New Delhi recorded an AQI of 290 on October 24, 2025, which falls in the poor category. File | Photo Credit: PTI As New Delhi’s air quality deteriorated after Deepavali, pregnant women find themselves gasping for breath in a city engulfed in toxic smog. For Gazala Jamshed, 31, who is in her final trimester, the past week has been suffocating with air... Read More

Former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad. | Photo Credit: ANI RJD supremo Lalu Prasad on Saturday (October 25, 2025) accused the Centre of not running adequate Bihar-bound trains to facilitate passengers to come to their native places during the Chhath Puja in the state and said these people were “forced to travel in inhumane conditions”.... Read More

“Eight people were killed and 10 others injured when a jeep carrying 18 passengers plunged some 700 ft down a hillside in Nepal‘s Karnali province,” police said on Saturday (October 25, 2025). The accident occurred on Friday night (October 24, 2025) in the Jharmare area of Bafikot in Rukum West district, approximately 500 km west... Read More

A high-stakes political battle in the Bihar Assembly Elections 2025 is all set, with voting to be held on November 6 and 11 and the results to be announced on November 14 for all 243 seats. The contest is again between the incumbent National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the opposition Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance), which marks... Read More

Earlier, the Argentina team was scheduled to play at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Kochi on November 17, 2025. File | Photo Credit: AP Lionel Messi’s Argentina team will not play in India next month. The match, which was scheduled for November 17 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Kochi, will now be conducted in... Read More

Mesh nets being used by farmers in Pudur block in Thoothukudi to protect their lands from wild boar attacks. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Farmers from the northern parts of Thoothukudi district have urged the government to provide wild boar repellents and armyworm pesticides, at least at a subsidised rate to the maize growers in... Read More

Amid apprehensions among parents about (in)adequacy in maintenance of school buses by the managements, the Transport Department has impressed upon the need for the individual institutions to assume responsibility for safety of their students. Though the Transport Department undertakes inspection of the buses at the start of every academic year, the responsibility of constant monitoring... Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump slammed Canada for playing “dirty” on Friday (October 24, 2025) as a row over an advertisement featuring former leader Ronald Reagan that prompted Trump to scrap trade talks showed no sign of abating. The Canadian province of Ontario said it would pull the offending anti-tariff ad on Monday so that negotiations... Read More

Trucks loaded with goods are parked near the closed Spin Boldak border crossing with Pakistan, after the border was shut for nearly two weeks following clashes between Afghan and Pakistani forces, in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, on October 23, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP “Officials of Pakistan and Afghanistan are set to hold the second round... Read More

The minimum temperature settled at 16.9 degrees Celsius in the capital, 0.3 notch below normal, according to the India Meteorological Department. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma Delhi’s air quality showed a slight improvement on Saturday morning, with the AQI in the ‘poor’ category at 261, marking a drop from the 290 recorded a day... Read More