New Year celebrations light up skies across the world

New Delhi: Millions of people around the world stayed up through midnight hours to see their clocks folding hands to welcome another year in the eternal calendar of time.

Another year is already here in Kerala with a bright sun smiling upon greenish landscape.

Although the Kerala police warned youngsters against taking New Year Celebrations too far, festivities went ahead even in interior villages.

At the midnight hours when the New Year was to arrive, there were fireworks in many neigbourhoods across the state.

Some had taken their music boxes to their regular hangout places to shake a leg to popular movie songs.

Happy New Years messages kept WhatsApp chats busy through the night and in the morning of the New Year.

Similar festivities took place across India, according to India today , with millions waiting for the hour to usher in New Year celebrating the moment with fireworks and music.

The celebrations come amid worries of another wave of covid outbreak looming over the nation.

The Police tightened security to avoid any untoward incidents and issued warnings.

Goa kept alive its fame for celebrations welcoming New Year 2023 with light, music and dance at Majestic Group hotel in Panaji, among other places, according to the report.

Huge crowds turned up at Marine Drive in Mumbai to celebrate the moment and similar festivities took place in Bangalore and Kochi.

Reports of festivities for welcoming the New Year are pouring in showing people are enthusiastic to leave behind the burdens of the past year.

The world has been waking up from the horrors of the Covid 19 in 2022 but the yearend comes with report of another possible wave of Covid looming ominously over humanity.

People however went head celebrating despite reports of increasing Covid cases in several countries mostly in China.

Reports from New Zealand, Australia shows frenzied moment of light and fireworks to welcome the New Year.

People gathered at the vantage points around Sydney Harbour to watch the fireworks lit up the sky over the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge.

New Year celebrations went in full swing in South Korea's Seoul with people gathered in large numbers to welcome 2023.

Hong Kong's famous harbour provided a stunning backdrop to new year celebrations with a spectacular music and light show, the BBC reported.

United Kingdom, USA and Japan were among that saw celebrations to welcome the New Year.

Madhyamam also wishes all our readers a prosperous and happy New Year.