Today News Headlines for School Assembly, Dec 5, 2025: President Putin, PM Modi engage in bilateral talks; Indigo cancels all flights from Delhi

IndiGo tells DGCA flight ops to restore fully by Feb 10, seeks temporary exemption from some FDTL norms

Supreme Court directs states to deploy more staff to support BLOs

Four firms owned by Arunachal CM Pema Khandu’s family got 146 govt contracts in Tawang

Russian President Vladimir Putin is arriving in New Delhi on Thursday evening for a two-day state visit to India. This will be the Russian president’s first visit to the country since the start of the war in Ukraine.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday told the Rajya Sabha that Punjab has the maximum number of human trafficking cases in the country.

The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said Thursday that weak La Niña conditions will prevail through the first quarter of 2026 across the world, which experts suggest may lead to a colder winter in several parts of India, especially in the North.

International

Imran Khan claims Asim Munir deliberately escalated tensions with Afghanistan to ‘please western powers’

Donald Trump’s travel ban on nations to be extended to ‘over 30 countries’, Homeland secy Kristi Noem confirms

Israel said it launched an airstrike on a Hamas militant in southern Gaza in retaliation for an attack earlier in the day that wounded five Israeli soldiers.

Imran Khan dissolves PTI’s political committee amid internal disagreements

US President Donald Trump’s administration has reportedly ordered an enhanced vetting of H-1B visa applicants for highly skilled workers, and anyone possibly involved in “censorship” of free speech would be considered for rejection

Business

Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is investigating the widespread disruption plaguing the flight operations of India’s largest airline, IndiGo.

While noting that the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) has strengthened the confidence of creditors and encouraged foreign investments in the last eight years of its implementation, a parliamentary panel has identified multiple challenges that are hampering the law’s potential.

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) revoked its order directing phone makers to mandatorily pre-install the state-owned Sanchar Saathi application.

Smartphone makers Apple and Google are planning to push back on the government directive to mandatorily pre-install the Sanchar Saathi app on their devices, with concerns around privacy and system security weighing heavily on their minds, The Indian Express has learnt.

Sports

India announced its T20I squad for South Africa, with Shubman Gill appointed vice-captain and Hardik Pandya making a comeback after a two-month injury layoff.

Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha, a 3‑year‑old from Sagar in Madhya Pradesh, has become the youngest rated chess player in history with a rapid rating of 1,572, dethroning Kolkata’s Anish Sarkar, who held the record last November at the age of three years, eight months and 19 days; remarkably, Sarwagya is still in nursery school

Harshit Rana reprimanded for breaching ICC Code of Conduct in the first ODI against South Africa

Education

Victoria University (VU) today laid the foundation for its Delhi NCR Campus, located in Gurugram, Haryana.

The Indian Railways has initiated recruitment for 1,20,579 vacancies under the annual recruitment calendars of 2024 and 2025, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw informed the Lok Sabha during the ongoing Winter Session.

Chile becomes latest country to ban smartphone use during class. The new law will take effect next year, making Chile the latest country to restrict smartphone use among young students to reduce its harmful effects and curb classroom distractions.