Afternoon Times

Airlines have been told to avoid certain existing flight routes between Delhi-Mumbai, India’s primary trunk route for domestic air travel, and re-route flights till May 14 amid escalating tension between…

The National Commission for Women (NCW) has pulled up the management of OTT platform ULLU App over the allegedly obscene and degrading portrayal of women in its program House Arrest…

The leaders of France, Britain, Germany and Poland will make an unprecedented joint visit to Ukraine on Saturday for talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky, vowing to ratchet up pressure on…

Pakistan’s massive escalation along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir and the International Border in other states had a Turkish link.

Union Health Ministry and the Centre-run AIIMS, Safdarjung and Ram Manohar Lohia hospitals in New Delhi have cancelled leaves of all its officers and staffers indefinitely and activated emergency protocols…

After Pakistan attempted to attack multiple cities in Northern India using drones, the Ministry of Civil Aviation on Friday extended the closure of 28 airports across the country until 15…

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday approved a fresh loan of about $1 billion to Pakistan under the ongoing Extended Fund Facility.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, within a span of a few days, met the three service chiefs yet again on Friday as the India-Pakistan tensions escalated this week to the worst…

The Pakistani military launched Turkish-made ‘Songar’ armed drones on Thursday night, the government said in a briefing today. The Songar, developed by Ankara-based defence company Asisguard, is the first armed…

Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang has announced measures to tackle any problem arising because of the prevailing situation along the Pakistan border in India’s north and west.

ED Friday claimed to have unearthed a “deep-rooted” and systemic “corruption” network involving several consultants across key departments of the Tamil Nadu government during raids carried out earlier this week…

In the wake of the rising tensions between India and Pakistan, the Paradip Port in Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha has been put on high alert. The security has been ramped…

Actor Kamal Haasan, today, rescheduled the audio launch for his upcoming film Thug Life, scheduled for 16 May amid a state of heightened alert in the country.

India on Friday opposed IMF’s proposal to extend fresh loans of USD 2.3 billion to Pakistan, saying the funds could be misused for financing state-sponsored cross-border terrorism.

Government watchdog CCPA has issued notices to 13 e-commerce players like Amazon and Flipkart for illegal sale of walkie-talkie devices on their platforms amid rising India-Pakistan tensions.

Pakistan fired at least 300 drones, some of Turkish origin, toward India in a bid to target military installations in 36 cities in northern and western India, from Jammu and…

Amid the escalation of tensions with Pakistan and indiscriminate firing from the neighbouring country across the Line of Control (LoC), Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said that the services of the…

India’s long-term credit rating has been improved from ‘BBB (low)’ to ‘BBB’ by Morningstar DBRS, a global sovereign credit rating agency. The country’s credit outlook has been revised to ‘Stable’…

The government today accused Pakistan of “targeting places of worship” In India and said several “gurudwaras, convents and temples” along the border in Jammu and Kashmir were damaged by Pakistani…

The man accused of stabbing actor Saif Ali Khan on Friday moved an application before a court here seeking to declare his arrest as illegal and sought his release from…

Air India on Friday announced extending the suspension of its flights to and from Tel Aviv till May 25.

While Pakistan was attempting, and failing, to strike military installations in India using missiles and drones for the second day running, the Indian armed forces launched drones at four sites…

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri condemned the May 8 attacks by Pakistan targeting multiple locations in India, including Amritsar, dismissing as “preposterous and outrageous” the claim by Islamabad that India was…

The Indian Army successfully detonated an unexploded ordnance in Punjab’s Amritsar. The nature of the ordnance, which was found in the Makhan Windy village, is unclear.

Indian equity markets opened lower this morning amid heightened tensions with Pakistan over an anti-terrorism operation by New Delhi in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack.

Pakistan’s disinformation machinery has once again come under the spotlight, this time for targeting India’s National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval through a fake Facebook post.

In light of the current security environment and the threat of hostile attacks, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has urged all states and Union Territories (UTs) to augment civil…

Ensuring that Pakistan has no way to obfuscate and hide behind propaganda, India is documenting evidence of its strikes on terror infrastructure in the country as part of Operation Sindoor.

The district administration in Punjab’s Mohali on Friday ordered the closure of cinema halls and shopping malls from sunset to sunrise till further orders, officials said.

Amid escalating tensions between India and Pakistan, Union Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi on Friday warned traders, wholesalers and retailers against hoarding of essential food items and asserted…

Former Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti broke down on Friday over the deaths of children during unprovoked firing by Pakistan.

Amid escalating tensions between India and Pakistan following the Pahalgam attack, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif stepped in to advise his brother, current Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, on the need…

Pakistan did not close its airspace yesterday and allowed civilian aircraft to operate, while it sneakily launched Turkish-made drones at Indian cities on Thursday, the government said in a briefing…

A Delhi court on Friday sent 26/11 Mumbai attack accused Tahawwur Hussain Rana to Tihar Jail till June 6.

Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis chaired a high-level security review meeting in Mumbai on Friday to assess the state’s preparedness and coordination across agencies as the India-Pakistan tension escalated this week…

Investors’ wealth eroded by Rs 7 lakh crore in two days as stock markets became jittery following the escalation of the India-Pakistan conflict.

India’s former top diplomat Ruchira Kamboj has demolished Pakistan’s lies on the global stage that it has no connection with terror attacks in India.

Air raid sirens were heard in the national capital today as part of a mock drill amid escalating tensions between India and Pakistan and two waves of missile and drone…

In a relief for yoga guru Ramdev, the Delhi High Court has closed a lawsuit against him. The court passed the order while hearing a case filed by the Hamdard…

Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday indulged in a small game of cricket at a relief camp that has been set up to shelter residents affected by…

The Pakistan government and its Army have found themselves at the receiving end of their citizens and Parliamentarians, after getting beaten in the war of nerves with their Indian counterpart…

In the wake of heightened tensions along the India-Pakistan border, Home Minister Amit Shah chaired a high-level review meeting on Friday to assess preparedness across India’s frontiers and critical infrastructure,…

Several private schools in West Bengal have declared summer vacations from Friday, after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged the educational institutions to advance the holidays by a week in the…