Afternoon Times

The NDA has retained power in Bihar with a landslide win, crafted by its caste math and an unexpected wave of support for Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. It left the…

Chirag Paswan, the son of late Bihar leader Ram Vilas Paswan, has come of age in the just concluded assembly election, leaving a huge footprint on the state and the…

They became MLAs in 1990, when Tejashwi Yadav was three months old. Since then, they have won every election in Bihar from the same seats. BJP’s Prem Kumar and JDU’s…

The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Friday ordered the suspension of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) for allegedly assaulting an administrative officer on duty.

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia carries thousands of citations to “questionable” and “problematic” sources, US researchers said Friday, raising doubts about the reliability of the AI-powered encyclopedia as an information tool.

Prashant Kishor guided many a leader to electoral victory, but faced a massive defeat in his first poll test. His Jan Suraaj Party has scored a zero in this election

After the Jammu and Kashmir’s National Conference party faced a major setback in the Budgam bye-elections on Friday, it was only the party’s estranged MP Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi who…

As votes cast in the high-voltage Bihar election have been counted now, the main opposition RJD’s score is a sorry sight.

A clip of Mukesh Sahani jumping into a pond, along with Rahul Gandhi, during campaigning in Bihar’s Begusarai was a big hit on the internet. In internet speak, it was…

The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has secured one of its strongest mandates in two decades in the Bihar Assembly elections.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday to get rid of tariffs on a broad swath of commodities, including beef, coffee and tropical fruits. It’s part of a response…

The AIMIM having won five assembly seats in Bihar, party chief Asaduddin Owaisi made it clear he was expecting allegations of “BJP’s B team” again – this time from the…

In a shocking incident, a woman killed her two minor sons allegedly for the “salvation of her ancestors” in Navsari district of Gujarat, police officials said on Friday.

US President Donald Trump told law enforcement chiefs Friday to investigate links between Jeffrey Epstein and ex-president Bill Clinton, as he sought to deflect growing questions about his own ties…

US President Donald Trump is expected to reach a deal with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman allowing Riyadh to acquire F-35 stealth fighter jets, Bloomberg News reported on Friday,…

A controversy broke out at a premier institute in Kolkata earlier this week over a communal graffiti. A day after the suicide bomb attack near Delhi’s Red Fort, some hate…

“Bihar result is truly surprising. It was an election that was not fair from the beginning”: Rahul Gandhi on Congress loss

Pakistan on Friday announced the arrest of four terrorists over their alleged involvement in a deadly suicide bombing outside a district court in the capital, a breakthrough in an investigation…

Washington is accusing online marketplace company Alibaba of providing technological support for Chinese military “operations” against targets in the United States, a report revealed on Friday, citing a White House…

The Sheikh Hasina-led Bangladesh Awami League has upped the ante against the Muhammad Yunus regime that currently governs Bangladesh. The party has now announced more protests to take on Muhammad…

A Chinese national dubbed “one of the most prolific sex offenders of all time” by British police was sentenced to life in prison on Friday.

US President Donald Trump claimed Friday that pressure to release details of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged sex abuse network is a “hoax” pushed by Democratic opponents.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi — on a day the NDA achieved a sweeping victory in Bihar — predicted about another split in the Congress and warned its allies that they…

A Delhi court on Friday allowed the Enforcement Directorate 14 days’ custody of Gurugram builder and director of the Ocean Seven Buildtech Pvt Ltd, Swaraj Singh Yadav, in an alleged…

The NDA’s massive win in Bihar has set the groundwork for a similar performance in neighbouring West Bengal, where Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress holds power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said…

This year’s Bihar elections will be remembered for an NDA sweep and the potent combination of Nitish Kumar and PM Narendra Modi, but it will also be marked as the…

A woman died by suicide after allegedly killing her two minor daughters in Rajkot district of Gujarat, police said on Friday.

An Indian Air Force aircraft which was on a routine training mission crashed near Tambaram here on Friday afternoon, officials said.

