Indian Railways has launched the trial run of the Vande Bharat train from Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Railway Station Katra to Srinagar. The train crosses the world’s highest railway bridge, the Chenab Rail Bridge, and India’s first cable-stayed Anji Khad Bridge. It has been specially designed to handle the cold climate of the Kashmir valley.

Fueled by powerful winds and dry conditions, a series of ferocious wildfires erupted the second week of January and roared across the Los Angeles area.

According to data from NASA Landsats, warm and dry weather in Los Angeles in the last two-thirds of 2024 primed the vegetation to catch fire, and for that fire to spread quickly. The largest fires started on January 7 and devastated swathes of L.