Afternoon Times

The line between fiction and reality was erased inside RA Studio in Powai when an audition, supposed to be the start of a dream for 17 children, spiraled into a…

Sotheby’s announced Friday that it will auction off the solid gold cistern, a sculpture by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan entitled “America.”

Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha launched a scathing attack on Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, accusing him of misleading people over the issue of statehood.

Seven transgender women were charged in Bengaluru for allegedly assaulting and shaving the head of a member of their community.

US President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday barred reporters from accessing part of the White House press office without an appointment, citing the need to protect “sensitive material.”

Flights were suspended for almost two hours at Berlin Brandenburg Airport on Friday due to sightings of unidentified drones, the latest in a series of similar scares across Europe, an…

North Korea said on Saturday that denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula, which South Korea said will be discussed in a summit with China later that day, is an unrealisable “pipe…

Delhi’s winter atmosphere is climatologically unsuitable for consistent cloud seeding due to a fundamental lack of sufficient moisture and saturation, particularly during the peak pollution months of December and January,…

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been transferred to a prison in New Jersey to serve out the remainder of his four-year prison sentence on prostitution-related charges.

A US federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to provide emergency funding for a food aid program threatened with closure by the month-long government shutdown, court documents showed.

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that Christianity faces a threat in Nigeria and he was adding the West African nation to a State Department watch list.

US President Donald Trump on Friday flatly rejected any resumption of trade negotiations with Canada, one week after interrupting talks amid a dispute over an anti-tariff advertisement.

In a relief for vehicle owners, the Delhi government has lifted the one-year restriction on applications for No Objection Certificates (NOCs) for deregistered vehicles.

SEBI has said it can’t conduct a forensic audit into alleged financial irregularities by the committee headed by Justice (Retd) Dilip Seth, which was formed to oversee the refund of…

A new crew took off for China’s space station on Friday, including the country’s youngest ever astronaut and four lab mice.

In all, 258 women are contesting the Bihar Assembly election as against 2,357 male candidates.

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has allowed a Hindu group to conduct Annadhanam (community feast) on a public ground in Tamil Nadu’s Dindigul district.

An Indian national, his wife, his organisation that smuggled people into the US from across continents along with at least 16 companies have been sanctioned by the US federal authorities.

The Delhi governments upcoming excise policy is set to give the citys liquor stores a major facelift bigger, modern and mall-ready outlets, even as it sticks to the existing government-run…

A fresh political war erupted in Delhi on Friday after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) alleged that all 37 sewage treatment plants (STPs) in Delhi failed inspection tests, calling the…

FBI Director Kash Patel said Friday that the agency had prevented a “potential terrorist attack” planned in the northern US state of Michigan over Halloween weekend.

France’s culture minister said Friday anti-ramming devices would be set up around the Louvre by year’s end, after a high-profile heist at the famed museum reignited debate over its security.

India has achieved three Guinness World Records under the nationwide ‘Swasth Nari, Sashakt Parivar Abhiyaan’ (SNSPA), a campaign focused on preventive and women-centric healthcare.

Women continued to dominate Delhi’s list of missing persons this year, accounting for 61 per cent (11,917) of the 19,682 people reported missing till October 15, according to Delhi Police…

Forty-eight migrant workers from Jharkhand, who are stranded in the African country of Tunisia, have appealed to the Indian government to facilitate their return to India.

People under the general category in Jammu and Kashmir have complained that they are being discriminated against in recruitments due to the reservation policy in the Union Territory.

Protests broke out at Maharshi Dayanand University in Rohtak after a few women sanitation workers were allegedly forced by their supervisors to undress themselves and get their sanitary napkins photographed…

US hip-hop star Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has been transferred to a prison in New Jersey to serve his jail term of four years and two months for prostitution-related crimes, a…

Diners at a bustling Seoul fried chicken joint got the surprise of their lives on Thursday when three billionaires walked in and ended up paying everyone’s bill.

In the multicultural mosaic of Bihar’s political landscape, this year’s assembly election will stand as a defining moment, a crossroad where myriad factors converge, each vying for attention.

Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi said warfare is becoming increasingly “non-kinetic and non-contact” owing to multiple factors and therefore demands a response that requires military strength, and intellectual, technological and…

The final act of filmmaker Rohit Arya’s life unfolded in a cramped studio in Mumbai’s Powai neighbourhood, wired with motion detectors, surveillance cameras, and locks that he thought turned the…

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to pass any “blanket order” staying registration of fresh First Information Reports (FIRs) against a Chennai woman techie who was arrested for allegedly sending…

In a bizarre turn of events straight out of a family drama, a middle-aged man eloped with his daughter’s would-be mother-in-law, just days before their children’s engagement ceremony.

Two women, one of whom suffers from high blood pressure, had a harrowing experience when they were stuck in the sauna of their housing complex in Noida for over half…

At least six persons died in separate rain-related incidents after heavy rains lashed different parts of Telangana due to the impact of Cyclone ‘Montha’ on October 29, police and district…

A glossy promo photo of Emirates’ business class has ignited outrage online. The airline’s recent post on X showcased its luxurious A380 cabin captioned, “This is how we do Business”,…

Around 700 people have been killed in three days of election protests in Tanzania, the main opposition party said Friday, with protesters still on the streets in the midst of…

BlackRock’s private-credit investing arm and several major lenders are scrambling to recover more than $500 million lost in a loan fraud allegedly orchestrated by Indian-origin telecom executive Bankim Brahmbhatt.

US Vice President JD Vance addressed criticism over his comments on wife Usha’s religion, and said that she is not a Christian and does not plan to convert.

India’s first digital museum dedicated to tribal freedom heroes has been established in Nava Raipur Atal Nagar in Chhattisgarh, showcasing the valour and sacrifices of tribal warriors who fought against…

A sub-divisional court on Friday rejected the bail pleas of two of the six accused in the case pertaining to the alleged gang rape of a second year medical college…

A national-level kabaddi player was shot dead after an argument with his friends in Punjab’s Ludhiana district, the police said.

Six people armed with military-grade weapons used explosives to break into a gold refining laboratory in Lyon on Thursday, slightly injuring five employees in France’s latest high-profile daytime heist.

JD Vance said it is totally “reasonable and acceptable” for American citizens to want to have neighbours they have something in common with.

A Japanese municipality was forced to withdraw tips urging women to wear shoes that make them appear “delicate” or choose makeup that looks “demure” in order to secure a partner,…

US Vice President JD Vance recently said that he hoped his wife, Usha, a Hindu, would someday embrace Christianity like him.

A celebration of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s birth anniversary turned into a scene of chaos and outrage in Satna on Friday afternoon after BJP MP Ganesh Singh slapped a municipal crane…

Bengaluru-headquartered Narayana Health has announced the acquisition of UK-based Practice Plus Group Hospitals, marking its first major entry into the British healthcare market.

The Justice Datta-led Bench noted that during the pendency of the appeal, the appellant and the victim, now adults, had married in May 2021 and were leading a “happy married…

A bomb threat email sent to the Director General of Police (DGP)’s office in Chennai on Thursday morning led to a major security check at the Enforcement Directorate (ED)’s Southern…

Two nurses from Kerala, travelling to Abu Dhabi from Kochi on their first international flight, saved the life of a fellow passenger after he suffered a cardiac arrest twenty minutes…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the demonstrations by indigenous dog breeds during the Rashtriya Ekta Divas (National Unity Day) celebrations at the Statue of Unity in Gujarat on Friday.