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Students at a government school for girls in Bhopal rose up in protest Wednesday claiming they are forced to clean the premises and classrooms and mow the lawn, and face…

Before learning of the multi-level car crash that killed his daughter Dharshini Vasudevan, a desperate father had tagged External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar in a social media post, requesting…

Kangana Ranaut’s upcoming movie Emergency is caught in a controversy after Sikh organisations objected to its release and accused the film’s makers of misrepresenting the Sikh community and twisting historical…

Sodomy or being a lesbian is an unnatural sex offence, says the latest textbook introduced by National Medical Commission for undergraduate medical students. The revised curriculum also includes discussions on…

Wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia joined the Congress Wednesday and will contest next month’s Haryana Assembly election. Ms Phogat, 30, is expected to challenge for the Julana seat held…

The father of teenager Aryan Mishra, who was shot dead allegedly by cow vigilantes in a car chase in Faridabad, is restless with many questions about the death, such as…

The Assam Police on Wednesday unearthed a massive financial scam of Rs 22,000 crore involving brokers who made fraudulent online stock market investments by claiming to double people’s money, sources…

Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 7, Live Updates: World Champion Sachin Sarjerao Khilari clinched India’s 21st medal at Paris Paralympics on Wednesday, winning silver in Men’s Shot Put F46 event. Sachin…

Brunei, a tiny yet relatively new nation, holds a wealth of records and a lengthy list of landmarks. From the ruler’s long and elaborate official name—Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin…

Several people were injured after a tin roof collapsed during a orchestra performance in Bihar on Tuesday. Hundreds of people were standing on the tin roof watching the show in…

Inspired by Hrithik Roshan’s character in Bollywood film ‘Dhoom 2’, a man in Bhopal allegedly attempted to steal gold worth Rs 15 crore from a museum. But in a bizarre…

Himachal Pradesh Revenue Minister Jagat Negi fired a crass barb at Bharatiya Janata Party MP and actor Kangana Ranaut on Wednesday, declaring she had only visited flood-affected areas of the…

Hours after a case was registered against Malayalam filmstar Nivin Pauly (40) in Kerala’s Ernakulam district based on a complaint filed by a woman, the actor on Tuesday denied the…

Images and videos of crocodiles on roofs, on roads, and on the campus of Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, as well as roads caving in near the Statue of Unity…

On day 2 of the tour, PM Modi met the Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah.The Sultan is the second-longest reigning monarch in the world after the late Queen Elizabeth II.…

A 70-year-old man in the United States died on an operating table after the doctor mistakenly removed the wrong organ during surgery, the New York Post reported. William Bryan and…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is currently on a diplomatic visit to Brunei and Singapore, aiming to strengthen India’s relationships with the Southeast Asian countries. His first stop was Brunei, where…

A 15-year-old boy stabbed a momo seller to death in Delhi’s Preet Vihar in order to avenge his mother’s death, police said on Wednesday, adding that the case was solved…

To secure pre-arrest bail in a rape case filed by his partner in Mumbai, a 46-year-old man has produced a “live-in relationship agreement” that he claims states that they would…

A year after the man who designed the Nigerian flag died at 87, his family has decided to bury his body. The family had been waiting for the government to…

Several South Korean media reports suggest that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered the execution of up to 30 officials, allegedly due to their failure to prevent devastating flooding…

Pakistan Test captain Shan Masood has backed the decision to drop the star pace duo of Shaheen Afridi and Naseem Shah for the second game of the two-match series. Pakistan…

A Brazilian influencer, who has spent over $1 million on cosmetic procedures to resemble Kim Kardashian, is now warning others about the dangers of butt fillers. Jennifer Pamplona, a self-proclaimed…

A 19-year-old bodybuilder from Brazil was found dead at his home on Sunday afternoon, allegedly due to a heart attack, according to various reports. Matheus Pavlak had transformed his body…

