image for representation | Photo Credit: The Hindu Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will officially declare Kerala as free from extreme poverty at a function to be held at the Central Stadium in the capital on November 1, 2025. Actors Mohanlal, Mammootty and Kamal Haasan will be special guests at the event in which all Ministers... Read More

In the second incident reported in a month, a warehouse located on the terrace of a textile showroom in Coimbatore caught fire early on Wednesday morning (October 22, 2025). The fire was reported at Maha Sree Laxmi Silks on Oppanakara Street, one of the busiest shopping areas in the city. The Fire and Rescue Services... Read More

The well-marked low-pressure area over the Bay of Bengal is expected to move towards the north Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, and south Andhra Pradesh coasts after intensifying into a depression | Photo Credit: NIRMAL HARINDRAN The India Meteorological Department (IMD) withdrew the red alert issued for Idukki, Palakkad and Malappuram districts on Wednesday (October 22, 2025).... Read More

Barcelona’s players pose for a team photo. File | Photo Credit: AP Citing “the uncertainty that has arisen in Spain over the past few weeks,” LaLiga announced Tuesday (October 21, 2025) it is scrapping plans to hold a league match between Barcelona and Villarreal in Miami this December. UEFA, the governing body for European football,... Read More

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Youngsters play cricket amid low visibility due to dust at a park, in Gurugram, Haryana, on October 4, 2025 | Photo Credit: PTI Of the 16 cities with their air quality categorised as “severe” and “very poor” a day after Deepavali, as per the Central Pollution Control Board data released on Tuesday (October 21, 2025),... Read More

On October 16, French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu narrowly survived two no-confidence votes in the National Assembly, averting an immediate government collapse and providing a temporary reprieve in France’s ongoing political crisis. The motions, tabled by the far-left La France Insoumise (LFI) and the far-right National Rally (RN), garnered 271 and 197 votes respectively, falling... Read More

Taliban spokesperson Suhail Shaheen. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The Taliban administration in Afghanistan has welcomed India’s decision to upgrade the Indian Technical Mission in Kabul into an embassy. In a statement to The Hindu, Kabul’s Ambassador to Qatar, Suhail Shaheen said the Indian move will help in building “regional peace”. “It is a rightful... Read More

People wade through a waterlogged road following heavy rainfall, in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, on October 22, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI The India Meteorological Department (IMD), Amaravati, in Andhra Pradesh, has issued a red alert for the districts of SPSR Nellore, Prakasam, YSR Kadapa, Annamayya, Tirupati and Chittoor as extremely heavy rainfall, more than 204.5... Read More

Deputy CM Udhayanidhi Stalin reviews rain preparedness and relief measures at Integrated Command and Control Centre in Chennai | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin on Wednesday (October 22, 2025) inspected the Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) of the Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) on the Ripon Buildings campus to... Read More