Besieged by sanctions and an increasingly belligerent US, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei is in a secure location, but is not hiding in a bunker, the country’s consul general to India has said.

The district magistrate of Odisha’s Koraput has ordered a ban on the sale of meat, chicken, fish, eggs and other non-vegetarian food items on the occasion of Republic Day.

India are unlikely to play a bilateral series with Pakistan anytime soon. BCCI Vice-President Rajeev Shukla says the board will follow the Indian government’s guidance. “I don’t think it’s possible to have bilateral tours in the current situation,” he added. India last played Pakistan in 2012-13 and now follows a “third soil” policy for matches. Tensions increased after Operation Sindoor in 2025, and security concerns remain high, recalling the 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore.