Afternoon Times

In a scene that could have been straight out of the blockbuster ‘Pushpa: The Rise’, wooden logs worth crores were spotted floating down a stream in Himachal Pradesh.

Building a new US political party from scratch is a daunting task, even for the world’s richest man.

Kristine Vardanyan, another opposition MP, claimed Sarkisyan was attacked from behind by Vahe Galumyan, a lawmaker from the ruling Civil Contract party.

After months of fighting metre-by-metre towards the central Ukrainian region of Dnipropetrovsk, Russia announced this week that it had finally gained a foothold in the industrial territory.

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday lashed out at his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin over peace talks in Ukraine, as he hinted at interest in placing fresh sanctions on Moscow.

An imposter posing as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent AI-generated voice and text messages to high-level officials and foreign ministers.

Global terror financing watchdog FATF on Tuesday cited the February 2019 Pulwama terror attack, which killed 40 CRPF personnel.

A government school headmaster in Udupi district died by suicide on Tuesday morning, allegedly due to financial stress, police said.

The aviation regulator DGCA said on Tuesday it will put in place a mechanism to curb whopping surge in air ticket prices, recently witnessed during the Maha Kumbh and post-Pahalgam…

Major stock markets mostly rose Tuesday after President Donald Trump extended his tariffs deadline and hinted at a further pushback, though uncertainty over US trade policy capped gains.

Senior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari released a list of 50 leaders allegedly associated with the student wing of the Trinamool Congress, accusing them of unleashing a reign of terror across…

A group of kanwariyas vandalised a dhaba after they were allegedly served onion in their food, police said on Tuesday.

The fuel ban on end-of-life (EoL) vehicles in Delhi and some parts of the National Capital Region (NCR) will not come into effect until November 1, according to the Commission…

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the most prestigious honours that can be awarded to individuals and organisations internationally.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would not extend an August 1 deadline for higher US tariffs to take effect on dozens of economies, a day after he appeared…

The International Criminal Court on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for two Taliban leaders in Afghanistan including supreme spiritual leader Haibatullah Akhundzada, accusing them of the persecution of women and girls.

A group of seven got stranded across the strong current of stream in Maharashtra, prompting locals to launch a rescue operation.

As seen in the CCTV footage, a speeding Hayabusa bike hits a Zomato delivery bike rider, riding along the roadside and drives for several meters before it skids and crashes.

The Manipur High Court has directed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to submit a “detailed progress report” on the Jiribam killings, in which three women and three children belonging to…

A man in Delhi walked into a house where his girlfriend was staying. The couple had been fighting for a few days, and the woman was staying at her friend’s…

The Aam Aadmi Party-led Punjab government is facing a barrage of questions and the heat from the Opposition after a businessman was shot dead in Abohar in Fazilka district Monday.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said Rishi Sunak, the former UK prime minister, has rejoined the firm as a senior adviser.

Berlin on Tuesday said the Chinese military had targeted a laser at a German aircraft participating in an EU-led mission to protect marine traffic in the Red Sea.

Some 59 people caught up in a faulty accounting software scandal at British Post Office branches contemplated suicide, according to a public inquiry report.

Amid the raging Marathi language debate in Maharashtra, NDTV reporter Sujata Dwivedi confronted a leader of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), which has made headlines after its workers assaulted a…

In a curious development during the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena’s (MNS) protest in Thane amid the raging language row in the state, state Transport Minister and Shiv Sena leader Pratap Sarnaik…

Ashok Gehlot says he wants Bhajan Lal Sharma, a first-time MLA who went on to become the Rajasthan Chief Minister, to govern for full five years, adding “he suits us”,…

A chilling double murder rocked Delhi once again as a woman and a 6-month-old infant were found stabbed to death in the Majnu Ka Tila area on Tuesday.

Andhra Pradesh is covered in a political storm after former YSRCP MLA Nallapareddy Prasanna Kumar Reddy against the sitting Kovuru MLA, Vemireddy Prashanthi Reddy.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, held a meeting on the sidelines of the 17th BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s mayoral candidate has been caught up in a storm’s eye after an old social media post of him showing the middle finger to a statue…

A man and a woman were allegedly assaulted at a nightclub of a five-star hotel on Ashoka Road over the condition of the toilets with the staff, after which two…

Iran It has not made any request for talks with the United States, after President Donald Trump said Tehran was seeking negotiations following last month’s war with Israel.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian came under fire after voicing support for renewed talks with the United States, with critics accusing him of being “too soft” in the wake of last…

A man was sucked into an aircraft engine on the taxiway at Milan Bergamo Airport in Italy on Tuesday morning.

Police in China’s Jiangning district arrested a middle-aged man who cross-dressed as a woman to allegedly engage in intimate acts with over 1,000 people and shared the videos of their…

The Delhi High Court has rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Manoj Kumar Jha, accused of impersonating an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer to allegedly obtain sensitive information.

Members of the left-wing group Students’ Federation of India (SFI) broke into the campus of Kerala University today in protest against what they called “saffronisation” of the institution.

Bomb threats at City Civil Courts, Raj Bhavan, and a couple of other places in Hyderabad created a scare on Tuesday, prompting police to launch a thorough search of the…

The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) will submit its preliminary report on the Air India 171 plane crash to the Ministry of Civil Aviation and other relevant authorities this week.