Afternoon Times

Protests outside a federal detention centre in Los Angeles turned tense as law enforcement agencies, including the California National Guard and Department of Homeland Security, fired non-lethal tear gas outside…

Justifying his decision to join hands with the BJP, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Ajit Pawar on Tuesday said he and his colleagues were not “saints” who could remain in…

Activist Greta Thunberg returned home to Sweden late Tuesday after being deported from Israel, lambasting the country for its “violations of international law and war crimes” in Gaza.

Significant progress was made in the latest round of talks between India and the United States over a possible interim trade deal expected within weeks

Karnataka High Court on Tuesday quashed criminal case filed against a man accused of stealing a cat named ‘Daisy’.

Gazan mother Amal Abu Shalouf ran her hand over her son’s face and hair, a brief farewell before a man abruptly sealed the body bag carrying the three-year-old who was…

The US government on Monday sanctioned the fugitive sons of drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, and announced a $10 million reward for information leading to their arrests.

Russians are flocking to catch what some fear could be a final glimpse of the embalmed body of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin before his tomb on Moscow’s Red Square, long…

A 49-year-old Vietnamese national, convicted in a notorious gang-related mass shooting, is among several illegal immigrants arrested by ICE in a weekend raid across Los Angeles that triggered violent protests.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday condemned a “senseless wave of violence” after a teaching assistant stabbed by a 15-year-old pupil outside a school in the east of the country…

A 45-year-old Pakistani national allegedly fatally stabbed his 35-year-old wife, also a Pakistani, using a kitchen knife in their rented flat in Kharghar node of Navi Mumbai before killing himself…

A local tourist guide, who alerted police about the presence of three men accompanying newlyweds Raja and Sonam Raghuvanshi on the day they went missing, on Tuesday claimed that he…

Actor-politician Kamal Haasan and five others, including three nominees of the ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu, are all set to be elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha, with their nominations…

Two journalists, working in a news channel and a digital platform, were arrested over allegations of blackmail and extortion, police said on Tuesday.

A newly-married couple from Uttar Pradesh’s Pratapgarh district, who went to Sikkim for their honeymoon, has gone missing after their vehicle reportedly fell into the Teesta River amid heavy rain,…

The Israeli military said on Tuesday that it was working to intercept a missile launched from Yemen toward Israel, hours after Israel deployed its navy to hit targets in the…

Syria’s new Islamist authorities said on Tuesday that women going to public beaches must wear burkinis or other “decent” clothes that cover the body, giving some private venues an exemption.

AGI, while still a theoretical concept, refers to AI that can outperform humans across a broad range of cognitive tasks. Many experts believe such capabilities may be decades awayif they…

The Congress central leadership has ordered that a new caste survey be held in in Karnataka, said the party’s senior leader and the state’s Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar today.

Following incidents of honey-bee attacks on tourists, the forest department has started the process of removing 13 hives from four caves at the world-famous Ajanta Cave complex, an official told…

Sonam Raghuvanshi, the wife of Raja Raghuvanshi and his alleged killer, is being taken from Uttar Pradesh to Meghalaya today for further investigations by the state police. She is currently…

Nursing a grudge from a school fight 52 years ago, two elderly men beat up their old classmate, now 62 years old, in Kerala’s Kasaragod on Monday, said the police.

“I think the world needs many more young angry women, to be honest,” she said, after arriving in Paris. Her British-flagged ship “Madleen” was intercepted by Israeli forces in the…

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said today that in recent years, many decisions of the United Nations have been questioned.

Special prayers were offered in Lucknow on Tuesday for the success of the thrice-postponed lift-off of Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, on board SpaceX’s Falcon-9 rocket.

Expressing grief over the murder of Raja Raghuvanshi, which was allegedly plotted by his wife Sonam, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav also said parents should think whether they should…

Israel launched a large-scale military operation on Tuesday in the old city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, AFP journalists reported, with the army reporting injured troops and two…

Iran executed nine people it said were members of the Islamic State, state media reported on Tuesday, after their arrest in early 2018 during clashes in which three members of…

To put an end to the protests, about 700 Marines have been deployed in Los Angeles and 4,000 National Guard troops have been mobilised. The American military does not have…

A gunman killed ten people at a secondary school in the southern Austrian city of Graz on Tuesday, in the worst school shooting in the country’s modern history. At least…

The EU on Tuesday announced the removal of the United Arab Emirates from its money-laundering “high-risk” list but added Monaco alongside nine other jurisdictions.

