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A nearly three-decade-old case has taken a major turn with the arrest of separatist leader Shakeel Ahmad Bakshi, reviving a long-stalled investigation into a violent 1996 procession at Srinagar's Naaz Crossing.

The mobile phone of a Chinese man who has been detained in Srinagar for violating visa norms and visiting strategic and sensitive areas in Ladakh and Kashmir without permission has been sent for forensic analysis.

US President Donald Trump has warned that he may introduce new tariffs on agricultural imports, especially on rice imports from India and fertiliser from Canada, as trade talks with both countries continue without major progress.

The United States has revoked 85,000 visas across multiple categories this year, a senior State Department official said, describing the action as part of an intensified effort to protect American communities and enforce public-safety standards.

A Brazilian woman with family ties to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will be released from ICE custody while she fights potential deportation, an immigration judge ruled Monday.

Saudi Arabia has taken further steps to relax rules around the sale of alcohol by allowing non-Muslim foreign residents with monthly earnings of 50,000 riyals ($13,300) or more to make purchases, according to people familiar with the matter.

A 52-year-old farmer, waiting in a queue to procure fertiliser, on Monday suffered a heart attack and later died in a village in Tikamgarh district of Madhya Pradesh, officials said.

Many social media users sympathised with the driver, citing the challenges of navigating heavy traffic and long waits.

Six major domestic airlines have employed 13,989 pilots, with Air India and its low-cost arm, Air India Express, having 6,350 and 1,592 pilots respectively and IndiGo having 5,085 cockpit crew, Parliament was informed on Monday.

A former soldier, missing for 15 years, has returned home to his family in Ghartholi village of Himachal Pradesh's Sujanpur district.

Actor-politician Vijay is all set to address his first public meeting in Puducherry on Tuesday, speaking from the rooftop of his campaign bus in what his party, the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam, insists is a standalone gathering and not a roadshow.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer Navdeep Rinwa on Monday said the state has completed 97 per cent of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls as of December 8.

Jimmy Kimmel has extended his contract with Disney-owned ABC for a year, sources said Monday, months after his late-night show was yanked off the air in a confrontation with President Donald Trump's administration.

The Israeli military said on Tuesday that it struck infrastructure belonging to Hezbollah in several areas in southern Lebanon, including what it described as a training compound used by the armed group's Radwan forces.

President Donald Trump says he should get the Nobel Peace Prize for resolving eight conflicts since taking office in January.

President Donald Trump said Monday he had reached an agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping to allow US chip giant Nvidia to export advanced artificial intelligence chips to China.

President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, Alina Habba, resigned Monday as the top federal prosecutor for New Jersey, leaving the job after an appeals court said she had been serving in the post unlawfully.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that Kyiv had no legal or moral right to give up land to Russia in any deal aimed at ending Moscow's nearly four-year invasion.

A director of a care home agency based in south-east England has been jailed for two-and-a-half years after being found guilty of repeatedly employing immigrants from India with no right to work in the UK.

As one Humayun Kabir laid the foundation of a Babri Masjid-style mosque in Murshidabad, while another, 200 km away in Paschim Medinipore's Debra, fielded nearly 200 donation calls meant for his suspended namesake.

The Enforcement Directorate has filed a chargesheet against AAP leader Satyendar Jain and 13 others under the anti-money laundering law in connection with alleged corruption in awarding tenders for Delhi Jal Board sewage treatment plants.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recognised India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI) as the world's largest retail fast-payment system by transaction volume, the Parliament was informed on Monday.

China reacted positively to Putin's visit to India, framing the three countries as an important part of the Global South and saying that sound trilateral ties are conducive to regional and global peace and stability, besides their own interests

India on Monday condemned Pakistan's fresh attacks on Afghanistan that killed several civilians.

Jailed superstar Darshan is facing charges of subjecting co-accused in the fan murder case to mental and physical torture in the Bengaluru Central Prison, where they are currently lodged along with him, sources stated on Monday.

