Afternoon Times

Twenty US states filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s decision to impose a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa petitions, arguing the policy is unlawful and threatens essential public…

Shehbaz Sharif met Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the International Forum dedicated to the International Year of Peace and Trust in Turkmenistan.

A US special operations team in the Indian Ocean raided a ship headed to Iran from China last month and seized military-related articles, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday,…

The Trump administration diverted more than $2 billion from US military funds in 2025 to support immigration enforcement operations, weakening military readiness and straining servicemembers, according to a report released…

Imran Khan’s detention has become a focal point of Pakistan’s deep political divisions following his removal from office in April 2022 and the subsequent crackdown on his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)…

Iran has seized an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman, Iranian media said overnight Friday to Saturday, adding that 18 crew members from India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh were…

The Aam Aadmi Party government in Punjab has been hit by two sharp setbacks in a span of days.

Women from Manipur including senior citizens participated in a run in honour of the 86th Nupi Lan (Women’s War) Day, in memory of revolts by the women of Manipur against…

President Droupadi Murmu today reminded the people of Manipur that the strength of the “beautiful land” they call home lies in its diversity.

Three members of the US House of Representatives on Friday introduced a resolution aimed at terminating President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration that imposed tariffs of up to 50 per…

Following a week of deadly border clashes that have killed at least 20 and displaced around half a million people, US President Donald Trump on Friday announced that Thailand and…

Iranian security forces on Friday detained the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi along with at least eight other activists in an arrest condemned as “brutal” by the Norwegian…

Rajnath Panghal had to drive hundreds of kilometres to make sure his son reaches his school in time ahead of exams.

A woman from Assam’s Sonitpur district has been arrested after the police found suspicious foreign-linked financial transactions. She was purportedly married to a Pakistani national in Dubai.

Goa Nightclub Fire Tragedy Highlights: Authorities in Thailand on Friday started the deportation process to send back Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra back to India.

King Charles said on Friday his treatment for cancer can be reduced in the next year as he talked about his experience living with the disease in a televised address.

Americans are deeply skeptical of President Donald Trump’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, though he is shoring up support among his core Republican followers who have long focused on…

Fighter jets, bombers and surveillance drones: the United States military has flown a variety of aircraft along Venezuela’s coast in recent weeks, an AFP analysis shows, amid growing fears of…

Ukraine’s special forces said on Friday they had conducted an operation alongside what they described as a local resistance movement to hit two Russian ships transporting weapons and military equipment…

The European Union looked set on Friday to indefinitely freeze Russian central bank assets held in Europe, removing a big obstacle to using the cash to help Ukraine defend itself…

Rains drenched Gaza’s tent camps, and dropping temperatures chilled Palestinians huddling inside them Thursday as winter storm Byron descended on the war-battered territory.

Germany on Friday accused Russia of a cyberattack targeting its air traffic control and spreading disinformation ahead of February’s general election, charges dismissed by Russia as “absurd” and “baseless”.

YouTube has hit pause on a dating show that whisked eight men and women from deeply conservative Pakistan to a sun-soaked Istanbul villa, where the strangers mingled, flirted and searched…

Ukraine would be slated to join the European Union by January 1 2027 under a peace proposal being discussed as part of US-mediated negotiations.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said the motive and criminal conspiracy has been clearly tracked and it has been examined by Advocate General.

Critically ill former prime minister Khaleda Zia’s son Tarique Rahman, who has been living in self-exile in London for 17 years, will return to Bangladesh on December 25, the BNP…

The Tamil Nadu advocate general has asked petitioners to prove that the ‘deepathoon’ on top of Thiruparukundram hill is a genuine practice. The top lawyer said that for centuries it…

A moving scene unfolded in the European Parliament in Brussels when an interpreter broke down mid-sentence while translating the testimony of an 11-year-old Ukrainian boy who survived a Russian missile…

Civil Aviation Minister K Ram Mohan Naidu told the Lok Sabha today that the government cannot impose fare caps for an entire year, citing seasonal fluctuations in demand and operational…

In a landmark development, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, two key states in the Red Corridor, have officially declared themselves Maoist-free, signalling a decisive collapse of the Maoist stronghold that once…

A woman and her two sons were found dead at their home in southeast Delhi on Friday, with police suspecting it to be a case of suicide, an official said.

The woman said she never wanted to go abroad and was forced by her husband to take the IELTS and go abroad.

Iltija Mufti, daughter of former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, took to her social media to share her thoughts on the recently released film ‘Dhurandhar’.

Iranian security forces on Friday “violently” arrested the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi at a memorial ceremony for a lawyer who died earlier this month, her supporters said.

Jemima Goldsmith, the ex-wife of former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan, publicly appealed to X owner Elon Musk on Friday, alleging that her posts about Khan’s situation are being suppressed…

Democratic lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee released 19 photos out of the 95,000 they received from the estate of Epstein, who died in jail in 2019 while awaiting sex…

Turkey and the United States are discussing the US sanctions and obstacles to Ankara rejoining the F-35 jet programme but nothing has changed with respect to its possession of Russian…

A series of Israeli strikes hit south and east Lebanon on Friday, state media reported, as Israel’s army said it was targeting Hezbollah sites, the latest such raids despite a…

Controversial British adult film star Bonnie Blue will be deported from Indonesia’s Bali island, an immigration official said Friday, after earlier receiving a small fine for traffic violations.

For the first time since Partition, Sanskrit has quietly made its way back into classrooms in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

A girl died on Friday morning after being hit by a school vehicle here, police said.

India’s annual retail inflation quickened to 0.71% year-on-year in November, picking up from a record low in October, as the pace of decline in food prices slowed, government data showed…

A proposal has been submitted to the Cabinet to change the name of the erstwhile UPA government’s flagship MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme).

According to police, the woman went live on Facebook around 5.30 am. Meta alerted the police control room.

The West Bengal unit of Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM party is optimistic for an alliance with Humayun Kabir, the Trinamool rebel MLA who has emerged as a key minority voice in…

Senior Congress leader Renuka Renuka Chowdhury said today that Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi were very different people whose styles of address are very different and should not be subject to…

The results of the key 2025 local body polls in Kerala will be declared on Saturday when the ballots cast by over two crore voters will be counted at 244…

The special investigation team (SIT) that is probing the death of Assam’s cultural icon Zubeen Garg has filed a chargesheet at a local court in Guwahati.

A Delhi court on Friday remanded three doctors and a preacher who were arrested in connection with the November 10 Red Fort blast case to 12 days of judicial custody.

NDTV’s Open-Source Intelligence team, in collaboration with cybersecurity engineer Aseem Shrey, conducted a forensic analysis on the app’s Android 10 version using decompilation.

Pakistan may want to shed its “Naach na Jaane, Aangan Tedha” mentality for its own good.

A male adult leopard that had been intermittently moving within the Pune Airport premises since late April has been darted and captured safely, forest officials said on Friday.

Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said on Friday that Moscow has not seen revised U.S. proposals made after the most recent talks with Ukraine, but that it may not…

Hundreds of thousands of displaced Gazans face flooding of their tents and shelters by heavy rains, and materials for shelters and sandbags are not being allowed to enter the enclave,…

According to a video shared by RT India, Sharif ended up walking into a closed-door meeting between Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after his own scheduled bilateral with…

Novo Nordisk launched Ozempic in India on Friday, pricing the 0.25 mg dose at $24.35 per week and targeting a booming diabetes and obesity market expected to power industry growth…

The Supreme Court has sought a reply from the Madras High Court on the rules being followed in the listing and hearing of cases, observing that “something wrong” is happening…