joe Biden on the first day of his three-day visit to the US. PM…
A free, open, and inclusive Indo-Pacific is the shared priority and commitment of the Quad countries, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Quad summit on Saturday. Joe Biden, Australian…
India vs Bangladesh 1st Test Day 4 LIVE Updates: Bangladesh have a daunting task ahead of them on Day 4, with 357 more runs to chase down. Captain Najmul Hossain…
A 22-year-old man has been arrested for the murder of his father, stepmother, and teenage stepbrother, who were found shot to death in their Vermont home, police announced on Friday.…
On Saturday night, Hezbollah fired at least 10 missiles into northern towns and cities of Israel’s Jezreel Valley, the Times of Israel reported. This was the deepest incursion by Hezbollah…
Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan on Saturday said he will undertake an 11-day penance to propitiate Lord Venkateswara for the alleged adulteration of animal fats in Tirupati laddus.…
Former India head coach Ravi Shastri believes star batter KL Rahul must change his batting temperament to rediscover golden touch. Shastri, while commentating during the ongoing 1st Test against Bangladesh,…
Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera today said that Israeli forces raided its office in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank and issued a 45-day closure order. “Heavily armed and masked Israeli…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Barack Obama in 2014 that the size of the then-US president’s car was almost as big as the house his mother lived in, helping the…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who arrived in the United States earlier today for his three-day official visit, held bilateral talks with US President Joe Biden. The two leaders will also…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived to an enthusiastic welcome in Philadelphia as he kicked off his three-day visit to the United States, on Saturday. A large number of people from…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday met US President Joe Biden on the margins of the Quad summit here and the two leaders were expected to discuss a range of…
Anna Sebastian Perayil, the 26-year-old EY India employee who allegedly died of ‘overwork’, sparking outrage and a nationwide debate on working conditions, was supposed to get married this month, one…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed in Philadelphia Saturday to begin his three-day US trip with the Quad Leaders’ Summit being held in Wilmington, Delaware. The Quad Leaders’ Summit this year…
Praising the Indian community and their achievements in the United States, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the community has distinguished itself in the USA, making a positive impact across…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today met US President Joe Biden on the margins of the Quad summit. PM Modi was welcomed by Mr Biden at his residence, where the two…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today arrived in Philadelphia for his three-day US Visit. Prime Minister Narendra Modi held bilateral talks with US President Joe Biden ahead of the Quad Leaders’…
A day after it came to light that the friend of an Army officer was sexually harassed at a police station in Odisha’s Bhubaneswar when she and the officer went…
A woman escaped serious injuries and possibly even death after a car rammed her two-wheeler on an elevated road in Noida and she was flung off the vehicle and over…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today arrived in Philadelphia for his three-day US Visit. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has begun bilateral talks with US President Joe Biden ahead of the Quad…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today arrived in Philadelphia for his three-day US Visit. The Prime Minister will attend the Quad summit and will hold bilateral talks with US President Joe…
The pitch that is being used in the India vs Bangladesh first Test match in Chennai offered good competition between the bat and the ball in the first two days.…
A high profile global initiative to tackle cancer called the ‘Cancer Moonshot’ will be announced on the sidelines of the Quad Summit. Ahead of that an India cancer specific cancer…
Amid controversy over the use of animal fat in ghee at the Tirupati temple in Andhra Pradesh, the Karnataka government on Friday issued a directive mandating the use of Nandini…
The Quad is a diplomatic partnership between Australia, India, Japan, and the US committed to supporting an open, stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific that is inclusive and resilient. The Quad leaders…
The body of a 26-year-old woman was found chopped into some 30 pieces and kept inside a fridge of an apartment in Bengaluru’s Vyalikaval, the police said. Foul smell from…
