Highlights: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in ‘near catastrophic car chase' with paparazzi

The Supreme Court on Thursday will pronounce its judgement on a batch of petitions challenging Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra governments' laws allowing the bull-taming sport 'Jallikattu' and bullock cart races.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted anticipatory bail to Indian Youth Congress president Srinivas BV in a sexual harassment case lodged against him in Assam by a Congress functionary who was expelled by the party for anti-party activities.

Six women labourers from Telangana were killed and six others injured in a road accident at a village in Palnadu district of Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday, police said.

Prince Harry, his wife Meghan Markle and her mother were involved in a "near catastrophic" car chase after being followed by paparazzi, Reuters reported quoting Duke of Sussex' spokesperson. The incident happened after the couple attended an awards ceremony in New York.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has issued summons to Sameer Wankhede, former zonal director of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), asking him to appear before it on Thursday in connection with its probe into demand of ₹25 crore bribe from actor Shah Rukh Khan for not framing his son Aryan in a drug case.

Five people died and thousands were evacuated from their homes after heavy rains caused devastation across Italy's northern Emilia Romagna region, while this weekend's Imola Grand Prix was cancelled, officials said Wednesday.

Pakistan's Punjab province interim government gave a 24-hour ultimatum to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to hand over "30-40 terrorists who have taken refuge" in former Prime Minister Imran Khan's Zaman Park residence in Lahore, Geo News reported.

Barely two months after a Gujarat conman was arrested for faking himself as a PMO official in J&K, another fraudster from the Gujarat capital of Ahmedabad was arrested for impersonating as the PA of BJP national president JP Nadda and collecting money from the MLAs promising ministerships in the Shinde-Fadnavis government.

It is near-certain that 2023-2027 will be the warmest five-year period ever recorded, the United Nations warned Wednesday as greenhouse gases and El Nino combine to send temperatures soaring.

Global temperatures are soon set to exceed the more ambitious target set out in the Paris climate accords, with a two-thirds chance that one of the next five years will do so, the UN's World Meteorological Organization said.

The hottest eight years ever recorded were all between 2015 and 2022 -- but temperatures are forecast to increase further as climate change accelerates.

"There is a 98-percent likelihood that at least one of the next five years, and the five-year period as a whole, will be the warmest on record," the WMO said.

More than 15 kg of suspected narcotics was recovered by the Border Security Force (BSF) after it intercepted at least two drone sorties coming into India from Pakistan along the International Border in Punjab, a senior officer said on Wednesday.

People in public life such as politicians, even judges, have to be thick-skinned in this age of social media, the Delhi high court on Wednesday said on Wednesday as the bench started hearing East Delhi member of Parliament Gautam Gambhir’s defamation suit against a Hindi newspaper.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the State of Manipur to file a fresh status report on all the security, relief and rehabilitation efforts made for the people affected by the violence between Meitei and Kuki communities.

A speeding lorry collided with an auto-rickshaw, resulting in the loss of five lives and leaving seven individuals injured. Wednesday in Dachepalle Mandal of Palnadu district, Andhra Pradesh. The police have registered a case and an investigation is underway.

Several passengers on board the Delhi-Sydney Air India flight were injured after the flight encountered severe turbulence mid-air on Tuesday. The injured passengers received medical assistance on arrival at Sydney airport, no passenger was hospitalised. (ANI)

SEBI gets extension of time till August 14 to complete its probe into the Adani-Hindenburg episode. SC also directs the copies of the report submitted by the Justice Sapre panel will be given to the parties in the meantime to enable them assist in further deliberations. Next hearing in July.

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has constituted a three-member fact-finding team to ascertain the causes of widespread violence in Manipur and evaluate its extent.

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has revised revised the dates for Common University Entrance Test for undergraduate admissions or CUET-UG and extended it till June 6 citing larger number of candidates in some cities as the reason.

The second edition of CUET-UG will kick off from May 21. As per the initial plan, the exam was scheduled between May 21 and May 31. However, the agency has now revised the dates.

“In some cities, the count of registered candidates is very large, so the CUET (UG) – 2023 examination will be extended to 01 and 02 June 2023 as well as 05 and 06 June 2023. Moreover, buffer days of 07 and 08 June 2023 are also being kept as reserve days,” the agency said in a notification issued late on Tuesday night.

Supreme Court protects Indian Youth Congress President Srinivas BV from arrest in a case for allegedly outraging modesty of the now expelled Assam youth Congress president. Gauhati HC had earlier this month rejected his anticipatory bail plea.

The West Bengal government has decided to upgrade the security cover of former Indian cricket team captain and ex-BCCI president Sourav Ganguly to Z category, a senior official said.

The decision was taken on Tuesday following the expiry of the tenure of Y category security provided to Ganguly.

"As the security cover of the VVIP expired, a review was done as per the protocol and it was decided to raise Ganguly's security cordon to Z category," he said.

IndiGo inducts its second wide-body B-777 aircraft for Mumbai-Istanbul ahead of summer vacation.

Level 2 fire breaks out in the shanties of a slum near Nargis Dutt Road in Mumbai's Bandra area. 10 fire engines are present on the spot. Dousing operation underway. Two persons got injured and were admitted to Bhabha Hospital, Bandra. Their condition is stable.

Albeit US President Joe Biden has cancelled his bilateral trip to Papua New Guinea and Sydney for Quad meeting due to debt ceiling crisis, the discussion expansion and consolidation of the security grouping is expected to take place between leaders of US, India, Japan, and Australia on the side-lines of this May 19-21 G-7 summit in Hiroshima. Read more

NIA is conducting searches at more than 100 locations in six states-Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, UP, Uttarakhand and MP in terror-narcotics smugglers-gangsters nexus cases.

A Chinese fishing vessel with 39 crew members on board has capsized in the Indian ocean and President Xi Jinping has ordered that all efforts be made to search for survivors, state media reported on Wednesday.

The distant-water fishing vessel "Lupeng Yuanyu 028", owned by Penglai Jinglu Fishery Co Ltd based in Shandong province, capsized early on Tuesday, state-run CCTV reported.

The 39 people on board - 17 Chinese crew members, 17 Indonesians and five from the Philippines - were missing, CCTV said.

The death toll in cyclone-hit Myanmar rose to at least 81 on Tuesday, according to local leaders, officials and state media, reported Dhaka Tribune.

At least 46 people died in the Rakhine state villages of Bu Ma and nearby Khaung Doke Kar, inhabited by the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority.

Thirteen people were killed when a monastery collapsed in a village in Rathedaung township north of Rakhine's capital Sittwe, and a woman died when a building collapsed in a neighbouring village, according to Myanmar state broadcaster MRTV.

"There will be more deaths, as more than a hundred people are missing," said Karlo, the head of Bu Ma village near Sittwe.