A 35-year-old momo seller was stabbed to death allegedly by a 15-year-old boy, who held the victim responsible for his mother’s death, in east Delhi’s Preet Vihar area, police said…

A 27-year-old woman was killed after a speeding car hit her in Mumbai on Tuesday night, police said. Shahana Kazmi, a mother of two, was returning home after a mehendi…

Netflix India has updated the opening disclaimer on its ‘IC-814 Kandahar Hijack” web series to include hijackers’ real and code names, Monika Shergill, the OTT giant’s Vice President (Content, India),…

India achieved its best ever medal haul in the Paralympics as it went past last edition’s number of podium finishes on the back of a superlative performance by the country’s…

Pakistan cricket reached its lowest ebb on Tuesday while nosediving to a six-wicket defeat against Bangladesh in the second Test here, and the stalwarts termed the 0-2 series defeat as…

The US Commerce Department said Tuesday it plans to award $50 million to HP to support the expansion and modernization of an existing company facility in Oregon that will boost…

Australia’s air safety investigators have recommended reforms after a Brisbane air traffic controller was found asleep at his desk while covering an early-morning shift. According to a report by the…

The Paris Paralympics 2024 has shown the world that anything is achievable if one has the will. The athletes, despite challenges, have risen to glory. India’s Deepthi Jeevanji is among…

It was a scam akin to Russian Matryoshka dolls, where one lie hid another. The con began with fake investors, then expanded to fake apps where people were urged to…

Just over a year ago, when Chinese smartphone and telecoms giant Huawei launched its latest smartphone, the Mate60 Pro, eyebrows were raised in Washington. More than 85% of the 37…

A MiG-29 fighter jet crashed in Rajasthan’s Barmer yesterday during a routine night training sortie. The pilot ejected safely. The Indian Air Force said the MiG-29 fighter jet faced a…

Industrialist Anand Mahindra has set the record straight on the vehicles he owns. His clarification came after a “fake” and “fabricated” story suggested he owned several foreign luxury cars. Mr…

An enormous 16ft beast weighing 700 kg and fathering thousands of hatchlings is now recognised as the world’s oldest crocodile. Meet Henry, the man-eating Nile crocodile, who at 123 years…

His complaints against corruption allegedly ignored for years, a man from Madhya Pradesh assembled a garland out of the documents and made an entrance into a district collector’s office that…

The United States has charged leaders of the armed Palestinian group Hamas with a raft of “terrorism” offenses, federal court documents unsealed on Tuesday revealed. Six men — including Hamas…

Amid massive protests over the rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor in Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, the West Bengal Assembly today passed the Aparajita Bill to…

In what may turn out to be the biggest cyber financial fraud from an individual reported to Telangana’s Cyber Security Bureau, a 75-year-old man has lost Rs 13 crore. The…

Human faeces found smeared on the lock of a mid-day meal cooking centre at a school have sparked outrage in Tamil Nadu. The Namakkal district police are investigating the incident…

Two men wading through neck-deep water, carrying a baby in a plastic crate – this was one of the scores of distressing scenes inflicted by the deluge in the southern…

On the heels of revised guidelines issued by the Government of India (MoRTH) for determining the claimed range of electric vehicles, leading EV player Tata Motors has proactively revealed the…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today visited the renowned Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque in Brunei, during his two-day visit to the nation. His visit to Brunei is aimed at bolstering bilateral…

An FIR has been registered against five men for allegedly raping a 34-year-old woman and forcing her to dance in the buff in Indore, police said on Tuesday. Nobody has…

A new video has surfaced showing the Class 12 student in Haryana’s Faridabad who was allegedly chased in a car and killed by cow vigilantes who mistook him for a…

The Manipur Chief Minister’s office had on two occasions raised concerns over the likelihood of weaponised drone attacks in the state, two letters sent by the Chief Minister’s secretaries to…

A woman and her partner from Cornwall have been sentenced to prison for plotting to drug and rape her six-year-old daughter. The couple, whose identities are being withheld to protect…

