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Tri-Services Exercise (TSE-2025), being conducted by the Indian Navy as the lead service jointly with the Indian Army and Indian Air Force, will commence in early Nov 2025, just months after India conducted Operation Sindoor and targeted terror hotbeds located in Pakistan and PoK following terror attack in Pahalgam on April 22.
Indian PM Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Emerging Science & Technology Innovation Conclave (ESTIC) 2025 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, on Monday, when he is expected to launch the Research Development and Innovation (RDI) Scheme Fund.
With just days to go before Bihar votes, a political slugfest has erupted after visuals of Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav celebrating Halloween with his grandchildren surfaced online.
Former Bihar MLA and controversial strongman Anant Singh, who was recently fielded by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, was arrested early Sunday in connection with the murder of Jan Suraaj supporter Dular Chand Yadav in Mokama.
As campaigning intensified ahead of the first phase of the Bihar Assembly elections, due on November 6, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar—both senior leaders of the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA)—warned voters against the “return of jungle raj” if the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) comes back to power.
An IndiGo flight from Jeddah to Hyderabad was forced to make an emergency diversion to Mumbai on Saturday after receiving a bomb threat referencing a “1984 Madras airport-style blast.”
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday expressed deep anguish over the tragic stampede at the privately run Venkateswara Swamy Temple in Kasibugga, Srikakulam district, which claimed at least 12 lives and left several others injured.
Kerala has become India’s first state to eradicate extreme poverty, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan announced in the Assembly on Saturday amid an opposition boycott.
Amaravati/IBNS: At least 12 devotees died and several injured in a stampede that broke out during a massive rush at Venkateswara Swami Temple in Andhra Pradesh's Tirumala on Saturday, media reports said.
Amaravati/IBNS: An auspicious day soon turned out to be a tragic one as at least 10 Hindu devotees were killed and several injured in a stampede during a massive rush at Venkateswara Swami Temple in Andhra Pradesh's Tirumala on Saturday.
Amaravati/IBNS: At least nine people have been killed at a stampede which broke out during a heavy rush of Hindu devotees at Venkateswara Swami Temple in Andhra Pradesh's Tirumala, media reports said.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday reaffirmed India’s commitment to an open, inclusive, and rules-based Indo-Pacific, free from any form of coercion, as global unease grows over China’s increasing military assertiveness in the region.
Amaravati/IBNS: Several people have died at a stampede which occurred at the Venkateswara Swami Temple in Andhra Pradesh's Srikakulam, media reports said.
Bankim Brahmbhatt, an Indian-origin entrepreneur, has been accused of a "breathtaking" fraud, as the lenders have described, that has left US multinational investment firm BlackRock's private-credit arm and other investors trying to recover a sum of money amounting to over $500 million, media reports said quoting Wall Street Journal.
A fierce political showdown erupted in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday after Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha accused Chief Minister Omar Abdullah of misleading citizens over the restoration of statehood, media reports said.
Amid reports of suicides allegedly linked to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress workers have begun distributing copies of the 2002 electoral roll, the base year for the revision, in North 24 Parganas district.
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has targeted Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal over what it claims is a “2-acre, 7-star mansion” being built for him in Chandigarh’s Sector 2.
Massive protests erupted at Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU) in Haryana's Rohtak, after three women sanitation workers were allegedly compelled by their supervisors to remove their clothes and have their private parts photographed to “prove” they were menstruating, media reports said.
India and China held the 23rd Corps Commander Level Meeting recently, when they shared the view that peace and tranquillity have been maintained in the border areas.
Dr. Constantinos Kombos, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Cyprus, paid an official visit to India recently, when he discussed the entire gamut of the multifaceted bilateral relations, including the implementation of the India-Cyprus Joint Action Plan 2025-2029, with EAM S Jaishankar.
Indian and Australian officials discussed the emerging domestic, regional and international terrorism landscape and exchanged views on a wide range of areas of cooperation in counter terrorism in Canberra recently.
Gandhinagar/IBNS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday repeated his tough stance against infiltration on the National Unity Day saying his government "won't rest until infiltrators are driven out".
New Delhi/IBNS: The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the request of Chief Secretaries of all states and union territories except West Bengal and Telangana to allow them to appear virtually on the stray dogs case, media reports said.
New Delhi/IBNS: In a shocking incident, a journalist working for a prominent news channel was chased by two bike-borne men in Noida Sector 129 while she was returning from office after midnight on Friday, NDTV reported.
The Indian Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday confirmed that 2790 Indians, who were illegally staying in the US, have returned home this year.
An Indian-origin businessman has died following an unprovoked assault in Canada's Edmonton after confronting a stranger who was urinating on his car, local media reported.
Mumbai: Rohit Arya, who held several children hostage at a Mumbai studio on Thursday, was reportedly enraged with the Maharashtra government for allegedly denying him credit and payment for a school improvement project titled “Majhi Shala, Sundar Shala.”
Actor Shah Rukh Khan’s production house Red Chillies Entertainment has dismissed as “wholly misconceived and devoid of merit” the defamation suit filed by IRS officer Sameer Wankhede over the Netflix series The Ba**ds of Bollywood*.
Justice Surya Kant has been appointed as the next Chief Justice of India (CJI) and will assume office on November 24, succeeding Chief Justice BR Gavai, who is set to retire.
New Delhi: The three wings of the Indian Armed Forces—the Army, Navy and Air Force—have come together for the first-ever coordinated exercise, Exercise Trishul, in the western sector, following the success of Operation Sindoor last May.
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