Afternoon Times

BJP’s Narendra Singh Kushwaha and his supporters entered the official bungalow of Bhind Collector Sanjeev Srivastava, hurled abuses, and nearly assaulted him during a heated confrontation.

The row over eviction drives in Assam escalated this week after remarks from Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind (A) chief Arshad Madani claimed that he once wrote a letter to Congress leader Sonia…

A video of the incident shows the man lying in the middle of the street for several hours as other vehicles drove around him.

Opposition-ruled states on Friday said the Centre’s proposal for GST rate reforms could result in a revenue loss of about Rs 1.5 crore to Rs 2 lakh crore and demanded…

On a late summer evening in 1971, a KGB officer walked into a north London police station with a strange request. He wanted to be expelled from Britain to divorce…

More than 800 people have been executed in Iran since the start of the year, the UN said Friday, decrying “a systematic pattern of using the death penalty as a…

The reason the United States slapped steep 50 per cent tariffs on India is because President Donald Trump was not allowed to mediate in the India-Pakistan conflict, according to a…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a two-day official visit to Japan for the 15th India-Japan Annual Summit with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.

True, India’s trade volume with the United States is far smaller than China’s, leading Washington to perhaps assume that New Delhi could be pressured easily. But the consequences are proving…

According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the southwest monsoon covered the entire country by 29 June, nine days ahead of its average date.

A Daruma doll is a traditional Japanese doll that looks like a round, red, hollow figure with a face but no arms or legs.

Brazil is considering retaliatory trade measures against the United States, including tariffs, after President Donald Trump imposed 50 percent levies on a range of Brazilian imports, government sources told AFP…

Thailand’s Paetongtarn Shinawatra has been dismissed as prime minister by the Constitutional Court for a violation of ethics after only a year in power, plunging the country and its stuttering…

Amid deadly floods in Pakistan, a video from the iconic Wagah-Attari border has gon viral on social media, showing floodwaters deluging the Pakistani side, while the Indian side remained clean…

The shooter who killed two Catholic school students and wounded more than a dozen youngsters sitting in the pews of a Minneapolis church once attended the same school and was…

Pratik Pandey, an Indian-origin software engineer at Microsoft, was found dead at the firm’s Silicon Valley office on August 20.

In one of the strangest business deals in history, PepsiCo briefly became the owner of a small Russian Naval Fleet. Over three decades ago, the company acquired 17 submarines, a…

A 27-year-old woman was found dead in south Bengaluru earlier this week, prompting a police investigation into allegations of dowry harassment and domestic abuse.

Raj Saxena first got married to a woman in 2021. She, however, died due to a disease a year later, following which he married her sister.

When US President Donald Trump intensified his trade war with China earlier this year, Beijing began an outreach to India with a private letter from President Xi Jinping to President…

A Google Maps team, which went to survey a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur on Thursday night, was thrashed by the locals after being mistaken for thieves.

President Donald Trump threatened to inflict “substantial” tariffs on countries that impose digital taxes just days after Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg raised concerns about the levies…

Trump threatened to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, New York, Seattle, Baltimore, San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, to fight ‘runaway crime’. Data shows most violent crime in those places…

A man in Gujarat was against his adult sister’s consensual relationship with another man. So he raped her twice and burned her with cigarettes. The incident took place in Bhavnagar,…

Stolen over 80 years ago by the Nazis, discovered recently, and now missing again – that’s the story of the ‘Portrait of a Lady’ by Giuseppe Ghislandi.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is likely to use his personal bulletproof special train when he travels to Beijing to attend China’s large-scale military parade next week, sources said Friday.

Thailand’s Constitutional Court sacked suspended prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra and her cabinet on Friday over her handling of the country’s border row with Cambodia.

Shortly after meeting Vladimir Putin in Moscow on August 6, US special envoy Steve Witkoff delivered major news to Donald Trump: The Russian president was prepared to offer significant territorial…

Brazil is considering retaliatory trade measures against the United States, including tariffs, after President Donald Trump imposed 50 percent levies on a range of Brazilian imports, government sources told AFP…

A bus driver, driving to Rajasthan from Indore, handed over the steering wheel to the co-driver as soon as he started to feel sick.

Speaking at the India-Japan Joint Economic Forum in Tokyo today, Prime Minister Narendra issued an invitation: “Come make in India, make for the world.”

An Indian-origin Singaporean drug abuser, out on bail and remission, was sentenced to an over five years jail for offering a bribe of SGD 1,000 to police officers for allowing…

BJP and Congress workers clashed on Friday during a protest carried out by the ruling party over the abusive language used againstPM Modi during Rahul Gandhi’s rally in poll-bound Bihar.

Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza was struck at least four times during Israel’s deadly attack on Monday, killing 22 people, according to a new analysis by BBC Verify.

The Donald Trump administration in the United States has approved a $825 million arms sale to Ukraine that will include extended-range missiles and related equipment to boost its defensive capabilities…

Graphic depictions of enormous phalluses and acrobatic sex positions have long rendered centuries-old Japanese “shunga” art taboo, but a rare exhibition aims to prove the genre is a world apart…

The Daruma doll is inspired by Bodhidharma, a monk from Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu.

The United States on Friday ended tariff exemptions on small packages entering the country from abroad, in a move that has sparked concern among small businesses and warnings of consumer…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a heartfelt cultural welcome from members of the Japanese community in Tokyo on Friday, as he arrived for the 15th India-Japan Annual Summit.

Amid calls for running Ayodhya-like movement for Kashi and Mathura, Mr Bhagwat said the Ram Temple was the only movement RSS got involved in and took it to its conclusion.

A municipal garbage truck driver in Madhya Pradesh’s Dewas returned a woman’s mangalsutra worth about a lakh after she accidentally threw it into the garbage.

After dubbing the conflict in Ukraine as “Modi’s war”, US President Donald Trump’s trade adviser, Peter Navarro, has doubled down on his attack on India’s crude trade with Russia, claiming…

Over 30 years after Princess Diana’s death, a time capsule she left in a London hospital has been unearthed and opened. It’s a little box, buried by the late Princess…

The White House is comparing the low murder rate in New Delhi to the high rate in Chicago as it builds its case for federal intervention in that city.

The Noida Traffic Police on Thursday created a 6-km-long green corridor from the DND flyover to the hospital in Sector 30, enabling an ambulance carrying critically newborn twins to cover…

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook’s lawyers suggested that an unintentional “clerical error” may have been behind the mortgage dispute over which President Donald Trump wants her fired.