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Cyclone Arnab came ashore on India’s southeastern coast in a prolonged landfall lasting six hours early on Wednesday, killing at least eight people, uprooting tens of thousands of trees and cutting power across coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh. Representational Image Via: @IndianTechGuy on X The storm crossed the Andhra Pradesh and Yanam coastline between 2am and 8am, passing some 20 kilometres east-northeast of Narsapur and about 60 kilometres southwest of Kakinada. It arrived as a very severe cyclonic storm, with sustained winds of 125 to 135 kilometres an hour gusting to 150, and weakened to a severe cyclonic storm once inland. Forecasters expected it to decay into a deep depression within hours and to track north-northwest. 39 NDRF teams on ground in 5 states. 4 teams being airlifted for deployment in Andhra as additional reserve; people will be evacuated from low-lying areas before landfall.” : NDRF DIG Mohsen Shahedi on preparations for cyclone Arnab #WeathAlert #weatherfor...

India is pressing the global financial crime watchdog to examine Pakistan’s record on acting against the head of Jaish-e-Mohammed, as the Financial Action Task Force opens a three-day plenary in Paris running until Friday File Photo Via: @SukhiNehra on X At issue is the whereabouts of Masood Azhar, whom the United Nations designated a global terrorist in 2019. Pakistan has said he has been in Afghanistan since that year. The Taliban administration rejected that account in September, saying he was not in the country and that Islamabad had never formally raised the matter with Kabul. New Delhi has argued that the contradiction undermines Pakistan’s position, and that Islamabad should act against figures on its own territory rather than make announcements. It pointed to a bounty of seven million Pakistani rupees placed on Azhar last month, which India dismissed as a gesture rather than enforcement. Indian officials have spent the past week urging diplomats from partner countries and...

Three days before India’s opposition holds the largest rally of its campaign against the country’s election chief, the dispute surrounding it has stopped being only about electoral rolls. It has become an argument about who may gather in the capital, where, in what numbers, and at whose expense File Photo Via: @RahulGandhi on X The INDIA bloc meets at Ramlila Maidan on 1 November to demand the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over a nationwide revision of electoral rolls the opposition says removed voters improperly. Delhi Police have cleared the rally for 10am to 5pm, with conditions: high-definition cameras at every gate and across the seating, a dedicated control room with at least five monitors, drinking water and women’s toilets, volunteers for crowd control, nobody on the ground overnight, and no procession beyond the venue. That last condition is the significant one. Every road into Ramlila Maidan will be barricaded and manned to stop any march towa...

The aircraft came in low from the left, over the point where the Varuna meets the Ganga, turned above the water in front of the crowd and went out to the right towards the bridge and the spires of the Kashi Vishwanath temple Image Via:@myogiadityanath on X The Indian Air Force marked its 94th anniversary with a display at Namo Ghat in Varanasi, the city Prime Minister Narendra Modi represents in parliament. He watched from the main gallery with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, the state governor Anandiben Patel and the chief minister Yogi Adityanath. The air chief presented him with a memento before the flying began. मां गंगा की लहरें, नमो घाट का अद्भुत नज़ारा और आसमान में भारतीय वायुसेना के विमानों की रोमांचक उड़ानें! काशी का वातावरण विशेष आकर्षण का केंद्र बना ! @narendramodi जी #VaranasiAirShow #WingsOverGanga #IndianAirForce #NamoGhat #Kashi #PMModi #narendramodi https://t.co/h9OtkLwVmF — जितेन्द्र मेहरा (@Jitendramehra93) October 25, 2026 Around a hundred aircraft took part, ...

