The United States has told India it can soon resume purchases of Venezuelan crude oil, pitching the supply as a replacement as New Delhi moves to sharply reduce imports of Russian oil, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The outreach comes as India pledged to slash Russian crude purchases after Washington raised tariffs...

The Justice Department temporarily removed and republished a file that included a spreadsheet summary of complaints made to the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center, with references to Jeffrey Epstein and Trump, but there was no indication that the tips were verified, according to the document.The complaints were made over an unspecified time frame. Some of...

The State Election Commission had announced the poll schedule for Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samiti elections on January 13. File | Photo Credit: ANI The Maharashtra State Election Commission (SEC) has postponed the Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samiti elections, which will now be held on February 7, instead of February 5.  “As a three-day mourning...

3 min readNew DelhiJan 31, 2026 01:00 AM IST Paediatrician Dr Keerti Kulkarni recently shared the case of a 16-year-old girl whose routine health checkup showed kidney stones. “This is absolutely shocking. Parents brought a 16-year-old with some blood tests done and abdominal ultrasound scans. There were no complaints. They got these tests done as...

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has busted a major interstate drug trafficking syndicate and uncovered a clandestine mephedrone (MD) manufacturing lab in Mysore. Acting on intelligence inputs, an NCB team intercepted a Toyota Fortuner SUV with a Karnataka registration on January 28 at Palsana in Gujarat’s Surat district. A search of the vehicle led to...

PATNA: Dalit villagers in Bihar’s Vaishali lit the pyre of a 91-year-old woman in the middle of a public road after allegedly being prevented from accessing the local cremation ground, sparking tensions and an inquiry.According to villagers and police, the funeral procession of Jhapsi Devi, a resident of Sondho-Vashudeo village in Goraul area, was on...

Representative image | Photo Credit: Getty Images Karnataka is likely to soon have a state-of-the-art Integrated Command Centre exclusively dedicated to powering the Cyber Command Unit (CCU), which houses multiple wings, including cybercrime and cyber security. According to a Home Department source, the CCU has proposed setting up the Karnataka Cyber Command Centre (K4C), with...

3 min readMumbaiJan 30, 2026 10:29 PM IST Amid renewed speculation over a possible merger of the two Nationalist Congress Party factions, leaders of the NCP(SP) on Friday claimed that talks on reunification had been concluded and were awaiting formal announcement, even as the Ajit Pawar-led NCP maintained silence on the issue and declined to...

On this Special Report, host Gaurav Sawant leads a debate regarding Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s remarks on the ‘Miya’ community and illegal Bangladeshi infiltrators. The discussion features BJP spokesperson Radhika Khera, Congress spokesperson Dr. Pooja Tripathi, political analyst Suhas Chakma, and India Today Executive Editor Kaushik Dekha. The panel examines the constitutional validity...

NEW DELHI: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) will hold a meeting of its legislature party on January 31 to name Sunetra Pawar, wife of late deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, as its leader, senior party leader and Maharashtra minister Chhagan Bhujbal said on Friday.Speaking to reporters at the NCP office, Bhujbal said chief minister Devendra...