Piyush Desai, Chairman of the Wagh Bakri Tea Group and a prominent figure in India’s tea industry, passed away in Ahmedabad on Wednesday, September 16, 2026. His death marks the loss of one of the key business leaders associated with the growth and modern expansion of one of India’s best-known tea brands. Desai was widely...
Saudi Arabia said its air defence forces intercepted and destroyed a drone south of Mecca before it could enter the restricted airspace over Islam’s holiest city, amid a sharp escalation in attacks involving Yemen’s Houthi movement and growing security concerns across the region. The incident took place on Tuesday evening, according to Saudi authorities. The...
Four people, including a couple and their daughter, were killed after a car collided with a dumper in Rajasthan’s Didwana-Kuchaman district early Wednesday morning, police said. The accident took place in the Nawa area at around 5 am when the family was travelling from Jaipur towards Nawa. The crash was reportedly severe, leaving the front...
Four members of the Kuki-Zo community were killed in two separate suspected militant attacks in Manipur on Sunday, September 13, according to Kuki-Zo community organisations. The incidents were reported from Tollen village in Tamenglong district and Longpi village in Noney district, raising fresh concerns over the continuing violence in the northeastern state. Officials confirmed that...
Authorities have restricted traffic movement on the newly opened Porvorim elevated corridor in Goa after a series of mishaps, including a car crash that killed two people, raised concerns about traffic management and the design of the corridor’s southern entry and exit. The 5.15-kilometre elevated corridor was inaugurated on Wednesday and opened to traffic on...
The death toll from a devastating ferry fire in the Philippines has risen to 35, after rescue teams recovered 30 additional bodies from the burned-out vessel off the coast of Palawan. Authorities said 54 people remain missing, while 43 survivors have been accounted for. The disaster occurred on Wednesday night aboard the MV June Aster,...
Senior Congress leader and socialist thinker Ratnakar Mahajan died in Pune at the age of 80, bringing an end to a political career that spanned several decades and major phases of Maharashtra’s political history. Mahajan died late on Friday, and his final rites are scheduled to be conducted at the Vaikunth crematorium in Pune on...
The death toll in the suspected toxic liquor tragedy in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar district has continued to rise, deepening concerns over the circulation of spurious alcohol and exposing serious questions about the illegal liquor supply chain operating in the region. The latest deaths were reported after victims who had allegedly consumed illicit liquor in villages...
India has strongly condemned the recent Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, warning that the escalation poses a serious threat to regional peace, maritime security and the stability of critical energy and trade routes. The latest attacks, carried out by Yemen-based Houthi forces using missiles and drones, targeted several locations in southern Saudi Arabia, including areas...
Asian News International (ANI) has approached the Delhi High Court’s Division Bench challenging a single-judge order that denied the news agency interim relief in its copyright infringement case against OpenAI, intensifying a significant legal dispute over the use of copyrighted news material for artificial intelligence training. The appeal marks another important stage in a case...