Breaking news: Security situation in J-K improving, says DGP Dilbag Singh

Jammu and Kashmir DGP Dilbag Singh said on Wednesday that the security situation in the Union Territory is improving. Speaking to reporters, Dilbag said the number of militants in the Valley has come down below hundred. 

The European parliament website has been affected because of a hacking attack, news agency AP quoted an official as saying Wednesday. 

European Parliament spokesman Jaume Duch said that the website “is currently impacted from outside due to high levels of external network traffic.” 

He added that “this traffic is related to a DDOS attack (Distributed Denial of Service) event.”

An eight-month-old boy died of measles in Mumbai, taking the death toll to 12 due to the outbreak this year, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said on Wednesday. The city also recorded 13 new cases of measles. The viral disease is more common among children. Read more

“India carried out a successful training launch of an Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile, Agni-3 from APJ Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha on November 23, 2022. The successful test was part of routine user training launches carried out under the aegis of the Strategic Forces Command. The launch was carried out for a predetermined range and validated all operational parameters of the system”, ministry of defence said in a statement.

Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) reported a failure in its server on Wednesday. The server has been down since 7am today, and the officials have been manually managing the OPD and sample collection. 

The hospital said that the problem may have been caused by a “ransomware attack”.

A Pakistani national, accused of entering India illegally was repatriated within hours on Tuesday after his arrest, Border Security Force (BSF) officials said. Read more

The European Parliament on Wednesday designated Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, arguing Moscow's military strikes on civilian targets such as energy infrastructure, hospitals, schools and shelters violated international law. Read more

Supreme Court has asked the Centre to produce Election Commissioner Arun Goel's appointment files on Thursday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday alleged the Congress destroyed not only Gujarat but the entire country. Modi also alleged that the "Congress model" meant nepotism, casteism, sectarianism and vote bank politics. Read more

Foxconn confirmed overnight "violence" at its iPhone factory in Zhengzhou in central China. The Taiwanese tech giant vowed to "avoid similar incidents" in the future in a statement saying that workers had complained about pay and conditions at the plant. Read more

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee at public function said, “Ensure your name is on voter list to avoid getting sent to detention camp under garb of enforcing NRC,” PTI reported.

One killed and at least 15 wounded in two Jerusalem explosions, with Israel's public security minister calling them "attacks", according to news agency AFP reports.

Multiple fatalities in mass shooting at Walmart store in US' Virginia, reports AFP citing officials

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh says, “India calls for a free, open and inclusive order in the Indo-Pacific, based upon respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity of all nations, peaceful resolution of disputes through dialogue and adherence to international rules and laws," ANI reported.

Delhi recorded a minimum temperature of 8 degrees Celsius, the lowest so far this season, and 'poor' air quality on Wednesday.

The capital's Air Quality Index (AQI) stood at 238 at 9 am. It was 255 at 4 pm on Tuesday.

More rescuers and volunteers were deployed on Wednesday in devastated areas on Indonesia's main island of Java to search for the dead and missing from an earthquake that killed at least 268 people.

With many missing, some remote areas still unreachable and more than 1,000 people injured in the 5.6 magnitude quake, the death toll was likely to rise.

An earthquake with a magnitude 5.9 has hit a town in northwest Turkey on Wednesday, Turkey's government-run Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency said.

The motive of the mock drill was to check the alertness, preparedness, response time and coordination of different agencies in the time of any eventuality, said Delhi Police.

China's capital Beijing reported 388 symptomatic new locally transmitted COVID-19 infections and 1,098 asymptomatic cases for Nov. 22, local government authorities said on Wednesday.

An earthquake of magnitude 3.6 on the Richter Scale was felt near Nashik in Maharashtra in the early hours of Wednesday, informed the National Center for Seismology (NCS).