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Hong Kong high-rise occurrence toll rises to 128; implicit 200 inactive missing arsenic enquiry begins
Firefighting, rescue and hunt operations astatine 7 high-rise buildings successful Hong Kong were halted connected Friday (November 28, 2025), the 3rd time aft a monolithic blaze broke out, arsenic the death toll climbed to 128 with implicit 200 inactive missing. The Hong Kong Police person launched an probe into however the clump of buildings, lodging astir 4,600 residents successful 1,984 apartments, caught fire. The decease toll truthful acold successful the occurrence astatine Wang Fuk Court successful Tai Po stood astatine 128, Chris Tang Ping-keung, caput for information of the HKSAR government, said. Over 200 radical stay unaccounted for, Mr. Tang said, arsenic families of the missing persons anxiously hold for the quality astir their loved ones.
Airbus A320 bundle switch: Flight delays, cancellations likely; implicit 200 planes impacted
IndiGo, Air India and Air India Express formation operations will spot disruptions arsenic they enactment connected fixing a imaginable contented related to formation controls successful their A320 household planes and 200-250 craft volition beryllium impacted successful the country, according to sources. Airbus connected Friday (November 28, 2025) said aggravated star radiation mightiness corrupt information captious to formation controls successful a important fig of A320 household craft and that the bundle changes required to hole the contented would pb to operational disruptions. With galore of the narrow-body A320 household planes of the home carriers acceptable to acquisition bundle changes oregon successful immoderate cases hardware realignment, determination volition beryllium operational disruptions arsenic the craft person to beryllium grounded, the sources said.
Siddaramaiah, Shivakumar to interruption breadstuff unneurotic connected November 29
A time aft Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his lawman D.K. Shivakumar utilized societal media to people each different amidst a enactment battle, some person decided to clasp a meal meeting connected Saturday (November 29, 2025) astatine the former’s residence successful Bengaluru. The Chief Minister said, “High bid telephoned and told some of america to meet. Therefore, I invited him for a meal meeting.” The Chief Minister reiterated that determination was nary alteration successful his stand. “I volition perceive to immoderate precocious bid says. He (Mr. Shivakumar) has besides said that respective times,” Mr. Siddaramaiah said.
Cyclone Ditwah: Red alert for Tamil Nadu’s coastal districts connected November 29 arsenic tempest moves person
The Regional Meteorological Centre has maintained its reddish alert, indicating anticipation of isolated highly dense rainfall, for assorted districts successful Tamil Nadu connected Saturday (November 29, 2025) and 2 districts connected Sunday, arsenic Cyclone Ditwah continues to determination implicit coastal Sri Lanka and the adjoining southwest Bay of Bengal. Cyclonic Storm Ditwah moved astatine a velocity of 7 kmph and laic centered implicit coastal Sri Lanka and adjoining southwest Bay of Bengal, 380 km south-southeast of Puducherry and 490 km southbound of Chennai. It is precise apt to proceed to determination crossed the Sri Lankan seashore and adjoining southwest Bay of Bengal and scope implicit southwest Bay of Bengal adjacent northbound Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, and adjoining southbound Andhra Pradesh coasts by aboriginal Sunday morning.
Cyclone Ditwah successful Sri Lanka: PM Modi announces assistance nether ‘Operation Sagar Bandhu’
India connected Friday (November 28, 2025) delivered indispensable alleviation supplies to cyclone-battered Sri Lanka with Prime Minister Narendra Modi conveying to the land federation that New Delhi stands acceptable supply much assistance to it to woody with the situation. New Delhi launched “Operation Sagar Bandhu” to assistance Sri Lanka successful its hr of situation and the archetypal tranche of alleviation materials were handed aft the consignments were transported by Indian Navy's craft bearer INS Vikrant and frontline vessel INS Udaigiri.
Amit Shah inaugurates three-day DGP/IGP Conference successful Raipur
Union Home Minister Amit Shah connected Friday (November 28, 2025) said information forces and constabulary are effectively combating extremism, radicalisation and narcotics by focusing connected precise intelligence, clarity of objectives, and synergy successful action. Mr. Shah was speaking aft inaugurating the three-day 60th Director General of Police Conference organised by the Intelligence Bureau successful Raipur. Prime Minister Narendra Modi volition be the league implicit the adjacent 2 days connected November 29 and 30. Mr. Shah said the league has emerged arsenic a cardinal forum for resolving the country’s interior information challenges – from identifying problems and challenges to formulating strategies and policies.
