Afternoon Times

With no backpack, books or uniform, 11-year-old Layan Haji navigates the ruins of Gaza City and heads to a makeshift classroom after two years of war halted her education.

An Uber ride to a doctor’s clinic turned horrendous for a Delhi woman after the driver allegedly physically assaulted her. The woman, Bharati Chaturvedi, called the Uber safety and the…

Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau appeared on state television Wednesday saying they have seized power in the country, following reports of gunshots near the presidential palace, three days after national elections.

Since Trump’s reelection last year, four separate criminal cases – including his hush money conviction and federal allegations of election interference and illegally hoarding classified documents – have either been…

Nifty hit its all-time high levels with the Indian markets extending rally this morning.

Two West Virginia National Guard members who deployed to the nation’s capital were shot Wednesday just blocks from the White House in a brazen act of violence.

As India celebrated the adoption day of its Constitution on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi prided on the unveiling of Babasaheb Ambedkar’s bust at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.

US President Donald Trump has called the National Guard shooting in Washington DC an act of terror and a crime against humanity.

The United States has stopped the processing of all immigration requests of Afghan nationals after two National Guard personnel were shot near the White House in Washington DC.

Delhi on Wednesday witnessed the coldest morning of the season with the minimum temperature dipping to 8 degrees Celsius, the lowest in November since 2022, the India Meteorological Department said.

Terming it “pathetic”, the Supreme Court pulled up the Haryana government and its urban development body on Thursday for the uprooting of 40 fully-grown trees to build an accessible road…

Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in three decades has spotlighted its risky use of flammable bamboo scaffolding and mesh for building work in a tradition dating back centuries to mainland China.

The challenge is the first against India’s antitrust penalty law that since last year allows the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to use global turnover when calculating the penalties it…

A 29-year-old Afghan national has been identified as the suspected gunman who shot two West Virginia National Guard members deployed to Washington DC, just blocks from the White House, in…

The Ministry of External Affairs on Wednesday confirmed that the visa regime for tourism and business purposes for Chinese nationals is now “fully functional, “marking the end of a five-year…

There is no official provision for selling Halal-certified food in trains, the Railway Board said on Wednesday in response to a notice from the National Human Rights Commission over the…

BJP leader Locket Chatterjee alleged that doctors are being pressured to attribute suicides to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in death certificates.

India on Wednesday said China’s “arbitrary actions” like the one against a woman traveller from Arunachal Pradesh at Shanghai airport could create hurdles in building mutual trust and understanding between…

Trump spoke with Takaichi after Chinese President Xi Jinping called the US president and spoke about China’s historic claim to the democratic self-governing island.

US President Donald Trump extended support to the National Guards Troop after two members of the West Virginia National Guard were shot in Washington on Wednesday. The president ordered 500…

A Mumbai-based girl studying in Class 10 has accused her mother and their male neighbour of pushing her into prostitution to earn money, prompting the police to register a case…

Kerala BJP President Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Wednesday sparked a political debate with his remarks linking Muslim representation in Parliament and the Union Cabinet to their voting preferences.

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Wednesday that Brazil had given the world a lesson in democracy after his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro was jailed for a failed coup attempt.

A woman was killed and a man was seriously injured on Thursday in a shark attack on a beach near a popular surf spot on Australia’s east coast, authorities said.

Puducherry’s Cyber Crime Police have uncovered a large-scale cyber-fraud network allegedly operated from inside an engineering college, turning it into what investigators call a “hotspot for cyber crime.”

A court has reprimanded the CBI for sleeping over’ its 2015 order to return Rs 50,000 seized during a probe, and directed the central probe agency to return the amount…

A case regarding the insurance compensation dispute was under trial, with judgment expected soon

President Donald Trump said that he is barring South Africa from participating in the Group of 20 summit next year in Miami and will “stop all payments and subsidies” to…

Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in years burned through the night, leaving at least 36 people dead and 279 reported missing with rescuers still pulling residents from blazing high-rise apartment buildings…

India could attract USD 4.1 trillion in cumulative green investments and create 48 million full-time equivalent jobs by 2047, according to an independent study by the Council on Energy, Environment…

Tension is escalating between Israel’s political and military top brass over accountability for the failures behind the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused of sidestepping…

Two National Guard soldiers were shot Wednesday near White House and their conditions aren’t immediately known, according to two law enforcement officials not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and…

The Pakistani Navy has successfully test-fired an indigenously developed ship-launched anti-ship ballistic missile, the military has said.

