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A Maharashtra FDA officer was allegedly forced to eat expired biscuits by an angry crowd in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar after residents accused him of accepting a bribe from a shopkeeper. The confrontation followed a complaint over expired food products at a local paan shop

From a Polish mans bizarre 300-pizza prank to a 66-year-old skateboarder breaking her own record, the week brought a series of unusual stories. A baby named Bindi, AI-generated Cat in the Hat videos, Dolly Partons cottage and dancing robots also made headlines

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has attacked the BJP-RSS over a shuddhikaran ceremony allegedly held at the Haldwani venue two days after Mallikarjun Kharge addressed a rally there. Gandhi called the act a crime and demanded an FIR under the SC/ST Act

Interestingly, both Parton and Curry were multitalented, singer-actors.

Three bodies were recovered from the Gandak river in Uttar Pradesh after apparently drifting into India from flood-hit Nepal. Meanwhile, Nepal Army said 163 foreigners, including 113 Indians, have been evacuated as India sends relief material and a rescue team

Namdapha, located in Changlang district, is renowned for its rich flora and fauna and continues to yield significant wildlife records

Thus the monsoon produced a remarkable reversal: from wife to separated lover to unmarried girl.

Rescue operations entered their fourth day after catastrophic flash floods along the Nepal-China border, with the combined death toll in Nepal and Tibet rising to 676 and nearly 3,000 people missing. More than 11,000 security personnel have been deployed, while 2,465 people have been evacuated

The left-handers were accurate and quick through the air and the debutant off-spinner looked an honest trier with little variety to trouble batters at this level. On a pitch that got slower as the match progressed, the fast bowlers struggled to get the ball up towards the batters shoulders

At least 37 people were killed after a Russian attack struck a warehouse in Myla village in Ukraines Bucha district near Kyiv, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. A care home and residential buildings were damaged, while more than 370 people were evacuated

According to the Pune Police, surveillance will help protect devotees and assist law enforcement agencies in maintaining law and order during the festival

Pune is the first city in Maharashtra to run out of registration numbers under the current alphanumeric format, officials said. The Pune RTO also has the highest number of registered vehicles among the state's RTOs

The students were travelling in the S2 and S3 coaches along with 10 teachers. Railway medical personnel attended to around 30 to 40 affected students during the train's halt at Khandwa

As I am about to begin my Uzbekistan visit, I am very happy to see the enthusiasm of my young friends from Uzbekistan, beautifully expressed in this video. What makes it even more special is the fact that they did it in Hindi and they did it so well! PM Modi wrote

India has stepped up its humanitarian assistance to Nepal as rescue and relief operations continue in the flood-affected areas. The third Indian flight carrying relief material reached Kathmandu on Friday, with the supplies handed over to Nepal's minister Mahabir Pun

Delhi transport bodies have demanded an immediate hike in auto and taxi fares after CNG prices rose by Rs 3.89 per kg, threatening a strike on September 9 if their demand is not met

The Bihar government rescued around 100 Maharashtra pilgrims stranded in Kathmandu following flash floods in Nepal and arranged their return to Maharashtra by train

Search, rescue and relief operations continued for the fourth consecutive day on Saturday, with emergency teams also evacuating thousands of people stranded in flood-affected areas

Himachal Pradesh Governor Kavinder Gupta expressed concern over the devastation caused by flash floods in the Nepal-Tibet region and warned of growing risks in the Himalayan region

Kharge also raised concerns about Indian nationals and persons of Indian origin who remain stranded or uncontactable in Nepal and called for intensified rescue and evacuation efforts to ensure their safe return

The Indian personnel are expected to assist in areas affected by the flash floods, where authorities are continuing large-scale search, rescue and relief operations amid extensive damage to infrastructure and difficult terrain

Twenty-one Tamil Nadu pilgrims stranded in Nepal following severe flash floods returned safely to Chennai on Friday as efforts continued to trace other missing Indians

The Dharashiv MP wrote to Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on August 22, raising concerns over the prolonged dry spell and its impact on crops, particularly soybean

Alliance partners BJP and Shinde Sena approach vote-winning very differently. CM Fadnavis got auto, taxi drivers a years relief on the Marathi issue that the transport ministry (Shinde Sena) flatly refused

He may not have had a chance to extricate himself from the space, and the trains may have started moving.

