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Published on: Sept 05, 2025 03:31 pm IST The Indonesian passport seized from the woman identified her as Ni Kadek Sisiani, 51, a resident of Indonesia’s Bali A woman believed to be from Indonesia, who allegedly lived in Mumbai for almost a decade on forged Indian documents, was arrested near the India-Nepal border in West Bengal’s Darjeeling on Thursday. The Sahastra Seema Bal intercepted the woman and handed her over to the police. (HT PHOTO) The border guarding Sahastra Seema Bal (SSB) intercepted her and handed her over to the police . “The woman identified herself as Ninyoman Murni, an…

National Guard Troops stand outside Union Station on Sept. 1, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images A little more than three weeks ago, President Trump placed the Washington, D.C., police under federal control and put the National Guard on the city’s streets to crush crime and “clean up” the nation’s capital. Although crime in D.C. was already in decline after spiking during the pandemic, the administration has cast the operation, which also includes a surge of federal law enforcement officers, as a major success. “We’ve had some incredible results,” Trump said last…

Last year, a record six quarterbacks were taken early in the first round of the NFL draft. Now, those six are striving to make a second-year leap and avoid the dreaded sophomore slump.

The vote comes a week after Paetongtarn Shinawatra was removed from office amid an ethics scandal.Published On 5 Sep 20255 Sep 2025Thailand’s parliament has elected Anutin Charnvirakul, leader of the conservative opposition Bhumjaithai party, as the country’s prime minister.The vote on Friday means Anutin will replace Paetongtarn Shinawatra of the ruling Pheu Thai Party, who was dismissed by the Constitutional Court last month over an ethics scandal.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listAnutin secured victory over Chaikasem Nitisiri, the candidate of the populist Pheu Thai, with the support of the liberal People’s Party.That backing from the largest party in…

Mumbai, The Bombay High Court has directed a woman to return custody of her five-year-old grandson to his biological parents, citing that her emotional bond with the child does not give her a superior right to his custody. Grandmother’s bond with grandchild doesn’t give her right to custody over parents: HC The child was in the care of his paternal grandmother, as his parents had to take care of his twin brother, who is suffering from cerebral palsy. However, due to a dispute over property, the child’s father asked his 74-year-old mother to hand over the custody, and when she…

“I wanted to make a film about the frequent power cut issue in Tamil Nadu 10 or 15 years back, and also speak about the ageing farmers killing themselves in the villages due to the lack of support for agriculture. But these are very serious issues to make a commercial film about, so I decided to reverse engineer a hero’s journey into these two issues, and that led to my film Kaththi”, said A R Murugadoss in an interview promoting his latest action flick Madharaasi with Sudhir Sreenivasan. This is the artistic thesis of A R Murugadoss, the ever dependable…

Iceberg A23a is seen during a British Royal Air Force flight on Nov. 24, 2024, in the South Atlantic Ocean near South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. UK MOD Crown Copyright/via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption UK MOD Crown Copyright/via Getty Images It’s been a long and unusual journey for the world’s largest iceberg, known as A23a, but it’s ending in a relatively usual way: breaking apart and melting in the warmer waters of the South Atlantic Ocean, just like icebergs have done for millions of years before. The iceberg — which at one time was around the…

The last time the mountain ranges encircling Kashmir were meticulously mapped on foot was between 1822-23 by William Moorcroft, a British veterinarian working for the East India Company. Cut to 2025, Mahmood A Shah, a passionate trekker in his early fifties, has become the first local to measure the Great Himalayas and Lesser Himalayas by circumambulating the ranges on foot. His coffee table book, Valleys of Jammu & Kashmir, released in July this year is a peak-by-peak, pass-by-pass, meadow-by-meadow and lake-by-lake account of what is hidden up in the mysterious and imposing mountain ranges of Kashmir.“When I was a school-going…

As a travel writer, I’m often asked how I manage to get everything into a single bag (carry-on-only travelers, unite), and after 51 flights and 238 hours in the air this year alone, I’ve got my packing system down to a science. Whether I’m boarding an overnight international flight or jetting off for a quick weekend assignment, there are a handful of tried-and-true items that always make it into my carry-on. Some are small comforts that keep me sane at 35,000 feet; others are practical tools that streamline security lines, hotel check-ins, and everything in between. From the under-$10 Amazon…

Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran has warned that the additional 25 per cent tariff — taking the total to 50 per cent — imposed by US President Donald Trump on Indian exports will make business conditions extremely challenging and that the ripple effects of this move are expected to be felt in economic growth, particularly in the second and third quarters of the current financial year.At the same time, Nageswaran expressed confidence that the tariff measure would be shortlived and that there would be “certain recalibration happening from the other side” on it, as the “current approach is not…