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According to local reports, the concert was scheduled to take place at 9:00 pm on Friday to commemorate a local school's anniversary.

The first day of the fourth Ashes Test in Melbourne saw a 123-year first. Australia collapsed for 152 yet still claimed a 42-run lead over England on the first innings in a remarkable opening day of...

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai on Friday said that the government appealed to the Maoists to abandon the language of violence and gunfire and join the mainstream of development.

Several powerful explosions rocked Kyiv on Saturday, according to an AFP journalist, as authorities warned that the Ukrainian capital was under threat of missile attack.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un highlighted on Saturday how his nation and Russia had shared lood, life and death in the Ukraine war, as he sent President Vladimir Putin new year's greetings.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday that he plans to meet US President Donald Trump in Florida on Sunday, as part of efforts to push forward a peace plan aimed at ending the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, CNN reported.

Christmas under Donald Trump brought air strikes abroad and political threats at home, as the US president used the holiday to project a vision of power rooted less in peace than grievance, even as aides leaned into their Christian faith.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that Russia was using ordinary apartment blocks on the territory of its ally Belarus to attack Ukrainian targets and circumvent Kyiv's defences.

Airlines canceled more than 1,000 US flights during the peak Christmas travel period on Friday, with severe winter storm warnings and heavy snow forecast across parts of the Midwest and northeast.

French police on Friday arrested a man suspected of stabbing three women in the Paris metro as the capital's end-of-year festivities were in full swing, prosecutors told AFP.

A fire broke out in a shop in north Delhi's Chandni Chowk on Friday, prompting authorities to rush five fire tenders to the spot, an official of the Delhi Fire Services said.

Russia has boosted the production of arms and ammunition by 22 times during the course of the Ukraine conflict, President Vladimir Putin said Friday.

India and the United States continue to remain engaged to finalise a mutually beneficial bilateral trade agreement (BTA), the government said on Friday.

After two days of brief relief, the national capital's air quality slipped back into the 'very poor' category at 332, with several monitoring stations recording 'severe' pollution levels.

To curb air pollution, the Delhi government is considering reviving shared rides provided by ride-hailing services that were discontinued during the COVID-19 pandemic, officials said on Friday.

China on Friday opened to traffic a 22.13-km-long tunnel, which it claimed to be the world's longest, in Xinjiang province.

Officials at the Navi Mumbai International Airport say the newly built terminal has clocked impressive passenger figures on the first two days of operations, with nearly 10,000 passengers using the airport.

Two daughters of gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli filed their nomination papers on Friday for the January 15 Mumbai civic polls.

The four-member panel that probed the massive flight disruptions at IndiGo earlier this week has submitted its report to the aviation regulator DGCA, according to a senior official.

Setting the stage for trial, a Delhi court on Friday formally framed charges, including for attempt to murder, against two persons accused of attacking Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta at a public event earlier this year.

The CBI on Friday challenged in the Supreme Court the Delhi High Court order suspending the life sentence and bail to expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the Unnao rape case, officials said.

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti on Friday snapped at a journalist here for asking her to speak in Urdu at a press conference.

Aiming to defuse tensions after days of violence, the Assam government has decided to petition the Gauhati High Court on January 5, seeking clarity on eviction issues linked to alleged encroachments in West Karbi Anglong district.

A Palestinian from the Israeli-occupied West Bank killed a man and a woman in a stabbing and car-ramming attack in northern Israel before he was shot and wounded...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that he would meet US President Donald Trump this weekend to discuss efforts to end Russia's invasion.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar and his uncle Sharad Pawar could not come to an agreement today on whether they should contest the Pune Municipal Corporation election together, sources said.

Taking organ donation and transplantation to a new high, a harvested heart from a brain-dead donor in Tamil Nadu's Thanjavur was airlifted by a special chopper and successfully transplanted into a critically ill patient in Chennai.

A fresh political-religious confrontation has erupted in Chhattisgarh after former Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and spiritual preacher Dhirendra Shastri or Bageshwar Baba traded sharp remarks over superstition and faith.

Beijing imposed sanctions on Friday against 20 US defence-related companies and 10 executives, a week after Washington announced large-scale arms sales to Taiwan.

After two Indian students in Toronto were killed in a span of one week, Canadian journalist Daniel Bordman has highlighted concerns over a culture of anti-India sentiment rising in the country.

The Unnao rape survivor's mother on Friday said she will approach the Supreme Court challenging the suspension of life term of convict Kuldeep Sengar as she participated in a protest outside the Delhi High Court against the last week's verdict.

Panic gripped the Gorakhpur Cooperative Inter College in Uttar Pradesh on Friday after an 11th-grade student was shot dead in broad daylight by unidentified assailants.

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Friday that New Delhi is in touch with local authorities as to what led to the killing of an Indian-origin student near his university campus in Canada earlier this week.

The BJP's long-cherished dream of coming to power in the civic body in Kerala's capital, Thiruvananthapuram, came to fruition on Friday as VV Rajesh took oath as the first mayor from the party.

Abhishek Banerjee held a virtual meeting today with all district leaders and workers of the Trinamool Congress. Office bearers and employees from multiple districts attended the meeting, where Banerjee gave a voice boost.

A video showing a man setting fire to a panchayat office in Madhya Pradesh's Ratlam district has gone viral on social media.

Namrata Purohit has shared a new fitness challenge to end 2025 on a fun note.

Indian cricket's tryst with batting royalty is an old affair. From C.K. Nayudu to Virat Kohli, top-notch batters have graced the Indian cricket scene and wowed the world. In the long list of...

A 25-year-old woman has alleged that she was inappropriately touched and subjected to obscene behaviour by a fellow passenger while travelling on a Namma Metro train in central Bengaluru.

The people of India have given a strong and befitting reply to Pakistan's terrorist masters through its security forces by carrying out a successful investigation of the Pahalgam terrorist attack, Home Minister Amit Shah said Friday.

A writ petition has been filed before the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court seeking directions not to permit the 'Kanthuri' festival at a dargah located atop the Thiruparankundram hill in the district on January 6 over animal sacrifice.

KVS, NVS Recruitment Exam 2025: The examinations will be conducted over two days, with morning and afternoon sessions each day.

Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft AI CEO, warns of huge AI costs and stresses responsible development, sparking debate on AI's future.

Understanding the symptoms associated with this period can help women better navigate this phase and seek medical attention when needed.

IND-W vs SL-W Live Updates, 3rd T20I: Renuka Thakur and Deepti Sharma have triggered a Sri Lankan batting collapse.

A senior police officer sustained minor injuries on Friday after a vehicle in Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's convoy accidentally hit him.

An Israeli reservist soldier with a rifle slung on his back rammed an ATV into a Palestinian man who was praying on the side of a road in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the Israeli military has said.

From stray dogs to executive powers, the Supreme Court delivered some impactful judgments in 2025 that influenced law, governance, and public life across India.

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Hindus in Bangladesh's troubled capital Dhaka in an exclusive conversation with NDTV's Ankit Tyagi, who is at ground zero, narrated the horrors they faced and concerns they have as attacks on them by radical Islamists.