Gunmen fatally shoot cleric in Pak

Prominent cleric and Member of the Provincial Council of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Fazl Group), Maulana Abdus Salam, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on Tuesday in northwest Pakistan, police said.

Former US VP Dick Cheney passes away

Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney, a key architect of George W Bush’s “war on terror” and an early advocate of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, has died at the age of 84.

Typhoon Kalmaegi leaves 26 dead in Philippines

Typhoon Kalmaegi has killed at least 26 people in the Philippines, most of them in flooding triggered by the storm as it swept across the country’s central regions on Tuesday, according to disaster response officials.

India, Israel ink major defence pact

India and Israel on Tuesday signed a defence pact that will facilitate sharing of advanced technologies and promote co-development and co-production of key weapon systems and military hardware, in a major move to further bolster their already robust strategic ties.

Mamata tears into BJP, EC over SIR

Mounting a blistering attack on the BJP and the EC, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday accused them of turning the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists into a political tool for a “silent, invisible rigging” ahead of the 2026 Assembly polls.

FIR filed against JD(U)’s Lalan

An FIR was registered against Union minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh ‘Lalan’ on Tuesday for making a controversial statement against opposition leaders during campaigning for arrested JD(U) candidate Anant Singh in Bihar’s Mokama.