Indian dignitaries, including former Jammu and Kashmir CM Mehbooba Mufti and senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid, paid tributes to Iran's former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday in Tehran. Several religious leaders from India also paid tribute to Khamenei. MoS Pabitra Margherita and Bihar Governor Lt Gen (Retd) Syed Ata Hasnain will represent India at the funeral.

US President Donald Trump repeated his false claim that he helped stop India-Pakistan conflict in 2025. “I said, ‘If you keep fighting, I'm gonna put a 200% tariff on your country.’ I said the same to the other,” he said. Trump also claimed that Pakistan PM told him he had “saved at least 30 million lives” by stopping the war.

A speeding, overcrowded bus fell from a highway into a deep, rocky ravine in Pakistan, killing 40 people and injuring eight others. The accident occurred at Dana Sar, near the border between Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces. The bus was carrying not only its own passengers but also those from another bus that had broken down, leaving the vehicle overcrowded.

A Times report said that when Iranian negotiators Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Abbas Araghchi were returning to Iran from Pakistan after US peace talks, they received intelligence that Israel planned to attack their aircraft. To foil the alleged plot, their plane made an emergency landing in Mashhad. The leaders then reportedly travelled to Tehran by road over next eight hours.

Former Singapore ambassador Bilahari Kausikan hit out at a Pakistani journalist after he claimed that India, Afghanistan and other neighbours were behind Pakistan's problems. Kausikan said, "That is an excuse. Pakistan has been mismanaged from the beginning...Your politicians are a waste of time. The military is part of the problem." "You can't blame everything on other people," he added.

An American pilot was shot dead and his plane set on fire by armed separatists in the restive eastern region of Papua, Indonesia's military said. The group said the attack ⁠was a "message" to US and Indonesian governments. The killing follows years of clashes between Indonesian government and indigenous communities in West Papua over calls for independence in the region.

US President Donald Trump’s administration reportedly feared Israel planned to assassinate key Iranian negotiators - Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi - to derail US-Iran talks. The leaders travelled to Islamabad only after securing US guarantees through Qatar and Pakistan. Despite this, Israel reportedly made at least one failed attempt to kill the two leaders.

A security guard was rescued alive from rubble of a building eight days after powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela. He was inside a concrete booth in a basement parking area when the quake hit. The booth remained intact, shielding him from collapsing debris and creating an air pocket, while rescuers supplied him with food and water as they excavated the rubble.

More than 120 passengers and crew aboard a Princess Cruises ship contracted norovirus during its 20-day round trip from San Francisco to Canada and Alaska. The ship, carrying 3,032 passengers and 1,144 crew members, is now docked in San Francisco. Norovirus is a highly contagious virus that causes stomach and intestinal inflammation and spreads through contaminated food or surfaces.

Okunevo is a small village in Siberia, Russia, known for its unique spiritual atmosphere where bhajans and devotional songs are sung daily, even in extreme temperatures reaching -40 degrees Celsius. The village has gained attention for its strong Indian cultural influence and spiritual practices, attracting visitors interested in meditation, yoga, and Vedic traditions.