A group of 15 tourists had a narrow escape when the bus they were travelling in caught fire during a safari at Nahargarh Biological Park here, officials said on Monday.

Families of the three men from Assam who died in the Goa nightclub fire on Monday said their children were forced to migrate to the western state due to the lack of livelihood opportunities in their area.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his delight as the 20th session of UNESCO's Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage commenced in India in the national capital on Monday, marking a significant cultural milestone for the country.

The Reserve Bank of India is set to inject liquidity into the banking system through a long-term USD/INR Buy/Sell Swap auction, marking a key move to ease financial conditions at a time when liquidity needs closer attention.

Ten days. 33 surrenders. And for the first time in more than three decades, the Maharashtra-Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh (MMC) special zone, once the toughest Maoist theatre in central India, has shrunk to a single-digit count.

Delhi's air quality remained locked in the 'very poor' category on Monday, with the air quality index (AQI) staying above 300, while forecasts suggest that pollution levels are likely to deteriorate further.

It is shocking that the police are working so negligently in such a heinous and sensitive matter, a Delhi court said on Monday while hearing a case regarding the brutal rape of a four-year-old girl.

A high-level delegation from the office of the US Trade Representative, led by Deputy US Trade Representative Ambassador Rick Switzer, will visit India from December 9-11, 2025.

A two-day Telangana Rising Global Summit was inaugurated Monday by Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, laying out a transformative economic roadmap to make the state a $3 trillion economy by 2047.

Only 52 hotels and 38 clubs of the thousands that exist in the national capital possess fire safety certificates, according to the Delhi Fire Services (DFS).

Plans to airlift Bangladesh's ailing former prime minister Khaleda Zia to London for advanced treatment suffered a fresh setback on Monday after the German air ambulance hired for her travel sought cancellation of its approved landing slot.

Suspended TMC MLA Humayun Kabir on Monday made a U-turn on his earlier stand, saying he would not resign from the West Bengal Assembly, days after laying the foundation stone of a Babri Masjid-style mosque in Murshidabad district.

IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers and COO Isidre Porqueras have filed replies to the show cause notices issued by the aviation safety regulator DGCA over the airline's massive flight disruptions, an airline source said on Monday.

Rating agency Moody's on Monday upgraded the rating of two entities of Adani Green Energy Limited (AGEL) -- AGEL-RG1 and AGEL-RG2 -- to 'Ba1/Stable' from the earlier 'Ba1/Negative'.

President Donald Trump on Sunday claimed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hasn't read a US-authored peace proposal aimed at ending the Russia-Ukraine war.

A Malaysian man who told his wife he was on a business trip with colleagues was discovered stranded with his mistress in Hat Yai.

More than 100 people, including dozens of children, were killed in attacks on a kindergarten in Sudan that continued even as parents and caretakers rushed the wounded to a nearby hospital, the World Health Organization said on Monday.

Three men and a woman were seen pushing a stretcher with a body on it in the dead of night in Bihar's Nawada district.

Smriti Mandhana and Palash Muchhal's wedding was officially called off after several days of speculation.

The Adani Group is setting up a 48-megawatt cutting-edge AI green data centre in Telangana at an outlay of Rs 2,500 crores, said Karan Adani, Managing Director of Adani Ports & SEZ Ltd, on Monday.

The man was seen lighting a cigarette while standing with his back to the beluga pool, despite being in a no-smoking zone.

Bhojpuri star Pawan Singh has allegedly received a threat from unidentified persons claiming to be members of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang who warned him against sharing the stage with actor Salman Khan, leading to a complaint with the Mumbai Police.

A 26-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a quack in front of her child in Jharkhand's Palamu district, police said on Monday.

The two owners of the night club in Goa where 25 people died in a fire left India for Thailand hours after the incident happened on Saturday night, the police said today. Until now the police had been looking for them.

The issue of territory is still the most problematic in discussions on ending the Russia-Ukraine war, an official familiar with the negotiations said, ahead of President Volodymyr Zelensky's meeting with European allies in London