Warning: This article contains details of violent death that some readers may find distressing One of India's most shocking incidents of anti-Christian violence is back in the news more than a quarter of a century after it drew condemnation from around the world
After a record 250 days at sea without a port stop, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has docked in Thailand, giving its nearly 5,000 crew members a much-needed break. The ship is docking close to the beach resort of Pattaya
The Allahabad High Court quashed the preventive detention of 25-year-old Aakriti Chaudhary under the National Security Act. The Delhi University graduate has been in jail for nearly five months in connection with the workers’ protest in Noida
The trust that administers the Ram temple in Ayodhya on Wednesday named retired Air Marshal Jeetendra Mishra as its first chief executive officer. Jeetendra Mishra commanded the Air Force’s Western Air Command during Operation Sindoor, the military operation against Pakistan-based terrorist bases
On August 26, Samar Bezbaruah was preparing for a regular day. He had left his home in Assam’s Nalbari district seven months earlier to work in Nepal’s 216-MW Upper Trishuli-1 hydropower project. That morning, he walked into the project’s tunnel with a group of 20 others to begin the day’s
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