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Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray has issued a strong call for vigilance ahead of the crucial Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) polls, and called it the “last crucial election”…
Anant Garje, the personal assistant to Maharashtra Minister Pankaja Munde, has been arrested by the Worli Police in Mumbai after his wife, Gauri Garje, allegedly died by suicide.
The Mumbai-based woman expressed disappointment in the airline’s lack of accountability, sharing photos of her damaged luggage on LinkedIn.
President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath of office to Justice Surya Kant, who succeeded Justice Bhushan R Gavai.
Students detained during demonstrations against rising pollution levels in the Delhi-NCR region were taken to the Parliament Street Police Station, where they are undergoing medical examinations, officials said on Monday.
Justice Surya Kant, who has been part of various landmark verdicts, took oath as the 53rd Chief Justice of India on Monday. Justice Kant, who succeeded Justice BR Gavai, will…
School is meant to be a place where children learn, grow, and feel safe, but a video that has surfaced on social media shows the opposite. The footage shows government…
Wedding celebrations in Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat turned into tragedy when the groom, Subodh Kumar, was crushed to death by a speeding vehicle just moments before his wedding.
The temple town of Ayodhya is once again gearing up for a grand celebration as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit on November 25 for a special flag-hoisting…
A 60-year-old pilot of a private aviation firm has been charged for allegedly raping a 26-year-old cabin crew member at a five-star hotel in Bengaluru last week, police said.
As the cops continued to disperse the protesters, a group of people raised slogans such as “Madvi Hidma Amar Rahe” (Long Live Madvi Hidma).
A woman from Arunachal Pradesh has accused the Chinese authorities of detaining and harassing her at Shanghai airport after refusing to recognise her Indian passport as valid during a transit…
Justice Surya Kant took oath as the 53rd Chief Justice of India on Monday.
The Indian Navy will commission Mahe, the first of the Mahe-class Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft, at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai on Monday.
Madvi Hidma, who was responsible for at least 26 armed attacks against security forces and civilians, was killed in an encounter on November 18.
FBI Director Kash Patel is facing scrutiny after reports that SWAT agents and other government resources were used to protect his girlfriend, country singer Alexis Wilkins.
A former American spy revealed Pakistan’s then-president, Pervez Musharraf, was furious when confronted with evidence that physicist was selling the country’s nuclear secrets abroad.
Justice Surya Kant will take oath on Monday as the 53rd Chief Justice of India (CJI), marking the beginning of his 14-month tenure in the country’s highest judicial office.
A 38-year-old woman doctor from Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh has allegedly died by suicide at her flat in Hyderabad due to depression over not getting US visa, said a…
A thin layer of pollution was seen over the national Capital, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) touching 396 on Monday, firmly in the ‘very poor’ category.
At least three people were killed after gunmen attacked Pakistan’s paramilitary force headquarters in Peshawar on Monday.
The inclusion or exclusion of communities in the Scheduled Tribes (ST) list in Manipur “may be kept on hold” due to the “sensitive nature of the prevailing situation” in the…
Donald Trump said during his White House campaign that if he won the 2024 election, he would be able to end Russia-Ukraine war in 24 hours. But in 10 months…
A 51-year-old Indian man, who was visiting Canada on a six-month visitor visa, was convicted of criminally harassing two teenage girls outside their school.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday met with his Japanese counterpart Sanae Takaichi on the sidelines of the G20 Summit here and discussed bilateral cooperation in areas like innovation, defence…
India is undergoing a profound transformation in its national security posture, replacing decades of predictable restraint with a far more assertive doctrine rooted in pre-emption, coercive leverage, and strategic autonomy.
Israel’s Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, announced sweeping command measures against senior Israel Defence Forces (IDF) officers for their roles in the failures surrounding the Hamas…
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said that his country has learnt a lot from India about hosting the G20.
Morgan Geyser, now 23, admitted to nearly stabbing a classmate to death in 2014 to please the online horror character Slender Man.
A group of protesters demonstrating at the India Gate over rising air pollution in Delhi-NCR allegedly attacked police personnel with pepper spray while being removed from the site on Sunday,…
Noor Inayat Khan, a descendent of the 18th-century Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan, has become the only Indian-origin woman to be honoured with a commemorative postage stamp by France for her…
The Delhi Government has announced a public holiday on Tuesday to mark the 350th Shaheedi Purab of Guru Tegh Bahadur.
The Maoist’s Central Committee has said that 320 of its cadres have been killed across the country in the last 11 months, exposing the scale of losses the organisation has…
In a significant diplomatic breakthrough, India and Canada have agreed to launch negotiations on a high-ambition Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), marking a major reset in ties after years of…
In a scathing new assessment, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released a 186-page Governance and Corruption Diagnostic Report that lays bare Pakistan’s deep-rooted governance failures.
