A group of people in Punjab's Tarn Taran district allegedly forcefully entered a local church last night and vandalised a statue of Jesus and Mary. They also set fire to the pastor's car. Visuals from the spot show the car engulfed in flames and a broken statue inside the church. | Read more|
Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who brought the Cold War to a peaceful end, has died aged 91. | Read more|
In the latest development surrounding Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations at Idgah grounds in Karnataka, the Anjuman Islam has approached the Supreme Court, questioning the Karnataka HC’s orders allowing festivities at Hubballi’s Idgah ground. | Read more|
The Supreme Court Tuesday granted activist Teesta Setalvad the liberty to approach the appropriate authority for grant of protection in connection with a 2002 Gujarat riots case. | Read more|
China will respond with “decisive and firm measures” if Washington continues military cooperation with Taiwan, the spokesman for China's embassy in Washington, Liu Pengyu, said on Monday. | Read more|
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia today said his family got a "clean chit" in the raids in connection with the liquor policy case and that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials found "nothing" at his home and in his bank locker. | Read more|
The World Health Organization’s top director in the Western Pacific, Dr. Takeshi Kasai, has been indefinitely removed from his post, according to internal correspondence obtained by The Associated Press. | Read more|
Pakistan's planning minister says early estimates show the devastating floods that hit the country have caused at least $10bn (£8.5bn) of damage. | Read more|
As per news report of Rt.com, European “neighbors” should set up a joint air defense system amid the Ukraine conflict and other security challenges, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said. | Read more|
British pubs could be forced to close because of massive increases in energy prices, leading industry figures said on Tuesday, urging the government to step in. | Read more|
Few outside of India had heard of Gautam Adani just a few years ago. Now the Indian businessman, a college dropout who first tried his luck as a diamond trader before turning to coal, has become the world's third-richest person. | Read more|
The American space agency is counting down to the lift-off of its giant new Moon rocket - the Space Launch System. | Read more|
Arvind Kejriwal today called for a confidence vote in the house to prove all Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs are with him despite what he claims are BJP's attempts to break his party as part of an "Operation Lotus". The voting will take place tomorrow. | Read more|
The Supreme Court has asked for the Karnataka government's response to petitions against the High Court's refusal to lift a ban on wearing of the hijab in educational institutions. | Read more|
Several leaders and activists, who resigned from Congress following in Ghulam Nabi Azad's footsteps, met under former Jammu and Kashmir minister GM Saroori's leadership to ramp up support for the senior leader in his next endeavour. | Read more|
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a PIL seeking a fresh probe into the deal between India and France for the procurement of 36 Rafale jets. | Read more|
Police in the US city of Detroit launched a manhunt Sunday for a suspect believed to have shot four people at "random", killing three of them, authorities said. | Read more|
An inspection team from the UN nuclear watchdog is on its way to Ukraine's embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the organisation's head said. | Read more|
Oil-to-telecom behemoth Reliance Industries (RIL) is holding its 45th annual general meeting (AGM) today. | Read more|
Justice U U Lalit took oath as the 49th Chief Justice of India (CJI) on Saturday. | Read more|
The FBI told a judge they expected to find "evidence of obstruction" of justice in a search of former President Donald Trump's Florida home, according to newly released court papers. | Read more|
Amnesty International is against putting Ukrainian POWs on trial for alleged war crimes, insisting that Russia and Donbass are in no position to do so. | Read more|
Two days after a 16-year-old girl was shot at by three men in Delhi, the police have arrested two of her attackers. | Read more|
The Goa Police on Saturday detained an alleged drug peddler and the owner of the beach shack that Haryana BJP leader and actor Sonali Phogat had visited hours before she died. | Read more|
Russia has blocked the adoption of a joint declaration by a United Nations conference on nuclear disarmament. | Read more|
A 15-foot-long and two-foot-wide portion of the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway caved in resulting in a huge sinkhole, prompting officials to launch immediate repair work on it. | Read more|
After much anticipation and a nine-year-long legal battle, the Supertech twin towers of Noida will be reduced to rubble on Sunday (August 28). | Read more|
Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad quit the party today calling out Rahul Gandhi for "immaturity" and for "demolishing the consultative mechanism" in the party. | Read more|
As Europe's energy costs skyrocket, Russia is burning off large amounts of natural gas, according to analysis shared with BBC News. Experts say the gas would previously have been exported to Germany. | Read more|
The Supreme Court on Friday directed that its 2013 judgment by a two-judge bench in the case S Subramaniam Balaji vs State of TN that held that the “state distributing largesse in the form of distribution of colour TVs, laptops, etc. | Read more|
Days before the scheduled arrival of Indian Army Chief, Gen Manoj Pande, to receive the ‘Honorary General’ rank of Nepal Army, Kathmandu has for now stalled the recruitment of Gorkhas in the Indian Army under the ‘Agnipath scheme’, putting a question mark on the future of a practice that began 75 years ago. | Read more|
Twitter founder and former chief executive Jack Dorsey tweeted Thursday that he regrets the social media platform became a company. | Read more|
The Supreme Court today dismissed a plea challenging the Allahabad High Court judgement in a matter pertaining to the alleged hate speech of 2007 involving Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. | Read more|
Late BJP leader and actor Sonali Phogat's brother Rinku Dhaka, on Friday, dismissed allegations against Haryana MLA Gopal Kanda's involvement in the former's death. | Read more|
Two days after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal took a dig at the BJP-led Assam government over its schools merger plan, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma yesterday challenged the Aam Aadmi Party chief with data on new schools in his state. | Read more|