Afternoon Times

In a brazen display of audacity, liquor smugglers in ‘dry’ Bihar attacked a police team that had gone to a village for a raid and injured at least five personnel.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday clarified that his son Yathindra Siddaramaiah did not name anyone as his successor.

Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Minister Baby Rani Maurya had a close shave when a truck driver lost control over the vehicle and hit her car on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway on Friday…

Haryana DGP O P Singh emphasised that polite behaviour with the public is crucial and asked police officials to use simple and courteous words like ‘please’, ‘sorry’ and ‘thank you’,…

The main Palestinian political factions, including Hamas, said Friday they had agreed that an independent committee of technocrats would take over the running of post-war Gaza.

Tragedy struck Vedanthapuram village near Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh on Friday evening when four boys were swept away by the surging currents of the Swarnamukhi river while swimming.

The results of Jammu and Kashmir’s first Rajya Sabha polls after becoming a Union Territory followed expected lines, with the ruling National Conference securing three seats on Friday and the…

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global terror funding watchdog, has warned Pakistan that its removal from the ‘greylist’ in October 2022 doesn’t make it immune to money laundering…

Thailand’s Queen Mother Sirikit, who supervised royal projects to help the rural poor, preserve traditional craft-making and protect the environment, died on Friday. She was 93.

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro asserted Friday the United States was “fabricating a war” as Washington sent an aircraft carrier to the Caribbean, building up a military deployment there.

A video which is going viral shows a Mahindra Thar being driven recklessly near the Sadar Bazaar area in the city while the passenger stands on the side step with…

The DRI has dismantled a narcotics manufacturing and distribution network operating across the Delhi-NCR region and seized contraband worth about Rs 109 crore and arrested 26 foreign nationals.

In an incident of unruly behaviour that unfolded midair, a passenger forced another flyer to speak in Marathi if he wanted to stay in Mumbai. The incident, which was recorded…

Canadian PM Mark Carney has said that his government remains ready to continue “constructive discussions” with the United States after US President Donald Trump abruptly announced the termination of trade…

Police lodged an FIR against a school-cum-madrassa here based on a man’s complaint that her 13-year-old daughter was asked to submit a “virginity test” report for admission into the institute.

The city recorded its lowest minimum temperature in October in the last two years, dropping to a minimum of 17 degrees Celsius on Thursday night, while the air quality improved,…

Donald Trump is not scheduled to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un while in South Korea next week, a senior US official said Friday, despite speculation about a meeting…

United States President Donald Trump is considering plans to target cocaine facilities and drug trafficking routes in Venezuela. However, no official plan has been made, US officials said, as reported…

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that it struck and killed a senior Hezbollah commander in southern Lebanon.

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, pledged Friday to further embrace his Muslim identity in response to growing attacks by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his…

The United States on Friday announced sanctions on Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, who Washington has accused of failing to curb illicit drug trafficking, alongside his wife and son.

“Undue pressure” by Amneet P Kumar, the wife of deceased IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, and MLA Amit Rattan and two other cops “forced” Assistant Sub-Inspector Sandeep Kumar Lathar to…

Police busted an illegal country-made weapons factory in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhind district that was operating out of a rented farmhouse.

A woman doctor, who allegedly died by suicide at a district hospital in Maharashtra’s Satara, was raped by a police sub-inspector (SI) four times over a span of five months,…

Asserting that Bihar is still a “poor” state despite the 20 years of rule by the JD(U)-led NDA in the state, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Friday claimed that CM…

Weeks after a late-night hit-and-run accident in Bengaluru, the city traffic police on Friday identified ex Bigg Boss Kannada contestant Divya Suresh as the alleged driver of the car involved…

A man from Goa was arrested for allegedly duping a woman and her family of Rs 1.10 crore by posing as the CEO of multiple companies and offering them job…

A host of regulations, including the Carbon Tax, introduced by the European Union are expected to impact its businesses, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday.

A third-year MBBS student of Kota Government Medical College allegedly died by suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan in her house here on Friday, a police official said.

With increasing worries about the misuse of AI and synthetic content in political campaigns, the Election Commission has released a new advisory which sets strict rules for disclosing such campaign…

Behind their smartphone and laptop screens, two men were slowly drawn into the dark web of ISIS propaganda and eventually allegedly converted it into a plot to strike Delhi on…

A truck driver who backed into a US Coast Guard base in the San Francisco Bay Area – the site of earlier protests against federal immigration agents – was shot…

The driver of the bus which caught fire in Andhra Pradesh’s Kurnool in the early hours of Friday had alighted to check on the situation but panicked and fled instead…

The presidents of Cameroon and Ivory Coast, 92 and 83 respectively, are each seeking to extend decades of rule, reflecting a trend across Africa where some of the world’s oldest…

In the desire for a baby boy, a woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur was made to abort her pregnancy twice and then forced to have relations with her father-in-law and…

A low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm by the morning of October 27, IMD said on Friday.

A 52-year-old man was beaten to death with a stick allegedly by his intoxicated family member here, police said on Friday.

India on Friday cited Pakistan’s attempts to protect at the UN Security Council the terror outfit that claimed responsibility for the Pahalgam attack to point out that the global body’s…

A man stabbed his brother and his sister-in-law to death in front of their young children following a dispute over property in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur on Friday.

The capital markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India has stopped mutual funds from investing in pre-IPO placements, sources said.

A man – wearing a cap, with a machete in one hand and a plastic tote in the other – goes about attacking his wife in the middle of a…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched his Bihar assembly poll campaign with back-to-back rallies in Samastipur and Begusarai districts, asserting that the NDA under Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will…

Mysterious drone flights over the airspace of European Union member countries in recent weeks have alarmed the public and elected officials.

Pope Leo XIV has authorised a traditional mass to take place this weekend at the Vatican, lifting restrictions that angered conservatives in his latest attempt to heal splits within the…

Photos of a German-made freight lift that the thieves used in a lightning-fast daylight heist at the Louvre have gone viral. And its manufacturer is now riding high from the…

Spanish police said Friday that a Pablo Picasso painting that vanished en route to an exhibition has been found, raising doubts if it was ever loaded onto a transport truck.

Ukraine’s allies are gathering in London on Friday with President Volodymyr Zelensky and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer pushing for more long-range missiles to be delivered to Kyiv.

After two years of war, Gaza is buried under more than 61 million tonnes of debris and three quarters of buildings have been destroyed, according to UN data

The US military has conducted its 10th strike on a suspected drug-running boat, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday, blaming the Tren de Aragua gang for operating the vessel…

The science of creating artificial rain was witnessed by NDTV’s science editor Pallava Bagla in 2018 when he flew in a plane that studied the outcome.