US President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate, ending an initiative launched with fanfare as a symbol of Trump’s pledge to…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sought to win back Donald Trump’s favour on Sunday, after the US leader blasted at Kyiv amidst crucial talks in Geneva to end the war with…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted on Sunday that Israel would do “everything necessary” to stop Hezbollah from regrouping in Lebanon and Hamas from doing the same in Gaza.
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Sunday he had medicine-induced “paranoia” that led him to violate his electronic ankle monitor
Nigeria has grabbed global headlines again following a spate of attacks by gunmen involving the kidnapping of dozens of students from two
At least 50 of the more than 300 children snatched by gunmen from a Catholic school in Nigeria have escaped their captors, a Christian group said on Sunday, as the…
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani didn’t back down in an interview that aired Sunday from past criticism that President Donald Trump acted like a despot and a fascist after…
Surrounded by family members, Wing Commander Afshan on Sundaypaid her last respects to her husband, Wing Commander Namansh Syal, who lost his life in a Tejas fighter jet crash during…
A man accused of abducting a 17-year-old girl was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a pond here on Sunday, a day after his clothes and a purported suicide note…
The doctors and other individuals arrested as part of Jaish-e-Mohammed’s white-collar terror module were to receive a consignment of long-range drones from a Pakistani handler, according to sources.
The southwest division of Bengaluru police have registered an FIR against an alleged Ayurvedic guru and an Ayurvedic shop owner after a city-based software engineer reported being defrauded of nearly…
In a rare biological phenomenon in the wild, a 57-year-old elephant, Anarkali, gave birth to two twin female calves at the Panna Tiger Reserve (PTR) on Saturday.
The Forest Department launched a large search using thermal drones and other equipment after a leopard was seen in a residential area in Aundh, Pune, on Sunday, an official said.
Karnataka’s home minister G Parameswara has indicated that he, too, is in the race for the Chief Minister post in case there is a leadership change in the state.
On the final day of the Dubai Air Show, the Russian Aerobatics team executed a ‘Missing Man’ formation to honour Wing Commander Namansh Syal, who died when the Tejas fighter…
What began as a routine raid at a maulana’s rented room in a quiet village in Madhya Pradesh’s Khandwa has exploded into one of the state’s biggest counterfeit currency scandals.
After the intense battles fought on the plains of Bihar and in the Supreme Court, the special intensive revision (SIR) exercise frontline has moved to West Bengal.
US President Donald Trump on Sunday accused Ukraine again of lacking “gratitude” for Washington’s support against Russia’s invasion, as top US and Ukrainian representatives met in Geneva for talks on…
The Israeli military conducted a strike in Beirut on Sunday in an attempt to assassinate senior Hezbollah leader Haytham Ali Tabatabai, Israeli officials said.
James Lawler outlined how these covert efforts eventually drew in AQ Khan’s proliferation network. The US had monitored Khan’s role in building Pakistan’s nuclear capability for years before analysts realised…
The Supreme Court has done its bit to address the creamy layer issue in caste-based reservation, and it is now up to the government and Parliament to take the next…
The Jammu and Kashmir unit of BJP has strongly opposed the admission of Muslim students to Mata Vaishno Devi Medical College in Katra, demanding an immediate rollback.
Israel said it had carried out an air strike Sunday targeting Hezbollah’s chief of staff in Beirut, leaving a smoking hole in the side of an apartment building and debris…
The actor-turned-politician, who has kept away from public events after 41 people died in a stampede during his Karur rally, delivered a sharp political speech aimed at the ruling DMK.
Amid the political uproar in Punjab over the Centre’s move to bring Chandigarh under the President’s direct control, Punjab BJP chief Sunil Jakhar has said Chandigarh is an “integral part…
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, while campaigning for local elections, told voters that he would release funds he had promised only if all of his party’s candidates were elected.
Bihar Chief Minister Oath Ceremony Live: JD(U) supremo Nitish Kumar sworn-in as Bihar chief minister for a record 10th time.
Two men were killed after their motorcycle was hit by a speeding dumper truck near the Transport Nagar tunnel here on Sunday morning, police said.
“No final decision on administrative changes in Chandigarh,” says Centre amid political row
Yasin Malik is currently serving a life sentence in Delhi’s Tihar Jail in a terror funding case.
Canada is set to modernise its citizenship rules, which could benefit thousands of Indian-origin families and other Canadians born abroad.
