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Fresh assets worth about Rs 186 crore have been attached under the anti-money laundering law in an alleged bank loan fraud case against the Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Ltd (DHFL)…

An assistant sub-inspector of Delhi Police was arrested by the vigilance unit on Tuesday while accepting a bribe of Rs 15,000, an official said.

A nine-month-old baby and his elder sister died of snakebite after their parents took them to a black magician who failed to cure them in Odisha’s Nabarangpur district, an official…

Mercedes-Benz will continue investing in the ‘priority market’ India, without putting on hold any of its plans, including to bolster local production, in the wake of impending EU-India free trade…

Vice Presidential Election 2025 Highlights: Parliamentarians will choose between NDA’s CP Radhakrishnan and the Opposition’s B Sudershan Reddy for the post of Vice President today.

The killing of a Thadou tribe leader, Kuki insurgents stopping a bus this week to check whether any passenger had taken a video of their camp in Manipur, and no…

The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Wednesday in response to Israel’s strikes targeting Hamas officials in Qatar, diplomatic sources told AFP.

U.S. President Donald Trump urged EU officials on Tuesday to hit China with tariffs of up to 100% as part of a strategy to pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin, according…

Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday temporarily kept in place the Trump administration’s decision to freeze nearly $5 billion in foreign aid.

US President Donald Trump denied Tuesday that he had signed or authored a birthday letter to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, a day after the alleged note was released to the…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced a financial assistance of Rs 1,600 crore for flood-hit Punjab as he reviewed the situation and damage in the state, which was battling…

Arrested Karnataka Congress MLA K C Veerendra, his family members and associates booked international travel tickets worth crores of rupees

An ED investigation into a gold-smuggling racket being operated across the India-China LAC has found that more than 1,000 kg of the yellow metal worth Rs 800 crore was illegally…

With Delhi’s dreaded smog season just weeks away, Environment Minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa on Tuesday reviewed the city’s 17-point Winter 2025 Air Pollution Control Action Plan, directing departments to complete…

Soon after White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in her press briefing that the United States administration had informed the Qatari government about Israel’s “impending strikes” on Doha, Qatar…

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that trade talks with India would continue, despite strained ties since his imposition of 50-percent tariffs over New Delhi’s purchases of Russian oil.

The Assam cabinet has approved the framing of an SOP under the Immigrants (Expulsion from Assam) Act, 1950, to guide the District Commissioners and senior police officers to expel illegal…

US President Donald Trump denied any role Tuesday in Israel’s strikes on Qatar, saying the decision to launch the attacks was Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s and not his.

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear arguments in November on the legality of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, after his administration asked for an expedited ruling on…

A group of people were seen standing around a huge cage in a forest area in Karnataka. But inside the cage was not a big cat but nearly half a…

French President Macron late Tuesday appointed Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu as France’s new prime minister, the country’s fourth in about a year.

Nepal’s sudden social media blackout triggered an unprecedented rush for virtual private networks (VPN), with sign-ups from the country skyrocketing 6,000 per cent in three days.

The White House distanced itself Tuesday from Israel’s strikes against Hamas in Doha, reiterating President Donald Trump’s support for ally Qatar, while declining to confirm if Israel had pre-notified Washington…

Israel launched a strike targeting Hamas’ leadership in Qatar on Tuesday, officials said, further widening its campaign against the militant group.

The streets of Nepal have been restless for most of 2025. In March, protests erupted in Kathmandu, with demonstrators demanding the restoration of the monarchy and a return to a…

Fish traders in India attribute dual factors of lower quantity of export from Bangladesh compared to previous years, as well as higher cost of imports, as reasons behind the high…

The GST 2.0 – as the rationalisation of Goods and Services Tax has been dubbed — could offset the effects of the 50 per cent US tariff on exporters.

A city court in Bengaluru on Tuesday rejected actor Darshan’s request to be transferred from Parappana Agrahara Central Prison to Ballari jail in connection with the Renukaswamy murder case.

