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Top 10 extreme weather events cost world more than $122bn in 2025: Report

NEW DELHI: Top 10 extreme weather events such as wildfires, heatwaves, floods and cyclonic storms cost the world more than $122 billion in 2025, said a report – Counting the Cost 2025 – released by a global not-for-profit organisation, Christian Aid.Exceptionally heavy monsoon rainfall experienced by large parts of India and Pakistan from June to...

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‘Doesn’t have anything ’: Trump casts himself as arbiter of peace deal; sceptical of Zelenskyy’s plan

File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP) US President Donald Trump has said any peace deal to end the war between Ukraine and Russia will ultimately depend on his approval, casting himself as the final decision-maker ahead of talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Florida.Speaking in an exclusive interview with Politico on...

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Slashed 26 times: Kanpur woman axes husband to death after drunken fight

AI-generated representational image. KANPUR: A woman allegedly slashed her husband 26 times with an axe at their home in a Kanpur village late Wednesday after a drunken brawl. The woman, Veerangana (35), was arrested Friday morning.The deceased was identified as Ravishankar Savita (45) alias Pappu, who worked in a tile and stone laying firm. Police...

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Even low alcohol intake raises oral cancer risk in Indian men: study

Alcohol consumption, even in small amounts, significantly increases the risk of buccal mucosa cancer (BMC), a common and aggressive form of oral cancer in India, according to a large multicentre study published in BMJ Global Health. The study analysed data from 1,803 men diagnosed with buccal mucosa cancer and 1,903 cancer-free controls recruited from six...

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On This Day: Ajinkya Rahane’s century that changed Indian cricket

Ajinkya Rahane and Ravindra Jadeja (AP/PTI) On this day in 2020, December 27, Ajinkya Rahane played an innings that quietly altered the course of Indian Test cricket. It did not come wrapped in noise or bravado. It arrived in the aftermath of trauma. India had been bundled out for their lowest-ever total in the previous...

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Unnao rape case: CBI moves Supreme Court against Delhi high court order

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-126198261,imgsize-419938,width-400,resizemode-4/untitled-design-5.jpg" alt="Unnao rape case: CBI moves Supreme Court against Delhi high court order" title=" File photo: Kuldip Singh Sengar ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> File photo: Kuldip Singh Sengar NEW DELHI: CBI on Friday filed a special leave petition in Supreme Court against Delhi high court’s recent order suspending the sentence of expelled BJP ex-MLA Kuldeep...

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‘Vendetta’: Delhi HC scraps CISF officer’s forced retirement

Delhi HC (File Photo) NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court has quashed a 20-year-old official order to compulsorily retire a CISF officer, now 72, over sexual harassment, ruling that the allegations made in 1998 by a woman constable “reek of vengeance rather than genuine harassment”. HC also found that even after being cleared three times,...

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Only 14! Vaibhav Suryavanshi meets PM Narendra Modi; pic goes viral

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi & PM Narendra Modi (PTI) As the year drew to a close, Indian cricket found itself sharing space with an unfamiliar kind of headline. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, still three months short of his 15th birthday, was named a recipient of the Prime Minister’s National Award for Children, the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar. It...

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