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Smelling of liquor, AI pilot detained at Vancouver airport on X’mas eve before operating Delhi flight

File photo NEW DELHI: Getting into the Yuletide spirit could prove expensive for an Air India pilot who was to operate a Vancouver-Delhi (via Vienna) flight on Dec 23, 2025. Read More

New Year 2026: PM Modi greets nation; prays for ‘peace and happiness in society’

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday extended New Year greetings to the nation, praying “for peace, good health and happiness in society” as India welcomed the year 2026. Read More

India saved its tigers. Now big cats are running out of room

A tigress with her cub In early 2025, a motion-sensor camera high on the hills of Purulia district, West Bengal, blinked to life. Read More

‘China’s claim as baseless as Trump’s ceasefire talk’

China’s foreign minister Wang Yi (AP Photo/Andy Wong) NEW DELHI: India has rejected China’s claim of mediation in its conflict with Pakistan, reiterating its stand that the military action was paused following a request Read More

Key Hizbul conspirator gets life term

Representational image GUWAHATI: A special NIA court convicted and sentenced a key accused in a Hizbul Mujahideen terror conspiracy case to life imprisonment, the agency said Wednesday. Read More

Murder charge dropped, alcoholic son gets 6.5-year jail term for mom’s death

Representational image PANAJI: Holding him guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, a sessions court in North Goa handed Sandeep Verlekar, 55, a sentence of 6 years and 6 months in prison for assaulting his aged, bed-rid Read More

Madhya Pradesh HC upholds 20-year RI for man who married survivor

Madhya Pradesh HC BHOPAL/JABALPUR: The Madhya Pradesh high court has refused to interfere with the judgment of a Pocso court in Narmadapuram district awarding 20 years of rigorous imprisonment to a person accused of having sexual re Read More

SC handled 75k cases in 2025; unmatched by any top court

Supreme Court NEW DELHI: CJI Surya Kant has devised four categories of cases to prioritise listing and hearing of petitions filed by socially, physically, and financially disadvantaged people. Read More