Afternoon Times

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday invited global companies to invest in the country’s fast-growing aviation sector, citing a streamlined regulatory framework, ease of compliance, and a simplified tax structure.

Basic military training will be imparted to students from Class 1 in Maharashtra in a move to instil a sense of patriotism, discipline and promote a habit of regular physical…

Telangana’s former chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will not be appearing before the Justice PC Ghose commission on June 5. The BRS leader has reportedly sought more time and is…

Over 1,600 tourists were evacuated from two north Sikkim towns after rain-triggered landslides blocked roads leading to Gangtok and out of the state.

Meta Platforms aims to allow brands to fully create and target advertisements with its artificial intelligence tools by the end of next year, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The Milky Way may not have a catastrophic collision with another huge galaxy as has been predicted, computer simulations revealed, giving our home galaxy a coin-flip chance of avoiding destruction.

After an intensive eight-day search operation, the East Khasi Hills police on Monday confirmed the recovery of the body of Raja Raghuvanshi, one of the two tourists reported missing since…

Israeli forces blocked an international media tour in the occupied West Bank, preventing journalists from entering the village of Oscar-winning Palestinian director Basel Adra who decried worsening Israeli violence.

A 54-year-old man from Punjab died of high altitude sickness and hypoxemia at Darcha on the Manali-Leh National Highway in Himachal Pradesh’s Lahaul-Spiti district, police said on Monday.

Cries of grief echoed across southern Gaza’s Nasser Hospital as dozens came to mourn Hossam Wafi, after the father of six was killed while attempting to get supplies to feed…

A man who set fire to a copy of the Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London was found guilty of committing a religiously aggravated public order offence, in a…

Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto and Alphabet’s Google said they would create a public glossary of state-sponsored hacking groups and cybercriminals, in a bid to ease confusion over the menagerie of…

Rainfall over India is likely to remain subdued for over a week as the annual monsoon’s progress has stalled after its earliest onset in 16 years, senior weather bureau officials…

The Delhi High Court has asked hospitals in the national capital to refrain from demanding ID proofs of rape survivors seeking termination of their pregnancy on orders of courts.

In an initiative to boost tourism and align the local populace with the military heritage in this border region, the Army’s Golden Arrow Division has opened the historic two-century-old Ferozepur…

A woman left her home on Saturday to get fodder for cattle, but she never returned. Her blood-soaked body with multiple stab wounds was found in a field in an…

The all-party delegations sent across the world to explain Operation Sindoor are on way home and the first delegation led by Jay Panda, lands in Delhi tomorrow

Infosys CEO Salil Parekh’s compensation rose 21.7 per cent to 806.2 million rupees ($9.44 million), the company said in its annual report on Monday, making him one of the highest-paid…

Piles of cash worth Rs 1 crore, multiple gold bangles and silver and gold coins valued at Rs 3.5 crore were seized after raids on premises linked to a senior…

In a significant counter-terrorism operation, the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), in collaboration with Thane Rural Police, conducted extensive raids in the Padgha and Borivali areas of Thane district.

Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh launched ‘Bharat Gen’, an indigenously developed artificial intelligence-based multimodal Large Language Model (LLM) for Indian languages, here on Monday.

A man was allegedly killed by his wife and younger brother here after he objected to their illicit relationship, police said.

A 38-year-old man allegedly strangled his wife to death at their residence after suspecting her of having an affair with his younger brother.

Her husband would pose as the brother of “Looteri Dulhan” Anuradha Paswan to conduct each her weddings to 25 men.

Inspired by the Bollywood thriller ‘Drishyam’, a Rajasthan man allegedly killed an elderly woman, burnt her body and dumped the remains in a lake, hoping that he would get away…

Thieves struck rich by decamping with 59 kg of gold from the Mangoli branch of Canara Bank here recently, a senior police officer said on Monday.

Bangladesh’s interim government has taken another step in eroding the legacy of ‘Bangabandhu’ Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of the nation.

An 18-year-old woman was killed by a male friend, who also tried to burn her body, in Delhi on Sunday.

