Afternoon Times

Training his guns on the Congress, using former Union minister P Chidambaram’s remarks as ammunition, PM Narendra Modi has said the opposition party had succumbed to international pressure in deciding…

The wife of the Haryana IPS officer who died by suicide has filed a police complaint against the Director General of Police, state’s highest-ranking police officer, and a senior cop…

In a firm crackdown on objectionable and unlawful social media content, the Punjab Police have registered multiple FIRs across several districts after receiving numerous complaints regarding posts and videos targeting…

Oil prices fell in early trade on Thursday after Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of a plan to end the war in Gaza, weighing on oil’s war…

U.S. President Donald Trump told Reuters on Wednesday that a Gaza hostages-for-ceasefire deal hammered out in Egypt represented “a great day for the world.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday thanked US President Donald Trump for “his leadership, partnership, and unwavering commitment” as Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of the Gaza…

US President Donald Trump told the Axios news outlet that he had said to Benjamin Netanyahu: “‘Bibi, this is your chance for victory.’ He was fine with it. He’s got…

The Delhi Police is gearing up to launch a specialised unit under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) to tighten the noose around gangsters and organised crime networks…

While the White House pegged him as ‘The Peace President’, Donald Trump himself seemed sceptical about his prospects of winning the Nobel Peace Prize despite his claim of settling ‘seven’…

Hours after Zubeen Garg’s cousin and Deputy Superintendent of Police Sandipan Garg was arrested in connection with his death, the singer’s wife has said the two were very close and…

Human excreta was found in an overhead drinking water tank in a Tamil Nadu village, where most of the over 1,000 residents belong to the Scheduled Caste community.

Y Puran Kumar, a senior Haryana IPS officer, who died by suicide at his Sector 11 Chandigarh residence by shooting himself had accused senior officers of “mental harassment”, officials said.

Not a single appeal has been filed by voters to point out wrongful deletion of names, the Election Commission said on Wednesday- on the eve of a crucial hearing of…

The ruling Congress in Telangana on Wednesday announced V Naveen Yadav as its candidate for the November 11 bypoll to Jubilee Hills assembly constituency in Hyderabad.

Six people, including a woman, were injured Wednesday when a blast went off in a busy market in Uttar Pradesh’s Karnpur, the police said.

The trial of two men accused of spying for China was scheduled to begin this week in London. But prosecutors unexpectedly dropped the case last month, The New York Times…

In a Netflix interview aired posthumously, Jane Goodall, who died last week at 91, said she’d gladly send Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Benjamin Netanyahu off…

The return of NSCN(IM) chief Thuingaleng Muivah to his village in Manipur after having gone away for 50 years is “a moment of deep emotional and historical significance for the…

Hamas said on Thursday it had reached an agreement to end the war in Gaza following talks on a proposal by U.S. President Donald Trump, saying the deal includes an…

US President Donald Trump’s administration said Wednesday it fired a State Department employee who did not acknowledge a romantic relationship with a Chinese national.

Israel and Hamas have agreed to the “first phase” of his peace plan to pause fighting and release at least some hostages and prisoners, U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said Israel would bring home all the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, after US President Donald Trump and mediators reported a deal to…

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer lit diyas in Mumbai on Wednesday, symbolising the deep cultural ties between India and the United Kingdom as the Diwali festival approaches.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in an interview published on Wednesday, said U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan for peace in Gaza may be general in approach, but remains the best…

Born into a family of Palestinian refugees in Jordan with little schooling, Nobel chemistry laureate Omar Yaghi on Wednesday paid tribute to science’s “equalising force.”

Outgoing French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, who intensified a political crisis by resigning earlier this week, said Wednesday he expected President Emmanuel Macron to name a new premier within the…

-President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he may travel to the Middle East this weekend as his negotiators seek to seal a Gaza hostages-for-ceasefire deal.

A probe by the Central Railway has concluded that a commuter’s “protruding” backpack led to the fall of eight travellers from two trains in Thane district in June, of whom…

As Dinesh lay asleep in his Madangir house, his wife poured boiling oil and red chilli powder on him, sending him into screams that rent the dead calm of the…

India’s top drug regulator has acknowledged serious lapses in pharmaceutical manufacturing practices, amid growing outrage over child deaths allegedly linked to contaminated cough syrups.

Four months into their marriage, a man in Karnataka’s Belagavi allegedly killed his wife, hid her body under the bed in their home and ran away.

An actor who played a small but impactful role in the Amitabh Bachchan starrer ‘Jhund’ was stabbed, hit with a stone, tied with a wire, and left to die by…

Denmark said Tuesday it planned to introduce a social media ban for children under the age of 15.

The leader of Britain’s Conservative Party, once an electoral powerhouse now facing an uncertain future, called for it to return to its roots at its annual meeting, urging the creation…

For some Nobel Prize winners this year, the news came with a knock at the door before dawn. For others, it was a long-awaited phone call honoring a discovery made…

Al-Shamie, 35, was shot dead by police outside the Heaton Park Congregation Synagogue in Manchester after he rammed a car into pedestrians, attacked them with a knife and tried to…

Russia will shoot down Tomahawk cruise missiles and bomb their launch sites if the United States decides to supply them to Ukraine and find a way to retaliate against Washington…

Gautam Adani highlighted the completion of the Navi Mumbai airport, which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, as a major achievement in India’s economic development and “a…

Thousands of people from the tea garden community hit the streets of eastern Assam’s Tinsukia district today, demanding Scheduled Tribe status. The demand has been a long-standing one.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has stated that Maharshi Valmiki wrote the Ramayana to alleviate the sorrow in the world, emphasising that Indians should carry forward this culture and tradition as…

In Madhya Pradesh, 20 children are dead and seven more are battling for life after consuming a toxic cough syrup that should never have reached them.

Two persons were arrested on Wednesday in connection with the attack on BJP lawmakers Khagen Murmu and Sankar Ghosh in the flood-hit northern West Bengal, police said.

A student at an IT institute in Chhattisgarh has been suspended after over 30 women students alleged that he had used AI to create obscene, morphed versions of their photos.

Election strategist-turned politician Prashant Kishor, who declared that his Jan Suraaj Party would contest from every constituency in Bihar in the coming assembly election, is banking heavily on candidates from…

Tejashwi Yadav, senior leader of the Rashtriya Janata Dal, will contest from two seats in the coming assembly election in Bihar, sources have told NDTV.

A 28-year-old software engineer allegedly hanged himself in his house in Bhondsi here, police said on Wednesday.

Israel hopes the ceasefire talks will lead to the release or recovery of the bodies of the remaining 48 hostages seized during the October 7, 2023 attacks, 20 of whom…

As Diwali approaches, Delhi is again at the centre of a legal debate over firecrackers. Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta will request the Supreme Court to allow the use of…

Geetanjali Angmo on Wednesday said she had visited her husband, Sonam Wangchuk, in Jodhpur jail, where he was lodged in the wake of the September 24 Leh violence.

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya will take part in the NDTV World Summit when she arrives in India next week. This will be the 55-year-old South Asian leader’s first…

Expressing ‘deep concern’ over the deaths of children due to cough syrup contamination, the Federation of All India Medical Association (FAIMA) on Wednesday urged the Ministry of Health to form…

Zaha Hadid was an Iraqi-born British architect renowned for her radical deconstructivist designs and contributions to contemporary architecture.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK chief MK Stalin joined a protest in Chennai organised by the CPI(M) against what he called the “genocide in Gaza”.

Record floods submerged streets and inundated homes in Vietnam, leaving tens of thousands of people stranded, with at least eight killed this week.