Four students have been detained by the police in Uttar Pradesh’s Agra for circulating an obscene video of a school teacher and blackmailing her. The teacher, a resident of Agra, taught at a school in Mathura. She gave extra classes to a Class 10 student, who was weak in studies, in Agra. The police said […]

With exit polls predicting a Congress win in Haryana, the focus has moved to who would be the next Chief Minister. Health warning: exit polls often get it wrong. Former Chief Minister and Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda said if it comes to deciding the next Chief Minister, that’s a call the “high command” would […]

Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party, which was hoping to find a toehold in Haryana — the next logical choice after ruling Delhi and Punjab — could fail to open its account in the state, exit polls have indicated. Exit polls, though, can often get it wrong.  AAP had contested on 89 of Haryana’s 90 seats. […]

The potential successor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has been out of contact since Friday, a Lebanese security source told Reuters on Saturday, after an Israeli airstrike that is reported to have targeted him. In its campaign against the Iran-backed Lebanese group, Israel carried out a large strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs late on […]

<p><strong>New Delhi:</strong> A day after India announced that External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will travel to Islamabad to attend a key meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) mid-October, he said he was going to Pakistan for a “multilateral event” and not to discuss Indo-Pak relations.</p> <p>He said this in response to a query during […]