Amid an uproar over the death of a 26-year-old employee at tax consultancy major Ernst&Young (EY) allegedly due to work pressure, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday suggested a…
The name of an Indian emigrant to Norway has cropped up in the investigation into the pager blasts aimed at Hezbollah operatives, which killed 12 people in Lebanon and left…
Gopal Rai is a Cabinet Minister in Delhi, with the Environment, Forest and Wildlife, Development and General Administration Department during Arvind Kejriwal’s tenure. He is also the Convener of the…
The White House today met with a group of Sikhs who are sympathisers for the Khalistan movement hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to land in the United…
Coldplay is returning to India for a concert after 9 years. The British band is set to perform at Mumbai’s DY Patil Stadium on January 18 and 19 next year,…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will land in Philadelphia around 10 am local time (7.30 pm IST) and then head to US President Joe Biden’s hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, where the…
Air Marshal Amar Preet Singh, a fighter pilot with more than 5,000 hours of flying experience, will take charge as the chief of the Indian Air Force after incumbent Air…
Over 1.36 lakh children are currently malnourished in Madhya Pradesh, but the state government’s daily allocation for severely malnourished children remains a modest Rs 12. The question remains: Can this…
Aam Aadmi Party leader Atishi will take oath as Chief Minister of Delhi today at 4:30 pm. The swearing-in ceremony will take place at the Raj Bhavan – the Lt…
An Indian-origin H-1B visa holder, diagnosed with terminal blood cancer, has reached out on social media seeking advice to secure his family’s future. The man resides in the US with…
In January, during the consecration ceremony of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, 300 kilograms of ‘prasad’ from the Tirupati temple was distributed to devotees, confirmed Acharya Satyendra Das, the chief…
A polar bear that made a rare appearance outside a cottage in a remote Icelandic village was shot by police after being deemed a threat to local residents. The bear…
Actor Parvin Dabas, who is known for ‘My Name Is Khan’, ‘Ragini MMS 2′, and ‘Khosla Ka Ghosla’, has met with an accident. The actor is in the ICU, and…
The row over laddoos served to devotees at the famed hill-shrine at Tirupati has snowballed into a major political controversy. Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party has claimed animal…
Amid a row over the use of animal fat in prasada given at Tirumala temple in Andhra’s Tirupati district, Amul issued a clarification on Friday, stating that it had never…
Virat Kohli has not been having a great time in Test cricket of late. In both innings of the first Test against Bangladesh, Kohli delivered poor scores of 6 and…
North Carolina’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson allegedly referred to himself as a “Black Nazi,” insulted Martin Luther King Jr, used antisemitic and homophobic slurs, and praised slavery in comments…
Born in Kerala’s Wayanad, Jose went to Norway to pursue higher studies a few years ago. He briefly worked in London before going back to Oslo. Relatives told news agency…
Long queues outside flagship Apple stores in Mumbai and Delhi today marked the beginning of the iPhone 16 sale in India. But as hundreds waited, one smart customer ditched the…
India vs Bangladesh 1st Test Day 3 Live Updates: Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant have resumed the Indian innings on Day 3 of the first Test against Bangladesh on Saturday.…
It’s June, 2009. The streets of Tehran have erupted in protests over the results of a presidential election. The incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has emerged victorious with an overwhelming majority against…
An Indian embassy official has been allegedly found dead under mysterious circumstances inside the mission premises in Washington. According to the news agency PTI, local police and the Secret Service…
A female official in China has been sentenced to 13 years in prison and fined one million yuan (approximately Rs 1.18 crore) for misconduct. According to the South China Morning…
Ibrahim Aqil headed Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force. He was reportedly attending a meeting with other commanders when he was killed. The Israeli military said it conducted a “targeted strike” against…
The driver of a Mahindra XUV 3XO, who was driving the car on the wrong side of the road in Gurugram and crashed into a bike, reportedly told the cops…
In his first comments since the controversy broke Wednesday, Jagan Mohan Reddy slammed the “false report”, and accused Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and his TDP of “using faith for politics”.…
She speaks seven languages, has a PhD in particle physics, an apartment in Budapest plastered with her own pastel drawings of nudes, and a career that took her around Africa…
