MAY 7, 2025
Mass rerouting of flights around Pakistan.
Air traffic data from Flightradar24 on Wednesday painted a stark picture: Pakistan’s skies are virtually empty. A heavy stream of aircraft now snakes around the country — diverting through Iran, the Arabian Sea, and the UAE — as tensions spike following India’s precision strikes under Operation Sindoor.
The Indian Armed Forces earlier confirmed...
MAY 7, 2025
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi
While Pakistan is reeling from India's retaliatory strikes on its terror camps, it has a huge problem to deal with at home. Balochistan is slipping away from Islamabad's grip. And if former Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is to be believed, it has already slipped out of Pakistan's control to...
MAY 7, 2025
Villagers in Rajasthan's border districts said they heard thunderous explosions around 1 am on Wednesday as Indian armed forces launched precision missile strikes on terrorist hideouts in Pakistan's Bahawalpur - a retaliatory operation targeting the base of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) after the deadly Pahalgam terror attack.
The strikes, aimed at nine terror installations, marked one of India's most significant military...
MAY 7, 2025
World leaders have reacted to India's strikes on terror camps at nine locations across Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), expressing concern over the escalation of tensions in the region. They have urged New Delhi and Islamabad to exercise maximum restraint and defuse the tensions through dialogue and diplomacy.
The precision attacks, jointly executed by the Indian Army, Navy...
MAY 7, 2025
India's security drill and blackouts.
India is conducting one of its largest civil defence mock drills today, May 7, 2025, across 244 districts to test emergency preparedness amid heightened tensions with Pakistan following the recent Pahalgam terror attack.
This mock drill is the first of its scale since 1971 and reflects the government's zero-tolerance stance on security threats after...
MAY 6, 2025
IPL Playoffs scenarios: Hardik Pandya looks dejected after Mumbai Indians lost the Indian Premier League (IPL 2025) game to Gujarat Titans at the Wankhede Stadium. (Sportzpics for IPL)
MUMBAI, INDIA - The Gujarat Titans defeated Mumbai Indians by three wickets via the Duckworth Lewis method in a final-ball thriller in the Indian Premier League game that was stopped...
MAY 6, 2025
Paul Tudor Jones has a stark warning for investors. - Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Robin Hood
Paul Tudor Jones, the hedge fund legend who predicted the Black Monday stock market crash, has another dark prediction for Wall Street.
Stocks, he said Tuesday morning, will likely "go down to new lows" because of Donald Trump's tariffs—and that's likely to happen even...
MAY 6, 2025
India strikes Pakistan after Pahalgam attack.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Indian military said early Wednesday it had launched strikes against Pakistan in retaliation for last month’s militant attack in Indian-administered Kashmir, putting the nuclear-armed neighbors in direct conflict for the first time in six years.
India’s armed forces said nine sites “from where terrorist attacks against India have been planned...
MAY 6, 2025
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the presidential palace in New Delhi, 3 May, 2025. - AP Photo
The United Kingdom and India have said they have agreed on a long-stalled free trade agreement that will slash tariffs on Scotch whisky and scores of other products.
The deal comes more than three years after negotiations started and stalled under...
MAY 6, 2025
Indo-Pak: Indus Waters Treaty.
Former Indian diplomat and ex-Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Dilip Sinha, has made a strong case for abrogating the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), calling it an outdated, unfair agreement that handed over a disproportionately large share of water to Pakistan — and did so under external pressure. He argued that India gave away...
