Afternoon Times

The Calcutta High Court has declared the Kurmi community’s plan for rail and road blockade on September 20 unconstitutional and illegal. The agitation was called to press the community’s demand…

The Madras High Court on Wednesday directed the Tamil Nadu government to frame uniform guidelines applicable to all political parties for granting permission to hold rallies and public meetings.

Allotment of residential accommodation cannot be based purely on whims of the authorities, the Delhi High Court said in a plea filed by Aam Aadmi Party seeking a bungalow for…

Police have filed an FIR against three persons here for allegedly kidnapping and beating an Engineering student for “not accepting” the friend request of a woman on Instagram.

French protesters were on Thursday staging a day of nationwide disruption in a show of anger over President Emmanuel Macron’s budget policies, with mass protests expected, transport chaos and clashes…

A class 11 student was allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped by two men who she met on social media, police said on Thursday.

Ukraine said on Thursday that its drones had struck a major oil processing and petrochemical complex and an oil refinery in Russia, part of an intensifying campaign to disrupt Moscow’s…

The office of the Karnataka Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) on Thursday said all available information with the Election Commission of India (ECI), regarding alleged attempts to delete 6,018 votes in…

Donald Trump claimed that his Russian counterpart let him down during the process of solving the Ukraine war. Keir Starmer also criticised Putin and said that he showed his “true…

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that artificial intelligence was taking over the world and he hoped tech bosses knew what they were doing, because he didn’t.

Deposed prime minister K P Sharma Oli has moved from the army barracks to a private place, after spending nine days under the Nepalese Army security.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer, on Thursday, welcomed Donald Trump to his country home of Chequers for talks on difficult issues, including trade, Ukraine, and Gaza, after the US president hailed…

The Holy See is not ready to declare Israel’s campaign in Gaza genocide, Pope Leo XIV said in an interview given in July but published Thursday.

Attempting to burnish his credentials as a solver of conflicts, US President Donald Trump said he had imposed “sanctions” on India to help end the war between Russia and Ukraine…

A man and his three-year-old daughter were killed on Thursday after their motorcycle collided with a container truck in Bhiwandi in Thane district.

A fresh political controversy erupted in Madhya Pradesh with the Navratri festival around the corner, after the BJP MP from Bhopal, Alok Sharma, issued a warning against the participation of…

Two students of a private university in Assam have been detained after a girl student alleged she was raped, a senior police officer told reporters today.

Indian photographer Prasenjeet Yadav’s image of a black tiger from Odisha’s Similipal National Park has featured on the cover of National Geographic magazine’s upcoming October 2025 edition.

An Air India Express flight from Visakhapatnam to Hyderabad with 103 passengers made an emergency landing here on Thursday, following an engine problem after a suspected bird hit mid-air, said…

Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan on Thursday asserted that ‘fauj’ is the only place where there is no nepotism, as he urged children to aspire to join the…

In a Bengaluru lab, a blueprint of a futuristic Indian lunar village is being built with the help of astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, months after he returned to Earth aboard the…

A couple from Vadodara has claimed their 28-year-old son has been held captive for five months in Thailand, prompting police to launch a probe into the matter, an official said.

Actor-turned-politician and BJP MP from Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi, Kangana Ranaut, on Thursday expressed her distress over financial losses at her restaurant in Manali when she met residents affected by floods…

A wife pressurising her husband to sever ties with his family members amounts to cruelty, the Delhi High Court has said and upheld an order dissolving an estranged couple’s marriage.

An Indian-origin man, who has lived in the US for more than 30 years, has been kept in detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for almost a month over…

Markets regulator Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has dismissed allegations of stock manipulation levelled by US Short Seller Hindenburg Research against Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani and the group’s…

Israel’s ground-based high-power laser defence system Iron Beam will be deployed by the end this year, reports claimed at a time the country’s war with Hamas shows no signs of…

French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte plan to present “photographic and scientific evidence” to prove that France’s first lady is not a transgender woman after suing the United…

The UK-based NRI who ordered the murder of a 71-year-old US citizen of Indian origin had said he would marry her after meeting her on a matrimonial site and had…

A 25-year-old traffic police constable from Odisha’s Bhubaneswar, who went missing early this month, has been found dead. The police have recovered her body from a jungle in Keonjhar district.

Shankar, the only African elephant at the Delhi Zoo, has died and an investigation has been ordered to determine the cause of death, officials said on Thursday.

Last week, MLA and AIMIM’s Bihar chief Akhtarul Iman arrived at RJD founder Lalu Prasad Yadav’s residence at Patna’s Circular Road with a posse of drumbeaters

China has launched a crackdown on powerful Buddhist monks suspected of misusing temple funds for personal wealth.

Russia has reportedly started using Nazi-era weapons in its four-year-long war on Ukraine, as its military stockpiles dwindle and the Kremlin scrambles to rearm its forces.

Kash Patel defended the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files as he faced questioning by Democrats over the case. In a video that is now going viral, Patel…

Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) V Anantha Nageswaran on Thursday expressed optimism that the penal tariff imposed on certain imports will likely be withdrawn after November 30, signalling a potential easing…

A man allegedly killed his 70-year-old father after a dispute over not being given money to pay the fees for a competitive exam in Maharashtra’s Latur district, police said.

A Lonavala trip turned tragic for four students of Pune’s Symbiosis International University when two of them died and two others were injured in a road crash on the Mumbai-Bengaluru…

Garhwal BJP MP Anil Baluni narrowly escaped a landslide on the Badrinath National Highway near Devprayag when heavy debris suddenly flowed in front of his convoy during his visit to…

Bengaluru is growing rapidly, and the Karnataka government will ensure that no company leaves the IT capital over infrastructure-related issues, Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar assured today.

Several tourists were left stranded at the Assam and Meghalaya border near Guwahati after taxi operators in Assam banned the entry of vehicles into the state from Meghalaya.

Fourteen people were feared trapped and 20 were injured as landslides and flooding triggered by heavy rain flattened more than 30 houses in four villages in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand…

A wave of alleged wolf attacks has caused panic across a dozen villages in the Bahraich district’s Kaisarganj and Mahsi tehsils. In the past 20 days, eleven attacks have left…

British MP Bob Blackman brought together community leaders, spiritual figures and parliamentarians at the UK House of Commons to celebrate Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 75th birthday.

Anil Vij, BJP Minister from Haryana, has hit out at Congress MP Rahul Gandhi over his vote theft allegations against the BJP and the Election Commission.

The Bombay High Court on Thursday issued notices to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the seven persons acquitted in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, including BJP MLA Pragya Singh…

US President Donald Trump was greeted with royal pomp on Wednesday as his second UK state visit began. King Charles III hosted Trump at Windsor Castle.