Afternoon Times

Air India has announced a phased resumption of its international operations following a “safety pause” implemented after the tragic crash of flight AI171 on June 12.

Amid the ongoing language debate, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday said former prime minister PV Narasimha Rao knew 17 languages, including Hindi.

President Donald Trump told reporters Tuesday that he plans to place tariffs of over 10% on smaller countries, including nations in Africa and the Caribbean.

The man, identified as Kumar, left a handwritten suicide note, describing how he was blackmailed and coerced into transferring Rs 11 lakh into several bank accounts.

Two robbers allegedly looted gold, diamond ornaments and cash worth Rs 66 lakh from the house of a retired Wing Commander after threatening him in Wanwadi area of Pune city…

A married woman from Himachal Pradesh’s Hamirpur allegedly stole her father’s car and sold it for Rs 90, 000 to buy a chitta or adulterated heroin, police said on Tuesday.

The Indian Embassy in Iran issued a travel advisory on Wednesday, urging Indian nationals to avoid non-essential travel to Iran.

BRS Leaders Boinipally Vinod Kumar and Soma Bharat Kumar met the State Election Commissioner on Tuesday seeking deletion of certain identical symbols from the list of free symbols as they…

In a significant breakthrough, Punjab Police have foiled a targeted killing plot with the arrest of five operatives linked to the Jaggu Bhagwanpuria gang, being operated by US-based Husandeep Singh,…

Travel at one of Canada’s busiest airports was briefly halted Tuesday after federal police received a report that a small plane had been “hijacked,” officials said.

The Premier of the Canadian province of Alberta has urged the federal government to designate the notorious Lawrence Bishnoi gang a terrorist organisation, joining a string of leaders to make…

A 19-year-old woman gave birth to a baby on board a running sleeper coach bus in Maharashtra’s Parbhani, but she and a man claiming to be her husband threw the…

The staggering scale of disproportionate assets allegedly accumulated by a former engineer-in-chief of the Telangana Irrigation Department has come out in the open following raids at 11 locations, including his…

Donald Trump is facing the most serious split of his political career from his famously loyal right-wing base over suspicions that his administration is covering up lurid details of Jeffrey…

A perceived lack of transparency over the US investigations into notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has carved a rare chasm between President Donald Trump and his typically loyal Republican base.

The security forces in a joint operation recovered 86 firearms and over 900 rounds of different types in Manipur, the police said on Tuesday.

The Axiom-4 crew includes American astronaut Commander Peggy Whitson, Pilot Shubhanshu Shukla, and Mission Specialists Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski and Tibor Kapu.

Prince Harry visited the African nation of Angola on Tuesday with a land mine clearing charity, repeating a famous trip his mother made in 1997.

The Pentagon said Tuesday it is ending the deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops in Los Angeles, accounting for nearly half of the soldiers sent to the city to deal…

Mike Waltz painted an image for lawmakers Tuesday of what the United Nations would look like as the U.S. its largest donor reviews its support, opting to go “back to…

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the United States is close to securing full trade access into India. He also announced a new trade deal with Indonesia, after which…

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the foreign ministers of France, Germany and the UK agreed in a phone call on Monday to set the end of August as…

A man with a history of criminal activities was hacked to death just outside his home by four to five men in Bengaluru.

The Jharkhand Police on Tuesday arrested a 20-year-old man who was accused of killing his teenage wife by slitting her throat as he did not like her talking to other…

Disappointed and enraged by the actions of his wife’s relatives and two police constables, who allegedly thrashed him and demanded money, a man in UP died by suicide and left…

Leaders from more than 20 countries and heads of 10 international organisations will attend the Tianjin Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and related events next month, Chinese Foreign…

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Ukraine should not target Moscow, after the Kremlin charged that a new US plan to supply weapons to Kyiv along with sanctions threats…

The Karnataka government on Tuesday issued a draft notification proposing amendments to the Karnataka Cinemas (Regulation) Rules, 2014, introducing a cap on cinema ticket prices across the state.

State-run telecom firm MTNL has defaulted on bank loans worth Rs 8,585 crore from seven public sector banks, the company said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday.

In a bid to fix its flailing public transport, the Delhi government has kicked off what it calls a comprehensive overhaul of the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC).

More than 14 million children did not receive a single vaccine last year – about the same number as the year before – according to UN health officials. Nine countries…

In spring 2024, pro-Palestinian student encampments that began at Columbia and Harvard spread to university campuses throughout the US as Israel invaded Gaza in response to Hamas Oct. 7, 2023,…

A 40-year-old man allegedly killed his five-year-old stepdaughter in Mumbai by strangulating her and dumped the body in the Arabian Sea, police said on Tuesday.

Ukrainians welcomed US President Donald Trump’s pledge of in their three-year fight against , though it is unclear what exactly they will get and how quickly.

Delhi experienced its cleanest air in almost two years on Tuesday, as persistent rain and favourable wind conditions pushed the city’s air quality into the ‘good’ category for several hours.

Earlier this month, official government websites that hosted the national climate assessments went dark. Such sites told state and local governments and the public what to expect in their backyards…

Police in Thailand arrested a woman Tuesday who allegedly enticed a string of Buddhist monks into sexual relationships and then pressured them into making large payments to cover up their…

The Madras High Court has ordered the Tamil Nadu Director General of Police (DGP) to suspend a police officer and initiate departmental action against others for gross negligence in investigating…

The anti-sacrilege bill, meant to introduce stringent punishment for desecration of religious scriptures – be it Guru Granth Sahab, Gita, Quran or the Bible — did not get passed in…

An artificial intelligence-based system which warns people about the movement of tigers through loudspeakers has been installed in 20 villages in the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR), Maharashtra Forests Minister Ganesh…

Air India on Tuesday said it will operate three weekly flights from Ahmedabad to Heathrow, London, from August 1 to September 30, replacing Gatwick, London.

A man had entered “Sandhu Palace” – a building in the posh Pali Hill area of Mumbai and home to several Bollywood celebrities – and apparently weighed down the lift…

India is asserting that there should be strict certification delineating that imported milk comes from cows that have not been fed animal-based products such as meat or blood. India has…

Eight people were killed and five injured when a jeep fell into a deep gorge here on Tuesday, police said.

A remote village in Sikkim’s Pakyong district was officially declared India’s first ‘Digital Nomad Village’, under the state government’s ‘Nomad Sikkim’ initiative.

The car which hit 114-year-old marathon runner Fauja Singh on the Jalandhar-Pathankot highway and sped away has been identified almost 24 hours after the incident, cops said.

Google has agreed to secure as much as 3 gigawatts of US hydropower in the world’s largest corporate clean power pact for hydroelectricity, the company said, as Big Tech pursues…

Shubhanshu Shukla Axiom 4 Mission Return Highlights: India’s Shubhanshu Shukla and three other astronauts will return home from space in the next few hours.

The Government of India has stepped up to co-operate with the Government of Bangladesh to repair and reconstruct the ancestral property of Satyajit Ray.

As his supporters erupt over the Justice Department’s in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking investigation, President Donald Trump’s strategy has been to downplay the issue.

Thousands of Afghans, including many who worked with British forces, have been secretly resettled in after a leak of data on their identities raised fears that the could target them,…