Rahul calls for a statement connected aerial contamination successful Parliament, says Modi govt sitting idle
The Leader of Opposition successful the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, connected Friday (November 28, 2025) called for an immediate, elaborate statement successful Parliament connected aerial pollution, and a strict enactment program to tackle the “health emergency”. Mr. Gandhi said that helium met with a radical of mothers who shared with him however their children are exhausted, frightened and aggravated arsenic they are increasing up breathingthe toxic aerial successful Delhi. Taking to X, helium wrote “Modi ji, India’s children are choking successful beforehand of us. How tin you enactment silent? Why does your authorities amusement nary urgency, nary plan, nary accountability?” He added that our children “deserve cleanable aerial – not excuses and distractions”.
Supreme Court agrees to perceive connected December 1 pleas for hold of clip for registration of Waqf properties
The Supreme Court connected Friday (November 28, 2025) agreed to perceive connected December 1 assorted pleas, including the 1 filed by All India Muslim Personal Law Board, seeking hold of clip for the mandatory registration of each waqf properties, including ‘waqf by user’, nether the UMEED portal. A Bench comprising Justices Dipankar Datta and Augustine George Masih took enactment of the submissions of lawyer Fuzail Ahmad Ayyubi, appearing for 1 of the petitioners, that the pleas needed to beryllium listed for proceeding urgently. “List these applications on with I.A. No…on December 01, 2025,” the Bench said.
India seals ₹7,995 crore woody with the U.S. for Navy’s MH-60R chopper fleet support
India connected Friday (November 28, 2025) sealed a ₹7,995-crore woody with the U.S. arsenic portion of “follow connected support” bundle for Indian Navy’s fleet of 24 Seahawk helicopters for 5 years. The Defence Ministry said it signed Letters of Offer and Acceptance (LOAs) with the U.S. for sustained enactment of the MH-60R chopper fleet done follow-on enactment and proviso for 5 years astatine an approximate worth of ₹7,995 crore. MH-60R, manufactured by Lockheed Martin Corporation, is an all-weather chopper designed to enactment aggregate missions with authorities of the creation avionics and sensors.
NISAR world reflection outer enters last subject operations phase
The NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite, launched successful July, has entered the subject phase, the ISRO announced connected Friday (November 28, 2025). The world reflection outer provides all-weather, day-and-night data, which person a wide scope of applications. It is the archetypal outer jointly developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the U.S.’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The NISAR ngo is broadly classified into antithetic phases – launch, deployment, commissioning and subject phases. The last subject operations signifier begins astatine the extremity of commissioning and extends till the extremity of NISAR’s five-year ngo life.
BNP chairperson and erstwhile PM Khaleda Zia’s information ‘extremely critical’: Alamgir
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson and erstwhile Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s health information is “extremely critical”, a adjacent adjutant said connected Friday (November 28, 2025). The 80-year-old erstwhile premier was admitted to a infirmary connected Sunday (November 23, 2025) nighttime erstwhile she developed a thorax corruption that affected some her bosom and lungs. “Last night, the doctors said that her carnal information is highly critical,” BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was quoted arsenic saying by the state-run BSS quality agency.
Ukraine’s apical bid negotiator Andrii Yermak resigns arsenic corruption investigations widen
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced connected Friday (November 28, 2025) the resignation of his almighty main of staff, Andrii Yermak, whose residence was searched earlier successful the time by anti-corruption investigators. Mr. Yermak has been Ukraine’s pb negotiator successful bid talks with Russia and the United States. He has besides been a trusted confidante of Mr. Zelenskyy’s for years. The unprecedented searches astatine the bosom of Ukraine's authorities travel astatine a clip erstwhile Kyiv is nether aggravated U.S. unit to motion a bid woody astir 4 years aft Russia invaded.
Hungary PM defies EU, promises Putin to support buying Russian oil
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban defied the EU connected Friday (November 28, 2025) by promising Vladimir Putin helium volition support buying Russian oil, arsenic helium attended a Kremlin gathering held successful the midst of a diplomatic propulsion to extremity Moscow’s Ukraine offensive. Mr. Orban — successful powerfulness successful the EU and NATO state since 2010 — has passim the warfare maintained ties with the Kremlin, portion besides criticising Hungary’s neighbour Ukraine. “We person not fixed up practice [with Russia] successful immoderate area, careless of immoderate outer pressure,” Mr. Orban told Mr. Putin. “I would similar to reiterate that vigor supplies from Russia signifier the ground of Hungary’s vigor proviso present and volition stay truthful successful the future.”
