16+ min ago (207+ words) Published - November 30, 2025 01:26 pm IST - Srinagar The cold wave conditions in Kashmir intensified as the night temperatures fell at most places in the valley owing to open skies, meteorological department officials said on Sunday (November 30, 2025). A layer of fog engulfed most parts of the valley, especially areas around water bodies. Srinagar recorded a minimum temperature of minus 4.4 degrees Celsius on Saturday (November 29) night, down from minus 3.1 degrees Celsius. The minimum temperature last night was slightly above the season's coldest night recorded in the city when mercury had plunged to minus 4.5 degrees Celsius on Thursday night. The Shopian town in south Kashmir was the coldest place in the valley on Saturday night with a minimum temperature of minus 6.6 degrees Celsius. Qazigund, the gateway town to the valley, recorded a low of minus 3.0 degrees Celsius. The mercury settled at minus 5.0 degrees Celsius in…...

22+ min ago (125+ words) Updated - November 30, 2025 01:22 pm IST - New Delhi The Election Commission of India on Sunday (November 30, 2025) extended by one week the entire schedule of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in nine states and three Union Territories. In a statement, the poll authority said the enumeration form distribution will now continue till December 11 instead of December 4. The draft electoral rolls will now be published on December 16 in place of December 9, while the final voters' list will be out on February 14, 2026 in place of February 7. The ECI had announced SIR in these states and UTs on October 27. Published - November 30, 2025 01:19 pm IST Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls...

24+ min ago (365+ words) Published - November 30, 2025 01:18 pm IST - CHENNAI Three people have died in rain-related incidents in three districts in Tamil Nadu since Saturday (November 29, 2025) evening as Cyclone Ditwah brought torrential rains to the State. While two persons died due to wall collapse in Thanjavur and Thoothukudi districts, one died due to electrocution in Mayiladuthurai district, the State Minister for Revenue and Disaster Management K.K.S.S.R. Ramachandran said on Sunday (November 30) morning. Over 2,300 people have been accommodated in 38 relief camps in nine districts, he said. Addressing a press conference in the State Emergency Operations Centre, Mr. Ramachandran said that due to heavy rains, crops in about 56,000 hectares in various districts are under water. Crops in about 24,000 hectares in Nagapattinam district, over 15,000 hectares in Tiruvarur district and about 8,000 hectares in Mayiladuthurai district, have been affected, he said. Once the water receded, officials would calculate the actual damage…...

42+ min ago (464+ words) Published - November 30, 2025 12:59 pm IST - Guwahati The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has termed the Assam government budgetary assumptions for 2023-24 "unrealistic and overestimated," pointing out that in several cases supplementary grants were approved where expenditure of the original allotted funds was not even done. It also highlighted non-submission of Utilisation Certificates (UCs) and annual accounts of several autonomous councils and other bodies. The CAG report on state finances for 2023-24, laid in the Assembly on Saturday (November 30, 2025), said the budgetary assumptions of the state government "continued to be unrealistic and overestimated" during the fiscal year, as it incurred an expenditure of "41,39,449.66 crore against grants and appropriations of "1,69,966.13 crore, resulting in overall savings of "30,516.47 crore. These savings stood at 17.95% of total grants and appropriations made for the year. The report said that "the savings were notional, as the funds were not actually available…...

46+ min ago (311+ words) Published - November 30, 2025 12:56 pm IST - New Delhi Aviation regulator DGCA on Sunday (November 30, 2025) said Indian carriers have completed the software upgrades on 323 operational A320 family planes to address a potential issue related to flight controls. On Friday (November 28, 2025), Airbus said intense solar radiation might corrupt data critical to flight controls in a significant number of A320 family aircraft and that the software changes required to fix the issue would lead to operational disruptions. A total of 338 A320 family aircraft with the three Indian airlines" IndiGo, Air India and Air India Express" were initially identified for the software upgrades to address the issue. Among them, 323 were operational, six were under base maintenance and later it was found that the upgrades were no needed for nine such planes in the fleet of Air India, according to a senior DGCA official. IndiGo has completed the upgrades on…...

