Afternoon Times

The Anti-Narcotics Task Force (ANTF), Border Range, in a joint operation with the Border Security Force (BSF), recovered 19.980 kg of heroin and arrested four accused.

Maha Aryaman Scindia, son of Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia and President of the Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association, hit his chest against the sunroof of a moving car on Monday when…

41 people had died and at least 60 were injured in the stampede during Vijay’s rally on September 27.

Setting the stage for another flashpoint between the West Bengal government and the Centre, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has returned the state’s proposal on preparing a panel to…

When US forces took Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela on Saturday, Aguadilla and several other Puerto Rican bases were already home to aircraft and personnel involved in the operation.

The incident came to light on January 2 when Rajesh Kumar – a resident of Jharkhand’s Kukhi – visited the Hussainabad police station seeking the station house officer in connection…

The suspense over whether the government would present the Union Budget 2026 on a Sunday will end soon. The cabinet committee on parliamentary affairs is likely to meet tomorrow; among…

Barry J Pollack, the veteran US attorney famed for securing the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, is now tasked with defending the Venezuelan leader.

Newly accessed US government filings reveal an extraordinary lobbying blitz by Pakistan in Washington, exposing the scale of diplomatic pressure Islamabad unleashed as it struggled to blunt India’s military response…

Police have arrested a gang for attempting a daylight robbery at a jewellery shop in Hyderabad using a fake toy pistol to threaten the shop owner.

The barrage of visuals showing Maduro, inelegantly dressed, in handcuffs on American soil, are startling but nothing new in the US playbook. Remember Gaddafi and Saddam? Only, the theatre is…

Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge has launched a fresh attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in connection with another comment by US President Donald Trump, this time not on Operation Sindoor,…

The Venezuelan government on Monday published a decree declaring a State of External Commotion, granting sweeping powers to the presidency and instructing security forces to detain “any person involved in…

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung snapped a selfie with Xi Jinping using a smartphone gifted to him by the Chinese leader, who had joked at their last meeting that…

Reliance Industries said on Tuesday it is not expecting any Russian crude oil deliveries in January and has not received such cargoes in the past three weeks.

An eyewitness said the strike hit a house in the centre of the army-controlled capital of North Kordofan, which the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have sought to encircle for…

The BRS opposed the proposed reorganisation of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and condemned the attempt to erase the age-old identity of Secunderabad.

The dramatic shift – announced by the US health department, led by long-time vaccine skeptic Robert F Kennedy Jr – means the country will no longer recommend that every child…

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said Monday she plans to return home “as soon as possible,” and slammed the interim president in Caracas.

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court will deliver its verdict today in the high-profile writ appeal arising out of the Thiruparankundram hilltop dispute.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy raised $9.88 million during the second half of 2025, his campaign said, setting a fundraising record for an Ohio governor’s race.

For the second consecutive day, a massive gas blowout at ONGCs Mori-5 well in Andhra Pradeshs Dr BR Ambedkar Konaseema district continued to rage and international experts are being consulted…

Rana Pratap Bairagi, a 38-year-old Hindu businessman, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Jessore district in southern Bangladesh, amid a deteriorating law and order situation.

Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers’ Association (JNUTA) on Monday recalled the “barbarous assault” on students and faculty six years ago on this day on the varsity campus.

A man allegedly killed his father, sister, and niece with an axe over a land dispute and threw their bodies into a well in a village in Ganga Nagar area…

Alvin Hellerstein, the 92-year-old US judge handling the case against deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, has presided over a number of notable trials during his decades on the bench.

Unidentified drones flew over the Miraflores palace in central Caracas and security forces opened fire in response around 8 pm, the source said, hours after Maduro’s deputy Delcy Rodriguez was…

Sarat Mani Chakraborty was reportedly attacked with sharp weapons in the Narsingdi district at around 10 pm on Monday.

US President Donald Trump said the United States is not at war with Venezuela and will not push for elections there in the near term. days after US forces captured…

Hilton and local operators of the Hampton Inn Lakeville property released statements within hours apologising and said the messages refusing to serve agents who were focused on immigration enforcement didn’t…

US President Donald Trump on Monday said the US has taken in, and will soon receive, more than $600 billion through tariffs, arguing that the policy has strengthened the country…

A 23-year-old Dalit house surgeon at the Government Medical College in Siddipet district of Telangana allegedly died by suicide after she was “cheated” by a senior resident doctor after he…

Swiss food giant Nestle announced on Monday a recall of batches of infant formula in several European countries, notably France, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy and Sweden, as a precautionary measure.