India’s Narcotics Control Bureau sent 38 teams into 38 locations across three northeastern states in simultaneous raids aimed at the finances of a drug syndicate run from Myanmar, arresting 18 people and freezing 1,424 bank accounts File Photo Source: @AmitShah The raids were carried out in the early hours of 23 October by the bureau alongside Mizoram police and the Enforcement Directorate, the agency that investigates financial crime. Teams searched sites in Aizawl and Champhai in Mizoram, including Zokhawthar on the Myanmar border, as well as Churachandpur in Manipur and the Cachar corridor in Assam. Property worth 178 million rupees was attached. Officers seized 1.2 million rupees in cash and 500 detonators. The ministry listed no narcotics among the recoveries. Modi Govt deals another lethal blow against drugs with Operation Trident. Our agencies launched a barrage of simultaneous crackdowns across 38 locations in Assam, Mizoram and Manipur on 23 October, smashing an internati...

Smog settled over Bandra Kurla Complex on Saturday morning and the city’s municipal corporation spent the day setting out, at length, how much better Mumbai’s air has become Image Source: @iam_Jinesh on X Mumbai has recorded 231 days in the good or satisfactory air quality categories so far this year, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said, against 218 in all of 2025, 216 in 2024 and 185 in 2023. PM10, the coarser airborne dust, is down by about 48 per cent since 2017-18, according to the environment ministry’s monitoring portal. It listed the machinery behind this. Twenty-eight guidelines for construction sites and seventy-six ward squads to enforce them, each required to inspect two sites a day. Compulsory sensor monitors at building sites, 3,166 of them wired to a central dashboard. Twenty-nine road sweepers. Covered debris lorries with washed wheels, tracked through a dedicated system. Cleaner fuel at 384 of the city’s 593 bakeries, which it calculates produce 3.5 per cent...

A weather system over the Bay of Bengal is expected to strengthen into a cyclone and come ashore on the morning of 28 October between the northern Andhra Pradesh and southern Odisha coasts, India’s weather office said on Saturday, as Odisha placed all of its districts on alert Representational Image Source: @PlaysSaheb on X The India Meteorological Department said the low-pressure area would deepen through the weekend, becoming a deep depression on Sunday and a cyclonic storm over the west-central Bay of Bengal by Monday morning before moving west-northwest towards the coast. Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, the department’s director general, gave the expected landfall window. If it reaches cyclone strength the storm will be named Arnab, a name contributed by Bangladesh. Odisha’s disaster management minister, Suresh Pujari, said the state was working to a target of no deaths. Collectors in sixteen coastal and southern districts have been told to take precautions and may close schools and co...

India’s foreign ministry said on Friday that conditions along its frontier with China are disrupted from time to time when Chinese forces depart from established patrolling patterns, after the head of the border police said confrontations with Chinese troops were continuing in Arunachal Pradesh File Photo Via: @ITBP_official on X Asked about those remarks, the ministry spokesman, Randhir Jaiswal, referred questions to the defence ministry but said the situation in the border areas was periodically disturbed when Chinese forces diverged from agreed patterns. Both countries continued to use diplomatic and military channels to settle outstanding issues and avoid misunderstanding along the Line of Actual Control, he said, and had agreed to discuss ways to improve a shared understanding of the line in some areas. Earlier, Shatrujeet Kapur, director general of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, told personnel at a base in Alwar, Rajasthan, on Thursday that face-offs had occurred at severa...

India’s defence minister released a new Land Warfare Doctrine for the army on Friday and told its senior commanders to plan on a horizon of twenty to thirty years while remaining ready for immediate threats Image Source: @rajnathsingh on X Rajnath Singh, addressing the Army Commanders’ Conference in the capital, said the doctrine provided an overarching framework for preparing the force for the changing character of warfare and for future conflicts. He told commanders to watch geopolitical and regional developments closely and to keep strategy flexible enough to adjust as circumstances changed. He returned to Operation Sindoor, the military action India conducted against targets in Pakistan in May 2025, saying its success rested on innovative thinking, greater synergy and coordination, supported by advanced weaponry. The operation had made clear that India would not hesitate to act to protect its interests, he said. Singh praised the army’s restructuring and its use of drones, a...