Countless events happen around us every day, and only a handful come up for discussion, but some become important given the time and circumstances. Not knowing about them can leave people behind, so here is a brief round-up of important news from around the world for Jago News readers.

China has accused the United States of spreading rumours and taking restrictive measures against TikTok. China made the accusation after reports that Washington was asking TikTok's Chinese owners to sell their shares.

Russia recently brought down a US surveillance drone over the Black Sea, and the Pentagon has released a video of the incident. The United States claims a Russian fighter jet brought down the drone in an unsafe manner.

It is dark and silent all around, and the clock has only just struck 5am. Yet a group of sleepy students is already making its way to school. This is now the everyday scene in a town in eastern Indonesia, where the authorities have introduced a rule opening schools at 5:30am to teach students discipline.

An Indian Army Cheetah helicopter crashed during an exercise at Mandala in Arunachal Pradesh. Two pilots, of the ranks of lieutenant colonel and major, are missing.

Like Earth, Venus also has active volcanoes, with eruptions and lava flows. Evidence was found by reanalysing radar images taken more than three decades ago.

Barely a week after settling its long-running dispute with Saudi Arabia, Iran has begun a joint military exercise with China and Russia. The naval exercise will run in the Gulf of Oman from 15 to 19 March, with a fleet of warships from the three countries taking part. Naturally, this is raising concern in the United States, and Washington is keeping a close watch on the joint exercise of the three hostile countries.

Pakistan's current prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, has offered to hold talks with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan. The country's newspaper Dawn reported that the offer was made to free Pakistan from its ongoing political and economic crisis.

Sealdah in Kolkata is one of Asia's busiest railway stations, used by several lakh people every day. Opposite the main entrance of this station in the capital of West Bengal stands NRS Hospital, and on the wall to the right of the hospital now stand large bust sculptures of the fathers of the nation of India and Bangladesh.

Although summer has ended, an unprecedented heatwave has disrupted life in the South American country of Argentina. The national weather service says temperatures in east-central Argentina in the first 10 days of March were 8 to 10 degrees Celsius (14 to 18 degrees Fahrenheit) above normal.

Before the wounds of the century's worst earthquake have healed, the death toll from severe floods in Turkey has risen to 14, with at least five more people missing. The floods, caused by heavy rain from Tuesday night (14 March), have submerged countless homes, hospitals and businesses in the country's south-east, Mail Online reported.

Source: Jagonews24. First published in Bengali on The Agro News.