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Chief Minister Lalduhoma on Tuesday declared Mizoram as the country’s first fully literate state. Lalduhoma announced the presence of Union Minister of State for Education Jayant Chaudhary at a function…

An Indian origin entrepreneur was fatally stabbed by another Indian man in a public bus in Texas, United States, police said.

Donald Trump’s use of the Guantanamo Bay naval base to house migrants appears to cost $100,000 per day for each detainee, US Senator Gary Peters said.

Google said it was beefing up online searches with even more generative artificial intelligence, as it presses on with embracing AI despite fears for its ad-based business model.

The UK said it imposed sanctions that target what it classifies as the persistent cycle of serious violence undertaken by extremist Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and paused…

United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday unveiled new details on his plan for a missile defence system known as “Golden Dome”, which is estimated to cost a total of…

Journalists from Imphal valley turned back midway while going to Ukhrul district to attend the state-level Shirui Lily Festival after the security forces covered the word ‘Manipur’ on the windshield…

Days after it raised a call for boycotting all-party delegations, the Shiv Sena (UBT) on Tuesday said the party would support India’s global outreach on terror in the “national interest”…

The Maharashtra government has issued protocol guidelines to ensure adherence to the official decorum during the visit of the Chief Justice of India to Mumbai and other parts of the…

Six people, including four women and a two-year-old child, were killed and four others were injured after a slab of the top floor of a four-storey building in Kalyan collapsed…

Unseasonal heavy rainfall, accompanied with gusty winds, thunderstorms and lightning, in parts of Maharashtra, including Mumbai and Pune, brought much-need relief from the scorching heat but triggered widespread water logging…

The Congress has filed a police case against the BJP’s Amit Malviya and Editor-in-Chief of Republic, Arnab Goswami.

US President Donald Trump unveiled plans for a “Golden Dome” missile shield system on Tuesday to protect the country against attacks, saying it should be operational in about three years.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday the number of visas he has revoked was probably in the thousands, adding that he believed there was still more to…

The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) has decided to use anti-drone technology in view of the threat perception to Sri Venkateswara temple, the world’s richest Hindu temple.

Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Tuesday that Pope Leo XIV confirmed to her the Vatican’s willingness to host peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.

Less than a week after Donald Trump scripted history by rubbing shoulders with former Al Qaeda and ISIS terrorist, now Syrian President, Ahmad al-Sharaa, an old video of the latter…

New intelligence obtained by the United States suggests that Israel is preparing to strike Iranian nuclear facilities, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing multiple U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

Comic actor George Wendt, best known for his Emmy-nominated supporting role as the beer-bellied barfly Norm on the long-running hit NBC television sitcom “Cheers,” died on Tuesday in Los Angeles.…

A group of investors allegedly kidnapped a stock market trader from Odisha’s Cuttack after he failed to repay them their money, police said.

YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra, who has several videos on her social media handles detailing her trips to Pakistan, has been hitting headlines for all the wrong reasons.

After 12 days, the beating retreat ceremony resumed on Tuesday at the joint check post of the Punjab Frontier, Attari in Amritsar.

Joe Biden had never been diagnosed with prostate cancer before last week and previously had a blood test for the disease 11 years ago, a spokesperson for the former US…

Parts of Maharashtra may witness heavy rain with thunder and gusty winds between May 21 and 24, following a cyclonic circulation which is likely to form over the east-central Arabian…

A man was killed and three others were seriously injured when a Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) bus lost control and collided head-on with two motorcycles on the outskirts…

A French delegation visiting India has expressed strong support for the country in its fight against Pakistan-sponsored terrorism, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said on Tuesday.

The Supreme Court would likely hear on Wednesday a plea of Ashoka University’s faculty, Ali Khan Mahmudabad, against his arrest for his social media posts over Operation Sindoor.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said e-commerce major Flipkart was known for creating monopolies and expressed concern over the fate of smaller players in the market.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has let his displeasure about Donald Trump and the US administration’s demands in the crucial nuclear talks be known publicly, calling them nonsensical and…

A significant portion of Gen Z is open to sharing personal data, with 88% willing to share information with social media companies in exchange for incentives. This demographic shift is…

Two weeks after India launched ‘Operation Sindoor’ against terror bases in Pakistan, NDTV reached a high-altitude army post that sits on the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch…

Nearly 60% of Indian districts, home to three-quarters of the population, face a “high to very high” risk from extreme heat, with rising night-time temperatures and humidity compounding the health…

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said the Indian armed forces operated with the precision of skilled surgeons during Operation Sindoor, targeting the roots of terrorism across the border with…

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked those arrested in the 2023 Parliament security breach case the reason for choosing a specific date and place for protests when they were…

While brief in duration compared to the grinding wars of Eastern Europe and the Middle East, the significance of Sindoor lies in the speed, sophistication, and multi-domain nature of Indias…

By the end of June, people can travel to Modipuram in UP’s Meerut in just 45 minutes from Sarai Kalen Khan in Delhi as the final phase of India’s first…

The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday arrested senior Jharkhand IAS officer Vinay Kumar Choubey in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise scam in the state, an official…

A US-backed organization aims to start work in the Gaza Strip by the end of May overseeing a new model of aid distribution in the Palestinian enclave, but the United…

Billionaire Elon Musk said Tuesday he was pulling back from spending his fortune on politics, asserting his Tesla electric car company was doing well despite blowback over his support of…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the future of a healthy world depends on inclusion, integrated vision and collaboration, as he asserted that India’s approach offers sustainable models to…

An ugly fight broke out between two passengers on a Mumbai local after a man accused a woman of abusing his mother.

In India, where the tech sector gamely followed Silicon Valley into ‘WFH’, there is now growing pressure to follow it right back into the office – just like its Silicon…

A 27-year-old man was allegedly beaten and stabbed to death by a group of three persons in west Delhi’s Khyala area after he objected to the relationship between his sister…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday accused Russia of delaying peace talks in a bid to press on with its three-year invasion, even as US President Donald Trump pushes for…

The new law makes it a federal crime to “knowingly publish” or threaten to publish intimate images without consent, including AI-generated “deepfakes”, and requires social media companies to remove such…

The Supreme Court has granted bail to a partially blind man arrested in a cheating case, underlining his misfortune that he had to “travel up to this court for getting…

Kannada actor Ranya Rao, who was arrested for smuggling gold bars worth Rs 14.56 crore in March, was granted bail by a special court on Tuesday.

A hoarding fell, crushing several two-wheelers, due to heavy rain and strong winds in Pune on Tuesday. No one was, fortunately, injured in the accident, but it brought back horrific…

Sub Inspector Geeta Samota has become the first CISF personnel to conquer the world’s tallest peak, Mount Everest, in the 56-year-long history of the force, a spokesperson said Tuesday.

The Congress’s contention that Operation Sindoor was a “small war” has sparked vehement objection from the BJP.

Ali Khan Mahmudabad, the Ashoka University professor, who was arrested for a social media post about Operation Sindoor, which critics say is far from objectionable, was on Tuesday sent to…

Pakistan Army chief General Asim Munir has been promoted to the topmost military rank of Field Marshal – an honour given only in the rarest of occasions and on achieving…