At just 13 years old, Iniya Pragati from Chennai is charting a course that few dare to dream.

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, in a post on X uploaded a video of an explosion in Doha, and wrote, “This is a message to the entire Middle East”.

A sombre mood pervaded the room where Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday held 11-month-old Neetika, who lost her parents to a cloudburst in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh.

More than 350 Greenlandic Indigenous women and girls, including some 12 years old and younger, reported that they were forcibly given contraception by Danish health authorities in cases that date…

Opposition’s vice presidential candidate B Sudershan Reddy said he humbly accepts the defeat in the vice presidential polls and asserted that democracy is strengthened not by victory alone, but by…

Delhi is set to witness one of its largest road infrastructure overhauls in recent years, with the Public Works Department announcing a major upgrade with a Rs 803.39 crore allocation.

Days after announcing his party’s exit from the NDA, AMMK chief TTV Dhinakaran on Saturday made it clear that his return to the alliance hinges on the AIADMK replacing Edappadi…

The United States is willing to take firm action on Russia over Ukraine, but Europe’s full cooperation is crucial, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said after talks with the EU sanctions…

An entry attributed to former President Bill Clinton is among some 50 greetings that appear in a 50th birthday book compiled for Epstein in 2003, years before the disgraced New…

Sudan Gurung and Hami Nepal earlier called for peaceful protests across the country to stand against the government’s decision to ban social media last week.

The body of a middle-aged woman wrapped in a blanket and hidden under a bed in her home was recovered in the Gobardanga area in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas…

After performing 21 C-section deliveries within a span of 10 hours, a senior gynaecologist at a civil hospital in Assam’s Morigaon district has been served a show-cause notice by the…

At least 50 people lost their lives and crops on more than five lakh hectares of land were damaged due to heavy rainfall in Marathwada this monsoon, with Nanded emerging…

It is hard to tell whether the author of the note meant it as an order or a request. However, the reading of the note leans more towards the former.

Maharashtra Governor CP Radhakrishnan, the NDA candidate for the post of the Vice President, will succeed Jagdeep Dhankhar in the post.

For the BJP, the metaphor of the “double engine” government so triumphantly invoked by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to signify synchronised power at the Centre (Delhi) and state (Patna), rings…

A week-long demonstration, with GenZ at the front and centre of it, has forced Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to resign from his post.

At least nine pigs’ heads were found outside several mosques in the Paris region on Tuesday, the city’s police chief said — an incident that has sparked alarm over rising…

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to invade other countries following his decision to start the conflict in Ukraine, Polish President Karol Nawrocki warned on Tuesday.

Ethiopia on Tuesday inaugurated Africa’s largest dam to boost the economy, end frequent blackouts and support the growth of electric vehicle development in a country that has banned the importation…

A video shows Nepal’s Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Paudel, 65, running through the crowded streets of Kathmandu with a large group of protesters chasing him.

Adani GEMS School of Excellence, Lucknow, has ranked number one in Lucknow, a milestone that highlights its growing reputation for educational excellence in its first year of operations

About 50 structures, mostly residential houses, were damaged due to the sinking of land in a village on the slope of a hill in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, officials…

A dhaba cook from Madhya Pradesh’s Bhind district was in for a shock of his life when he received an income tax notice of Rs 46 crore, turning his life…

Hundreds of flights to the neighbouring country stand cancelled and neighbouring districts remain on high alert as protests by young citizens of Nepal continued to spiral even after the government…

The conclave will focus on discussions around GST 2.0 – the reform powering a Viksit Bharat with speakers including Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal, and Chief Economic…

Panic gripped students at a private hostel in Knowledge Park-III, Greater Noida, after gunshots rang out inside a room, leaving one student dead and another critically injured, officials said on…

Responding to complaints from states that they will not be compensated for losses in revenue, if any, from the GST reforms, Nirmala Sitharaman has said the decision was taken by…