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No Visas For Indian Businesspersons, Family With Drug Trafficking Links: US
- Sep 18, 2025 17:57 pm IST
- NDTV News Desk
The US has revoked the visas of Indian businesspersons and their family members, and denied subsequent re-applications, based on their involvement in trafficking 'precursors' of fentanyl, the synthetic opiod behind a drugs crisis in that country.
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Private University Student From Tripura Alleges Rape In Assam, 2 Accused From Manipur Detained: Police
- Sep 18, 2025 17:48 pm IST
- Reported by: Ratnadip Choudhury
Two students of a private university in Assam have been detained after a girl student alleged she was raped, a senior police officer told reporters today.
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Kangana Ranaut Meets Flood Victims, Then Tells Them Her Cafe Made Only Rs 50
- Sep 18, 2025 17:47 pm IST
- NDTV News Desk
Actor-turned-politician and BJP MP from Himachal Pradesh's Mandi, Kangana Ranaut, on Thursday expressed her distress over financial losses at her restaurant in Manali when she met residents affected by floods and landslides in Himachal Pradesh.
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Row Over Bhopal BJP MP Alok Sharma's Warning For "Love Jihad At Garba Events"
- Sep 18, 2025 17:21 pm IST
- Reported by: Anurag Dwary
A fresh political controversy erupted in Madhya Pradesh with the Navratri festival around the corner, after the BJP MP from Bhopal, Alok Sharma, issued a warning against the participation of non-Hindus in Garba events, calling them "love jihadis."
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Man, Daughter Killed After Bike Collides With Truck In Maharashtra: Cops
- Sep 18, 2025 17:13 pm IST
- Press Trust of India
A man and his three-year-old daughter were killed on Thursday after their motorcycle collided with a container truck in Bhiwandi in Thane district.
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Secret Marriage, 1 Crore Loan: Missing Odisha Woman Cop Found Murdered
- Sep 18, 2025 17:03 pm IST
- Edited by: Anindita Sanyal
A 25-year-old traffic police constable from Odisha's Bhubaneswar, who went missing early this month, has been found dead. The police have recovered her body from a jungle in Keonjhar district.
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Delhi Zoo's Lone African Elephant Dies At 29, Probe Ordered
- Sep 18, 2025 17:01 pm IST
- Press Trust of India
Shankar, the only African elephant at the Delhi Zoo, has died and an investigation has been ordered to determine the cause of death, officials said on Thursday.
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'Mini India On Moon': Bengaluru Scientists Build Lunar Village Prototypes
- Sep 18, 2025 16:55 pm IST
- Reported by: Pallava Bagla
In a Bengaluru lab, a blueprint of a futuristic Indian lunar village is being built with the help of astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, months after he returned to Earth aboard the Axion-4 mission.
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UK NRI Promised Punjab Man Rs 50 Lakh, Life Abroad To Kill US Woman
- Sep 18, 2025 16:50 pm IST
- Reported by: Gurpreet Singh Chhina
The UK-based NRI who ordered the murder of a 71-year-old US citizen of Indian origin had said he would marry her after meeting her on a matrimonial site and had promised her killer Rs 50 lakh and a new life abroad, police have said.
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Why Tejashwi Yadav Does Not Want Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM In Bihar Alliance
- Sep 18, 2025 16:38 pm IST
- Reported by: Manoranjan Bharti
- Edited by: Saikat Kumar Bose
Last week, MLA and AIMIM's Bihar chief Akhtarul Iman arrived at RJD founder Lalu Prasad Yadav's residence at Patna's Circular Road with a posse of drumbeaters
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Wolf Attacks Kill 2, Injure 9 In UP's Bahraich, Authorities On Alert
- Sep 18, 2025 16:16 pm IST
- Press Trust of India
A wave of alleged wolf attacks has caused panic across a dozen villages in the Bahraich district's Kaisarganj and Mahsi tehsils. In the past 20 days, eleven attacks have left two young girls dead and nine people injured, officials said on Thursday.
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14 Injured, 20 Missing After Landslides In Uttarakhand's Chamoli
- Sep 18, 2025 15:40 pm IST
- Press Trust of India
Fourteen people were feared trapped and 20 were injured as landslides and flooding triggered by heavy rain flattened more than 30 houses in four villages in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand on Thursday.
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"I Respect All Religions": Chief Justice BR Gavai After Deity Remark Row
- Sep 18, 2025 15:31 pm IST
- Reported by: Nupur Dogra
Chief Justice of India BR Gavai on Thursday said that his remarks in the matter concerning the restoration of a Lord Vishnu Idol in Khajuraho are being misportrayed on social media.
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India At Russia-Belarus War Games: What It Means And Why NATO, US Are Uneasy
- Sep 18, 2025 15:23 pm IST
- Written by: Chandrashekar Srinivasan
India's decision to send 65 soldiers to Zapad 2025 - Russian-Belarussian military exercises 'designed to test the two countries' defensive readiness' - has set the West, specifically the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, or NATO, on edge.
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Assam, Meghalaya Taxi Standoff Leaves Several Tourists Stranded
- Sep 18, 2025 15:03 pm IST
- Reported by: Ratnadip Choudhury
Several tourists were left stranded at the Assam and Meghalaya border near Guwahati after taxi operators in Assam banned the entry of vehicles into the state from Meghalaya.
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BJP MP Anil Baluni Narrowly Escapes Landslide In Uttarakhand, Shares Video
- Sep 18, 2025 14:53 pm IST
- Indo-Asian News Service
Garhwal BJP MP Anil Baluni narrowly escaped a landslide on the Badrinath National Highway near Devprayag when heavy debris suddenly flowed in front of his convoy during his visit to inspect disaster-hit areas.
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Lonavala Trip Turns Tragic, 2 Symbiosis Students Die In Pune Highway Crash
- Sep 18, 2025 14:44 pm IST
- NDTV News Desk
A Lonavala trip turned tragic for four students of Pune's Symbiosis International University when two of them died and two others were injured in a road crash on the Mumbai-Bengaluru highway early this morning.
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New Surpanakha In Indore's Dussehra: Sonam Raghuvanshi, Meerut's 'Drum' Killer
- Sep 18, 2025 14:37 pm IST
- Reported by: Anurag Dwary
This Dussehra, Indore will witness an unusual and controversial event that is already sparking debate.
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US May Remove 25% Penal Tariff On India After November 30: Top Official
- Sep 18, 2025 14:28 pm IST
- Asian News International
Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) V Anantha Nageswaran on Thursday expressed optimism that the penal tariff imposed on certain imports will likely be withdrawn after November 30, signalling a potential easing of trade restrictions.
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Amid Rahul Gandhi 'Vote Chori Row', NDTV Accesses '18 Letters In 18 Months' To Poll Body
- Sep 18, 2025 14:26 pm IST
- NDTV News Desk
Rahul Gandhi - in his fiercest takedown of the Election Commission yet, in which he accused the poll body of the mass deletion of voters before the 2023 Karnataka election - said the EC had been sent 18 letters asking for information.