Ajit Pawar announced an alliance between his NCP and the Sharad Pawar-led faction for the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation polls, saying the Pawar ‘parivar’ has reunited.

A man was killed after two compartments of the Tatanagar-Ernakulam Express caught fire at Yalamanchili, about 66 km from here, a senior police official said on Monday.

US President Donald Trump has insisted that peace negotiations aimed at ending the Russia-Ukraine war were “closer than ever before” following what he called a “terrific meeting” with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at his Mar-a-Lago residence