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Police and railway personnel examine a derailed train at Habarana in eastern Sri Lanka on February 20, 2025, which killed six elephants. | Photo Credit: AFP A Sri Lankan passenger train derailed on Thursday (February 20, 2025) after smashing into a family of elephants, with no passengers injured but six animals killed in the island’s … Read more

Representational image of Aurobindo Pharma’s Unit IX in Andhra Pradesh | Photo Credit: A. Roy Chowdhury The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (U.S. FDA) has classified a warehouse of Aurobindo Pharma subsidiary in New Jersey, U.S. as Official Action Indicated (OAI) after an inspection it conducted. Such a classification means regulatory and/or administrative actions are … Read more

People walk amid the destruction caused by the Israeli air and ground offensive in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip, on February 18, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP President Donald Trump’s plans for resolving the Israel-Palestine crisis by ethnic cleansing or “relocating” Palestinian population of Gaza to other Arab states is expected to face strong opposition as Saudi … Read more

President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday (February 19, 2025) ordered a halt to congestion pricing tolls in New York City, which thin traffic and fund mass transit by making people pay to drive into Manhattan’s core. Launched on Jan. 5, the city’s system uses license plate readers to impose a $9 toll on most vehicles … Read more

It was a dream come true for Berlin-based sitarist Sebastian Dryer when he took the stage with six other sitarists, their roots spread across the world, to perform at the Amphitheatre at Goethe-Zentrum Trivandrum in Thiruvananthapuram on February 13. That was the debut concert of the collective, known as String Theory. The performance began with … Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 19, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump signed a new slew of executive orders on Wednesday (February 19, 2025), including one aimed at preventing taxpayer dollars from supporting illegal immigration and one designed to get rid of regulations … Read more

FIle picture of South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol | Photo Credit: AP South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol appeared in court Thursday (February 20, 2025) for a hearing where his lawyers contested his arrest on a criminal charge alleging he was orchestrating a rebellion when he briefly imposed martial law in December. Security … Read more

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a review of the department’s 2026 budget. File | Photo Credit: AP U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a review of the department’s 2026 budget to reallocate $50 billion in funds, the Pentagon said Wednesday (February 19, 2025), following reports that he had directed deep, multi-year cuts … Read more

File picture of United States Vice-President J.D. Vance, second right, meeting with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, third left, during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany | Photo Credit: AP After Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said U.S. President Donald Trump was living in a Russian-made “disinformation space”, Vice … Read more