Heroes don’t always wear capes, and sometimes they operate bulldozers. Haryana’s Subhan Khan has emerged as a real-life hero after rescuing nine people marooned on a bridge amid raging floods…

Wading through knee-deep water, taking boats to flood-affected areas and inspecting relief material, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has immersed himself in the task of tackling his government’s…

Elections in Haryana are just a month away and preparations by political parties are in full swing. Amid the poll countdown, a big question is doing the rounds in political…

41 killed in Ukraine’s Poltava after Russia launches two ballistic missiles, says Zelensky: News agency AFP

It’s not a thaw yet, but there are certainly signs of some warming in the India-China relationship. Of late, there has been an uptick in dialogue to resolve outstanding issues…

Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 6, Live Updates: The fifth day of the ongoing Paris Paralympics turned out to be a memorable one for the Indian contingent as it clinched a…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a two-day visit to Brunei, the first by an Indian PM. On his visit to the Southeast Asian nation, PM Modi will meet Sultan…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is currently on a visit to Brunei and Singapore to strengthen India’s bilateral ties with Southeast Asian nations. His first stop is Brunei, where he will…

Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday sought forgiveness for not being able to save the lives of six Iseraeli hostages, whose bodies were found in a tunnel in…

An ‘underwear’ gang has caused a sensation after it broke into a home and a college at Malegaon in Maharashtra’s Nashik late last night and stole nearly 70 gm gold…

At least 17 people in Andhra Pradesh have so far been killed in rain-related incidents and subsequent floods, that have left lakhs of people scampering for daily needs in several…

Three Indian Coast Guard (ICG) crew members are missing after a helicopter, which was deployed to rescue an injured crew member from a tanker in the Arabian Sea, had to…

NASA has responded to reports claiming “strange noises” being heard by astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The issue was first noted when Mr…

A man allegedly enraged by his minor daughter’s romantic relationship brutally murdered her and dismembered her body in a village under the Motipur police station area in Bahraich district, police…

As Telangana reels under devastating floods, a slugfest has broken out between Chief Minister Revanth Reddy and former minister and Bharat Rashtra Samithi leader KT Rama Rao, popularly known as…

Over 200 residents of a Noida society fell sick after allegedly consuming contaminated water on Monday. The residents of Supertech Eco Village 2, mostly children, said they experienced symptoms such…

Tim Walz, the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee and Minnesota Governor, was in a crash involving multiple cars around 13:00 (local time) on Monday in Milwaukee, reports said. Governor Walz escaped…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to arrive in Brunei today, marking the first-ever visit by an Indian PM to the Southeast Asian nation. The two-day visit aims to strengthen…

A single bottlenose dolphin, who might have been separated from its pod, is being considered responsible for a troubling series of attacks on swimmers in Tsurga, a seaside town in…

Fabrizio Longo, a 62-year-old Audi executive and passionate mountain climber, fell to his death from a height of 10,000 feet while ascending Cima Payer in the Adamello mountains, near the…

Hossein Shamkhani, the son of Iran’s former national security chief, has emerged as a major player in the global oil market, a Bloomberg report says. Despite stringent US sanctions targeting…

Ghulam Qadir Lone of banned Jamaat-e-Islami on Monday said that they decided to participate in the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections to “raise their voices”. Speaking to NDTV, Mr…

Netflix’s latest web series, ‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’, has sparked a controversy. The show, which is based on the 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight by terrorists, has…

A French pensioner went on trial Monday on charges of allowing scores of strangers to rape his wife after he drugged her, in a case that has horrified the country.…

A MiG-29 fighter jet of the Indian Air Force crashed in Rajasthan during a routine night training mission, said the police, adding that the pilot ejected safely. The accident took…

Shots were reportedly fired outside Punjabi singer AP Dhillon’s house on Victoria Island in Canada’s Vancouver. The incident took place yesterday and a man named Rohit Godara, a member of…

