News Today Live Updates: Get the latest news updates from India and all around the world. Stay updated with breaking news today. India and the European Union have readied a pact on security and defence partnership to be signed Tuesday, the day after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Luis Santos da Costa attend the Republic Day celebrations as chief guests. While von der Leyen reached New Delhi Saturday, Costa arrived Sunday and they were accorded a ceremonial welcome and Guard of Honour to mark the start of the high-profile visit to India. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Sunday said the entity that operated Birch by Romeo Lane, the nightclub in Goa where 25 people were killed in a fire on December 6, generated Rs 22 crore in revenue in the last two fiscal years and that this revenue is suspected to constitute proceeds of crime. Story continues below this ad The fire that gutted a four-storey building at Nampally in Hyderabad on Saturday claimed five lives: Two children …

News Today Live Updates: Get the latest news updates from India and all around the world. Stay updated with breaking news today. A high-level government meeting was held earlier this month to examine and debate possible protocols for the recitation of the national song Vande Mataram, similar to those in place for the national anthem Jana Gana Mana, The Indian Express has learned. The move comes even as the Centre has launched a year-long celebration of Vande Mataram. It forms part of the government’s effort to elevate the song’s standing, something the ruling BJP has accused the Congress of having diminished through appeasement politics and the removal of what it calls important stanzas during the Congress session in 1937. Ahead of the state visit of the European Union leaders from January 25 to 27, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the European Commission Kaja Kallas said Friday that the India-EU Free Trade Agreement is a “strategic choice” and provides a chance to reduce reliance on China, Russia and US. …

News Today Live Updates: Get the latest news updates from India and all around the world. Stay updated with breaking news today. In the first Republic Day parade after Operation Sindoor, India will showcase its military might, including its newly-raised Bhairav light commando battalion and a range of indigenous platforms, in a phased battle array format. This will be the first time that the public will get to see military assets in the sequence they would appear during actual combat. According to a statement, the Ministry of Defence said the Indian Army will be represented by a mounted column of 61 Cavalry and battle array formation. Meanwhile, the Faridabad-based Al Falah University, under the scanner of probe agencies after its three doctors were identified as suspects in the November 10, 2025 explosion outside the Red Fort, hired doctors prior to inspection and showed them as regular doctors on rolls to mislead the National Medical Commission (NMC), got intermediaries to arrange patients and hurriedly set up clinical facilities before the inspection. These are some of the …