Artificial Intelligence is not a core part of operations at most of the world’s central banks and digital assets are off the table, according to a survey released on Wednesday…

A ‘missing girl’ report from over a decade ago, facial recognition software and some latest AI technology have helped a young Pakistani woman to reunite with her family after 17…

France’s highest court ruled against former president Nicolas Sarkozy Wednesday over illegal financing of his 2012 re-election bid, adding a second definitive conviction to his rap sheet.

A British man broke down in court Wednesday as he dramatically changed his plea and admitted deliberately ploughing his car into crowds at Liverpool’s Premier League victory parade, injuring scores…

NASA’s Perseverance rover has obtained evidence that the atmosphere of Mars is electrically active, detecting electrical discharges – what one scientist called “mini-lightning” – often associated with whirlwinds called dust…

Former Chief Justice of India BR Gavai opened up on the shoe-throwing attempt made at him during court proceedings, saying that his reaction, to not pursue action against the lawyer,…

Satish Jarkiholi, Karnataka minister and Siddaramaiah loyalist, told NDTV today that he hoped that the row over the Chief Minister post – one that his boss Siddaramaiah described as “confusion”…

The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Noida district hospital to constitute a primary board to explore passive euthanasia for a 31-year-old man suffering from 100 per cent disability quadriplegia…

Police in Hyderabad have arrested a high-profile white-collar offender, Bathini Shashikanth, for allegedly impersonating senior government officials to cheat and extort money from unsuspecting citizens.

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Wednesday asserted that the party is united and focused on the 2028 assembly and 2029 Lok Sabha elections.

Delhi has moved forward with its 53-km Yamuna cycle corridor, a project aimed at promoting green mobility, easing traffic, and supporting the city’s environmental revival.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has detained the mother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s nephew, who is also facing deportation to Brazil.

Delhi’s air quality remained in the “very poor” category for the 13th consecutive day on Wednesday, with the city recording an AQI of 327 and forecasts indicating no relief in…

The father of the survivor in the Kasba Law College gangrape case has lodged a police complaint alleging that unidentified men on a two-wheeler threatened him and asked him to…

Italian lawmakers on Tuesday unanimously backed a bill making femicide — the intentional killing of women or girls — a specific crime punishable by life imprisonment.

Delhi Congress leaders held a press conference on Wednesday wearing masks and carrying oxygen cylinders to highlight the plummeting air quality in the national capital and demanded that the ruling…

Despite external headwinds, India’s economic growth rate in FY26 is expected to remain robust, supported by favourable domestic conditions, according to an IMF report released on Wednesday.

India’s benchmark Nifty 50 index could climb to 30,000 by end-2026, implying an upside of about 15% from current levels, supported by steady fiscal and monetary policy that are expected…

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Wednesday said that India continues to back all efforts aimed at ending the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict.

A special CBI judge on Wednesday warned former West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee that his bail in the primary teachers recruitment corruption case would be cancelled after he did…

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday expressed strong views on the Rajya Sabha bulletin’s guidelines on slogans in Parliament, emphasising the significance of “Jai Hind” and “Vande Mataram”…

Blood-stained bodies of a young man and a young woman were discovered inside a Hyundai car near the Holokhet Rail Bridge area in Udaipur town in Tripura’s Gomati district on…

Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te on Wednesday announced a special $40 billion budget for arms purchases, including to build an air defense system with high-level detection and interception capabilities called Taiwan…

The country has a right to bring back offenders who are evading law, the Supreme Court said on Wednesday as it refused to entertain a plea by a man seeking…

In a rare and dramatic rescue, a cobra injured during construction work in Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain was saved after a two-hour surgery in which the reptile received 80 stitches.

A 68-year-old senior advocate, Shiv Kumar Verma, died by suicide at his residence in the Jahangirabad area in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal on Monday night.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday reaffirmed India’s unwavering stand against terrorism as the nation marked the 17th anniversary of the horrific attack in Mumbai on November 26, 2008,…

The NHRC has issued a notice to the Railways over a complaint that “only halal-processed meat” is served in trains, which creates an “unfair discrimination” and amounts to “violations of…

Amid escalating Bombay versus Mumbai row, the Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday said that the BJP had a big role in renaming Bombay as Mumbai, adding that he will…

The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) on Wednesday revoked the Stage-3 restrictions under the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) in Delhi-NCR, after the air quality showed improvement in the…

A 22-year-old woman was allegedly killed by her brother who objected to her speaking with her male friends over phone, police said on Wednesday.

A US-based devotee donated Rs 9 crore to the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams on Wednesday, temple body chairman B R Naidu said.

Data from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) shows that Delhi’s 24-hour average Air Quality Index (AQI) jumped from 130 on October 1 to a staggering 428 by November 11,…