In the kaleidoscopic landscape of Indian politics, few events evoke the fervent spirit of democracy like the assembly elections.

An old video of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, where he is seen asserting that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will register its biggest-ever victory in Bihar, is doing the rounds…

The Imamganj Assembly constituency in Bihar delivered a decisive mandate in the 2025 assembly elections, with Deepa Kumari of the Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) securing a commanding victory.

The little mountain icon, sometimes with a sun or cloud in the background, other times crossed out or broken, has become the standard symbol, across digital platforms, to signal something…

A Bengaluru escaped from a vehicle in which he was stabbed by his former employee, but was soon caught again by the accused and stabbed again.

The TMC launched a sharp counterattack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s claim that the BJP’s sweeping Bihar win has “paved the way to end jungle raj” in West Bengal.

Khesari Lal Yadav’s electoral debut has come a cropper, with the Bhojpuri superstar, who was defeated by BJP’s Chhoti Kumari by over 7,000 votes from the Chapra constituency in Bihar.

Several people have been killed and injured after a double-decker bus crashed into a bus stop in Stockholm on Friday. Although the police have confirmed that several people were hit,…

The Gurugram police arrested a live-in couple for allegedly murdering a 40-year-old private company employee here, an official said on Friday.

The National Medical Commission (NMC) has cancelled the registrations of the four doctors involved in the Jaish-e-Mohammed terror module behind the Delhi blast on November 10.

The Indian Army’s Gajraj Corps has operationalised an indigenous mono rail system at 16,000 feet in the Kameng Himalayas of Arunachal Pradesh, marking a major breakthrough in high-altitude logistics.

Independent candidate Jyoti Singh, wife of Bhojpuri actor Pawan Singh, lost by 50,688 votes against Arun Singh of CPI (M-L) Liberation in Karakat Assembly constituency in Bihar.

When the dust from the 2025 Bihar election settles, one of the opposition parties that may end up with a great showing is AIMIM

Police have busted an interstate fake currency module in Punjab’s Mohali district, recovering Rs 9,99,05,000 in a combination of fake and demonetised currency on Friday.

Laws alone are not sufficient if people make no effort to treat domestic workers as workers with rights like any other, experts said at a discussion held by the National…

Osama Shahab, son of dead gangster-turned-politician Mohammad Shahabuddin, who was a several-term MP from Siwan, won from the Raghunathpur assembly seat in Bihar.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked the people for voting the BJP to power in Jammu and Kashmir’s Nagrota and Odisha’s Nuapada.

The High Court has issued a significant directive to the Rajasthan government, ordering that Panchayat and Municipal elections be conducted simultaneously by April 15, 2026.

Ruling parties lost four of the eight seats where assembly bypolls were held on November 11 with the Congress bagging one seat in BJP-ruled Rajasthan.

Eight persons, including two forest department personnel, were injured on Friday afternoon while trying to rescue a leopard that entered a densely populated area in Nashik, an official said.

At a time when the Election Commission has come under fire from the opposition over allegations of vote theft and the timing of the Special Intensive Revision, PM Narendra Modi…

In the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections, several political heavyweights and prominent figures emerged victorious as the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance registered a landslide win.

The JD(U)’s tally of more than 80 seats reaffirms what analysts often forget: Nitish’s electoral machine, and the social coalitions it rests on, do not wither simply because poll pundits…

As the NDA preps for a victory party and the Opposition’s Mahagathbandhan stares at a rout in the Bihar Assembly election, a big question is which factors turned what was…

With the results almost decided in Bihar, all eyes are now on West Bengal, where elections are due in the next six months.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that the people of Bihar broke all records following the National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) landslide victory in the state’s Assembly elections.

Nearly two decades after the Bundaberg scandal, Indian-origin surgeon Jayant Patel has brushed aside the events that once made him one of Australia’s most infamous medical figures.

Israel returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians to Gaza on Friday, officials at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis said, in the latest step to fulfil the terms of the fragile…