Senior India fast bowler Mohammed Siraj on Saturday made a comeback to the ODI side for the three-match home series against New Zealand while Shreyas Iyer was included subject to fitness clearance.

A Muslim rickshaw puller was brutally assaulted and nearly killed by a group of unidentified men in Agartala on January 1 evening. The incident took place near the Gangail Nivedita Club area at around 6.30 pm.

The United States hit Venezuela with a “large-scale strike” early Saturday and said President Nicolas Maduro had been captured and flown out of the country after months of stepped-up pressure by Washington — an extraordinary nighttime operation announced by President Donald Trump on social media hours after the attack.

The Uppinangady police have registered a case against an assistant manager of a Bank of Baroda branch in Perne village of Bantwal taluk for allegedly misappropriating ₹71.41 lakh by manipulating ATM cash deposits.

The Congress on Saturday announced a nationwide 'MGNREGA Bachao Sangram' from January 10 to February 25 to demand the withdrawal of the VB G-RAM-G Act, and restoration of MGNREGA as a rights-based law, the right to work, and the authority of panchayats.

Days before jailed activist Umar Khalid was granted a 14-day bail to attend his sister’s wedding, his father, Syed Qasim Rasool Ilyas, met New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in the United States and discussed Khalid’s prolonged incarceration.

Venezuela's vice president has appeared on state TV to say that the government doesn't know where the president and his wife are after US forces captured them.

Amid growing concerns over incidents of communal polarisation in parts of Uttar Pradesh, a group of Muslim youngsters in Lucknow organised a peaceful outreach by distributing roses and pens to passersby on Friday.