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Mumbai Police Seized Drugs Worth A Massive Rs 814 Crore This Year
- Dec 29, 2025 22:53 pm IST
- Reported by: Paras Harendra Dama
The Mumbai Police's crackdown on the drugs trade this year has broken the back of the mafia. Police data shows that between January 1 and December 21, 2025, narcotics worth more than Rs 814.17 crore have been seized from across the city.
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3 More Districts Come Under VPN Ban in Jammu and Kashmir
- Dec 29, 2025 22:52 pm IST
- Reported by: Nazir Masoodi
The authorities in Jammu and Kashmir have intensified their crackdown on the use of Virtual Private Network or VPN. Citing misuse of VPN services and threat to national security, a ban on VPN has been extended to three more districts.
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IndiGo Raises Pilot Pay Weeks After Mass Flight Cancellations
- Dec 29, 2025 22:18 pm IST
- Reuters
IndiGo has introduced new pilot allowances and raised some existing ones, in a sign India's largest airline is seeking to boost pilot morale weeks after mass flight cancellations linked to poor roster planning left passengers stranded.
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Snowfall Forecast For Himachal Over Next 48 Hours As Tourists Swarm Hills
- Dec 29, 2025 22:09 pm IST
- Asian News International
Tourist destinations across Himachal Pradesh are witnessing a heavy rush ahead of the New Year celebrations, even as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast snowfall and rain in many parts of the state over the next 48 hours.
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Tamil Nadu Congress Chief Criticises 'Debt' Remark, Asserts DMK Alliance
- Dec 29, 2025 22:07 pm IST
- Press Trust of India
Strongly criticising Congress leader Praveen Chakravarty's remarks on Tamil Nadu's debt situation, the party's state president K Selvaperunthagai on Monday clarified that his views don't represent the voice of the Congress party.
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Odisha Man Forces Train Passengers To Chant Slogans, Show Aadhaar. Arrested
- Dec 29, 2025 22:06 pm IST
- Press Trust of India
The Government Railway Police (GRP) arrested a man on charges of assaulting passengers and allegedly forcing them to chant 'Jai Shri Ram' and show their Aadhaar cards at Odisha's Balasore railway station, officials said on Monday.
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"Indians, Not Chinese": Gaurav Gogoi Condemns Tripura Student's Murder
- Dec 29, 2025 22:06 pm IST
- Asian News International
Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi on Monday condemned the brutal killing of Angel Chakma, a student from Tripura, in Dehradun, highlighting the discrimination faced by people from India's Northeast region.
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India Gets 7 New Unicorns: Startups That Became Worth $1 Billion In 2025
- Dec 29, 2025 21:51 pm IST
- Reported by: Raghav Ragi
India added seven new unicorns to its kitty this year. The startups that achieved the valuation of $1 billion in 2025 focus on artificial intelligence (AI), financial technology, consumer goods, and lifestyle.
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Jagannath, Durga, Mahakal: BJP Fumes Over Mamata Banerjee's Temple Projects
- Dec 29, 2025 21:50 pm IST
- Reported by: Sreyashi Dey
- Edited by: Anindita Sanyal
Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced today that Salt Lake, near Kolkata, will host the world's largest Durga Angan -- a gesture to highlight the UNESCO's "cultural heritage" tag for Durga Puja.
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IAS Officer Slaps, Abuses Shopkeeper For Urinating Near Sacred Narmada River
- Dec 29, 2025 21:49 pm IST
- Reported by: Anurag Dwary
An IAS officer Gajendra Nagesh slapped a young man at the Barman sand ghat on the banks of the Narmada River in Narsinghpur district in Madhya Pradesh.
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"Sages Foretold It": Congress MLA Says Shivakumar Will Be Chief Minister By January 9
- Dec 29, 2025 21:24 pm IST
- Indo-Asian News Service
Amid the leadership row within the Congress government in Karnataka, party MLA from Ramanagara Iqbal Hussain, on Monday, reiterated that Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar would become the Chief Minister of the state on January 6 or January 9.
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"We are not Chinese": Plea In Supreme Court After Tripura Student's Murder
- Dec 29, 2025 21:23 pm IST
- Indo-Asian News Service
Following the brutal assault and subsequent death of a Tripura student in Uttarakhand's Dehradun, a public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking urgent judicial intervention.
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Fog, Extreme Cold Or New Year, BSF Does Not Blink: NDTV Ground Report
- Dec 29, 2025 21:09 pm IST
- Reported by: Pradeep Dutta
- Edited by: Debanish Achom
The Border Security Force (BSF), India's first line of defence at border areas where they are deployed, has increased monitoring of the International Border and the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir.
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Video: Tiger Attacks Man In Village Near Bandhavgarh Reserve, Then Sits On Cot
- Dec 29, 2025 21:08 pm IST
- Reported by: Anurag Dwary
A tiger entered a village located in the periphery of the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh on Monday, attacked a man, and later sat on a cot inside a house, forcing residents to flee to the rooftop.
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"No House, No Refunds": Madhya Pradesh Scheme Faces Corruption Charge
- Dec 29, 2025 20:58 pm IST
- Reported by: Anurag Dwary
"Housing for all", a promise that every poor family will one day have a permanent roof over its head. But across large parts of Madhya Pradesh, that promise has collapsed into years of waiting, pointing towards corruption.
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Indian Navy's Engineless Ship INSV Kaundinya Sets Sail To Oman
- Dec 29, 2025 20:45 pm IST
- Asian News International
Indian Naval Sailing Vessel Kaundinya, the Indian Navy's indigenously built traditional stitched sailing vessel, sailed on its maiden overseas voyage from Porbandar, Gujarat, to Muscat, Sultanate of Oman on December 29.
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BJP Councillor's Husband Arrested For Rape After "Threat" Video Goes Viral
- Dec 29, 2025 20:31 pm IST
- Indo-Asian News Service
A BJP Councillor's husband, who was accused of raping a woman at knifepoint, has been arrested, a senior police officer in Madhya Pradesh's Satna district said on Monday.
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Man Assaulted At Delhi Airport Questions Aviation Regulator Over "Silence"
- Dec 29, 2025 20:15 pm IST
- Asian News International
Ten days after the alleged physical assault at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport Terminal 1, passenger Ankit Dewan has raised pointed questions to the airport operator DIAL, the aviation regulator DGCA.