The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the Centre’s plea to allow women to sit for the National Defence Academy (NDA) exams from next year, saying it doesn’t want women to be denied their right. They will be able to sit for the exams in November this year. | Read more|
A 5.9 magnitude earthquake has rattled southeast Australia, damaging buildings in the city of Melbourne. | Read more|
Narendra Giri, a top religious leader who allegedly died by suicide on Monday, was under pressure over what he called a "morphed image with a woman", according to a note the police found near his body at his ashram in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj. | Read more|
Large numbers of Haitian asylum-seekers who’ve arrived in the US in recent weeks are being released into the country, officials told the Associated Press, after the Biden administration pledged to step up deportation flights. | Read more|
Bihar’s showpiece scheme to ensure drinking water for the poor through taps right at their homes, Har Ghar Nal Ka Jal, launched by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar exactly five years ago, is a success on many counts — it has covered over 95% of the target of 1.08 lakh panchayat wards. | Read more|
The FBI has confirmed that a body found inside a Wyoming national park on Sunday belongs to the missing "van life" blogger Gabby Petito. | Read more|
Covishield has been included on the UK's revised list of approved vaccines after a furious India warned of "reciprocal measures", but double-vaccinated Indians still have to quarantine because of "vaccination certification issues", according to UK officials. | Read more|
A new volcanic fissure has emerged on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma, producing more lava and prompting evacuations. While there have been no deaths or injuries, the ongoing eruption has caused widespread destruction. | Read more|
A violent protest against mandatory Covid-19 vaccination erupted outside of a Melbourne trade union office on Monday, after it was announced that construction workers would have to be vaccinated to continue doing their jobs. | Read more|
In what could potentially set off a probe under the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), online retailer Amazon is conducting an internal investigation into a whistleblower complaint that has alleged bribing of government officials in India by some of its legal representatives. | Read more|
Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party has narrowly won Canada's election, but it failed to secure a majority. | Read more|
A day after Narendra Giri, the head of a top religious body - Akhil Bharatiya Akhada Parishad - allegedly died by suicide in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj, his closest disciple has been arrested. | Read more|
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has launched an investigation into a data breach involving the email addresses of dozens of Afghan interpreters who worked for British forces. | Read more|
Businessman Raj Kundra on Tuesday walked out of a Mumbai jail, a day after a magistrate court in Mumbai granted bail to the key accused in a pornographic films case in which he was arrested two months ago. | Read more|
A Central Intelligence Agency official who accompanied CIA Director William Burns to India earlier this month suffered symptoms consistent with the so-called Havana Syndrome, a mysterious neurological illness that has struck American diplomats and spies in many parts of the world, multiple media reports said on Tuesday | Read more|
Seventeen Anganwadi children have been hospitalised after consuming a noon meal that allegedly had a dead lizard in it at Boothamkattikambalimedu in Tamil Nadu’s Cuddalore district on Monday. | Read more|
CARS24 on Monday said it has raised $450 million (about Rs 3,321.3 crore) in funding from DST Global, Falcon Edge, SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and others, helping the pre-owned vehicles’ e-commerce platform nearly double its valuation to $1.84 billion. | Read more|
Choosing a full-fledged confrontation with the United States due to the loss of a mega-contract for submarines for Australia, France is making a risky bet and other nations are not rushing to its defense. | Read more|
A volcano erupted on La Palma, one of Spain’s Canary Islands off Africa’s Atlantic coast, on Sunday, sending large plumes of grey smoke into the air. | Read more|
In a video that went viral on Sunday, Uttar Pradesh Assembly Speaker Hriday Narayan Dixit said that if people could be venerated based on how few clothes they wear then actor Rakhi Sawant would be a more well-known personality than Mahatma Gandhi. | Read more|
Actor Kangana Ranaut has filed a counter-complaint against lyricist Javed Akhtar in a Mumbai court, alleging "extortion and criminal intimidation". | Read more|
A military aircraft crash-landed in a Lake Worth, Texas neighborhood on Sunday, leading to damage to multiple homes as well as injuries to the two pilots, each of whom were forced to eject before the crash. | Read more|
In his first address as the Punjab Chief Minister, Charanjit Singh Channi urged the Centre to withdraw the three farm laws. | Read more|
North Korea has condemned a new security pact between the US, UK and Australia, saying it could trigger a "nuclear arms race". | Read more|
Having failed to reach a consensus on the next chief minister of Punjab, the Congress has deferred it legislative party’s meeting scheduled on Sunday and has started calling up its MLAs to take their opinions on the matter | Read more|
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s OSD Lokesh Sharma submitted his resignation on Saturday night, hours after he posted a tweet which was seen as an indirect criticism of the Congress over the change of leadership in Punjab. | Read more|
Silence envelops Kursauli village under Kalyanpur Block of Kanpur Nagar district on Saturday afternoon, with many houses locked. With panic spreading due to the death of at least 12 people in the last one month here due to a “mysterious fever”, many have left. On Saturday, another death was reported, of village hea | Read more|
The Centre will get toll revenues worth ₹ 1,000 to 1,500 crore every month once the much-awaited Delhi-Mumbai Expressway becomes operational in 2023, Union minister Nitin Gadkari said on Sunday and described state-owned NHAI as a "gold mine" for generating income. | Read more|
At a time when Indian troops are still in a faceoff with the Chinese along the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh, an infrastructure project for troops guarding the region has turned out to be a non-starter after five years of work and investment of crores of rupees. And the failure of the project has also pitted | Read more|
Russian President Vladimir Putin's party was set Sunday to retain a majority in parliament on the last day of three-day elections in which most Kremlin critics were barred from the ballot. | Read more|
The protesting farmers, digging in their heels, have refused to attend the meeting called by the Haryana government about opening passage to the Delhi border. The highway (NH-44) has been blocked by farmers protesting against the centre's new farm laws at the Singhu and Tikri borders since November last year. | Read more|
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Sunday the French government would have known Canberra had "deep and grave concerns" about French submarines before the deal was torn up last week. | Read more|
The sub divisional magistrate (SDM) of Chanakyapuri has issued an order to close down the Bangla Sahib Gurdwara for visitors with immediate effect alleging violation of Covid-19 protocols. | Read more|
Emphasising that the need of the hour is “Indianisation” of the country’s legal system, Chief Justice of India NV Ramana on Saturday said the Indian justice system practises rules that are “colonial” in origin and “may not be best suited for the Indian population”. | Read more|
Actor Sonu Sood has evaded taxes of over Rs. 20 crore, the income tax department said in a statement today, after visiting his Mumbai home for three days in a row for a search. | Read more|