Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's burial in Mashhad will link Iran's supreme leadership to his birthplace and the Imam Reza shrine. The move will highlight religious continuity and deepen Mashhad's place in the republic's symbolic order.
A four-year-old boy, Nirvair Singh, died after falling into an abandoned borewell in Ambala despite a 21-hour rescue. The tragedy has revived memories of Prince's 2006 rescue and renewed scrutiny of India's failure to seal unsafe borewells.
Recent fires in Lucknow, Delhi and Indore have raised questions about whether smart locks and sealed exits trapped residents inside. The cases have sharpened concern that security systems without fail-safe evacuation measures can become hazards in emergencies.
From Karbala's sacrifice to modern warfare, martyrdom remains Iran's source of strength and resistance amid the ongoing war with Israel and the US.
In the US–Iran confrontation, the contest over perception has become central. Both sides use public threats, political messaging, and media narratives to project strength and influence decision-making in Washington, Tehran, and across West Asia.
While Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader who was killed in US-Israeli strikes wasn't seen as a champion of rights by many, Shia women who came to Delhi's Karbala to mourn his death brought a different perspective. They said the loss felt deeply personal.
Shia Muslims gathered in large numbers at the Babul Ilm mosque in Okhla Vihar, southeast Delhi, on Sunday morning to mourn the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose death was confirmed by Iranian state media.
2005 Delhi serial blast victim's children had a narrow escape after their car crossed the Red Fort road minutes before the blast. The siblings were returning from the LIC office in Geeta colony.
Lawrence Bishnoi cloaks his gang's violence in the garb of justice and moral vigilantism. Lodged in Ahmedabad's Sabarmati jail, the gangster and his network portray themselves as self-appointed avengers like defenders of wildlife, workers' rights, and justice, while unleashing extortion, shootings and assassinations. This not only builds Bishnoi's image but also sows fear.
The Jaisalmer bus fire, which killed 21 people, exposes why India's buses are deathtraps. The reasons are plenty. While flammable interiors, faulty retrofits, trigger spark, jammed exit doors, overcrowding and lax safety norms make burning buses a deadly trap for passengers. Recurring tragedies, like in Maharashtra's Buldhana which killed 25, one in Nashik, claimed 12 lives, demand urgent safety reforms.
He was the man behind Bollywood's best hair, and now, one of the accused in Uttar Pradesh's biggest crypto scams. This is how celebrity hairstylist Jawed Habib, once a symbol of glamour and success, became the face of a fake Bitcoin scheme.
Indian organised crime, led by the likes of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, is escalating globally, with recent shootings in Surrey, Canada. Enhanced international cooperation, intelligence-sharing, and extradition agreements are vital to dismantling these syndicates, as they exploit diaspora networks and digital tools to orchestrate violence abroad.
This year, Bihar's migrant workers are facing a tough choice as the state's most important festival, Chhath, culminates over a week before voting for the Bihar Assembly Election on November 6 and 11. This has left migrants, blue and white-collared alike, struggling to cover both the events in a single trip home.
