The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted Mumbai businessman Raj Kundra four weeks' protection from arrest in connection with the one of many cases involving allegations of shooting and streaming pornographic content. The top court also issued notice to the Maharashtra government. | Read more|
Three Jammu and Kashmir armed police personnel have died and 11 have been injured after two terrorists attacked a police bus near a police camp at Zewan on the outskirts of Srinagar last evening, police said. | Read more|
The US Navy submarine that stoked international tensions after colliding with an underwater mountain in the South China Sea pulled into the California coast on Sunday, bearing visible surface damage from the crash in October. | Read more|
Prime Minister Narendra Modi conducted a surprise inspection of infrastructure development works in Varanasi, his Lok Sabha constituency, late on Monday night. | Read more|
Moments after being crowned the Miss Universe, India's Harnaaz Sandhu, hardly able to contain her joy, screamed, “Chak de phatte, India. Chak de phatte”. | Read more|
A German court has jailed the team behind the CyberBunker darknet service provider that operated from a Cold War-era NATO bunker, finding them guilty of aiding nearly 250,000 illegal transactions, primarily linked to drug trade. | Read more|
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) in its chargesheet filed in a money laundering case against conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar has stated that actress Jacqueline Fernandez, who was earlier questioned in connection with the case, was not keen on talking to him, so he allegedly called her posing as a high-ranking official fro | Read more|
The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for widening of roads as part of the centre's Char Dham project, agreeing with arguments that wider roads in the area were of strategic importance. | Read more|
A 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Indonesia on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, with monitors briefly warning of the possibility of hazardous tsunami waves before lifting the threat. | Read more|
A video feed of a Taiwanese minister was cut during U.S. President Joe Biden's Summit for Democracy last week after a map in her slide presentation showed Taiwan in a different color to China, which claims the island as its own. Sources familiar with the matter told Reuters that Friday's slide show by Taiwanese Digital | Read more|
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today inaugurate the first phase of the Kashi Vishwanath Corridor project, which will connect two iconic landmarks - Kashi Vishwanath temple and Ganga ghats, in his constituency, Varanasi. | Read more|
Days after Governor Mohammed Arif Khan sought to step down from the role of Chancellor of universities citing pressure to do things in “total violation of rules and procedure”, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday said there was no plan to take away these powers from Governor Khan. | Read more|
In a year marked by the devastating second wave of Covid-19, Kerala’s all-cause mortality numbers are likely to touch a record high, with 2021 already recording the highest number of January-June deaths in recent years. | Read more|
A full Chinese invasion of Taiwan with troops landed and ports and airports seized would be very difficult to achieve due to problems China would have in landing and supplying troops, Taiwan's Defence Ministry said in its latest threat assessment. | Read more|
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday warned of a looming "tidal wave" of Omicron, and brought forward a target to give over-18s a booster jab by one month to the end of December. "No-one should be in any doubt: there is a tidal wave of Omicron coming," he said in a televised address, after the country's medical ad | Read more|
India's Harnaaz Sandhu is the new Miss Universe, 21 years after Lara Dutta won the title in 2000. Ms Sandhu represented India today at the 70th Miss Universe 2021, held in Eilat, Israel. The 21-year-old from Punjab claimed the crown edging out Paraguay's Nadia Ferreira and South Africa's Lalela Mswane. | Read more|
Dubai has become the world's first government to turn 100 per cent paperless, the Emirate's Crown Prince, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has announced, pointing at savings of 1.3 billion Dirham (USD 350 million) and 14-million-man hours. | Read more|
Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter account was hacked and restored, Twitter said it had investigated the matter and that it appeared that the account “was not compromised due to any breach of Twitter’s systems”. | Read more|
Singing, dancing and cheering atop their tractor-trolleys, farmers on Saturday began their journey home from Delhi borders after dismantling their tents and other structures at the end of a year-long sit-in protest against the agri laws. They were given a rousing welcome with sweets, garlands, bhangra and langars in th | Read more|
US President Joe Biden on Saturday said he told Russian President Vladimir Putin that Russia would pay “a terrible price” and face devastating economic consequences if it invaded Ukraine. Biden told reporters the possibility of sending US ground combat troops to Ukraine in the event of a Russian invasion was “nev | Read more|
The Congress in Rajasthan is set to hold a massive rally - featuring senior leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and Chief Ministers from all party-ruled states - to target the centre over inflation and skyrocketing prices of essential commodities, including vegetables and fuel. The rally is to | Read more|
The bodies of 10 remaining victims of the IAF chopper crash near Coonoor were identified and the last rites of five of them were conducted on Saturday at their native places with appropriate military honour. | Read more|
Omicron, a new Covid variant said to be "highly transmissible", has spread to at least 59 countries. In India, as the new variant sparks fresh worry over a third wave, WHO Regional Director for South East Asia, Dr Poonam Khetrapal, says, "A new variant doesn't mean that things will be worse, but definitely, they will b | Read more|
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday lauded the efforts of the BJP government in the state saying that the development work went ahead in Ahmedabad even during the time of coronavirus pandemic. He was addressing on the occasion of inauguration and completion of ₹ 363 crore development projects including a train | Read more|
Amazon chief Jeff Bezos said he was "heartbroken" Saturday after at least six people were killed at an Amazon warehouse in the US state of Illinois when it was struck by a tornado. "The news from Edwardsville is tragic," Bezos tweeted about the town where the facility was located. | Read more|
Farmers camping at Delhi's Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders will take out a victory march today as they return to their villages in Punjab and Haryana after a 15-month agitation that forced the centre to withdraw three contentious farm laws. | Read more|
Omicron Scare: The traveller had also visited South Africa, one of the countries affected by the new variant said to be more infectious. | Read more|
Muslims should not offer Friday prayers in open spaces in Gurgaon, Haryana Chief Minister ML Khattar said on Friday, withdrawing an earlier agreement - reached after clashes with members of the Hindu community in 2018 - that allowed namaz at designated places in the city. | Read more|
On a day when the city reported three new cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant that took Maharashtra's tally to 17 and India's to 32, the police in Mumbai ordered a two-day ban on large gatherings, news agency PTI reported. | Read more|
Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik on Friday night said in a cryptic tweet that he had learnt that some "government guests" were going to pay him visit soon. "Friends, I have heard that government guests will come to my home today or tomorrow, I welcome them," the NCP leader tweeted in Hindi. | Read more|
China branded US democracy a "weapon of mass destruction" on Saturday, following the US-organised Summit for Democracy which aimed to shore up like-minded allies in the face of autocratic regimes. | Read more|
The coffins of six defence personnel killed in the chopper crash that also claimed the life of Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat will reach their homes today. Thirteen lives were lost in the tragic chopper crash in Tamil Nadu. Such was the severity of the crash that only three bodies could be initially identif | Read more|
Twitter recently announced that it will no longer allow “the sharing of private media, such as images or videos of private individuals without their consent”. The move takes effect through an expansion of the social media platform's private information and media policy. | Read more|
CDS Bipin Rawat Funeral Updates: Hundreds of people have gathered outside the residence of Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat in Delhi to pay their last respects. General Rawat, the nation’s most senior military officer, was killed, along with his wife and 11 armed forces personnel, in an Indian Air Force (IA | Read more|
Every single week between October and May, for years, Phonei, 29, and Mary, 18, have followed the same routine. To the mine on Monday, back on Saturday, at Church service on Sunday. Often, they go down the same route where six of their colleagues were shot dead by the Army on December 4. | Read more|