U.S. President Donald Trump. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday (October 21, 2025) that he had communicated to Hamas that the militant group must disarm or it will be forced to. On Monday (October 20), Hamas freed the last living Israeli hostages from Gaza, and Israel sent home busloads... Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. File | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and greeted him on Deepavali. “Thank you, President Trump, for your phone call and warm Diwali greetings,” Mr. Modi said in a post on X on Wednesday (October 22, 2025). Thank... Read More

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, LoP in the Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and LoP in the Bihar Assembly and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav. File | Photo Credit: PTI The Mahagatbandhan or Opposition alliance has fielded 253 candidates, ten more than the total number of seats in the Bihar Assembly. Smaller allies are pointing... Read More

Well-marked low pressure area in the Bay of Bengal may cause intense rain in Tamil Nadu A well-marked low pressure area over the southwest Bay of Bengal that formed in the early hours of Tuesday is likely to trigger widespread, intense rain, especially along coastal Tamil Nadu, this week as it gathers strength. The Regional... Read More

On October 13, the Supreme Court abruptly applied the brakes on a fledgling investigation of a Madras High Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) and a State-constituted Enquiry Commission headed by Justice (retired) Aruna Jagadeesan into the Karur stampede (on September 27, 41 people were killed during a stampede at a political rally hosted by actor-cum-politician... Read More

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After two decades of silence on one of India’s most critical democratic processes, the Election Commission (EC) has finally revived the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls — beginning with Bihar, followed by West Bengal, and later the rest of the country. Electoral rolls require continuous updating — removing those who have died or... Read More

Maoists holding copies of the Constitution after their surrender in Chhattisgarh on Friday. PTI | Photo Credit: – Following a series of counter-insurgency operations and a wave of surrenders and arrests, India’s decades-old Maoist insurgency has significantly weakened, data show. This year, all three key metrics — the number of militants killed, arrested, and surrendered... Read More

Juraj Cintula, accused of the 2024 attack on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, gets into a car with security officials after the verdict on the final day of his trial, at the Specialised Criminal Court in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, on October 21, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters A court in Slovakia on Tuesday (October 21,... Read More

A recent disease forecasting study — which analysed data from the Global Cancer Observatory (GCO) — has indicated a rise in cancers linked to lifestyle and metabolic factors and a decline in infection-related and tobacco-related cancers.  The study that projected the future burden of 23 major cancer types up to the year 2030 has been... Read More