NEW DELHI: The Centre on Thursday told Supreme Court that normalcy returned in the UT of Ladakh after the detention of climate activist Sonam Wangchuk and the decision to take him into custody proved to be right and justified. Additional solicitor general (ASG) K M Nataraj told a bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and P...

Ranjana Jha, in her complaint to the police, said that she was married to Udit Narayan Jha on December 7, 1984 under Hindu rituals. File | Photo Credit: ANI Bollywood singer Udit Narayan Jha landed in hot water on Thursday (February 12, 2026) after his alleged first wife, Ranjana Jha, recently filed a complaint at...

3 min readNew DelhiFeb 13, 2026 02:30 AM IST Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will be in India for ⁠a state visit from February 18 to 22, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced on Thursday. While President Lula will participate in the AI Impact Summit on February 19-20, he is scheduled to...

IIT Roorkee MBA student Ashish Shukla went missing after slipping into the Ganganahar canal. SDRF, NDRF, Army and police teams continue intensive search operations. A massive search operation is underway for Ashish Shukla, a second-year MBA student at IIT Roorkee, who went missing after reportedly slipping into the Ganganahar canal on February 11. Multiple agencies...

JAMMU: The Centre has made it clear that Ladakh will not be granted Sixth Schedule status or statehood, two key demands of Leh Apex Body (LAB) and Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA), the region’s two major political organisations said after talks in New Delhi last week.The Sixth Schedule of the Constitution allows special administrative arrangements for...

The Ernakulam Rural police have traced 224 missing mobile phones in the past 10 days in a special operation with the assistance of the Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR) portal under the Department of Telecommunications. Of the 224 phones, the North Paravur police found 27, followed by 18 traced by the Aluva police. While the...

3 min readMumbaiFeb 12, 2026 10:29 PM IST In her first response on the cancellation of a discussion involving activist Anand Teltumbde at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival (KGAF) on the orders of the Mumbai Police, festival director Brinda Miller said she was unaware of the controversy until the police reached out to her. Stating...

Punjab’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Narinder Kaur Bharaj on Thursday accused Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini of approaching her under the BJP’s alleged “Operation Lotus” and offering her a ticket from the Sangrur Assembly seat for the 2027 Punjab elections. Addressing the media, Bharaj, a first-time MLA from Sangrur, claimed that Saini contacted...

NEW DELHI: India’s match against Namibia at the ICC T20 World Cup 2026 saw Sanju Samson once again become a talking point on social media, as fans criticised him for failing to make the most of his opportunity.Sanju, who came into the playing XI in place of Abhishek Sharma due to illness, got off to...

A file photo of U.S. firm Anthropic’s logo. | Photo Credit: Reuters A Belagavi-based IT company has filed a civil case against U.S.-based AI major Anthropic PBC, claiming that the latter has violated laws protecting its brand name and online identity. Anthropic Software Private Limited (ASPL), with its office in Bauxite Road in Belagavi, had...