Ajeet Kumar

After heat records were smashed and a torrent of extreme weather events rocked countless countries in 2023, some climate scientists believed that the waning of the El Nino weather pattern could mean 2024 would be slightly cooler. It didn’t happen that way.

China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Lin Jian said a meeting between China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on Wednesday reached six agreements on the boundary issue between the two.

Zakir Hussain, the exuberant maestro of tabla who once called the instrument his "mate, brother and friend" and embodied the universality of music in his 60-year career, died in a San Francisco hospital early Monday. He was 73.

Trudeau has said he plans on leading the Liberal Party into the next election, but many party members have said they don't want him to run for a fourth term, and Freeland's departure was a huge blow.

In light of the continuing proliferation threat of Pakistan's long-range missile development, the United States is designating four entities for sanctions which target proliferators of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery, the State Department said.

debate over the debt ceiling is at the centre of a dispute over funding that is pushing Washington to the brink of a federal government shutdown.

In his first comments on Assad’s downfall, Putin said that he hadn’t yet met the former Syrian ruler, whom he has given asylum in Moscow, but plans to.

Putin said he was open to possible talks with US President-elect Donald Trump, who has pledged to negotiate a deal to end the conflict in Ukraine. “If we meet with Mr. Trump, we will have things to discuss,” he said, without elaborating.

As 2024 comes to a close, Donald Trump has yet to reclaim his position in the White House. However, his influence on American politics remains undeniable, shaping the narrative of the Republican Party and polarising the political landscape and world order like never before.

Dominique Pelicot admitted that for years he knocked his then-wife of 50 years out with drugs so that he and strangers he recruited online could abuse her while he filmed the assaults.

Khamenei's depiction of women as "flowers" feels disingenuous. While the statement appears to honour women's dignity and contributions, the reality for women in Iran is one of repression and severe restrictions.

While driving home to Sector 14 from Sector 12A Rally Chowk, Ashutosh was intercepted by a car overtaking him, with another vehicle trailing closely behind. Approximately 200 meters from his house, a group of around a dozen youths launched an attack on him.

Hamida Banu described her 22-year ordeal as living "like a corpse," stranded in a neighbouring country with no way to reach her family. In 2002, she was deceived into travelling to Pakistan under the pretence of a job opportunity in Dubai.

At least 30 children were killed and dozens of others injured on Wednesday in a stampede at a children's carnival organised in Ibadan. The victims are mostly children.

Both sides agreed to explore the creation of a new space innovation bridge to promote partnerships between US and Indian startups focused on advancing space situational awareness, satellite technology and space launch and exploration.

The FAA and NTSB are investigating how the single-engine Cessna plane made a hard left turn and slammed into an abandoned building moments after taking off from Honolulu's airport.

Hindu temples have been vandalised, burned and desecrated. Just this month, the Iskcon Namhatta centre was burnt to the ground in a coordinated attack upon the Hindu people in the Dhaka district of Bangladesh, stressed the US lawmaker who sought targetted sanctions against Bangladesh.

The Houthi-controlled satellite channel al-Masirah reports that some of the strikes in Yemen targeted power stations in the capital, as well as the Ras Isa oil terminal on the Red Sea.

In response to an extradition request from India, Rana was detained in the US for his involvement in the attacks, in which 10 Pakistani terrorists besieged Mumbai for more than 60 hours, killing more than 160 people, including six Americans.