Student organisations, including ABVP, AISA, DSF, SFI, and NSUI, actively mobilised support as students lined up around polling stations, creating a vibrant democratic atmosphere.

US President Donald Trump arrived in Rome on Friday for the funeral of Pope Francis, where he will brush shoulders with an array of world leaders on the unexpected first foreign trip of his second term.

The Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act, 1974 (COFEPOSA), has been invoked against arrested Kannada actress Ranya Rao in connection with a gold smuggling case, sources confirmed on Friday.

The funeral sets off the first of nine days of official Vatican mourning for Francis, who took over following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI in 2013.

Finding a worsening religious and political climate of fear, intolerance, and violence for minorities in Pakistan, US Commission on International Religious Freedom has asked Trump's administration to take strong measures against Islamic Republic.

An Indian-origin man living in New Zealand recently took to LinkedIn to express his frustration over a 52-hour-long chaotic travel experience during his one-week emergency trip to India.

The UNSC has condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir, stressing that those responsible should be held accountable and the sponsors of this eprehensible act of terrorism should be brought to justice.

US President Donald Trump said he has been too busy to buy First Lady Melania a present for her 55th birthday on Saturday, so he is treating her to a romantic dinner on Air Force One instead.

As diplomatic and military tensions between India and Pakistan simmer following Tuesday's deadly terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Iran has stepped forward with a formal offer to mediate between the two countries.

Pakistani troops opened unprovoked fire at Indian posts across the Line of Control for the second night as tensions escalated between the two countries over the massacre of 26 civilians at a tourist hotspot in Jammu and Kashmir.

Emphasising the importance of suspending the Indus Waters Treaty, Union Jal Shakti Minister CR Patil has said India will ensure that not even a drop of water from the Indus river goes to Pakistan.

The United States on Friday abruptly paused the cancellation of student visas issued to international students, according to reports.

The Deputy Chief of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Yaroslav Moskalik, died in a car explosion in Balashikha near Moscow on Friday, TASS reported.

President Donald Trump's administration has abolished the office that runs US climate diplomacy, potentially meaning the world's largest economy will be a no-show at November's COP30 summit in Brazil.

Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal on Friday assured a smooth Amarnath Yatra, which is set to commence on July 3 this year, despite the Pahalgam terror attack.

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U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said Ukraine has not yet signed a deal on rare earth minerals and he hopes it will be signed immediately.

Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Friday led a candle march to protest the Pahalgam terror attack, which claimed 26 lives, and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to give a befitting reply to Pakistan, even if it means merging PoK.

FBI chief Kash Patel finds himself in a spot after hastily posting about a judge's arrest on his social media handle on X. The case in question was about an undocumented migrant who was allegedly evading federal agents who were pursuing him.

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Maharashtra minister Nitesh Rane on Friday said Hindus should ask the religion of shopkeepers before buying anything from them, controversial remarks coming in the backdrop of the Pahalgam terror attack.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Friday said the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) with Pakistan that has been put in abeyance by the Centre in the wake of the Pahalgam attack was the most unfair document to the people of the Union territory.

President Droupadi Murmu on Friday paid homage to Pope Francis at the Basilica of St Peter here.

The terminations, which were made from a database used by universities and the federal government to track foreign students in the US, had caused panic among the affected students.

The civil arm of the NSCN (IM) has asked people not to fall for malicious disinformation after posts on social media and WhatsApp groups alleged the Naga insurgent group set fire to houses in two villages in Manipur's Kamjong district.

At least 8 have been arrested by the Assam Police as part of an intensified crackdown against individuals who have directly or indirectly supported Pakistan after Tuesday's terror attack in J&K's Pahalgam, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.

A man was booked for allegedly cheating a BMC job aspirant who had raised Rs 8 lakh for the purpose by mortgaging his mother's gold jewellery, a Mumbai police official said on Friday.

China exempted some US imports from its steep tariffs in a sign on Friday that the trade war between the two countries could be easing, though China quickly knocked down US President Donald Trump's assertion that negotiations were underway.

Hundreds of tourists stranded in Chungthang in Mangan district of north Sikkim following landslides were rescued on Friday, officials said.

Ask anyone about their experience with monkeys, and they will tell you it wasn't pleasant. All we have heard or known about the creature is that they snatch food items, jump from one tree to another and occasionally even screech and howl at humans.

The terrorists of the Pahalgam attack claim to be Muslims but have acted in a manner that is utterly un-Islamic, Shahi Imam of historic Jama Masjid Syed Ahmed Bukhari said in his address during Friday prayers.

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The International Monetary Fund announced Friday it had reached agreement on a loan program review with Sri Lanka which will make around $344 million available to support the country's economic reforms.

The Economic Offences Unit (EOU) of Bihar Police has arrested Sanjeev Kumar Singh, the alleged mastermind behind the NEET (UG)-2024 paper leak case, from the state capital, officials said on Friday.

Tens of thousands of people flocked to the Vatican Friday for a last glimpse of Pope Francis's open coffin, as world leaders and other guests began arriving for his funeral.

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In an impressive result, 91 out of 94 prisoners who appeared for the Uttar Pradesh Board of Secondary Education's Class 12 examination from different jails across the state have passed the examination.

Images of Sister Genevieve's slight frame, standing in solemn prayer just feet from Pope Francis's body, were beamed around the world.

In a case of medical negligence, a half-a-metre piece of clothing was left behind inside a woman's stomach during a cesarean operation by doctors of a private hospital in Greater Noida in 2023, her family and health officials said.

Indian Bael also known as wood apple is a fruit rich in vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.

A new study by the University of Surrey proposes that time might flow in both forward and backward directions at the quantum level, challenging our traditional understanding of time's arrow.

The EPFO has further simplified the process for transfer of PF account on change of jobs by launching a revamped Form 13 software functionality that will speed up the transfer of funds to the new account, according to an official statement.

The website of the Army Nursing College was hacked by a Pakistan-based hacking group, 'Insane PK'.

Security forces in Manipur arrested seven militants belonging to different banned outfits from Imphal East and Imphal West districts, officials said on Friday.

India can use many options that can affect Pakistan while the Indus Waters Treaty is in abeyance, the former head of the Central Water Commission told NDTV today.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the terror attack in Jammu & Kashmir's Pahalgam was carried out with an intent to divide society and urged the nation to stand united o fight this nasty action and defeat terrorism.

Offering relief to activist Medha Patkar, a Delhi court on Friday ordered her release on furnishing a Probation Bond and payment of Rs one lakh compensation in a defamation case filed in 2001 by Delhi Lt Governor V.K. Saxena.

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Former ISRO chief, Dr K Kasturirangan, the man behind India's maiden mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-1, died in Bengaluru at 84.