North Korea announced on Tuesday that it had successfully test-fired a new intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) equipped with a hypersonic warhead, Yonhap News Agency reported, citing state media.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday highlighted progress in Ukraine's ongoing counteroffensive in the Kursk region, marking five months since the operation began.
The Indian rupee opened strong on Tuesday morning as compared to the all-time low it tasted during the previous session. At the time of filing this report, the rupee traded at 85.75 against the US dollar, vis-a-vis an all-time low of 85.84.
Locals performed the traditional folk dance, Ghumura, at Bhubaneswar's Biju Patnaik International Airport to welcome guests for the 18th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) Convention on Tuesday.
A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Dingri County in Xigaze City, located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, at 9:05 a.m. Tuesday (Beijing Time), resulted in 32 fatalities and 38 injuries, Xinhua reported, citing regional disaster relief authorities.
As per, the Meteorological Centre Srinagar, the weather will remain generally dry on Tuesday and throughout January 8 and 9. A forecast of snow at a few isolated places between January 11-12.
A Turkish Airlines flight with 299 passengers, including 10 crew members, was diverted from Istanbul to Colombo to Thiruvananthapuram International Airport on Tuesday due to bad weather in Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo.
An earthquake of magnitude 7.1 on the Richter Scale jolted Nepal's Lobuche on Tuesday, the USGS Earthquakes reported. Meanwhile, the National Centre of Seismology reported a series of earthquakes in the Tibet region.