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said he did not think that an independent Palestinian state remains a goal of US foreign policy, according to an interview with Bloomberg News…

NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Tuesday said they never thought the Nationalist Congress Party, co-founded by him 26 years ago, would suffer a split and appreciated workers of his…

Marking Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s completion of 11 years in office, the NaMo app has launched the Jan Man Survey, an interactive platform enabling citizens to directly contribute to national…

Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said the Pahalgam terror strike was not just an attack on our people but also an assault on the social unity of India, as he asserted…

The government has reacted strongly to a social media post claiming that an Indian national has been detained at Newark Airport in New Jersey, formally raising the matter with the…

A fire broke out on the eighth and ninth floors of a high-rise in Delhi’s Dwarka, with smoke and fire engulfing a house.

In the grip of extreme heat, Delhi on Tuesday recorded its highest maximum temperature of the season at 43.8 degrees Celsius, 3.6 notches above the season’s average, the India Meteorological…

US government agencies tracked foreign nationals’ visits to Elon Musk’s properties amid concerns over possible attempts to influence the tech billionaire, The Wall Street Journal reported.

To put an end to the protests, about 700 Marines have been deployed in Los Angeles and 4,000 National Guard troops have been mobilised. Notably, the American military does not…

In the wake of the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam and India’s response in the form of Operation Sindoor, the 23rd edition of the National Security Guard’s (NSG)…

These are some of the pressing questions that Raja Raghuvanshi’s mother put to him in a call on May 23, in what turned out to be her last call to…

At least five Indian nationals, residing in Qatar, were killed after their bus met with an accident in Kenya, where they were on a holiday, the Embassy of India in…

Ride-hailing firm Uber will launch self-driving taxis in London next year when England trials new driverless services, the firm and the UK government said on Tuesday.

A woman allegedly strangled her six-year-old daughter to death and seriously injured her three-year-old son in a village here, police said on Tuesday.

Six members of a family, who had returned late at night from Vrindavan, were rescued after 45 minutes from a lift in their apartment complex in Uttar Pradesh.

After his diplomatic outreach to five nations, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) MP GM Harish Balayogi said that people in every country he visited expressed solidarity with India over the Pahalgam…

The Supreme Court today rejected a petition by a lawyer convicted of abusing a woman judicial officer in a court in Delhi.

Sonam Offered Rs 20 Lakh For Murder, Helped Push Body Into Gorge: Sources

The Meghalaya Police knew on June 3, a day after they found the body of Raja Raghuvanshi in a gorge, that Sonam Raghuvanshi was involved in the honeymoon murder.

A survey on the NaMo app to draw people’s feedback on a variety of issues to mark the Modi government’s 11 years has elicited a sizeable 5 lakh responses within…

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who led a multi-party delegation to the US and four other countries to convey India’s stand following Operation Sindoor, on Tuesday said his delegation had “good…

Emperor penguin populations in Antarctica have shrunk by almost a quarter as global warming transforms their icy habitat, according to new research on Tuesday that warned the losses were far…

All eyes will be in the sky tomorrow as the rocket carrying Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, and a billion Indian hopes, lifts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida…

A Russian attack overnight damaged Saint Sophia Cathedral in the historic centre of Kyiv, one of Ukraine’s most significant monuments and a designated world heritage site, the Ukrainian culture minister…

Turkmenistan said Tuesday it was “concerned” after the Central Asian state, one of the most closed in the world, was targeted by US President Donald Trump’s travel ban it called…

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg said on Tuesday she was kidnapped in international waters by Israeli forces as she arrived in Paris Charles de Gaulle airport after being deported from Israel.

To put an end to the protests, about 700 Marines have been deployed in Los Angeles and 4,000 National Guard troops have been mobilised. Notably, the American military does not…