47+ min ago (778+ words) Published - November 30, 2025 07:54 am IST - KYIV, UKRAINE Russian drone and missile attacks in and around the Ukraine's capital killed at least three people early Saturday (November 29, 2025), officials said, as the country's representatives travelled to the U.S. to work on a renewed push to end the war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on X that the delegation, headed by national security chief Rustem Umerov, was on its way to "swiftly and substantively work out the steps needed to end the war." A U.S. delegation is then expected to travel to Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the second half of next week. The Kyiv City Military Administration said two people were killed in the strikes on the capital, and a woman died, and eight were wounded in a combined missile and drone attack on the broader Kyiv region, according to the…...

51+ min ago (167+ words) As many as four people died and another got injured in a fire at a residential place in Sangam Vihar on Saturday (November 29, 2025) evening. The police and fire services reached the spot." The Delhi Fire Services said a call was received at around 6:24 p.m. about a four storied building which had a footwear shop on the ground floor, being engulfed in fire. Around four fire tenders were rushed to the spot, and the fire was doused by 7:55 p.m. As per police, the owner of the house, Satender, 38, was one of the deceased. His sister, Anita, 40, was shifted to Safdarjung hospital initially but she succumbed to her injuries. Two of the deceased are yet to be identified."Another person, Mamta, 40, was taken to the hospital and had 25% burns." "Crime and forensics teams have been called for detailed examination. Further investigation is underway," the…...

1+ hour, 1+ min ago (225+ words) Published - November 30, 2025 12:40 pm IST - New Delhi An all-party meeting convened by the government ahead of the Winter session of Parliament is underway in New Delhi on Sunday (November 30, 2025) where the opposition is likely to rake up various issues, including Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, the Delhi blast and foreign policy matters that it wants to raise in both Houses. While Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju and his deputy Arjun Ram Meghwal are representing the government, the opposition is being represented by Jairam Ramesh, Gaurav Gogoi, Pramod Tiwari (Congress), T R Baalu (DMK), Derek O'Brien (TMC) and E T Mohammed Bashir (IUML). Union minister J.P. Nadda represents the BJP. He is the BJP president as well as Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha. Manoj Jha of the RJD, Harsimrat Kaur of the SAD and Sanjay…...

1+ hour, 19+ min ago (355+ words) Published - November 30, 2025 12:22 pm IST - Jaipur The Rajasthan High Court has directed the State Government to encourage app-based ride-hailing platforms to have at least 15% women drivers within six months. It also directed raising the target to 25% over the next two to three years. "The platforms must offer women passengers the option to choose a woman driver as their first preference," the Court order said. Also Read |Uber India announces several in-app features like SOS integration, women rider preference and instant cash out The directions were issued as part of a detailed 35-point order by Justice Ravi Chirania, who termed cybercrime as an "unstoppable and rapidly escalating threat" while calling for urgent structural reforms in the State's cyber-policing framework. The Court asked the government to set up a Rajasthan Cyber Crime Control Centre on the lines of the Union Government's Indian Cyber…...

1+ hour, 27+ min ago (175+ words) Updated - November 30, 2025 12:15 pm IST The second look always uncovers more than what the opening gaze did. On rare occasions, the second look totally upends conclusions made from the initial glance. That is how a bird record from Adyar Estuary on October 26 underwent a revision." Saravana Manian points out that Adyar Estuary is an unlikely terrain for the Indian swiftlet. He elaborates: "Previous records of the Indian swiftlet from Tamil Nadu have been from hilly or mountainous patches " Palani Hills, Kodaikanal, Sirumalai and the Coimbatore and Kanyakumari ranges of the Western Ghats. The bird is also found in Sri Lanka." In this species, the male is the nest builder. And the nest is in the form of a cup, and it is licked into shape by the male bird using its saliva. In certain parts, these cups go into the making of…...