The Supreme Court today came down heavily on ‘bulldozer justice’, questioning how a house can be demolished just because it belongs to an accused or even a convict in a…

Trinamool’s second-in-command Abhishek Banerjee has issued a warning to party leaders: Do not to speak ill of anyone from the medical fraternity or civil society. The message on X comes…

For a second time, Thangjam Basant, 34, had to flee his village, Koutruk, in Manipur’s Imphal West district bordering the Kuki tribes-dominated Kangpokpi district. “I was attending to my younger…

Hamas’s armed wing said on Monday that hostages would return to Israel “inside coffins” if military pressure continued, warning that “new instructions” had been given to the militants guarding the…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Hamas militants “executed” six hostages whose bodies were recovered from Gaza, shooting them “in the back of the head”. “These murderers…

Amid the massive row surrounding Netflix webseries ‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’, sources in the government have told NDTV that it is taking the matter very seriously and added that…

A 27-year-old man from Noida who went on a solo bike trip to Leh died due to oxygen deficiency on August 29, a report said. Chinmay Sharma, a digital marketing…

Madhabi Puri Buch, the chairperson of SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India), has not been paid any salary since her retirement, ICICI bank said today, denying Congress’s “office of…

A mock interview of Pakistan’s military exam for the selection of officers went viral on social media after the interviewer asked a candidate a question which featured Bollywood actor Katrina…

Religious sentiments can’t be hurt, sources in government said today, explaining why the release date of Kangana Ranaut-starrer ‘Emergency’ was postponed. “Few religious organisations have raised concerns about this. Religious…

A 27-year-old man from Noida who went on a solo bike trip to Leh died due to oxygen deficiency on August 29, a report said. Chinmay Sharma, a digital marketing…

Five years ago, the government of West Bengal pledged to clamp down on violence against doctors. It promised public hospitals better security equipment, women guards to support female physicians and…

The Marshall Plan, launched by the United States in 1948 to rebuild post-war Europe, exemplifies how a keystone intervention can drive widespread positive change. By providing financial aid, the Plan…

A rueful Supreme Court slammed social media trolls and their actions as “really atrocious”, acknowledging that even the highest judicial forum in the country is not immune. “If we pass…

NASA astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) have reported strange, unexplained noises coming from the Boeing Starliner spacecraft. This unexpected incident comes just days before Starliner’s scheduled undocking…

Bibhav Kumar, an aide of Arvind Kejriwal, cannot enter the Delhi Chief Minister’s residence till all witnesses are examined in the Swati Maliwal assault case, said the Supreme Court granting…

Three MLAs from Haryana – among them Jannayak Janata Party leader Devender Singh Babli – have joined the BJP, as the ruling party is out to bolster its ranks ahead…

The shock attack in Pune that killed former corporator Vanraj Andekar may have been the result of a dispute with his sisters and their husbands, police have found. Mr Andekar’s…

A former aide of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Bibhav Kumar, accused of assaulting Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal, was granted bail Monday by the Supreme Court. A bench of…

A former corporator of Pune Municipal Corporation and an NCP leader of the Ajit Pawar faction has been killed after he was attacked by a group of bike-borne men in…

The former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci has made a stunning claim – that Donald Trump’s wife Melania is secretly rooting for Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris. He went…

The Supreme Court today dismissed the West Bengal government’s petition challenging bail to a student leader linked with the August 27 protest march to state secretariat Nabanna over a 31-year-old…

Paris Paralympics 2024 Day 5, Live Updates: Nitesh Kumar is playing in the Men’s Singles SL3 para badminton final, aiming for gold. Earlier, Yogesh Kathuniya brought India the first medal…

Under fire for the rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor in Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, the ruling Trinamool Congress has decided not to send its spokespersons…

Union Minister and Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan has been issued a challan for overspeeding in Bihar. An e-challan was issued after Mr Paswan’s vehicle was reportedly…