“He is one of the country’s high and mighty…, and he only looks for special girls,” says the narrator. This is a telling excerpt from a two-minute conference call recorded by the 21-year-old victim at the center of the Port Blair job-for-sex scandal before she was summoned to the …

US Vice President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed Monday that “a nuclear war should never be fought” and “understood their opposition to the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine.” Following the meeting, which took place on the sidelines of the G20 summit in …

Kate Middleton is reportedly facing a new crackdown, with Kensington Palace officials refusing to entertain questions about her outfits to divert attention away from what she wears to work. Palace officials used to provide full details of Kate Middleton’s outfits following royal engagements but are now routinely declining requests to …

On Saturday evening, two migrant laborers from Uttar Pradesh were injured in a terrorist attack in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district. Meanwhile, a search for the attackers is underway in the area. The incident occurred in Anantnag’s Rakh Momin area late at night after terrorists whose identities are being investigated fired …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP chief JP Nadda, Union Ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, and Nitin Gadkari have all been named to the party’s list of star campaigners ahead of the Gujarat elections next month. Star campaigners are crowd-pullers for parties whose expenditures on the campaign trail do not exceed …

Authorities said at least six people were killed and five others were injured when a powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck west Nepal early on November 9. The earthquake struck at 2.12 a.m., with its epicenter at Khaptad National Park in the Doti district, according to the National Seismological Centre. Deputy Superintendent …

On Sunday, Punjab recorded 599 farm fires, the lowest number since October 25 and more than four times the number reported the day before. The state reported 2,817 active farm fire events on Saturday, up from 181 on October 25. Strong winds also dispersed the thick layer of smog that …

The death toll from the collapse of a pedestrian bridge over a river in Gujarat, western India, has risen to at least 130 as more accounts of the terrifying moment the structure collapsed emerge. According to local officials, about 400 people were on the Machchu River suspension bridge in Morbi …

Jair Bolsonaro lost the presidential runoff election to Lulu on Monday, becoming the first president to be voted out of office since the 1990s. Because Bolsonaro was defeated at the polls, the electorate re-elected all previous presidents who sought a second term. Fernando Henrique Cardoso won a second four-year term …

On Saturday, world leaders sent condolences to Seoul after at least 149 people were killed in a stampede at a Halloween event in South Korea. In a tweet, US Vice President Joe Biden stated, “Jill and I extend our heartfelt sympathies to the families who have lost loved ones in …