A dispute between neighbours on Deepavali evening spiralled into an alleged stabbing attack on a 23-year-old man, leading to his death in the Shahbad Dairy area, Outer North Delhi, the police said on Tuesday. The police arrested three persons – Dheeraj, 24, Akash alias Baba, 24, and Tarun, 22 – allegedly involved in the attack... Read More

India’s Virat Kohli walks off after being dismissed by Australia’s Mitchell Starc during the one day international cricket match between Australia and India in Perth Australia, on October 19, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Australia batter Matthew Short believes his team’s pacers will continue to exploit Virat Kohli’s recent weakness outside off stump when India... Read More

KANNUR Health Minister Veena George has said that the government has successfully decentralised healthcare delivery through primary and family health centres, ensuring people-friendly and patient-oriented treatment across the State. She was inaugrating the Janakiya Arogya Kendra in Narath panchayat on Monday. The Minister said family health centres reflected the government’s commitment to providing treatment at... Read More

Rival fronts in Bihar are settling their internal dynamics even as constituents negotiate seat sharing and individual parties choose their candidates for the two-phase Assembly polls, on November 6, 2025 and November 11, 2025. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has had relatively smooth sailing in seat sharing with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the... Read More

Letters to The Editor — October 22, 2025 letters to the editor Toxic air It is intriguing to note that Delhi, of all the cities in India, is always in the news on account of severe air pollution after Deepavali. A friend of mine living in Delhi begs to disagree with this oft-repeated notion about... Read More

The Motor Vehicle department’s act of destroying seized air horns by crushing them with a road roller in various parts of Kochi has triggered a debate on the intention behind the move. The MVD on Monday crushed hundreds of air horns before the media near the Ernakulam KSRTC bus stand, Paravur, and Mattanchery. The MVD... Read More

It is unusual for a player to take the blame for a team’s defeat, as Smriti Mandhana did after India’s loss to England in the Women’s World Cup. A defeat by a small margin, four runs in this case, always sets off speculation on where those runs might have come from in the course of... Read More

The recent order of the Kerala High Court, declaring the disputed Munambam holding as not a Waqf property, has deepened the legal imbroglio rather than offering a lasting solution to the vexed issue. The judgment of a Division Bench of the High Court, which found the actions of the Kerala Waqf Board regarding the Munambam... Read More

With local body elections fast approaching, the reservation of wards for women, Scheduled Castes, and Scheduled Tribes in the Kochi Corporation, Ernakulam district panchayat, and block panchayats has been completed. The reservation of wards in the Kochi Corporation and block panchayats in the district was conducted on October 18, while that for the district panchayat... Read More

At Sankara Nethralaya, doctors handled a total of 25 patients with cracker injuries on Deepavali and the day after. | Photo Credit: File photo Compared with regular days, Tamil Nadu’s 108 emergency response network handled a 48% higher volume of emergencies on Deepavali. Fire/burn injuries recorded on Deepavali marked a nearly 900% jump from the daily average, while assaults increased by... Read More