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India's aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), has suspended four IndiGo flight operations inspectors who oversaw safety and operational compliance of the crisis-hit IndiGo, sources told NDTV on Friday.

A novel vaccine targeting triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), one of the most aggressive and hard-to-treat forms, has shown early promise in a Phase 1 clinical trial.

A massive fire erupted at a bar in Bhubaneswar this morning. Thick plumes of smoke were seen on the top floor of the building that houses the bar, in horrifying visuals from the Satya Vihar area in Odisha's capital this morning.

Meghalaya observes a government holiday to honor Pa Togan Nengminza Sangma, a Garo leader who led the first protest against British colonial forces in 1872.

An Air India flight took off from Ahmedabad airport for London Gatwick Airport and crashed less than a minute later, killing 241 of the 242 people on board and 19 on the ground.

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that families of private doctors and health professionals who lost their lives while performing Covid-19 duties cannot be excluded from the Centre's Rs 50 lakh insurance scheme.

An Indian woman living in Germany plans to return to a Tier 2 city in India after over ten years abroad due to loneliness.

New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) Global air quality rankings cited by various organisations are not conducted by any official authority, the government informed the Parliament on Thursday.

Mark Mitchell, a leading US commentator and pollster, stirred a row after suggesting that major US firms should de-Indianise themselves.

The woman, identified as Vaibhav Chandel - a resident of Mumbai who visited the club on November 1 - alleged that the club's staff spoke rudely, behaved inappropriately, and hit them with rods.

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China will soon start collecting a value-added tax on contraceptive drugs and products for the first time in over three decades, a move aligned with Beijing's effort to get families to have more children after decades of limiting most to one child.

The crash site has been cleared of all the aircraft debris. Only the charred ruins of the building that supported its tail remain, along with a few rusted shells of burned-out cars.

The deportation process of the Luthra brothers, owners of the Goa nightclub where a fire killed 25 people last Sunday, has started. Thai authorities are taking them from Phuket to Bangkok, where they will be handed over to Indian officials.

According to the district collector, the bus was carrying 35 passengers, two drivers, and a cleaner.

The White House said Thursday the high volume of handshakes by President Donald Trump explains the adhesive bandages he has worn on the back of his right hand in recent days.

Three people have been arrested in connection with the assault of a man selling chicken patties near the massive Bhagavad Gita recital in Kolkata on Sunday

The 34-year-old's Terraform Labs created a cryptocurrency called TerraUSD that was marketed as a stablecoin, a token that is pegged to stable assets such as the US dollar to prevent drastic fluctuations.

The MPs say the allegations raise serious questions on impartiality, transparency and secular functioning of the judiciary.

Despite raising the issue with HR, which agreed with the employee's assessment of the situation, no solution had been found between the parties so far.

US strategic bombers joined a fleet of Japanese fighter jets in a joint military exercise meant to demonstrate their military cooperation around Japan's airspace, defense officials said Thursday, as tensions with China escalate.

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), upgrading its initial estimated magnitude of 6.5, also warned that tsunami waves of up to one metre (three feet) could hit the northern Pacific coastline.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday greeted superstar Rajinikanth on his 75th birthday and said his work has consistently set benchmarks.

Many artefacts from India dating back to the British Colonial era are among more than 600 high value items that were stolen during a burglary at a museum in Bristol.

After the United States, Mexico has decided to impose tariffs as high as 50 per cent on the import of select goods from India and other Asian nations that do not have a trade deal with Mexico City.

More than 600 artefacts relating to the history of the British Empire and Commonwealth have been stolen from the collection of Bristol Museum, police said Thursday as they released images of four suspects.

Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin said on Thursday he plans to step down midway through his term after February's parliamentary election, telling Reuters he has felt humiliated by the interim government, led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus.

The Ministry of External Affairs' fact-check unit has dismissed as fake a viral letter purportedly written by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to the French Embassy regarding the Rafale deal.

Eknath Shinde Thursday made a historic announcement in the Legislative Assembly, declaring that a separate regulatory framework will be created to free Mumbai from the pagdi system and to ensure fair and proper redevelopment of pagdi buildings.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would sign an executive order on artificial intelligence that would attempt to preempt a growing number of state laws governing the technology with a national standard.

In a move critics are calling a calculated deflection, the Union government has doubled down on its stance that World Health Organization (WHO) air quality guidelines are merely guidance documents and not enforceable rules.

Lawyers for Tyler Robinson, the accused killer of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, sought on Thursday to limit media access to ensure a fair trial as the 22-year-old man made his first in-person court appearance.

The estate of an 83-year-old Connecticut woman filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the ChatGPT chatbot fueled her son's paranoid delusions and contributed to her murder.

Mumbai Police has arrested a domestic help for allegedly stealing jewellery and diamonds worth Rs 3.57 crore from the house of a 93-year-old woman who lives in Marine Drive area here.

The US imposed sanctions on three nephews of Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro, among others, on Thursday as President Donald Trump looks to inflict further pressure on the South American nation.

OpenAI and its largest financial backer, Microsoft, were sued in California state court on Thursday over claimsthat OpenAI's popular chatbot ChatGPT encouraged a mentally ill man to kill his mother and himself.

The US trade deficit narrowed unexpectedly in September to the smallest since 2020, delayed government data showed Thursday, with imports rising just slightly as President Donald Trump's new tariffs set in.

The email from a US immigration officer presented Kelly and Yerson Vargas with a stark choice: accept deportation to their native Colombia or risk being charged with a crime and separated from their 6-year-old daughter, Maria Paola.

A French mother whose teenage son took his own life is fighting to hold social media platforms accountable, saying their algorithms pushed suicide-related content that sent the 15-year-old into a downward spiral.

Negotiations are progressing well for the trade deal between India and the United States, and substantial discussions have taken place, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Thursday.

A family dispute between a Pakistani Hindu husband-wife duo, each living in two different countries for a long time after their marriage in Pakistan in 2020, has reached the Madhya Pradesh High Court after attempts at reconciliation failed.

Thai leader Anutin Charnvirakul said late Thursday he would like to return power to the people, a known signal in the kingdom that a prime minister intends to dissolve parliament, paving the way for fresh elections.

Following the viral interest in the vegetarian meal served to Russian President Vladimir Putin, another all-vegetarian menu has caught the public's eye. This time, the spread was prepared for a special dinner hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Ivory Coast wants the Trump administration to station US spy planes in the country's north to carry outcross-border operations targeting Al Qaeda-allied jihadists wreaking havoc across the Sahel

Nobel Peace laureate Maria Corina Machado will do her best to return to Venezuela to end the yranny in the country, she said Thursday as she seized the spotlight in Oslo after nearly a year in hiding.

Maria Corina Machado reportedly took three days to make it out of Venezuela and reach Norway, wearing a wig and a disguise, dodging checkpoints and the risk of arrest.

Time magazine named the Architects of AI as its Person of the Year on Thursday, highlighting the US tech titans whose work on cutting-edge artificial intelligence is transforming humanity.

A 7-year-old boy was killed in a leopard attack near the Atila Balaji temple in Ranthambore, Sawai Madhopur, on Thursday.

The Romeo Lane chain of restaurants and clubs, under intense scrutiny after 25 people died in a fire at its Goa nightclub, Birch by Romeo Lane, has a history of complaints and fines for allegedly violating environmental norms in Goa and Uttarakhand.

In a major administrative reboot, the Delhi Cabinet on Wednesday approved redrawing of the Capital's revenue map, expanding the city from 11 to 13 revenue districts.