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Hundreds of domestic flights of IndiGo were cancelled on Saturday as the massive crisis surrounding the airline entered the fifth day.

On my birthday, I first attended a funeral, and then went to a food festival. Aunty would have had a big laugh. That's the kind of woman she was: prone to hearty laughs, and the warmest hugs.

Long queues, passengers in tears, and repeated flight cancellations created a morning of severe disruption at Ahmedabad's Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport on Saturday, as IndiGo continued to face nationwide operational delays.

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's son, Nishant Kumar, is now poised to enter Bihar politics, with strong indications coming from Sanjay Kumar Jha, the national working president of the JD-U and a close confidant of the Chief Minister.

India's engagement with Russia is not without risks. Its decision to host the summit, nonetheless, and continue its trade ties despite overt disapproval from the West, is a clear exercise of strategic autonomy.

Virat Kohli has lit up the ongoing three-match ODI series against South Africa, smashing back-to-back centuries in the first two matches.

BJP leader Arjun Singh warned Kabir that he would send him to Babur if the legislator went ahead with his plan to lay the foundation stone of a Babri mosque replica.

The project to vilify Jawaharlal Nehru is the main goal of the ruling establishment today, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has said, ripping into the BJP for allegedly trying to erase the first prime minister from the country's history.

Double decker buses are set for return to the roads of Delhi, with the government planning to start one such bus from Pradhanmantri Sanghrahalaya to other iconic locations like National War Memorial and Bharat Mandapam.

Delhi BJP MP Manoj Tiwari said he will propose reducing the juvenile age under the Juvenile Justice Act 2015, to 14 for prosecution against heinous crimes. He plans to propose it by introducing a Private Member's bill in the Lok Sabha.

A disturbing video has emerged from Jammu and Kashmir's Doda, where a man alleged that he was assaulted and wrongfully detained by a police officer.

In view of the surge in passenger demand following widespread flight cancellations, the Indian Railways has deployed 116 additional coaches in 37premium trains operating over 114 enhanced trips across the country.

In 2025, as of November 21, as many as 3,155 Indian nationals have been deported from the US, the government informed Parliament on Friday.

The European Union hit Elon Musk's X with a 120-million-euro ($140-million) fine Friday for breaking its digital rules, sparking an angry reaction from Washington.

US President Donald Trump said he was not attending the draw for the 2026 World Cup to receive a prize, but he got one anyway.

The Devendra Fadnavis-led Mahayuti government in Maharashtra completed one successful year of stable, transparent, and result-oriented governance.

Two police personnel including a sub-inspector and a home guard have been suspended for allegedly dumping an unidentified body in another area during the night, officials said on Friday.

The Pilibhit district administration has sent a detailed report to the Uttar Pradesh Home Department regarding the case of 12 labourers from the district, who are reportedly stranded and facing harassment in Kyrgyzstan, officials said on Friday.

The culinary delight for the Russian President showcased India's rich regional delicacies on a traditional 'thali'.

The UK government has announced sanctions against a British Sikh businessman and a group associated with him in the first use of the country's 'Domestic Counter-Terrorism Regime' to disrupt funding for the pro-Khalistan terrorist group Babbar Khalsa.

A 27-year-old Delhi University law student was allegedly stabbed to death following a quarrel with his relatives in south Delhi's Sangam Vihar on Friday morning, police said.

Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi issued a passenger advisory, assuring that Indigo flight operations are now steadily resuming after the airline fiasco that saw over 1,000 flights cancelled on Friday.

Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday told the Rajya Sabha that the overall punctuality of Indian Railways has significantly increased to 80 per cent which was better than several European countries.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has signaled he intends to support his eldest son, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, as a presidential candidate in the 2026 election, his political party said on Friday, weighing on local financial markets.

A Florida federal judge on Friday cleared the Justice Department to release grand jury transcripts from its sex trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein, which could shed light on the deceased financier's ties to rich and powerful people.

Pakistan and Afghanistan exchanged heavy fire along their border late on Friday, officials from both countries said, amid heightened tensions following failed peace talks earlier this week.

The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to take up the constitutionality of President Donald Trump's order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.

As the BJP intensified its attack on the ruling DMK over what it calls an anti-Hindu stand in the Thirupparankundram lamp lighting controversy, Chief Minister MK Stalin has attempted to turn the spotlight back on the Centre.

Nirav Modi, wanted in India to face fraud and money laundering charges, is forced to share a small prison cell with a shared desk with other inmates without access to most of his legal paperwork, the High Court in London was told on Friday.

One of the two cheetah cubs released into the wild at the Kuno National Park the day before was found dead on Friday, a forest official said.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor introduced a private member's bill in the Lok Sabha on Friday to criminalise marital rape and asserted that India must uphold its constitutional values and move from o means no to only yes means yes.

The Delhi Police has issued a notice to Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar seeking financial and transactional details as part of its probe into the National Herald case, an official said on Friday.

The venue for suspended TMC MLA Humayun Kabir's foundation-stone ceremony for a 'Babri Masjid-style' mosque in West Bengal's Murshidabad on December 6 turned into a massive worksite on Friday, with Saudi clerics expected, food was being prepared.

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia is unlikely to travel to London before Sunday for advanced treatment following delay in her scheduled medical flight.

A private member's bill, which seeks to allow employees not to entertain work-related calls and emails outside work hours, was introduced in Lok Sabha on Friday.

The Trump Administration has positioned India as a critical partner in its newly released National Security Strategy, signalling Washington's intent to deepen cooperation with New Delhi across economic, technological and defence sectors.

A police inspector was burnt alive after his car hit a divider and went up in flames on the outskirts of Annigeri town in Karnataka's Dharwad district

While IndiGo staff at airports are simply overwhelmed and are grappling with thousands of angry travellers, airports have made arrangements to provide comfort to passengers.

Ahead of the 2026 assembly election in Assam, the opposition Congress which is desperately trying to get its act together has come up with a fresh reachout plan to grassroots communities in the state.

Two days after the Supreme Court directed the Centre to do so, a pregnant woman who was deported to Bangladesh despite being an Indian citizen was brought back to the country along with her eight-year-old son.

In a dramatic covert operation stretching across the icy Himalayan border, the Madhya Pradesh State Tiger Strike Force (STSF), in coordination with the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), has arrested an international wildlife trafficker.

Navya wrote in the caption that the beauty of life often lies in the small moments.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor recalled with pride how a word he coined 20 years ago on geopolitical alignments has become truer today.

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday said that Jamaat-e-Islami and Hindutva organisations are irds of the same feather and accused the Congress of joining hands with the Muslim outfit for electoral gains, terming their alliance as suicidal.

The Supreme Court on Friday remarked that temple funds elong to the deity and cannot be used to aid struggling cooperative banks.

The World Book of Records, London, on Friday recognised Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's milestone of having taken oath as chief minister for the 10th time.

Russian President Vladimir Putin attended a dinner hosted in his honour by President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Friday evening.

The researchers found that these dinosaurs walked with a ground-running gait.

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