Stranded passengers at the IndiGo counter at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Airport, in Mumbai, 5 Dec

Nation

IndiGo's 500 flight cancellations raise monopoly concerns in Rajya Sabha

Commuters pass through a veil of mist as Delhi’s new spray system fights the choking air.

Environment

Air pollution can turn toxic for body and mind, warn doctors

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Nation

Haryana serial child-killing case: Jealousy, suspicion and ritual claims

A glimpse of this year's Sangai festival

Nation

Three militants arrested in Manipur for threatening Sangai festival participants

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav

POLITICS

Make SIR data public, stop pressure on BLOs: Akhilesh Yadav

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Nation

RBI trims policy interest rate by 25 bps to 5.25 pc, loans to get cheaper

A cemetery in Ukraine, from 2023

World

A country running out of people: Ukraine on brink of demographic collapse

Stranded passengers at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi.

POLITICS

IndiGo fiasco is cost of govt’s monopoly model: Rahul Gandhi

DMK MP Thamizhachi Thangapandian (R) and others protest the SIR in the Parliament complex on 2 Dec

Nation

Bengal SIR: CEO tells BLOs to re-verify forms, delete dead, absent voters by 11 Dec

Israel’s inclusion in Eurovision 2026 sparks outrage.

World

Four nations to boycott Eurovision 2026 over Israel’s participation

US defence secretary Pete Hegseth (L) and Donald Trump

World

US military strikes another suspected drug boat amid probe into first strike

Vladimir Putin addresses journalists in Moscow.

World

Putin affirms India–Russia bond is partnership of purpose, not provocation

The NYT building in New York, USA

World

NYT sues Pentagon over US defence secretary Pete Hegseth's media rules