New Delhi: Supreme Court Friday refused to stay the Meghalaya High Court order granting bail to Sonam Raghuvanshi, accused of murdering her husband during their honeymoon in 2025. A bench of Justices MM Sundresh and Sheel Nagu expressed reservations over the high court order but refused to stay it, noting that Raghuvanshi has been released from jail...

Mumbai: Gangster Anmol Bishnoi, who is currently lodged in Delhi's Tihar Jail, has moved a plea before a special court in Mumbai, seeking to surrender in the 2024 Salman Khan residence firing case "in the interest of a fair trial and justice". Anmol, the younger brother of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, was deported from the US in...

Peshawar/Islamabad: At least 40 people, including women and children, were killed when a bus they were travelling in fell into a ravine in northwest Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Friday, officials said. The Peshawar-bound bus departed from Quetta in Balochistan. The accident took place after it reached Dera Ismail Khan district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, officials said. Preliminary investigation...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government has ordered the withholding of salaries of doctors participating in the ongoing agitation and directed authorities to initiate action against contractual medical officers involved in the protest. The Health and Family Welfare Department instructed all government medical colleges, hospitals and Chief District Medical and Public Health Officers (CDMOs-PHOs) to immediately stop the salaries of...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government has sought feedback from public on revised textbooks for class 1-4 within seven days after uploading the corrected digital copies of the books on official websites. The move follows the detection of a large number of factual, typographical, and printing errors in the SCERT-prepared textbooks for Classes 1 to 8, introduced for the 2026-27 academic...

Wellington: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will make his first official visit to New Zealand next week, the country's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced Friday. "I'm delighted to announce Indian Prime Minister @narendramodi will make his first official visit to New Zealand next week," Luxon posted on social media without disclosing the actual date of the visit. Calling...

Mumbai: Superstar Aamir Khan has said his wedding with partner Gauri Spratt will be held at his residence here July 5 and he hopes that they have a good life together. Aamir Thursday evening attended the screening of the upcoming show Pritam and Pedro, which marks the series debut of Rajkumar Hirani, who worked with the superstar...

Sundargada: The family of a teenager who died in a landslide in Odisha's Sundargada district are unable to perform his last rites as the post-mortem examination has not been conducted even after two days due to ongoing 'ceasework' by doctors, an official said Friday. The 18-year-old, a native of Koida area in Sundargada district, allegedly died in...

Dubai: A powerful general who leads Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard emerged from hiding as Tehran prepared Friday for the dayslong funeral for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Photos published online by Iranian state media showed Gen Ahmad Vahidi attending a meeting about the funeral of Khamenei, 86, then sitting alongside his casket as Iran's theocracy...

Bengaluru: Karnataka Police Friday arrested three persons in connection with the stone quarry boulder collapse at Madapattana village in Bengaluru South taluk that claimed the lives of seven workers. The arrested accused have been identified as Panduranga, owner of Sai Ram Crusher; Lokesh, the quarry in-charge; and Raju, the local in-charge. According to police, the three have...