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Several properties were raided in Lucknow on Tuesday in connection with the recovery of explosives from Faridabad and the Delhi suicide blast, including a house that belongs to the brother…

Shaheen Saeed, a doctor, till recently would have passed as just another professional, going about doing her work. But no one who worked with her had the faintest idea who…

A retired school principal has been detained in Assam’s Cachar district for allegedly posting a controversial comment on social media regarding the blast near Delhi’s Red Fort on Monday.

An investigation by the district administration into the alleged religious conversion of children from different states of the country in St Joseph School in Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior district found the…

Phase 2 of assembly polls in Bihar today saw the highest ever turnout, with over 67% voting till 6 pm. Voting is being held on 122 seats, from where a…

The mastermind behind the terror module in Haryana’s Faridabad which the police and security agencies have smashed has been identified as Imam Irfan Ahmad. He is a resident of Jammu…

In the chaos that followed the Red Fort blast, tattoos, torn shirts and jackets were all that was left for families to identify the loved ones they lost in the…

ISRO made an orange-and-white rangoli in the skies over Babina in Uttar Pradesh, the heartland of India, as the nation’s ambitious human spaceflight program, Gaganyaan, crossed another critical milestone.

The BBC’s outgoing boss urged staff to “fight” for its journalism Tuesday as the broadcaster grappled with how to respond to Donald Trump’s threat of a lawsuit over a misleading…

The Pakistan government’s 27th Constitutional Amendment Bill grants sweeping powers to the country’s army chief, Asim Munir. Under the constitutional changes passed by the upper house of parliament, Munir will…

Palestinian mother Hanan al-Joujou, 31, has to feed her three children in the dark with a flashlight as there is no electricity in Gaza even after last month’s Israel-Hamas ceasefire.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) today filed three separate chargesheets before the NIA special court in Hyderabad against 21 terrorists of the banned organisation, Communist Party of India (Maoist).

A powerful explosion near Delhi’s Red Fort on Monday evening killed nine people and left 20 others injured. The blast occurred around 6:52 pm when a Hyundai i20 car exploded…

Any instance of GPS spoofing or abnormal satellite navigation behaviour will now have to be reported within 10 minutes of detection, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation has ordered.

Voter enthusiasm continued to mark the second and final phase of the Bihar Assembly elections, with an impressive 60.40% turnout recorded across the constituencies until 3 pm.

While voters queued up at booths across Rajasthan’s Anta Assembly constituency on Tuesday, a small village remained eerily silent. In Sankli, only a single vote was cast as a mark…

As visuals of the deadly Delhi blast flooded social media and news channels, many called their friends and family members in the national capital to check on them

Voting in the second and final phase of the Bihar assembly elections has ended. Now it’s time to find out what the exit polls have predicted for the state.

In the lead-up to the Bihar elections, poll strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor kept repeating one sentence about the prospects of his Jan Suraaj Party – “arsh pe ya farsh pe”, meaning…

Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) is likely to make its presence felt this time in Bihar, exit polls have suggested.

A 16-year-old boy, reportedly high on marijuana, was apprehended for allegedly stabbing a man in east Delhi’s Pandav Nagar after he refused to give him a ‘bidi’, police on Tuesday…

A Special CBI Court in Hyderabad has directed former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy to ensure his personal appearance for the hearing in the long-pending disproportionate assets…

The Supreme Court reserved its verdict on a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Tribunals Reforms (Rationalisation and Conditions of Service) Act, 2021.

Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday said India wants a fair, equitable, balanced trade deal with the US and it will not compromise on the interests of farmers,…

An initial assessment of the blast site near the Red Fort in Delhi indicated the suspects may have panicked and made a mistake while carrying the explosives, top intelligence sources…

“Aaj woh chala hi gaya (Today, he is gone),” wailed one of 35-year-old Jumman Mohammed’s family members at the mortuary where the Delhi suicide blast victim’s body was kept.

A deadly blast near Red Fort in New Delhi on Monday evening killed nine and injured 20. At 6:52 pm, a slow-moving Hyundai i20 exploded at a traffic stop near…

“People were lying on the road, some bleeding, some not moving at all. There was blood everywhere. We saw death from up close,” said Ram Pratap, lying on a hospital…

The family of the man suspected to be involved in the Delhi blast near Red Fort metro station said they cannot believe that he could be involved in terror activities.

As investigators trace the journey of the Hyundai i20 used in the Delhi bombing from Faridabad to the Red Fort area, new CCTV footage has emerged showing the car at…

“We are one country”, the Supreme Court asserted on Tuesday while expressing concern over a recent incident in Delhi where two students from Kerala were allegedly assaulted by police and…

Three days before the suicide bombing attack near Delhi’s Red Fort, the suspect Dr Umar Nabi had switched off his phone and his family had been unable to reach him.

From ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who held a PhD, to Al-Qaeda’s Ayman al-Zawahiri, a surgeon, and Laden, a civil engineering graduate – some of the world’s most extremist leaders…

A declared military crackdown has left some destruction at a major scam compound in Myanmar, satellite images analysed by AFP show, but most buildings are still standing in pictures taken…

A woman arriving from Thailand was caught at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport after attempting to pass herself off as a National Investigation Agency (NIA) officer. Officials said she was…

Notorious drug smuggler Roma Arif Shaikh alias ‘Pagli’, 37, was arrested and sent to jail for one year on Tuesday by Mumbai’s Anti-Narcotics Cell for smuggling mephedrone (MD).

The shocking blast near Delhi’s iconic Red Fort, which shattered the national capital’s peace and set off alarm bells in India’s security establishment, turned the world upside down for nine…

Thieves broke into the national museum in the Syrian capital and stole several ancient statues dating back to the Roman era, officials said Tuesday.

Voting in the second and final phase of the Bihar assembly elections has ended. Now it’s time to find out what the exit polls have predicted for the state.

The Lucknow-based woman doctor, who was arrested in connection with the massive explosives haul in Faridabad near Delhi, was responsible for establishing the women’s wing and recruitment for Pakistan-based terrorist…

BJP MP Praveen Khandelwal, who represents Delhis Chandi Chowk constituency where a deadly blast on Monday killed nine people, said that “no one responsible will be spared”.

A powerful explosion ripped through a judicial complex in Pakistan’s Islamabad today, killing nine and injuring 21. The local media reported it was a suicide attack.

A day after a car exploded near Delhi’s Red Fort, the Supreme Court on Tuesday denied bail to a person accused of offences under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA)…