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Maharashtra woman marries corpse after kin kill man she loved over caste differences

Videos of Aanchal Mamidwars act at the deceased youths house and her call for her family to be hanged for the killing went viral on social media

1 Dec 2025 1:53 pm
Breaking barriers: Chennai auto driver wins Kamla Bhasin Award for gender equality

Trailblazing Chennai auto driver Mohana Sundari chats about her fight for dignity in the transport sector, which led her to winning the Kamla Bhasin Award 2025

1 Dec 2025 1:52 pm
Chennai desperately needs eco-park at Madras Race Club land in Guindy: Madras High Court

Justices S.M. Subramaniam and Mohammed Shaffiq say, experience of Delhiites in the recent past must serve as a warning for residents of Chennai

1 Dec 2025 1:36 pm
India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app

India is one of the world's largest telephone markets, with more than 1.2 billion subscribers, and government figures show the app, launched in January, has helped recover more than 700,000 lost phones, including 50,000 in October alone

1 Dec 2025 1:33 pm
Ustad Shahid Parvez Khans music is powered by his passion for music

At his recent concert, in Delhi, the sitarist hooked the audience with an incredibly precise five note meends, stunning fast taans, elegant gamaks, jhala played in the beenkaar ang, and complex layakaari and more.

1 Dec 2025 1:29 pm
Border 2: Diljit Dosanjh flies an aircraft in new poster from the war-actioner

The film also stars Sunny Deol, Varun Dhawan, Ahan Shetty, Medha Rana, Mona Singh and Sonam Bajwa

1 Dec 2025 1:26 pm
The silent transmission gap: why babies still get HIV even when mothers test negative

Steps such as enforcing repeated testing regulations, improving close follow-ups especially during pregnancy and breastfeeding, and ensuring early infant testing will go a long way toward ensuring that newborns are protected

1 Dec 2025 1:24 pm
Steve Smiths eye-blacks open window into gaps in crickets tech rules

Sport has accepted equipment that offsets some nuisance while usually resisting technologies that would add new capacities; cricket has its own bevy of such prosthetic aids

1 Dec 2025 1:23 pm
Israels Netanyahu seeks pardon in years-long corruption trial

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has formally submitted a pardon request amid ongoing corruption trials, calling the long-running cases tearing the country apart.

1 Dec 2025 1:23 pm
Tamil Nadu government and iVP Semi launch TN 100 Chip Varsity project to build semiconductor talent network

The project has a dual mandate: enabling the development of 100 new chip designs and training 5,000 students in advanced semiconductor design skills annually.

1 Dec 2025 1:21 pm
Bomb threats to Kerala CMs residence, private bank in capital city ahead of Presidents visit

E-mail received by Chief Ministers Office reportedly claimed that RDX explosives have been planted by a group involving LTTE and a Karachi-based Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) cell. Police launch extensive checks

1 Dec 2025 1:17 pm
Kohli credits fitness, feel good factor for India duty preparation

India batting coach Sitanshu Kotak stated that there is no reason to even discuss Kohlis position in the ODI set up

1 Dec 2025 1:15 pm
HSBC taps French start-up Mistral to supercharge generative-AI rollout

Under the pact, HSBC will deploy Mistral's commercial models and future upgrades on a self-hosted basis, combining its internal tech muscle with Mistral's model building

1 Dec 2025 1:13 pm
1 Dec 2025 1:00 pm
Bangladeshs ex-leader Hasina and niece, British lawmaker Tulip Siddiq, found guilty of corruption

A court in Bangladeshs capital sentenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to five years in prison and her niece, British Labour Party lawmaker Tulip Siddiq, to two years for corruption involving a government land project

1 Dec 2025 12:56 pm
Rajya Sabha witnesses heated exchange as Kharge brings up former V-P Dhankhars sudden exit

Kharge brought up the completely unexpected and sudden exit of Jagdeep Dhankhar from the office of the Chair of Rajya Sabha

1 Dec 2025 12:56 pm
ED notices during elections are a political tactic to destabilise Kerala, says M.V. Govindan

CPI(M) Kerala secretary says ED routinely issues notices during every election

1 Dec 2025 12:54 pm
Three BLA militants killed as Pakistani forces foil attack on FC headquarters in Balochistan

The incident took place when the militants attempted to storm the headquarters of Frontier Corps after a suicide bomber detonated himself at the main gate, an official said

1 Dec 2025 12:51 pm
Flooding recovery efforts underway in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand as death tolls rise

The severe weather killed at least 469 people in Indonesia, 162 in Thailand and 334 in Sri Lanka, authorities said

1 Dec 2025 12:47 pm
Test flights for Taiwan's delayed new F-16s to start this month

Taiwan, which faces a rising military threat from Beijing, has complained of repeated delays to weapons ordered from the United States, the Chinese-claimed islands most important international backer and arms supplier

