Afternoon Times

Abhishek Banerjee held a virtual meeting today with all district leaders and workers of the Trinamool Congress. Office bearers and employees from multiple districts attended the meeting, where Banerjee gave…

Responding tangentially to the taunt by Lalit Modi, who said he and Vijay Mallya were the “two biggest fugitives” of India, the MEA has said anyone wanted by the law…

The video of an overbridge inspection in Uttar Pradesh’s Lalitpur has gone viral after a senior official was seen threatening to jump off the bridge if the contractor failed to…

The rumours about apower struggle within the Congress may just be that: rumours. For now, there is no vacancy in the Congress.

A forest department officer was injured after a wild boar attacked him during a rescue operation in Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun district on Friday.

He is 10 years old, but showed a big heart. Shravan Singh, amidst the risks associated with war during Operation Sindoor, regularly delivered water, milk, and lassi to the Indian…

This is not merely a contest between two films; it is a proxy battle for political space, symbolism, and supremacy.

This boy from Samastipur is simply asking Indian cricket to widen its imagination. Can it keep up?

A man killed his wife for secretly using a mobile phone and then buried her body in a pit behind their house in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur. The man misled the…

Hindus in Bangladesh’s troubled capital Dhaka in an exclusive conversation with NDTV’s Ankit Tyagi, who is at ground zero, narrated the horrors they faced and concerns they have as attacks…

An Israeli reservist soldier with a rifle slung on his back rammed an ATV into a Palestinian man who was praying on the side of a road in the occupied…

An explosion hit worshippers at a mosque in a predominantly Alawite area of Syria’s Homs on Friday, state media said, killing at least eight in the latest attack on the…

For the first time in India’s history, the government has extended a Rs 1 lakh crore ($12 billion) interest-free loan to the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) to turbocharge private-sector…

Shivank Avasthi was found with a gunshot wound on Tuesday, in what the police said was Toronto’s 41st homicide case this year.

A ride on a highway turned traumatising for a man after bike-borne robbers snatched away his bag containing Rs 85 lakh in office cash. The incident, which took place on…

Air Force Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla was honoured as the ‘Science Icon of the Year’ at the NDTV Indian of the Year 2025 awards in Delhi, where he spoke about…

Four staff members of a private school here have been booked for alleged mental harassment an eight-year-old boy after accusing him of stealing a pen, police said on Friday.

Swimming is one of the best parts of summer. But long after you’ve cooled down and dried off, you might be left with a niggling feeling – there is still…

A protest was held outside the Delhi High Court here on Friday against the suspension of the sentence of Kuldeep Sengar, who was convicted in the Unnao rape case.

After weeks of suspense over his political future, former Pune mayor Prashant Jagtap on Wednesday joined the Congress, ending his 25-year association with the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar).

The women know that mutilating young girls by removing their clitoris and inner labia — framed as a rite of passage — is still an entrenched practice in some remote…

The people of Saudi Arabia woke up to a winter wonderland as snow covered parts of the kingdom for the first time in nearly three decades.

Fourteen people were hospitalised after a stabbing attack in a factory in central Japan, when an unspecified liquid was also sprayed, local media reported.

A massive international cyberfraud network that used ‘SIM box technology’ to rob people has been busted by the Andhra Pradesh cyber crime police.

Fresh anti-India protests have erupted in Dhaka as Bangladesh remains tense ahead of February general elections. Anti-India slogans were raised at a massive procession after the Friday prayers at Dhaka…

A suicide attempt at Masjid al-Haram in Makkah was prevented after a member of the mosque’s security forces stepped in, sustaining injuries while trying to stop the man from jumping…

A lawyer aligned with the pro-Pakistan Jamaat-E-Islami Bangladesh has issued a death threat to Tarique Rahman, just hours after the Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader landed in the country after 17…

In a drunken driving incident in Bengaluru, a motorcycle was dragged for half a kilometre by a car following a chain collision on Christmas Eve.

Numerous bills were passed around the world throughout 2025. However, some of them ignited fierce debates, with some citizens and opposition leaders expressing concerns over rights, security, and economics against…

Whether SHANTI is a sell-out dressed up as reform, or a lever for reliable power for industry and cities, and for turning rural power from a lottery into a utility,…

The three accused were detained on Wednesday and produced before a court – where they were remanded to four-day police custody.

Australia this month became the first country in the world to ban social media for children younger than 16.

Two days after a teacher was shot dead on the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) campus in Uttar Pradesh, CCTV footage of the incident has surfaced.

No law is perfect. Some provisions of the SHANTI Bill will warrant review, oversight, and refinement as implementation unfolds. But rejecting the Bill outright would mean accepting stagnation.

An 18-year-old man in Telangana died by suicide after he lost Rs 1 lakh through a betting app. The man, identified as Vikram, was a resident of the Kandukur area…

The complaint said that Santa Claus – a revered religious and cultural icon for Christians worldwide – was portrayed in a derogatory and mocking manner.

The signature motif of Kantara: A Legend Chapter 1, India’s second-biggest box-office success of 2025, is a primordial scream. It may as well be the sound of old Bollywood in…

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro released a handwritten letter on Thursday confirming that he was backing one of his sons for the 2026 presidential race.

Nigeria, which is battling multiple armed groups, said the US strikes were part of an exchange of intelligence and strategic coordination between the two countries.

A woman burnt to death after her husband allegedly set her on fire in front of their children in Hyderabad. He also pushed their daughter into the flames before fleeing.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement summoned Afghans residing in the US to present their documents during the holiday season, marking the latest effort by the Trump administration to crack down…

The nine-day-long Winter Carnival on the historic Ridge Ground in Shimla has attracted tourists from all parts of the country.

The opposition Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) hit out at Lieutenant Governor (LG) Vinai Kumar Saxena over the pollution crisis after he wrote a letter to AAP’s national convener and former…

A court here has convicted a businessman and directed him to pay a fine of Rs 5,000 for feeding pigeons in a public place, holding his act was “likely to…