Afternoon Times

NDTV reported a 14 per cent growth in revenue in the second quarter of FY26 over Q1 FY26, and a 10 per cent increase compared to Q2 FY25, the company…

Nepali security forces have rescued over 1,500 stranded tourists from the high-altitude areas of Manang following heavy snowfall and adverse weather.

Meghalaya MP Ricky J Syngkon has written to the Centre seeking immediate intervention over what he described as “severe environmental degradation” of the Umngot River in West Jaintia Hills.

Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella is set to travel to India in December, his second visit to the South Asian country this year, where he plans to hold meetings with…

Kyiv said Wednesday its security services had detained a former military instructor from an unspecified European country, accusing the suspect of spying on the Ukrainian army for Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, told an investment conference in Saudi Arabia that the war in Ukraine will stop within one year from now.

Boeing reported a $5.4-billion third-quarter loss on Wednesday as massive added costs from the delayed certification of its 777X aircraft weighed down its results.

After a six-year gap, US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping are set to meet on Thursday in Busan on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation…

The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court directed Prahar Janshakti Party leader Bachchu Kadu and his supporters to immediately vacate the National Highway on the city’s outskirts where they…

Sonam Wangchuk’s wife claimed her husband was detained following the Ladakh protests because the government did not want him to be involved in statehood talks with Kargil and Leh organisations…

The former Supreme Court judge who headed the bench which ordered a year-round ban on firecrackers in Delhi-NCR has broken his silence on a recent order by the top court…

Nvidia has become the first $5 trillion company, just three months after the Silicon Valley chipmaker was first to break through the $4 trillion barrier.

The Rio de Janeiro public defender’s office on Wednesday said a total of 132 people died in the bloodiest police raid against drug gangs in the Brazilian city’s history, as…

Israel’s military said Wednesday that the ceasefire was back on in Gaza after it carried out heavy airstrikes overnight across the Palestinian territory that killed 104 people, including 46 children,…

Russia has successfully tested a nuclear-capable, nuclear-powered underwater drone, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday, defying US President Donald Trump’s warnings with Moscow’s second test of a new nuclear weapons system…

The US military confirmed Wednesday it was reducing its presence on NATO’s eastern flank, but denied the move amounted to an American withdrawal from Europe.

Bengal’s Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee called for a no-holds barred battle with the BJP today over the Special Intensive Revision of voter lists in the state, where assembly elections…

Millions of supporters of Bangladesh’s Awami League will boycott next year’s national election, after the party was barred from contesting the polls, ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said.

A senior woman officer of Bhopal Police has been accused of theft, presenting an unprecedented situation that has rocked the Madhya Pradesh Police Department.

Israel said it had carried out strikes on dozens of Hamas targets following the death of a soldier, with Gaza experiencing its deadliest night of bombing since a US-brokered truce…

In a city gasping for clean air, Delhi’s latest attempt at cloud seeding – a technique to induce artificial rain – has once again ended in disappointment.

One of Myanmar’s most powerful ethnic armed opposition factions has agreed to a China-brokered withdrawal from a lucrative ruby mining hub, the group said on Wednesday.

Spanish police said Wednesday they had seized 20 tonnes of cannabis hidden in refrigerated trucks carrying peppers from Morocco.

Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Wednesday threatened the Afghan Taliban and said that Islamabad would not even need a fraction of its arsenal to “completely obliterate” them and drive…

A Russian strike on a children’s hospital in southern Ukraine wounded at least nine people, including four children, Ukrainian officials said Wednesday, accusing Moscow of a “war crime”.

India does not need any new coal power plant beyond those already under construction to meet its electricity demand by 2032, according to a recent study.

Former Congress MP D K Suresh said he desires to see his elder brother and deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar become the CM, and that if it is in…

CCTV footage obtained from a hotel in Maharashtra’s Satara district has confirmed that the 28-year-old woman doctor, whose death last week sparked political outrage, had checked into the lodge alone…

Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s declaration to end Maoists by March 31, 2026 has injected new urgency into security operations across central India.

The Mumbai Cyber Police have arrested two members of a cybercrime gang that duped senior citizens by posing as senior police and investigation officers. They created fear of arrest and…

We all brush our teeth every day but how often do we think about what truly protects them? That invisible armour that keeps your teeth strong and healthy is called…

A 26-year-old woman has been thrown off the roof of a two-storey building in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi for refusing to have sex with her husband, who was trying to force…

Apple’s quarterly results on Thursday are expected to show the company can spark a strong iPhone upgrade cycle even without the flashy artificial intelligence tools it has been slow to…

Russian forces are close to taking the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk after a pincer movement almost totally encircled it while small groups of highly mobile Russian units penetrated the…

An India-bound tanker filled with Russian crude reversed course and is now idling in the Baltic Sea, a sign of potential disruption in oil trade between the two countries after…

Millions of supporters of Bangladesh’s Awami League will boycott next year’s national election, after the party was barred from contesting the polls, ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said.

Pakistani networks falsely claimed that Shivangi Singh was captured during Operation Sindoor.

As Bihar heads into a crucial electoral battle, its major political alliances-the NDA and the Mahagathbandhan (MGB)-have quietly shelved their lofty slogans in favor of hard-nosed caste arithmetic.

Cultural icon Zubeen Garg’s ashes were immersed in the Brahmaputra River by his wife Garima, 37 days after he was cremated with lakhs of followers mourning his untimely demise.

Dhananjoy Gope (alias Sudhir), a former Maoist from Odisha’s Malkangiri district, traded his gun for a uniform six years back.

Elon Musk-led Starlink is scheduled to conduct demonstration runs in Mumbai on October 30 and 31 to demonstrate compliance with India’s security and technical requirements for satellite broadband services.

The Narcotics Control Bureau has arrested Danish Chikna, a close aide of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim and “kingpin” of a drug syndicate, from Goa, officials said.

At the 80th session of the UNGA, India called out “baseless and biased” remarks in a recent report on the human rights situation in Myanmar, even as it reiterated its…

US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, are set to meet on Thursday.

US President Donald Trump voiced optimism on Wednesday on the eve of crunch trade talks with China’s Xi Jinping, while also announcing that a deal with South Korea was “pretty…

Soon after ChatGPT was released to the public in late 2022, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees they were on the cusp of a new technological revolution.