KIEV: Russia attacked Ukraine with nine drones on Sunday, Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk reported as quoted by media reports.

CHANDIGARH: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal has decided to field formetr MLA Virsa Singh Valtoha from Khadoor Sahib Lok Saha seat, ignoring the claim of ini Jagir Kaur who recently rejoined the party.

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker, S. Kultar Singh Sandhwan, expressed deep sorrow over the unfortunate demise of Senior journalist Mr. Sarabjit Singh Pandher.

BELAGAVI (KARNATAKA): Coming down heavily on Rahul Gandhi over his recent remark that Rajas and Maharajas used to be "land grabbers", Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday accused the Congress leader of playing appeasement politics and forgetting the atrocities committed by the likes of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb who destroyed hundreds of temples.

KOLKATA: BJP national president J. P. Nadda on Sunday launched a blistering attack on the Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal, saying that despite having a woman chief minister, females in the state are most unsafe.

CHANDIGARH: BJP Lok Sabha candidate from Chandigarh, Sanjay Tandon, on Sunday joined the brigade of youngsters on motorcycles to lend a new hue to his campaign.

BERLIN:Germany's Minister of Education and Research, Bettina Stark-Watzinger, has called on universities to scrutinise any joint projects with China in the light of recent arrests over spying allegations.

TEHRAN: The Iranian military on Sunday presented a new attack drone designed to fly into targets and explode, like the kind used by Russia in the war in Ukraine.

NEW DELHI: Undiagnosed immune deficiency is significantly rising among children under the age of five in India, said doctors here on Sunday, as part of the World Primary Immunodeficiency Week.

NEW DELHI: There has been a 27 per cent spike in anti-vaccine posts on X.com (formerly Twitter) after Covid-19 shots were introduced, according to a new study.

SHANGHAI: Ace Indian archer Deepika Kumari bagged a silver medal in the women's individual recurve event at the 2024 Archery World Cup Stage 1 after losing to world no 2 Korean Lim Sih-yeon in the summit clash, here on Sunday.

NEW DELHI:Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made an "unannounced and surprising" visit to Beijing, according to a media report on Sunday.

MUMBAI: Actress Bipasha Basu explained how she confuses everyone by celebrating two anniversaries with her husband, Karan Singh Grover.

MUMBAI: Actor Sonu Sood, who is gearing up for the release of his upcoming film 'Fateh', finally regained access to his WhatsApp after hours of his messaging app being blocked.

NEW DELHI: Markets have a mind of their own and the five trading sessions last week were of a different kind. How markets change colour almost every day, just beats me.

DHAKA: The authorities in Bangladesh have issued another heatwave alert for three more days from Sunday as the South Asian country is facing its longest heatwave in 75 years.

BERLIN: Russia and Ukraine continued to attack each other with drone strikes a day before, according to local authorities on Sunday.

COLOMBO: An Indian firm jointly taking over the management of China-built country's second biggest airport in Hambantota - one of the hotspots of China's controversial Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Sri Lanka - sends a strong signal of Colombo's growing power shift to New Delhi from Beijing.

LUCKNOW: The third phase of elections in Uttar Pradesh will pose a major challenge for the Samajwadi Party since this phase marks a shift from the Jat belt to Yadav land where Yadav-Muslim equations will be on the test.

NEW DELHI: After the resignation of Delhi Congress president Arvinder Singh Lovely, Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit expressed understanding for Lovely's "personal challenges", attributing them to recent developments within the grand old party.

BALLIA (UP): Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate from Ballia Lok Sabha seat, Sanatan Pandey, has been booked for allegedly spreading enmity, hatred and animosity among sections of the society and also threatening the District Election Officer, police said on Sunday.

BELAGAVI (KARNATAKA): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday intensified his attack on the Congress over the wealth redistribution issue and said that the "brother and sister duo" wants to take away people's property, including the 'mangalsutra', which they want to give to their vote bank, adding that he will not let this happen till he is alive.

HYDERABAD: Drugs Control Administration, Telangana, has seized certain Ayurvedic medicines due to misleading advertisements

CHANDIGARH: In a pioneering move, the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Punjab, has introduced a dedicated WhatsApp Channel, 'Chief Electoral Officer, Punjab.'

CHANDIGARH: Senior journalist and former president of the Chandigarh Press Club Sarabjit Pandher passed away at his residence in Mohali on Sunday morning. He was cremated today afternoon. He bravely fought a deadly cancer for almost eight months before breathing his last. He was 58 years old.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court is slated to hear on Monday the petition filed by incarcerated Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal challenging his arrest and subsequent remand by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the excise policy case.

LONDON: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has again refused to rule out a July general election, amid speculation that a disastrous set of local election results for the Tories could force his hand.

CANBERRA: Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has joined nationwide protests calling for an end to violence against women.

JAKARTA: The Ibu volcano on Halmahera Island in the eastern Indonesian province of North Maluku erupted early Sunday, according to the country's Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG).

KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has decried Russian attacks on the country's gas transit system.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: central committee member and Left Democratic Front (LDF) convenor, E.P. Jayarajan said on Sunday that he had met BJP leader Prakash Javadekar for five minutes last year and that some people deliberately raked it up during the election period.

SOLAPUR (MAHARASHTRA):The 15-year-old Madha Lok Sabha constituency in Solapur has been a (undivided) Nationalist Congress Party stronghold which was among the few in the country that overcame the first Bharatiya Janata Party wave in 2014.

BENGALURU: Karnataka's Congress government staged a protest on Sunday in front of Mahatma Gandhi's statue on the premises of the Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru, against the Central government over drought relief.

NEW DELHI: Following Delhi Congress president Arvinder Singh Lovely's resignation, the BJP on Sunday said that once again, evidence of the fractured state of the grand old party has emerged while asserting that the party lacks any mission for the country, and instead is filled with confusion, contradiction and division.

JEREZ: There was hardly a lap without incident as the Spanish GP saw Joan Mir battle through the field, running as high as sixth before recovering to tenth after contact. Marini unharmed after a late fall.

MUMBAI: As actress Samantha Ruth Prabhu celebrates her 37th birthday on Sunday, her 'Kushi' co-star Vijay Deverakonda and close friend Upasana Konidela extended their heartfelt wishes for her good health and happiness.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Three people were killed in separate incidents in Kerala on Sunday.

NEW DELHI: Markets are expected to consolidate in the near term as investors focus on Q4 earnings season.