Air India, AI Express offer free rescheduling of tickets for armed forces personnel

Air India and Air India Express have offered free rescheduling of tickets or full refunds on cancellations for armed forces personnel who have bookings with the airlines. The announcement came against the backdrop of India’s armed forces destroying nine terrorist infrastructures, including that of Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba, in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) in a…

How Peter Dutton lost his heartland

Tiffanie Turnbull BBC News, Sydney Getty Images Peter Dutton’s own electorate helped hand his rivals the election For the past three years, when peers of Australia’s former Liberal Party leader Peter Dutton were grilled over his divisive persona, they’d often profess his celebrity status in the north. “Peter is one of us… He’s very popular…

Pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at US’s Columbia University | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Pro-Palestinian student group says it staged demonstration to protest against university profiting from ‘imperialist violence’. Dozens of pro-Palestinian activists have staged a protest at Columbia University in the United States. Footage posted on social media showed demonstrators standing on tables, chanting and beating drums inside the university’s main library. Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a pro-Palestinian…

Operation Sindoor Aftermath: Schools shut across Rajasthan’s 4 border districts from Barmer to Jaisalmer — Check details

Operation Sindoor Aftermath:In the wake of India’s missile strikes on terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), all government and private schools in Rajasthan’s border districts, including Barmer, Bikaner, Sri Ganganagar, and Jaisalmer, have been closed until further notice. The decision comes as a precautionary measure, considering the national security situation and…

World records 2nd-warmest April; global temperature remains 1.5 deg C above pre-industrial levels

The Ballon Generali de Paris hot air research balloon, which displays the increase in the average annual temperature in Europe compared to the pre-industrial period in Paris, France, April 29, 2025. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Last month was the second-warmest April globally, with the past 12 months being 1.58 degrees Celsius warmer than at the…