A recent study has revealed alarming levels of uranium (U238) in the breastmilk of lactating mothers across several districts in Bihar, raising serious health concerns for their infants.
South African President warmly welcomed PM Modi on Saturday as he arrived to attend the G20 Leaders’ Summit at Nasrec in Johannesburg.
Gauri Palve, wife of Anant Garje, a personal assistant to the state Animal Husbandry and Environment Minister Munde, was found hanging at her house in the Worli area on Saturday…
Singapore deported an Australian man at the end of a nine-day jail term for rushing film star Ariana Grande during the Asian premier of “Wicked: For Good”, local media reported.
Heavy rain, severe flooding and landslides in Vietnam have killed at least 90 people in the last week, authorities said, leaving others stranded on rooftops and mountain roadways blocked.
Nearly two months after the Karur stampede tragedy, TVK chief Vijay resumed his public outreach programme, addressing supporters in an indoor meeting with restricted entry.
Amid the face-off between West Bengal’s Mamata Banerjee government and the Election Commission over the suicides of two Booth Level Officers (BLO) during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR), a…
BJP workers in Karnataka have adopted a satirical approach to mock the Congress government over the power-sharing tussle in the state.
Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind president Arshad Madani has courted controversy over his remarks in connection with the ongoing probe into the Delhi blast.
Social media platform X has begun rolling out a new feature called “About this account”, which displays the location of a profile, its creation date, and the frequency of username…
Struggling to create a perception that its military is better than India’s, the Pakistani media didn’t hold back from using fake news to claim that the May conflict reflected their…
A software engineer in Bengaluru filed a police complaint claiming that a self-styled healer cheated him of nearly Rs 48 lakh by selling extremely expensive and allegedly harmful medicines for…
A massive political row has erupted over the Centre’s push to bring Chandigarh under the purview of Article 240 of the Constitution, which will empower the President to make regulations…
Afghanistan’s Minister of Industry and Commerce, Al-Haj Nooruddin Azizi, met members of the Spices Board of India during his ongoing five-day visit to New Delhi.
The deeply disturbing video surfaced on social media from Madhya Pradesh’s Raisen, triggering outrage as bystanders continued filming the atrocity but made no attempt to intervene.
Noam Chomsky’s long-questioned association with Jeffrey Epstein is again under scrutiny after congressional emails revealed the 96-year-old philosopher lauding his interactions with the convicted sex offender as “a most valuable…
Four senior employees of a private company in Bengaluru were kidnapped on Saturday morning from the city’s bustling Koramangala area. The police arrested eight people and seized a Toyota Innova…
According to Sagar Sorti’s family, he had been under mental stress for the past two years.
Umar-un-Nabi was driving the Hyundai i20 that exploded near Delhi’s Red Fort on November 10, killing 15 people.
The incident took place at the Mahatma Gandhi circle when the police reportedly seized Thippeswamy’s auto during the inspection.
They are waiting for Donald Trump’s administration to decide the fate of a humanitarian program that allowed some 260,000 people who fled the war in Ukraine to live and work…
Rumours about the marriage of US Vice President JD Vance and Usha Vance circulated this week after photos of the Second Lady attending a public event without her wedding ring…
A few jackals escaped from their enclosure at Delhi’s National Zoological Park on Saturday morning, prompting authorities to launch a search operation in the forested area behind the animal exhibits,…
The Jan Suraaj Party failed to open its account in the Bihar assembly polls, with most of its candidates losing their deposits.
The Centre has proposed to include the Union territory of Chandigarh under the ambit of Article 240 of the Constitution, which empowers the president to make regulations for the UT…
Trump, who has demonstrated low regard for Zelensky dating back to his first term, says he expects the Ukrainian leader to respond to his administration’s new plan to end the…
US colleges have been a hacker target for years, though Ivy League schools have been especially hard-hit in recent months.
An eight-year-old boy was killed after being mowed down by a car here, police said on Saturday. The car which was also being driven by a minor dragged the child…
Astronaut and Air Force Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla on Saturday urged the youth to work together to tackle shared global challenges like climate change, and avoid making the mistakes of…
Following his meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the 2025 G20 Summit in Johannesburg, French President Emmanuel Macron expressed gratitude and reaffirmed the strength of India-France…
For months, aid-distribution sites in Gaza operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) were presented as a fragile humanitarian lifeline. They also became witness to some deadly violence.
The Maoist movement suffered a significant organisational setback on Saturday as 37 of its underground cadre, including top state committee members and a large contingent of young women, surrendered in…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has proposed four new initiatives aimed at global development at the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Johannesburg.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar set the cat among the pigeons while campaigning for local elections when he appeared to threaten voters, saying he would release funds he had…