Afternoon Times

A man choked to death his mother, sister and minor brother at their home in Delhi and then walked into a police station, surrendering himself to the cops, police said.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for respect for the political independence of states after the United States seized Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and said it was in charge…

“I’m innocent. I am not guilty. I am a decent man, the president of my country,” Maduro told a judge, adding he was kidnapped.

Speculation about a cabinet reshuffle in the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has intensified after the chief minister visited Delhi and met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit…

Congress Working Committee member Shashi Tharoor, whose recent statements and article had put the party in a defensive mode, on Monday said that he had never deviated from the party…

The Delhi Development Authority or DDA, which sought permission to cut 473 trees in the Delhi Ridge area to complete a road leading to the Central Armed Police Forces Institute…

The Special PMLA Court in Shimla has declared Ashoni Kanwar and her son, Mandeep Rana, as Fugitive Economic Offenders (FEO) in connection with a multi-crore fake degree scam.

India on Monday advised its nationals to avoid non-essential travel to Iran until further notice, owing to the recent developments in the country.

A recent media report claimed that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 86, is preparing to leave the country along with 20 close family members amid growing anti-government protests.

A Bangladesh court on Monday set January 21 as the date for framing charges in a sedition case against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 285 others.

Before deposed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was brought to the United States to face drug-trafficking charges, another Latin American leader had already stood trial in a US court for similar…

The Swiss government said Monday that it had decided to freeze any assets held in Switzerland by the deposed Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro or his associates “with immediate effect”.

The Delhi government is gearing up to roll out a new Electric Vehicle (EV) Policy 2.0, aimed at fast-tracking clean mobility across the national capital.

The Tata Group has begun scouting for a suitable candidate to head Air India, as the tenure of the incumbent, Campbell Wilson, will end next year, sources have said.

DMK’s parliamentary party chief and head of the party’s manifesto committee for the assembly elections, Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, is keen to contest the coming elections to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly,…

Pregnant Bengali woman, Sunali Khatun, who returned to India in December last year — six months after being deported to Bangladesh on suspicion of being a citizen of the neighbouring…

The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has carried out search operations at nine locations across Delhi, Mumbai, Surat, Lucknow and Varanasi on December 31, 2025 and January 1, 2026 in connection…

Deposed Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro arrived at a New York court on Monday, just days after being seized in Caracas in a shock US military operation that paved the path…

The Paris court found Monday 10 people guilty of cyberbullying France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, by spreading false online claims about her gender and sexuality, including allegations she was born…

In a dramatic overnight raid, US forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, and Washington officials made no secret of their primary objective: preventing America’s adversaries from exploiting Venezuela’s vast oil…

Days after US special forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores from the capital Caracas in a nighttime airborne raid, President Donald Trump once again expressed…

A 40-year-old Hindu woman has allegedly been gang-raped by two men, who also tied her to a tree and cut off her hair in central Bangladesh’s Kaliganj, a sub-district of…

In yet another incident of a Hindu man being killed in Bangladesh, a 45-year-old factory owner, who was also the acting editor of a newspaper, has been shot in the…

The annual Gangasagar Mela, the world’s second-largest human congregation after the Kumbh mela, has become the latest political flashpoint between the ruling Trinamool Congress and the BJP in Bengal.

Shortly after another door was closed to him after spending five years in jail, activist and former JNU student Umar Khalid remarked that being imprisoned is his life now and…

Two people were injured when an improvised explosive device (IED) planted near an abandoned house of a Meitei family in Manipur’s Bishnupur district went off this morning, officials said.

KP Shankardas, a former member of the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB), has suffered a setback in the Supreme Court, which refused to expunge remarks made by the Kerala High Court…

A Bangladesh commission investigating disappearances during the rule of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina said Monday at least 287 people were assumed to have been killed.

Iran will offer no leniency to “rioters”, though the public has a right to demonstrate, the head of the judiciary said on Monday, following more than a week of protests.

Israeli authorities have told the Supreme Court that a ban on international media access to Gaza should remain in place, arguing it is necessary for security reasons, according to a…

Indonesian prosecutors on Monday filed corruption charges against former education minister and the co-founder of startup Gojek, Nadiem Makarim, over alleged improper laptop procurement during the pandemic that led to…

A 40-year-old Hindu woman has allegedly been gang-raped by two men, who also tied her to a tree and cut off her hair in central Bangladesh’s Kaliganj, a sub-district of…

Jorge Galicia, an exiled Venezuelan who has spent years touring US colleges, warning young people about the dangers of socialism, has hailed US President Donald Trump’s actions against Venezuela’s ousted…

A man from Andhra Pradesh was hacked to death just outside a police station gate by two men on Monday. The incident occurred around 03:15 am near the Tanakallu police…

Aiming to consolidate opposition forces in Tamil Nadu, a state it has struggled to make a mark in, the BJP is seriously exploring an alliance with actor-politician Vijay’s TVK, sources…

A major gas leak from an operational ONGC oil well caused widespread panic in a village in Andhra Pradesh’s Konaseema district.

Unlike post-Operation Sindoor, when Beijing hailed Pakistan’s air-defence operations against India as a success of Islamabad’s “Made in China” military force, there is an eerie silence within Beijing this time.

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said today that she will go to court to challenge the special intensive revision of voter lists or SIR in the state.

Two young men were seriously injured after being attacked and stabbed multiple times by four people in Delhi.

A warden at an engineering college hostel in Karnataka has been dismissed after a viral video showed him instructing students not to speak Kannada on campus, sparking a row over…

India has surpassed China to become the largest rice producer in the world with a production of 150.18 million tonnes, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said.

Somaliland, a self-proclaimed independent territory recognised only by Israel, has thrown its weight behind US action against Venezuela.

In a day of high political drama, Telangana MLC K Kavitha delivered a scathing, tear-filled farewell speech in the Telangana Legislative Council before marching to the Telangana Martyrs’ Memorial, popularly…

A Paris court found 10 people guilty of cyberbullying France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron.

India’s former Ambassador to Venezuela, YK Sinha, has likened the reported US assault on Caracas and the capture of President Nicolas Maduro to “a bygone era of gunboat diplomacy”.

A political row has erupted in Andhra Pradesh following a statement made by Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy in the Legislative Assembly, claiming that work on the Rayalaseema Lift Irrigation…

Amid the leadership tussle, Siddaramaiah is all set to equal the record of the longest-serving Karnataka Chief Minister, held by D. Devaraj Urs, on Tuesday.

Chaos marked a key government meeting in Karnataka’s Bidar today, as two legislators from rival parties nearly came to blows in front of a state minister.

The Supreme Court granted bail to five in the 2020 Delhi riots case: Gulfisha Fatima, Meeran Haider, Shifa Ur Rehman, Mohd Saleem Khan, and Shadab Ahmed.

President Donald Trump’s calls that Greenland should become part of the United States was met with international condemnation Monday as the autonomous Danish territory’s prime minister warned, “That’s enough now”.

Over the past 50 years, Iran has been shaken by a series of protests. In the lead-up to Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, students, oil workers and others protested, demanding political…