With the recent announcement of the Master Plan of the Dharavi Development Project, the residents of Sunder Kamala Nagar are now feeling anxious and uncertain about the future of their…

The body of a man from Indore in Madhya Pradesh who had gone missing along with his wife in Meghalaya recently was found on Monday, while the search for his…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair a meeting of the Union Council of Ministers on Wednesday, the first after India’s punitive military action against Pakistan under Operation Sindoor, launched in…

Iran is poised to reject a US proposal to end a decades-long nuclear dispute, an Iranian diplomat said, slamming it as a “non-starter” that fails to address Tehran’s interests.

A new treatment nearly halves the risk of disease progression or death from a less common form of breast cancer that hasn’t seen major drug advances in over a decade,…

The second round of direct talks between Russia and Ukraine have begun in Istanbul hours after a massive drone strike in Russia’s Siberia – a first since the beginning of…

Israeli fire killed at least three Palestinians and wounded dozens of others near an aid distribution site operated by the U.S.-based Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, local health authorities said on Monday.

Senior Tesla executives were alarmed last year when Elon Musk denied a Reuters report that the company had killed a planned all-new $25,000 EV project, according to people familiar with…

Russia’s military advance in Ukraine picked up speed in the spring after slowing down over the winter, according to AFP’s analysis of data from US-based Institute for the Study of…

Union Minister Chirag Paswan has hinted at contesting the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections on Monday, asserting that as he serves at the Centre but his heart and political purpose have…

The BJP in Bihar has latched on to Lalu Prasad Yadav’s elder son Tej Pratap’s “Jaichand” posts to target the RJD patriarch as the tempo for the Bihar Assembly election…

As the tranquil lavender fields of Bhaderwah bloom, they tell a story far beyond beauty – one of empowerment, resilience, and strategic transformation. This year’s Lavender Festival comes at a…

A couple, who were returning on a motorcycle after distributing their son’s wedding cards, died in a road accident in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor district, police said on Monday.

The Kerala High Court has allowed a transgender couple’s request to use the gender-neutral term “parent” in their child’s birth certificate instead of father and mother.

Around 175 passengers had a close shave after an IndiGo flight suffered a bird hit and made an emergency landing at Ranchi’s Birsa Munda Airport on Monday, an official said.

The Goa Congress has landed in a controversy after a poster displayed during the Statehood Day celebrations failed to feature the image of party national president Mallikarjun Kharge.

The village of Simauli here witnessed a startling sight in which over 100 live snakes crawled out of the courtyard of a farmer’s house, sparking panic and fear among the…

Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh and its student wing Chatra Shibpur have regained their political status, with the country’s Supreme Court restoring their registration and allowing them to be listed with the Election…

Over a million Muslims from across the world will arrive in the sacred city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia this week and head to the Kaaba – the ‘House of…

Days after he was expelled from the party after a Facebook post sparked a row, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) founder Lalu Yadav’s elder son Tej Pratap today said his parents…

A Chennai court’s verdict in the Anna University case, handing out 30-year imprisonment to the accused, has sparked a heated exchange between the ruling DMK and the main Opposition AIADMK.

India-born British restaurateur Asma Khan is among women from 195 countries who have featured in the “195” song, which has entered the Guinness World Records for most nationalities to contribute…

A 21-year-old man allegedly died by suicide in Siddipet district of Telangana after his father, who worked as a farm labourer, could not afford to buy him a luxury car,…

Pakistan’s Punjab province may be looking ahead to a tough kharif (summer crops) sowing season amid a major water shortage at two of its key damns– Tarbela on the Indus…

Sarjis Alam, one of the main faces of the student protests in Bangladesh last August and a leader of the National Citizen Party (NCP), has directed questions towards the country’s…

After menopause, urinary tract infections (UTIs) can be more frequent, yet most Canadian women (82 per cent in a recent survey) dont realize the two are associated.

A day after Ukraine’s audacious large-scale drone attacks on multiple Russian air bases, negotiators from Moscow and Kyiv are meeting on Monday in the Turkish city of Istanbul for their…