The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Friday issued a travel advisory after Iran suspended its visa-waiver facility for ordinary Indian passport holders. The suspension takes effect on November 22, 2025, from when Indian nationals will be required to obtain a visa to enter or transit through Iran.The move follows multiple incidents in which Indian...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah, during the 32nd Northern Zonal Council meeting, in Faridabad, Monday, Nov. 17, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday (November 17, 2025) said the culprits of the November 10 Delhi blast will be brought before the country’s judiciary and given the strictest possible punishment. “Under...

India’s goods trade deficit in October surged to a record high of $42 billion as exports plunged 12 per cent against the backdrop of steep US tariffs, and costlier gold imports drove imports to a record level of $76 billion, data released by the Commerce and Industry Ministry showed on Monday. Trade experts said that...

The Aam Aadmi Party on Monday announced the first list of candidates for the upcoming zilla panchayat (District Council) polls in Goa. The polling for the 50 zilla panchayats will take place on December 13, and the party has announced candidates for 14 of them in the first phase. Posting a picture of the names...

NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday arrested another key associate of the terrorist involved in the car blast near Red Fort in New Delhi on November 10. “Active co-conspirator” Jasir Bilal Wani alias Danish, a Kashmir resident, was arrested from Srinagar in Jammu & Kashmir by an NIA team that was in...

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The Election Commission of India on Monday, November 17, 2025, ordered ‘Special Revision’ of electoral rolls in Assam. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Election Commission of India on Monday (November 17, 2025) ordered ‘Special Revision’ of electoral rolls in Assam. According to instructions issued by the poll authority for the chief electoral officer...

Somewhere, in a meeting, someone pitched it. Let’s use artificial intelligence (AI) to make the Mahabharata. And someone else said yes. That’s really the only explanation I have for what was just released. A 100-episode series called Mahabharat: Ek Dharmayudh, powered by AI, described in press releases as India’s first “AI-native entertainment franchise.” That phrase...

Five more bodies have been recovered from the rubble of a stone quarry that collapsed in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra district, taking the death toll to six, an official said on Monday. District Magistrate, Sonbhadra, BN Singh said the bodies were recovered on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday. “One body was recovered in the...

Sourav Ganguly and Gautam Gambhir NEW DELHI: Former India captain Sourav Ganguly has doubled down on his demand for Mohammed Shami’s Test comeback, saying India cannot afford to overlook the veteran pacer after their dramatic 30-run defeat to South Africa at the Eden Gardens. With India’s thin bowling depth exposed and the pitch coming under...