Barry Pollack – the Washington lawyer who represented WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange – will defend toppled Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in a US drug case that could test immunity claims…

Footage broadcast on Venezuelan state television in late November showed Maduro bouncing to an electronic beat during a rally.

Venezuela’s vice president and oil minister Delcy Rodriguez was formally sworn in on Monday as the country’s interim president, as US-deposed President Nicolas Maduro appeared in a New York court…

WWF-Pakistan has cautioned that an invasive fish species has been detected in water bodies across Sindh and Lower Punjab, warning that its spread poses a serious threat to aquatic biodiversity…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israel would not allow arch-foe Iran to restore its ballistic missile programme, just days after US President Donald Trump issued a similar threat.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 hit the western Chugoku region of Japan on Tuesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, followed by a series of sizeable aftershocks.

The Telangana Panchayat Raj (Amendment) Bill, 2026, has been unanimously passed by the state legislative assembly, officially abolishing the three-decade-old “two-child norm” for candidates contesting local body elections.

The predawn U.S. military operation that spirited Nicolas Maduro and his wife out of Venezuela and into US custody marks a watershed in hemispheric politics.

NATO member Turkey urged Europe on Monday to “assume greater responsibilities” for its own security rather than rely on the United States for protection.

The denial of bail to activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the 2020 Delhi riots conspiracy case is very different kettle of fish from ordinary, everyday crimes for which…

A large bloc of countries has rejected the US operation as a violation of international law and Venezuelan sovereignty.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi.

The Maharashtra government has formed a SIT to probe alleged irregularities in the Civil Registration System software records after around 27,000 birth and death registrations were generated in a village…

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Monday said that the conditions for a free, fair, and impartial election have “not yet been established in the country,” and accused the government of showing bias…

An emboldened US President Donald Trump has hinted that he has other countries in his sights after toppling Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, leaving the world asking: where’s next?

Elon Musk’s AI tool Grok faced growing international backlash Monday for generating sexualized deepfakes of women and minors, with the European Union joining the condemnation and Britain warning of an…

One in three Americans approve of the US military strike on Venezuela that toppled the country’s president and 72% worry the US will become too involved in the South American…

Denmark’s prime minister warned Monday that any US move to take Greenland by force would destroy 80 years of transatlantic security links, after President Donald Trump repeated his desire to…

An 18-year-old man was killed and another seriously injured after a stabbing incident in northeast Delhi’s Welcome area, police said on Tuesday.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will undertake a two-day visit to India next week to further shore up bilateral cooperation in a range of areas, including trade, investment and defence and…

A marriage that began in January 2024 has ended in a police complaint over allegations of deception ranging from hidden baldness to international drug smuggling.

Clips showing President Nicolas Maduro’s movement through New York ahead of his first court appearance have been making the rounds on the internet.

Pakistan and Afghanistan on Monday agreed to establish a 13-member joint committee of business leaders to hold formal negotiations for the opening of the border for trade.

Sharjeel Imam’s uncle on Monday expressed shock over the Supreme Court’s refusal to grant bail to his nephew in the 2020 Delhi riots conspiracy case, but said he respected the…

The Supreme Court, while denying bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the Delhi riots larger conspiracy case on Monday, observed that the Constitution guarantees personal liberty, but it…

Purported videos of the January 2 assault, which later went viral on social media platforms, show a group of men beating and kicking a man lying on the road, stripping…

A 33-foot-tall and 210-tonne Shiva Lingam to be installed at the under-construction Virat Ramayan Temple in Bihar’s East Champaran district reached neighbouring Gopalganj district on Monday

Four students suffered severe burn injuries at a school in Odisha’s Rayagada district on Monday while allegedly experimenting with paint thinner on the premises.

Rashmi Verma, a 24-year-old doctor who had been undergoing treatment at the AIIMS, Bhopal, for the past 25 days after she allegedly took an overdose of an anaesthetic injection, died…

Bangladesh’s exiled author Taslima Nasreen finds the current situation in her country of birth worsening through time, even compared to the day she was forced to leave over three decades…

Four Aam Aadmi Party MLAs were suspended on Monday for the remaining three days of the Delhi Assembly’s Winter Session.