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A 19-year-old man who allegedly planned to carry out a mass shooting at the largest Hindu temple in Illinois has been ordered detained by a judge following his arrest, prosecutors said. Alexandros Paporakis, a Taco Bell cashier from Palatine, Illinois, was arrested by the Mount Prospect and...

Indian equity benchmarks rallied sharply on Thursday, with the Sensex trading 1,177.94 points, or 1.62%, higher at 73,959.83 at noon and the Nifty 50 gaining 338.15 points, or 1.49%, to 22,960.85, according to The Hindu BusinessLine's live market blog. Information technology stocks led the...

Real Madrid produced a remarkable late turnaround to beat AS Roma 4-3 away from home in the Champions League on Wednesday, scoring three times in the final six minutes to spoil Jose Mourinho's return to the Stadio Olimpico, according to News18 with AFP inputs. Mourinho, now in charge of the...

Kriti Sanon is set to headline a yet-to-be-titled large-scale horror film backed by Maddock Films, marking her ninth collaboration with the production house, according to reports. Filmfare, in a separate report, says the project will be directed by Amit Sharma and is already in pre-production...

Hong Kong-based TonoCard has announced that its card-format AI call-screening device will launch on Kickstarter on October 15, 2026, at 7:00 a.m. PDT (10:00 a.m. EDT), the company said in its launch announcement. The 3.2mm-thin Bluetooth accessory attaches to the back of a compatible iOS or...

Cheruvayal Raman, the Padma Shri-winning tribal farmer from Wayanad who devoted his life to preserving traditional rice varieties, died on Wednesday while undergoing treatment at the Kozhikode Medical College Hospital, family sources told PTI. He was 74. Known affectionately as Ramettan, Raman...

The Supreme Court is scheduled on Thursday to hear a joint petition by Opposition leaders, led by Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, challenging the Election Commission's special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The petitioners are seeking full disclosure of the...

Australia will field a new-look lineup for Saturday's second Bledisloe Cup test against New Zealand in Sydney, with coach Les Kiss handing Declan Meredith the flyhalf jersey and uncapped playmaker Harry McLaughlin-Phillips a place on the bench. The changes follow last week's 50-19 thrashing at...

New Delhi: A Delhi court has issued fresh summons to YouTuber Dhruv Rathee in an eight-year-old criminal defamation case filed by Vikas Pandey over a video titled 'BJP IT Cell Part 2', with the influencer now physically served at his residence in Gurugram. The order and the case Judicial...

New Delhi: The Finance Ministry has amended the India-Mauritius tax treaty to curb treaty abuse by introducing a Principal Purpose Test (PPT), a move that will allow tax authorities to deny treaty benefits where obtaining them was one of the principal purposes of a transaction or arrangement...

Raipur: Newly appointed captain Smriti Mandhana said on Wednesday that India may have won the ODI World Cup recently, but the team still needs to work hard in the shortest format, with the inaugural edition of the Women's Champions Trophy set to be held early next year. A new leadership chapter...

Mumbai: Salman Khan revisited his past fallout with Shah Rukh Khan during his appearance on Koffee With Karan Season 9, suggesting that host Karan Johar may have felt nervous around him because of the 2008 rift between the two superstars. Karan, who opened the conversation by admitting that...

Bengaluru: Speciality chemical manufacturing startup Scimplify has raised $25 million (around Rs 238 crore) in a funding round led by Hitachi Ventures, the venture capital arm of Japan's Hitachi Group, as the company expands its research, processing and manufacturing capabilities across rare...

New Delhi: Around 267 Indian nationals have joined the Russian armed forces, of whom 51 have reportedly died and 139 have been discharged, according to a status report submitted by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). The report, filed on October 12, says the Indian government and the Indian...

Ukraine on Wednesday accused the United States of helping Russia by withholding advance warning of incoming missile strikes and hobbling Kyiv's battlefield communications, as heavy overnight Russian strikes killed at least six people and cut power across large parts of the capital. The strikes...

HDB Financial Services on Wednesday reported a 34 per cent year-on-year jump in net profit to Rs 780 crore for the July-September quarter of FY27, lifted by stronger net interest income, healthy loan growth and lower credit costs. The HDFC Bank-promoted NBFC had posted a net profit of Rs 581...

A deadly strike on Saudi Arabia over the weekend is forcing a rapid reshuffle of the country's sporting calendar, with FIFA postponing its global esports finals and the Asian Football Confederation signalling it could push the 2027 Asian Cup back to 2028. The strike on Riyadh's international...

Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan are set to share the stage on The Great Indian Kapil Show Season 5, with their joint episode scheduled to stream on Netflix on Saturday, October 17. The Bollywood couple, who have appeared on the comedy show separately in the recent past, will make their first...

Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt on Wednesday to make the case that the fastest way out of the compute shortage is to let artificial intelligence design the chips themselves. The pair, who lead the startup Ricursive Intelligence, argued that a self-improving...

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a ₹53,428 crore outlay for the continuation of the National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) for five years, from 2026-27 to 2030-31. The decision, taken at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Department of Rural Development's...