Afternoon Times

In the wake of strong observations made by the Supreme Court in favour of allowing the release of ‘Thug Life’, the Karnataka government has begun tightening enforcement across the state…

Delhi’s Batla House, which turned up on the Delhi Development Authority’s demolition list recently, has got some temporary relief. Of the 52 plots, 44 have received a freeze order from…

Indian parents need to be more circumspect when sending their wards to study overseas in today’s turbulent times.

Germany’s foreign minister appealed to Iran’s leaders to make credible assurances that it is not seeking a nuclear weapon and to show it is willing to find a negotiated solution…

A Nigerian university has ignited an online row after a video showed female staff members touching the breasts of women to check if they were wearing bras before taking part…

An Indian woman has been arrested with over one kilogramme of undeclared gold from Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal police said.

Telangana Congress chief Mahesh Kumar Goud said former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and his son KT Rama Rao were responsible for tapping the phones of hundreds of Congress leaders.

Juneteenth, a day that marks the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans, is always observed on June 19 each year. It became a U.S. federal holiday in 2021, following the signing…

A ban on smartphones in schools issued by Taliban authorities in southern Afghanistan came into force, students and teachers confirmed to AFP on Wednesday, over concerns of “focus” and “Islamic…

The police got a major breakthrough in the Meghalaya honeymoon murder case after the newly married Indore woman, Sonam, who along with three hitmen murdered her husband, decided to check…

After the gang-rape of a college student in Odisha’s Gopalpur on Sunday, another shocking crime has been reported from the state, this time in Keonjhar district. A 17-year-old girl was…

A woman biker was sexually harassed by a couple of shirtless men while she was on her way to Uttarakhand last week.

The deaths of IRGC Commander-in-Chief Hossein Salami, aerospace chief Amir Ali Hajizadeh, intelligence head Mohammad Kazemi, and armed forces chief Mohammad Bagheri, among others, have stunned Tehran’s political and military…

While Israel launched a war against Iran, saying it aims to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon — a charge Iran denies– Jerusalem may be hiding a few scaletons…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Italian counterpart, Giorgia Meloni, met on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Canada.

Vladimir Putin is eyeing the conflict between Israel and Iran as an opportunity to thrust himself to the forefront of the international stage, more than three years into his invasion…

Israeli gunfire and strikes killed at least 30 people across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, local health authorities said, as some Palestinians there said their plight was being forgotten as…

Israel and Iran exchanged fire again on Wednesday, the sixth day of strikes in their most intense confrontation in history, fuelling fears of a drawn-out conflict that could engulf the…

After warnings, ultimatums, and even a death threat by Israel’s Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump, Iran’s Supreme Leader has spoken.

The Vatican on Wednesday unveiled a fundraising video centred on newly elected Pope Leo, urging the faithful to support his mission amid a serious financial crisis for the Catholic Church.

Andhra Pradesh Police have arrested Jagan Mohan Reddy’s aide and YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) general secretary Chevireddy Bhaskar Reddy in the multi-crore liquor scam.

A fresh video of Raja Raghuvanshi has surfaced online, showing the 29-year-old leaving his Indore residence for his honeymoon in Meghalaya, where he was brutally killed by his wife and…

An Air India flight from Bali to Delhi was diverted to Varanasi’s Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport due to bad weather in the national capital, an official said on Wednesday.

Since 1967, Israel has acquired a larger-than-life reputation for doing the unexpected and demonstrating colossal audacity.

A landslide on the trek route to the Kedarnath shrine left two people dead and three other injured on Wednesday, police said.

Relations between the United States and Iran have been fraught for decades – at least since the US helped overthrow a democracy-minded prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, in August 1953. The…

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI is burning through $1 billion a month as the cost of building its advanced AI models races ahead of the limited revenues.

Careem, Uber’s ride-hailing arm in the Middle East, will suspend its Pakistan service on July 18, citing economic challenges, rising competition, and capital constraints, ending its core business in a…

India remains a rare “bright spot” in a world facing growing uncertainty, said Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) V Anantha Nageswaran, pointing to the country’s steady economic performance despite ongoing global…

A nine-year-old boy has become the key witness in a case where his father was allegedly murdered by his mother in collusion with her lover and a group of hired…

The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a notice to the Bihar government on a petition filed by a 16-year-old girl, who is “facing threat” for refusing to continue her “coerced”…

The baby of a woman in Georgia who was declared brain dead and has been on life support since February was delivered early Friday morning, her mother said.

A federal US judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to resume issuing passports to transgender Americans with “X” as their gender designation, a practice suspended since Donald Trump’s return…

A powerful American bunker-busting bomb is the only weapon capable of destroying Iran’s deeply buried nuclear facilities, making it President Donald Trump’s weapon of choice if he chooses to militarily…

Using artificial intelligence (AI) to manage nuclear weapon systems poses a catastrophic risk for humanity, the world’s top institute on conflict research, SIPRI, has said in its 2025 yearbook.

New Zealand on Wednesday approved the medicinal use of psilocybin, a hallucinogenic compound notably found in so-called “magic mushrooms”.

An Australian woman accused of killing three lunch guests with deadly mushrooms should not be judged guilty just because she lied after the meal, her defence lawyer said Wednesday.

Disused coal mines could be refashioned to place vast fields of solar panels, a new report suggests, providing an unlikely solution to a common obstacle to uptake of the green…

Hours after the shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers over the weekend, authorities asked David Carlson to identify his lifelong friend in a harrowing photograph.

Iran on Wednesday claimed to have fired hypersonic missiles at Israel in the latest round of overnight strikes as the Islamic republic’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, launched a battle…