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Police in the western Indian state of Maharashtra have arrested a teenager suspected of beheading his pregnant older sister. The woman, 19, had married a man without her family’s consent, local police officials said. She was making tea for her ...

Visits by Russian presidents to India always invoke a sense of nostalgia. The Moscow-Delhi relationship dates back to the Cold War era and it has been strong ever since. This “all-weather” partnership is one of the success stories of global ...

New Delhi, 4th Dec. 2021: Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) leaders have expressed concerns over the growing atmosphere of hate against places of worship of minorities in the country and called on the government to roll back other anti-people laws like CAA-NRC, hailing ...

Two men in the southern Indian state of Karnataka have tested positive for the Omicron coronavirus variant. One of them, a 66-year-old South African national, had travelled from there and has already left India, officials said. The second – a ...

Arif Khan made it look easy as he slalomed downhill on the artificial slopes of Ski Dubai recently. That was the moment he became the first, and so far only, Indian athlete to qualify for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, ...

“We don’t have a sense of humour,” quips stand-up comic Sanjay Rajoura, in the opening scene of I Am Offended, a documentary on humour in India. He’s possibly both right and wrong. Indians have a tangled relationship with humour. They ...

As we approach the third year of the pandemic, epidemiologist Chandrakant Lahariya writes about what India should learn from its fight against Covid-19. Anyone travelling through India’s northern states would be forgiven for thinking that the pandemic is over. In ...

The actor, known for her provocative and often inflammatory statements, posted a series of questions on Instagram, also bringing in partition as well as Mahatma Gandhi and alleging that he let Bhagat Singh die and did not support Subhas Chandra ...

Srinagar-Sharjah Flight: Re-routing of flights from Srinagar to the United Arab Emirates (to ensure it doesn’t cross Pakistani airspace) adds over an hour of flying time, raising fuel and ticket costs Pakistan has denied use of its airspace to a ...

India stood out among top emitters, including the U.S. and China, that were being closely watched at the conference. Prime Minister Narendra Modi surprised delegates at the COP26 climate summit with a bold pledge: the world’s third-biggest emitter will reach ...

An airborne brigade, called Shatrujeet, is the centrepiece of the three-day high-altitude combat manoeuvres. The Indian Army on Monday launched airborne drills in eastern Ladakh to validate its rapid response capabilities including the inter-theatre movement of troops and equipment, precision ...

Tension prevails in India’s north-eastern state of Tripura following attacks on mosques and properties owned by Muslims. Security has been tightened and restrictions on gatherings have been enforced in the affected areas. The violence followed clashes between Hindu groups and ...

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s son has been granted bail 26 days after he was arrested for allegedly doing recreational drugs at a party. Aryan Khan, 23, was taken off a cruise ship that was on its way from Mumbai ...

India’s top court has appointed an independent panel to investigate allegations that spyware sold to governments was used to hack phones of MPs, activists and journalists. The Supreme Court’s order followed multiple petitions seeking a probe into allegations of illegal ...