1 Dec 2025 12:41 pm
Police comb fire-ravaged Hong Kong apartments, death toll at 146

Forty still missing in city's worst fire in decades; hundreds moved into temporary housing

1 Dec 2025 12:39 pm
Belagavi to have two solid waste management facilities: PWD Minister Satish Jarkiholi

Minister tells officials to complete all local area development work on time

1 Dec 2025 12:08 pm
Supreme Court to hear plea against forcing Tamil Nadu Anganwadi workers into BLO work under threat of punishment, job loss

Senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan said Anganwadi workers were under severe pressure to attain targets in the distribution of enumeration forms for the SIR

1 Dec 2025 12:06 pm
Thane court acquits all seven accused in cable theft case filed under MCOCA

Special MCOCA court judge V.G. Mohite ruled that the entire chain of evidence suffered from major legal and procedural lapses

1 Dec 2025 11:42 am
Amazon and Google launch multicloud service for faster connectivity

The new service is being unveiled a little over a month after an Amazon Web Services outage on October 20 disrupted thousands of websites worldwide

1 Dec 2025 11:41 am
From opener to No. 4: Ruturaj Gaikwads new role and Indias selection puzzle

The 28-year-old joins a growing list of Indian players being experimented with in untested roles under head coach Gautam Gambhir

1 Dec 2025 11:22 am
ED notice to Kerala CM a joke, says KPCC chief Sunny Joseph

Sunny Joseph says the notice will have same plight as previousones issued by ED against Chief Minister and his son

1 Dec 2025 11:21 am
Mayawati calls for smooth Winter Session of Parliament to address key public issues

In a post on X, the former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister cautioned that, like previous sessions, the Winter Session is expected to witness considerable uproar

1 Dec 2025 11:12 am
Explore the Akkulam Glass Bridge in Thiruvananthapuram for an adrenaline-filled, scenic experience

The Akkulam Glass Bridge was inaugurated in October after nearly a years delay. The structure, 50-metre-long and 2-metre-wide, and suspended above the Akkulam Lake, can support 20 people at a time

1 Dec 2025 11:00 am
Minimum temperature in Delhi settles below normal; air quality deteriorates

The IMD said the maximum temperature is expected to settle around 24 degrees Celsius

1 Dec 2025 10:44 am
India has the power to transform the global AIDS response, but we must act now

India has had laudable achievement in its fight against AIDS, but now it is time to up our game: the country needs to introduce lenacapavir PrEP to help achieve zero new infections, and must also lead global efforts for sustainable, inclusive and multisectoral solutions

1 Dec 2025 10:42 am
All you need to know about licensing of pet dogs and cats in Chennai

The Greater Chennai Corporation has extended the deadline for licensing of pet dogs and cats in the city till December 7

1 Dec 2025 10:26 am
ED issues show-cause notice to Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan in KIIFB masala bond probe

Former Finance Minister T.M. Thomas Isaac and KIIFB Chief Executive Officer K.M. Abraham too receive notices from ED

1 Dec 2025 10:21 am
Mamata to scale up anti-SIR campaign with rallies in Malda, Murshidabad, Cooch Behar

This marks Ms. Banerjee's second phase of anti-SIR mobilisation after her Bongaon rally last week in the refugee-dominated Matua belt

1 Dec 2025 10:17 am
Banks in talks to lend $38 billion to fund sites for OpenAI: Report

Reuters could not immediately verify the report

1 Dec 2025 10:17 am
Hong Kong fire, Hayli Gubbi volcanic ash hinders flight operations, and more: The week in 5 charts

This week, cyclone Ditwah triggered floods and landslides, killing several in Sri Lanka, a volcano in Ethiopia erupted and disrupted flights, a fire tore through a Hong Kong high-rise and more. Here are graphics explaining these and other top stories from this week.

1 Dec 2025 10:13 am
India's Adani seeks up to $5 billion investment in Google data center to join AI boom

In October, Google said it would invest $15 billion over five years to set up an artificial intelligence data centre in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, its biggest investment in India

1 Dec 2025 10:12 am
Databricks in talks to raise capital at $134 billion valuation: Report

The company has increased its sales projections at least twice this year, the Information reported, adding that in September, Databricks revised its sales projection from $3.8 billion to $4 billion, before revising it upward again slightly

1 Dec 2025 10:01 am
Come, follow me: The road signs story

We have been following and following road signs since ages, but are we conscious of the meaning they convey or is it just a passing fancy?

1 Dec 2025 10:00 am
Over 980 booked for drunk driving

Most offenders recorded Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) levels between 35 mg and 200 mg per 100 ml

1 Dec 2025 9:49 am
Kerala local body election: Factionalism, poor candidate selection cost Congress dear in 2020 polls, says Mullappally Ramachandran

Former KPCC chief feels that candidate selection should not be left to the whims of individual leaders. He says differences among top leaders would dampen the spirits of grassroots-level workers and hence they should be resolved at the earliest

1 Dec 2025 9:46 am