MUMBAI: With the peace plan for West Asia moving ahead-though under clouds of uncertainty-investors around the world are slowly taking bets that the war would end soon. Most markets across the globe moved up, including in India. However, in early trades, the US markets were marginally lower. On Friday, although crude prices hovered around the...

 Leader of the opposition in Haryana, Congress party’s Bhupinder Singh Hooda along with party members at Pipli grain market in Kurukshetra on Friday. A sharp political slugfest erupted in Haryana on Friday (April 10, 2026) over the contentious issue of crop procurement, with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the opposition Congress trading barbs...

3 min readApr 11, 2026 01:25 AM IST Pep Guardiola said on Friday that an inconsistent Manchester City have little room for error in the Premier League title race, despite a reputation for strong late-season finishes that has delivered six titles during his near-decade at the club. City have 61 points from 30 matches and...

A 55-year-old man has been awarded life imprisonment by a special court in Rajasthan’s Tonk district for raping a 20-year-old mentally challenged deaf-and-mute woman with locomotor disabilities. The court has also imposed a fine of Rs 1.25 lakh on the convict. The verdict was delivered by the special SC-ST court of Tonk. The man, named...

School van driver held for Pakistan contacts on phoneJAMMU: Security forces seized a suspected IED-type box containing two grenades in Sunderbani belt of J&K’s Rajouri district Friday, prompting troops to cordon off the area. The recovery came a day after a school van driver was detained in Jammu over three Pakistani contacts on his cellphone.“Locals...

Long queue of voters seen at a polling booth in Vazhamuttom Government High School for the Kerala State assembly elections, in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday | Photo Credit: NIRMAL HARINDRAN Voters in Kerala may have to wait a little longer for updated polling percentage figures from Thursday’s Assembly polls. Election officials said the final data could...

3 min readNew DelhiApr 10, 2026 11:00 PM IST Nature is full of bizarre survival tricks, but some are so extreme that they almost sound unbelievable. One such creature is a frog that literally breaks its bones to defend itself. Meet the Hairy frog—a species found in Central Africa that has one of the strangest...

A two-and-a-half-year-old boy, who fell into a borewell in a village in Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain district, was pulled out on Friday after nearly 23 hours of rescue operation and taken to hospital where he was declared dead upon examination, officials said. The toddler, Bhagirath, slipped into the borewell in Jhalariya village under Badnagar tehsil, about...

Jacksonville Jaguars’ two way star Travis Hunter turns full time cornerback, thereby easing Brian Thomas Jr for 2026 season (Image via Getty: Travis Hunter and Brian Thomas Jr.) The Jacksonville Jaguars drafted wide receiver Brian Thomas Jr. in 2024 as their first-round, 23rd overall pick. He showed magic on the gridiron by clocking impeccable rookie...

District Collector Sumit Kumar interacting with medical and paramedical staff after inaugurating a Community Clinic in Chittoor on Friday. | Photo Credit: HANDOUT District Collector Sumit Kumar inaugurated a Community Clinic at Mittur locality under the Chittoor Municipal Corporation limits, as part of a joint initiative between the Andhra Pradesh government and the Christian Medical...