4 min readUpdated: Mar 25, 2026 11:05 AM IST Bait review: The world never seems to tire of speculating about who will be the next James Bond. The hyper-competent, masculine British spy, created by author Ian Fleming and played by a number of suave stars, remains one of the ultimate symbols of success in showbiz....

In a major strategic move to safeguard the nation’s energy interests amidst escalating tensions in West Asia, the Indian Navy has launched Operation Urja Suraksha. This mission involves the deployment of more than five frontline warships around the critical maritime chokepoint of the Strait of Hormuz. According to exclusive information from top defence sources, the...

The Middle East crisis has stretched to its fourth week and oil prices have finally shown sign of relaxation, cooling off sharply on Wednesday. Fuel prices fell over 5%, giving back some of the gains from the previous session, as hopes of a possible diplomatic breakthrough in the Middle East raised expectations that supply disruptions...

The biggest in Tiruchi district in terms of the size of the electorate, the Srirangam Assembly constituency comprises a diverse mix of urban and rural populace. With a major temple town in its midst and rapid urbanisation of its rural segments, the civic infrastructure in the constituency has been stretched to its limits in recent...

4 min readKolkataMar 25, 2026 06:30 AM IST Exhorting supporters to increase the victory margin of the party candidates, TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, in his first campaign speech after the Assembly elections were announced in West Bengal, told cadres to bring down the BJP’s strength to 50 from 77 in the last Assembly polls....

A man in Rajasthan’s Jhalawar district allegedly killed his wife in November last year, and tried to pass off the killing as an accidental fall from the stairs, police said on Tuesday. The police have arrested the accused husband after forensic investigation of the crime scene and recreation of events pointed towards a murder, they...

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday said no person professing a religion other than Hinduism, Sikhism or Buddhism shall be a member of Scheduled Caste. It held that a person from the Scheduled Caste community lost the status after converting to a religion other than Buddhism and Sikhism and could not invoke Scheduled Castes and...

The Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar), led by G.K. Vasan, has been allocated five seats as part of the AIADMK-led National Democratic Alliance for the Assembly election. The party will contest on the BJP’s ‘Lotus’ symbol in Oddanchathiram, Erode West, Ranipet, Killiyoor, and Kumbakonam. Speaking to The Hindu, Mr. Vasan confirmed that his party had been...

3 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Mar 25, 2026 02:36 AM IST Noida, Ghaziabad and other cities in the National Capital Region (NCR) should appoint nodal officers to address issues, such as discrimination, faced by the people from Northeast: this is what the Union Home Ministry recommended recently at a key meeting,  The Indian Express has learnt. ...

Former Congress President Sonia Gandhi was admitted to Sir Gangaram Hospital in Delhi this evening after she complained of breathlessness and felt unwell. Her children, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, are present at the hospital. Sources indicate that she was taken to the hospital late this evening, though the exact details of her condition...