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North India schools closed as cold wave and fog intensify As the year 2025 comes to an end, a strong cold wave has spread across many parts of North India, according to media reports. Falling temperatures, dense fog, and snowfall have begun to affect normal life, especially for school-going children. In response, several state governments...

North Korea has test-fired two strategic long-range cruise missiles (AP image) North Korea has test-fired two strategic long-range cruise missiles to demonstrate its nuclear combat readiness. This comes as tensions continue to rise on the Korean Peninsula amid increased military activity by the United States and South Korea.According to state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA),...

Trump-Zelenskyy meeting US President Donald Trump hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, even as Russia intensified its attacks on Kyiv. Both leaders struck an optimistic tone, repeatedly suggesting that a peace deal was closer than at any previous point, yet they also acknowledged that several issues particularly territory, security guarantees...

BNP acting chairperson Tarique Rahman (in the bus) spent more than two hours with his ailing mother at the hospital, party members said. DHAKA: National Citizen Party (NCP) – founded by leaders, mostly students, of the ‘2024 July Uprising’ that led to the Sheikh Hasina govt’s collapse – is in the grip of an internal...

Image Credit: X BAREILLY: Around 25 right-wing activists including a self-proclaimed cow vigilante, allegedly barged into a private birthday celebration of a 20-year-old first-year female nursing student at a cafe in Bareilly and thrashed some of her male guests, raised ‘love jihad’ slogans and created a ruckus after objecting to the presence of two Muslim...

NEW DELHI: Air quality in Delhi has deteriorated, with an overall Air Quality Index (AQI) of 403 as reported by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). This is considered “severe” according to the CPCB’s categorization system. The India Meteorological Department has also issued an orange alert for dense fog throughout the city. The air is...

Image Credit: TOI VIJAYAWADA: A 70-year-old person was charred to death in a major fire that broke out on the Ernakulam Express at Yalamanchili railway station in Anakapalli district in the wee hours of Monday. The loco pilot noticed the flames and stopped the train at the station.The fire started in the B1 coach, following...

Ajit Pawar’s NCP & Sharad Pawar’s fraction to contest together in Pimpri Chinchwad PUNE: Deputy chief minister and NCP chief Ajit Pawar on Sunday announced that NCP and NCP (SP) will contest the upcoming Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation elections in an alliance.Addressing a campaign rally in Talawade for party candidates, Pawar said, “In Pimpri Chinchwad,...

At least 13 people were killed and 98 were injured when the Interoceanic Train derailed on Sunday in southern Mexico, halting traffic along the rail line that links the Pacific Ocean with the Gulf of Mexico. Officials said the train was carrying 241 passengers and nine crew members when it left the tracks as it...