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Stockholm: Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for his contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and his discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the award in Stockholm. The prize money this year is 12...

New Delhi: Assistant Commissioner of Police Vivek Bhagat, who has been accused of sexually harassing a woman journalist during a protest here, has written to the Delhi Police chief requesting that the order assigning him the current duty charge of additional DCP be kept on...

New Delhi: The Patiala House Court has granted regular bail to self-styled influencer Swatantra Bhardwaj, who was arrested in connection with the alleged assault of the father of a minor activist during a protest at Jantar Mantar. The court had earlier, September 15, granted Bhardwaj...

New Delhi: Senior trustees of Sir Dorabji Tata Trust have accused fellow trustees Venu Srinivasan and Vijay Singh of "undermining board resolutions and breaching their fiduciary duties by publicly supporting the listing of Tata Sons", the holding company of the Tata Group, according to a...

Rejinagar (WB): Aam Janata Unnayan Party chief Humayun Kabir was detained Tuesday after a heated argument with police personnel at his party office in West Bengal's Rejinagar, where voting was underway for the Assembly bypoll. Kabir, who had been attacking the police since morning over...

New Delhi: Congress Tuesday alleged that the West Bengal assembly polls were a "text book case of mass manipulation and rigging" which was overseen by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, and asserted that the "puppet" has to go but the "two puppeteers" too have to...

Islamabad: Pakistan and Turkiye have agreed to deploy their military forces in Saudi Arabia under the trilateral defence agreement between the three countries in the wake of Houthi attacks in the Gulf country. The three sides had convened an emergency meeting of the Strategic Political...

London: Bestselling British author Jeffrey Archer, whose career as a politician was derailed by a perjury conviction, has died. He was 86. Archer died "suddenly and peacefully" at his home Monday, a day before the global release of his final novel, "Adam and Eve," publisher...

Kathmandu: Nepal's Home Minister Sudan Gurung is scheduled to visit India next week to participate in the first meeting of the home ministers of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), scheduled for October 13, a senior official has said....

London: A British Airways (BA) flight made a U-turn back to the UK just an hour into its journey from London to Chicago Monday, according to flight tracking data. BA said the flight made a safe landing back at London Heathrow following a "technical issue",...