SRINAGAR: Inspector Asrar Ahmad Shah called his cousin at 10.50pm on Friday, asking him to wait on the highway so they could drive home to Kupwara together after work. Thirty minutes later, an explosion ripped through Srinagar’s Nowgam police station, killing Asrar and eight others. The victims were police officers, forensic personnel, revenue officials and...

BJP State president Nainar Nagenthran. | Photo Credit: S. Siva Saravanan BJP State president Nainar Nagenthran on Sunday alleged the DMK government in Tamil Nadu failed to retain investments and allowed them to slip out of the State. In a statement, Mr. Nagenthran said a South Korean company, which had planned to invest ₹1,720 crore,...

And then there was just one Indian left standing. From an unprecedented crop of 24 Indians who entered the FIDE World Cup in Goa, just Arjun Erigaisi finds himself in the mix to secure the title, or at least book one of the three spots into the prestigious Candidates tournament. On Sunday, veteran Pentala Harikrishna...

This special report focuses on a major development in a national terror investigation, with the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arresting Aamir Rashid Ali, a resident of Kashmir. The arrest is linked to a ‘highly radicalized’ terror module reportedly active since 2022 and connected to the Faridabad terror case and a recent blast in Delhi. The...

NEW DELHI: Nitish Kumar’s family has dismissed health rumours regarding his father, saying that the Bihar CM was fit enough to take “10 meetings daily”. They also thanked the voters of the state for giving a historic mandate in favour of the National Democratic Alliance.“This is completely false. He takes 10 meetings daily. Would he...

HYDERABAD Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao spoke to officials of the Textiles Ministry on Sunday, and requested them to take a positive decision on problems faced by ginning mills, following increasing pressure from farmers against the new norms in cotton procurement. The new guidelines issued by the Textiles Ministry, particularly in the name of L1...

Veteran Indian Grandmaster Pentala Harikrishna was knocked out of the FIDE Chess World Cup 2025 on Sunday, losing to Mexico’s Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara in the tiebreaks of Round 5 in Goa. With this result, Harikrishna becomes the 23rd Indian elimination, leaving the event’s highest-seeded player, Arjun Erigaisi, as the host nation’s sole representative. Prior...

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Sunday claimed that her party would have won many more seats in the Bihar assembly elections if the polls had been completely free and fair. In a post on X, she congratulated BSP members for ensuring the victory of party candidate Satish Kumar Singh Yadav in the Ramgarh...

NEW DELHI: Tej Pratap Yadav issued an emotionally charged response after his sister Rohini Acharya announced she was quitting politics and severing ties with the Yadav family. In a post shared on his Janshakti Janta Dal party’s Instagram account, Tej Pratap warned those he described as “traitors” and appealed directly to his father, Lalu Prasad...

Image used for representational purposes. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto “A 32-year-old shopkeeper, son of a RSS leader, was shot dead by two unidentified motorcycle-borne assailants in Firozpur district of Punjab,” police said on Sunday (November 16, 2025). “The victim was identified as Naveen Arora (32),” they said. According to the sources, Naveen’s father,...