October 2025

New Delhi : The BJP and its allies in the NDA continue their hectic efforts to evolve an effective seat sharing arrangement ahead of the Bihar Assembly elections, the first phase of which gets underway on November 6. On Friday Bharatiya…

Saifai : Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday announced a memorial to honour former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav in Saifai on the third anniversary of his death. Addressing a press conference, Akhilesh Yadav…

New Delhi : Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Chief Arvind Kejriwal on Friday expressed deep anguish over the alleged suicide of Dalit IPS officer Y Puran Kumar from Haryana and said that caste-based harassment drove the officer to take his own life.…

New Delhi : A New Delhi-bound Air India flight from Austria's Vienna was diverted to Dubai due to a suspected technical issue, the airline's spokesperson said. The aircraft landed safely at Dubai, and he flight departed after a delay as it…

Lucknow : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday expressed grief after five people died in Ayodhya following an explosion in a house on Thursday evening. CM Yogi termed the incident "heartbreaking" and prayed for the speedy…

New Delhi : In a significant diplomatic move, India on Friday announced the upgrading of its Technical Mission in Kabul to the status of the Embassy of India. The announcement was made by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar during…

Kabul: Tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan surged dramatically following multiple explosions in Kabul that residents and observers fear were the result of unprovoked cross-border airstrikes. The Afghan capital was shaken as powerful…

New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, who is on an official visit to Australia, visited the historic and strategic naval facility HMAS Kuttabul in Sydney on Friday. Sharing the update in a post on social media platform X, Singh said he…

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday spoke to his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu and congratulated the latter on the progress made under US President Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan. Taking to X, Prime Minister Modi…

New Delhi:) Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Thursday met Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and discussed a range of issues concerning the hill state. The Chief Minister thanked the Finance Minister for the…

New Delhi: Vice President C.P. Radhakrishnan will visit Bihar on October 11 to pay tributes to Bharat Ratna Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan on his birth anniversary at his ancestral village of Sitab Diara in Saran district, an official said…

Manila: An offshore earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 struck Davao Oriental province in Mindanao region of the Philippines on Friday morning, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology reported. In a report, the…

Geneva:The United Nations on Friday strongly condemned a deadly airstrike carried out by Myanmar’s military that killed at least 24 civilians, including children, during a religious festival in Sagaing Region earlier this week. The attack…

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla met with the President of the Australian Senate, Sue Lines on the sidelines of the 68th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference (CPC) in Barbados and discussed the growing strategic partnership between the two…

Washington: The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to "oversee" the Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, US media reported. The task force will "oversee, observe, make sure there are no violations" of the deal, a…

New Delhi: Securitisation volumes in India reached approximately Rs 73,000 crore in the second quarter of current fiscal (Q2 FY26), a report showed on Friday. This reflects a healthy increase from the roughly Rs. 70,000 crores recorded in…

Mumbai: Gold and silver prices rose on the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) on Friday, supported by a weaker US dollar and strong global cues. Steady demand in the spot market also helped keep precious metals firm. On the MCX, gold December…

New Delhi: Indian stock markets opened on a flat note but soon moved higher on Friday, supported by positive global sentiment. The easing of geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and signs of a possible trade deal between the US and…

New Delhi;  In a push for the ‘Vocal for Local’ initiative, the government has underscored the pivotal role of the retail trade sector in the Indian economy, as traders hail the recent GST 2.0 reforms. During the seventh meeting of the…