A 7-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in Namakkal district of Tamil Nadu on Saturday. The incident took place when the girl was playing outside her house. The accused, a 24-year-old construction worker, Manikandan, sexually assaulted her before abandoning her near a bridge. Commuters found the girl crying with blood stains on her clothes. Locals took...

Vice President JD Vance dances with his wife, second lady Usha Vance, at the Marine Ball at the Washington Hilton, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.) In the 19th century, Otto von Bismarck famously observed that politics is “the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next...

CPI(M) polit bureau member Mohammed Salim. File | Photo Credit: Moorthy G. The CPI(M) on Monday (March 9, 2026) demanded that the Election Commission hold the West Bengal Assembly polls in a single phase. After emerging from a meeting with the Election Commission full bench, the party’s West Bengal State Secretary, Mohammed Salim, said that...

When Sanju Samson revealed on Sunday that he had turned to Sachin Tendulkar for guidance ahead of the 2026 T20 World Cup, it offered a reminder of a long-standing pattern in Indian cricket. Across generations, players from both the men’s and women’s games have leaned on Tendulkar’s experience during defining moments of their careers, often...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a one-day visit to poll-bound Kerala on March 11 ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections. The visit comes just days after the Union Cabinet approved the proposal to change the state’s name to ‘Keralam’. PM Modi is expected to take part in three events in Kochi, the state’s...

People stand on the wreckage of destroyed houses that were hit by Israeli airstrikes in Sir al-Gharbiyeh village south Lebanon. (AP photo) Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday alleged that the Israeli military “unlawfully” struck a village in southern Lebanon using shells containing white phosphorus, a controversial incendiary munition.In a report, the rights group said...

Sanju Samson during the victory lap after winning the ICC T20 World Cup at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Sunday | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI The Kerala government will honour cricketer Sanju Samson with a civic reception, recognising his role as the “architect” of India’s march to victory in the T20 World Cup finals...

4 min readMar 9, 2026 11:30 AM IST First published on: Mar 9, 2026 at 11:30 AM IST The US-Israel combined attack on Iran raises a few pertinent questions: Why would small or relatively weaker states be strategic partners with powerful non-Western countries, or join groupings that promise to protect their interests? Is the world...

A passenger on board a Delhi-Goa Akasa Air flight was handed over to authorities after he was caught allegedly smoking a beedi (hand-rolled cigarette) inside the plane washroom, officials said on Sunday. According to a police official, the incident took place on Saturday on flight QP1625 travelling from Delhi to Goa. The accused, identified as...

(ANI photo) NEW DELHI: The Indian embassy in Riyadh on early Monday denied reports of any Indian deaths in an incident where an Iranian “military projectile” hit a residential building in Saudi Arabia’s Al Kharj amid crisis in the Middle East region. However, there was an injury reported to one Indian national.In a post on...