The upcoming track of the COLORS show Mangal Lakshmi will highlight a new chapter in Lakshmi and Kartik's love story. Their bond grows stronger as they face difficult situations together.

It is an end-of-year State Capitol tradition, a lawmaker’s parallel to the tree lighting at Rockefeller Center: a holiday checklist of scores of bills that await Gov. Kathy Hochul’s signature or veto before the new year. The bills, as they typically do, vary in consequence and scope. Ms. Hochul, for example, signed a bill last […]

One can hardly blame people for believing journalists have questionable ethics. The portrayal that is ubiquitous across pop culture isn’t flattering: A striving workaholic who sleeps with a source (“Richard Jewell”). A narcissist willing to put people’s lives on the line to get a story (“Die Hard”). A nosy witch who relies on gossip instead […]

As you may have almost certainly heard, New Jersey has recently become the epicenter of aerial-object obsession, some might say panic. Mysterious drones, or planes, or maybe extraterrestrial spycraft depending on your view, seem to have been lighting up the night sky for the past month, and theories about their purposes and origins abound. “I […]

More than 100 Rohingya refugees from war-torn Myanmar have been rescued while adrift on a fishing trawler off the Indian Ocean island nation by Sri Lanka’s navy, bringing them safely to port. The 102 people, including 25 children, were taken to Sri Lanka’s eastern port of Trincomalee, a navy spokesman said on Friday. “Medical checks […]

A callous hit-and-run driver fatally struck an elderly man on Long Island Wednesday night – then dragged the dying victim to the side of the road before taking off, authorities said. Jeffrey Frank, 74, was crossing Broadway near the Everit Avenue intersection in Hewlett just after 10 p.m. when he was struck by a dark-colored […]

Russian leader Vladimir Putin suggested on Thursday that an experimental “duel” be held between Moscow’s newly unveiled Oreshnik missile and Western-made air defenses. Speaking at his annual press conference, Putin slammed the idea that the Oreshnik could be shot down by anti-missile defenses. “If the experts in the West think so, well, let them come […]

Islamabad, Pakistan – When Hassan Ali fell into the icy waters of the Mediterranean Sea, he thought of his two children – of their smiles, their hugs and his hopes for their future. Then he remembered the others from his small village in Pakistan’s Punjab province who had dreamed of making it to Europe and […]

LONDON — Leaving Israel is easier, Shira Z. Carmel thinks, by saying it’s just for now. But she knows better. For the Israeli-born singer and an increasing number of relatively well-off Israelis, the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack . , thousands of Hamas militants blew past the country’s border defenses, killed 1,200 people and dragged […]

MELBOURNE, Australia — A group of Australian admirers said Friday they’re moved that the victim in France’s notorious drugging-and-rape case has acknowledged her distant supporters Down Under by wearing a scarf adorned with Aboriginal art. The 71-year-old who refused to remain an anonymous victim wore the silk scarf several times during the court process in […]