Days after the death of Ernst & Young (EY) employee Anna Sebastian Perayil, allegedly due to “overwork”, an old video of BharatPe co-founder Ashneer Grover talking about toxic work cultures…
Virat Kohli‘s ‘sledging history’ with Mushfiqur Rahim came a point of discussion on commentary during Day 2 of the first Test match between India and Bangladesh in Chennai on Friday.…
Indian cricket team batter Yashasvi Jaiswal has been extremely impressive in his fairly short Test career and he added a massive feat to his name during Day 2 of the…
The erratic life of a struggling roofing contractor suspected of trying to shoot Donald Trump swerved from bounced checks to a weapon felony conviction and a quixotic plan to help…
Issuing a statement on the alleged death of a 26-year-old employee because of ‘overwork’, Ernst & Young (EY) India Chairman Rajiv Memani has said the fact that no one from…
The Supreme Court today sought a report from the Karnataka High Court over controversial remarks made by Justice Vedavyasachar Srishananda during a recent court hearing. Justice Srishananda, while addressing a…
Aqil, a senior Hezbollah military figure wanted by the United States for his role in the 1983 bombings of the US Embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut, was hailed by…
Indian politicians have argued for decades that the nation deserves to be a member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). An aspirational superpower, India believes that it has been…
The row over animal fat allegedly being used to make the famed Tirupati laddoos reached the Supreme Court on Friday with a lawyer filing a petition alleging that the act…
“India and Sri Lanka have to have a close economic relationship. The vision statement that Prime Minister Modi and I had issued mentions this,” Mr Wickremesinghe, who is seeking another…
Sri Lanka, which is slowly recovering from its worst-ever economic crisis, will vote to elect the next President on Saturday. While current President Ranil Wickremesinghe is seeking another term in…
The central government’s attempt to set up a fact-checking unit has been struck down by the Bombay High Court after standup comic Kunal Kamra filed a petition against the Centre’s…
Indian-Origin astronaut Sunita Williams has celebrated her 59th birthday — the second in space. SunitaWilliams is currently stranded at the International Space Station (ISS) after Boeing’s faulty Starliner spacecraft was…
A strike on Hezbollah’s stronghold in Lebanon’s capital Beirut on Friday killed eight people and wounded dozens of others, with a source close to the movement saying a top military…
A Bengaluru-based techie has shared his wife’s horrific experience working at Ernst & Young (EY). Aakash Venkatasubramanian explained how his partner quit her job at EY due to the company’s…
They smelled something fishy… and pounced on it. An inauguration by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in Bihar’s Saharsa witnessed pandemonium after a horde of people looted a fish tank as…
A water tanker of the Pune municipal body disappeared inside a large hole that suddenly appeared on a road within a matter of seconds. CCTV footage of the incident shows…
Hunting in pair is an often-used maxim about fast bowlers, but Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja have given a new spin to it, consistently troubling the opposition in more ways…
A 19-year-old Delhi University student died after his car crashed into a guardrail near Rajghat in Delhi on Thursday. The victim, Aishwarya Pandey, was returning from Gurugram after celebrating his…
Lebanon’s Hezbollah was still handing its members new Gold Apollo branded pagers hours before thousands blew up this week, two security sources said, indicating the group was confident the devices…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday accused the Congress of “insulting” the nation with remarks during foreign visits by its leaders, targeting Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi over his recent…
Amidst the cacophony of US Presidential election campaigns, many Indian American youth are rallying for the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Eager little dancers are fine-tuning their steps to be…
Laddoos, specifically those offered as ‘prasadam’, or devotional offerings, at the temple town of Tirupati are the battleground de jour in Andhra Pradesh, after a lab in Gujarat indicated the…
The Aam Aadmi Party on Friday demanded a government accommodation for outgoing Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, saying he is entitled to it on account of being the convener of…
Repeating her charge that the floods in West Bengal are a “man-made” disaster, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and blamed the release of water…
A biker died after he crashed into a car driven on the wrong side of the road in Gurugram on Sunday. Akshat Garg, 23, was riding his bike with friends…