2025

Taipei, March 26. Reports of Taiwanese citizens going missing, being arrested or questioned, or having their personal freedoms restricted in China have reached 313 since January 2024, the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) revealed in a report, according to local media on Thursday.Of the 313 cases...

New Delhi, March 25 Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told the Lok Sabha on Wednesday that three incidents of assault on passengers by pantry car staff were reported in 2025.The minister said this in a written reply to questions by BJP MP Rajeev Pratap Rudy regarding passengers' complaints of...

The novel "Hara Parbati Katha" by author Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay has been selected for the Saraswati Samman, 2025. The Saraswati Samman, established by the K.K. Birla Foundation in 1991, is an annual award given to outstanding literary works written in any Indian language by an Indian citizen and...

New Delhi, March 23 Delhi recorded the lowest annual average of particulate matter PM2.5 and PM10 in 2025, excluding the year of the Covid pandemic, i.e., 2020, according to the economic survey of 2025-26 presented in the Delhi Assembly by Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Monday.The report, which...

Geneva, March 23 – The Earth's climate is more out of balance than at any time in recorded history, as concentrations of greenhouse gases drive continued warming of the atmosphere and oceans, as well as melting of ice, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Monday.March 23 is...

Jabalpur, March 16 The Madhya Pradesh High Court has quashed an FIR accusing a married Army officer of raping a policewoman under the guise of marriage, observing that their relationship was consensual and the case appears to be a tactic used by the complainant to pressure the officer.A single...

New Delhi, March 12 More than 7,900 public grievances were received regarding the government of Jammu and Kashmir in 2025, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday.These grievances were received through the online Centralized Public Grievance Redress and Monitoring System (CPGRAMS) and...

Kochi, March 2 The number of road accident deaths in Kerala declined in 2025, even as the total number of accidents increased, according to officials at the Motor Vehicles Department (MVD) on Monday.The MVD recently released data on accident-related deaths and injuries reported in the state...

Los Angeles, February 28 The American sitcom "Animal Control," starring Joel McHale, has been renewed by Fox for its fifth season.According to entertainment news outlet The Hollywood Reporter, this is the first live-action scripted show on Fox to be renewed this season.The show, which also...

Tehran, February 28 – Tehran was rocked by massive explosions on Saturday after Israel launched what it described as "preventive" missile strikes against Iran, dramatically escalating tensions in the region, local media reported.The strikes came amid heightened tensions between the United...

Agartala, February 25 Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha stated on Wednesday that the northeastern state recorded the "lowest crime rate" in two decades in 2025, with an 8 per cent decrease in criminal cases compared to 2024.Addressing the police week day parade, Saha said the number of cases...

Seoul, February 25 – South Korea experienced the fastest growth in the number of babies born in 15 years in 2025, with the country's total fertility rate reaching 0.8 for the first time in four years, according to government data released on Wednesday.A total of 254,500 babies were born last...

After spending four decades in the jungles of Central India, Bhupathi decided to surrender because he could not bear to see his comrades dying one after another, and also realized the futility of the armed struggle.People turn to revolutionary paths because of persistent exploitation, and the...

Mumbai, February 13 Marriott International announced on Friday that its Asia Pacific region, excluding China, experienced a 32 per cent year-on-year growth in 2025, with the signing of 200 franchise agreements.The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) region achieved its third consecutive...