Author: Eva Benerjee

On the 29th of December 2025, the Russian federation announced that Ukraine’s attempt to attack the estate of the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, located in the Novgorod region. The attack, as stated by Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, was committed by 91 long-range UAVs, which were directed at the presidential residence. The Russian government reported: All drones were taken out and destroyed by the Russian defense system, also stating that no one was hurt and nothing was damaged. The Kremlin condemned the action as “state terrorism” and a reckless escalation of the conflict. It was mentioned that Russia has…

Smriti Mandhana Creates History-There are those who play the game, and then there are players who reshape it. So too has Smriti Mandhana. On a warm Sunday evening on Thiruvananthapuram, the Indian vice-captain not only made runs, she carved her name into the heavens of cricket legends. In joining the 10,000-run club in international cricket, Mandhana has become fastest woman ever to do so, past greats of the game and her driving through covers. The milestone was reached during the fourth T20I against Sri Lanka at the Greenfield International Stadium. Requiring 27 runs to join the elite “10K Club,” Mandhana got there in the seventh over…

After charging into the opposition with the red ball and swinging from the hip with the bat for nearly two decades, Doug Bracewell has finally blown full time on his professional cricket career. The Central Stags veteran and New Zealand international has announced his retirement from all cricket, ending an era for both his domestic team and the Black Caps. For a generation of cricket-loving New Zealanders, Bracewell was the archetypal ‘hard-case’ Kiwi cricketer – unostentatious, obstinate and with the stubborn refusal to give up on any given game that belied moments of pure magic just when his country needed it most. A…

High-level peace talks between the United States president, Donald Trump, and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky have given cautious optimism when they happened in Florida, where they said that there has been significant progress in terms of ending the war between Russia and Ukraine, which has lasted almost four years. But, as President Trump said, there are still one or two quite prickly matters keeping a complete breakthrough at bay, all of which have to do with the question of territory and the future of the Eastern regions of Ukraine. Significant Progress in Peace Framework In an interview with reporters at…

As December 2025 comes to an end, the Gaza Strip battles a formidable new enemy:a brutal winter storm that has transformed an already dire humanitarian situationinto a bitter struggle to stay alive. Now, for the almost two million people displacedby two years of conflict in northwestern Syria, torrential rains and near-freezingtemperatures have turned makeshift camps into waterlogged quagmires, rippingthrough the flimsy fabric of tents never designed to weather a Mediterraneanwinter.A strong low pressure area – named ‘Storm Byron’ earlier in the month, and followedby a so-called polar low over the weekend – has seen 50 to 70 km/h winds coupledwith heavy rain…

Demonstrating the deepening ties in technology and geopolitics, Iran has successfully launched three homegrown satellites into space, at dawn on Sunday Dec 28th, 2025. The mission was launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Russian Far East, aboard a Russian Soyuz-2. 1b rocket to take the payloads into Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Analysts say this launch represents a turning point for Tehran’s space program, and marks a leap forward in both technical capacity and geopolitics. Filling in a gap created by the disappearance of high-resolution imagery and cementing a “strategic partnership” with Russia, the mission has raised security fears in the West. As international monitors…

The last weeks of 2025 have brought a string of meteorological shockers: Scenes that could have been pulled from the script of a high-budget disaster flick, but purport to be weather.com. And in a world of growing climate volatility, the familiar line between “hot” and “cold” countries is increasingly being redrawn with dramatic consequences. For the ironic of nature, as the deserts of Arabian peninsula were covered under snowfall after 30 years; those in and around ice had reached 20 degree centigrade points- example would be Iceland! White Deserts: Saudi Arabia’s Historical `Winter Wonderland´ Northern Saudi (*Specifically for the residents of northern saudi, north…

In the high-altitude parts of Jammu and Kashmir, winter is generally a season of forced silence. During Chillai Kalan — the 40-day period of harshest cold that takes hold in the valley and where life virtually comes to a halt by several feet of snow — it could be unpleasant to venture out. Historically, this time of year created a “temporary lull” in combat as frozen passes and sub-zero temperatures rendered movement virtually impossible for defender and infiltrator alike. This year, though — during the winter of 2025 — has represented an astonishing deviation. Unlike other winter postures or retreat to lower heights, the…

Inside a courtroom heavy with the gravity of an atrocious crime, the Punjab and Haryana High Court recently arrived at a decision — man bites cop — that has ignited in India a nationwide discourse on law, morality and India’s profound anthropological complex: the Indian family. The court sentenced to 30 years of prison a man who had raped and murdered a five-year-old girl, but it was his mother’s acquittal that reverberated in the public conscience. The court’s observation was as stark as it was tragic: there is no provision in the Indian Penal Code (IPC) to punish a mother for doing “‘appalling,”…

Late on Saturday night, the earth below Taiwan shuddered with seismic energy — an incredibly powerful earthquake that sent shocks of alarm through Taipei and other cities in the island’s northern region. The 6.7-magnitude quake hit around 11:05 PM local time on December 27, 2025 as reported by the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ). The earthquake struck at a relatively shallow depth of about 60 kilometers, and was most strongly felt in Taipei, the capital city, and Yilan County. For almost a full minute, buildings swayed, light fixtures swung wildly and residents of high-rise apartments described a nauseating low roll that brought to…