There has been no update on the whereabouts of 77 Isha Foundation pilgrims who went missing after a flash flood struck the China-Nepal border, a group coordinator said

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has arrived in the US for a six-day visit that includes the G20 Finance Ministers meeting and discussions with investors and business leaders

Researchers at Harvard and Stanford have engineered marine bacteria to accelerate olivine weathering, potentially enhancing the oceans ability to store atmospheric carbon

A real-time machine intelligence system assisted a neurosurgeon during live brain surgery at Londons National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Uzbekistan on Saturday for talks with President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, with trade, defence, energy, technology and education among the key areas of discussion

NTA has declared the UGC-NET June 2026 results for 84 subjects. Candidates can download their scorecards online, while English, Commerce and Sociology candidates await re-examination

According to the SEOC report, several callers informed the helpline that their relatives or acquaintances, many of whom were on the Kailash Mansarovar yatra, have been out of contact since the flood.

Kolkata Police have registered three FIRs against TMC leaders, including Abhishek Banerjee and Derek OBrien, after a scuffle at the party office, with 13 people arrested

A new study estimates that 145 million children in India are exposed to at least one additional month of heat stress every year due to climate change

At least 320 Indians remain missing after devastating floods near the Nepal-Tibet border, while around 400 others are stranded on the Chinese side, the MEA said

At least 40 people, mostly women, were injured after an HRTC bus carrying around 60 passengers hit a hillside near Katar village in Kullu

Donald Trump announced the agreement in a social media post, saying it had been negotiated by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez

Penguin Random House India has clarified that it is not the Indian publisher of Sonia Gandhis memoir Belonging, rejecting reports that it withdrew from publishing the book over proposed editorial changes

Maharashtra CM Fadnavis was speaking at the inauguration of the new administrative building of the Nashik sub-centre of Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) at Shivnai in Dindori taluka

Reliance Group has rejected allegations made by Essel Group chairman Subhash Chandra against its media entities, calling the remarks baseless

Pakistan Supreme Court had on August 18 ordered the government to shift the 73-year-old to private-run Shifa Hospital following months of concern raised by Imran Khan's family and supporters over his health, particularly an eye condition diagnosed earlier this year

The action follows inspections conducted by the state drug regulator, which found several irregularities involving the handling, storage, records and recall of medicines

An Alliance Air flight from Delhi suffered a tyre burst while landing at Bilaspur airport in Chhattisgarh on Friday. All 37 passengers and four crew members on board were safely evacuated, with no injuries reported

The rescue operation entered its third day amid warnings of possible fresh flooding caused by rising water levels in a lake formed by avalanches near the border with Tibet

Venkatramana, proprietor of the Tirupati-based travel agency that organised the trip, said the group left for Nepal on August 21 and comprised 28 people, all from Andhra Pradesh

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar reviewed India's rescue and relief efforts for flood-hit Nepal with MEA officials and Indian missions in Kathmandu and Beijing

The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo has expanded to two more health zones, taking the total number of affected areas to 60, according to government figures.

One person was killed and nine others injured after an improvised explosive device attached to a motorcycle exploded in a busy marketplace in South Waziristan, police said

India is planning to procure the US-made Javelin anti-tank missile system, US Ambassador Sergio Gor said, with the proposed acquisition also opening up possibilities for co-production between New Delhi and Washington

PM Modi shared a reel from the celebrations on his Instagram account, captioning it, Hi5, smiles and more during todays Raksha Bandhan celebrations at 7, LKM. The video showed him interacting warmly with schoolchildren and exchanging greetings with them during the festival celebrations