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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

The royal palace announced his death, after which his son Crown Prince Haakon automatically succeeded him to the throne. Harald had been Europe's oldest reigning monarch and served as Norway's king since 1991

The accident occurred around 8.30 a.m. on the Bhopal bypass bridge in Biaora when the bus lost control while negotiating a curve and rammed into the bridge wall, Rajgarh Superintendent of Police (SP), Amit Tolani said

Nepal flash floods have raised concerns in Bihar, but the Gandak River water level remains normal in Gopalganj. Authorities are monitoring the situation after flooding in Rasuwa, while Bihar CM Samrat Choudhary said the state's flood situation is stabilising

The accident occurred near Gudliya on a stretch of the expressway in Dausa. Police have launched an investigation to determine the circumstances that led to the collision

The Special Cells Northern Range received information about a Pakistan-backed espionage network operating in Delhi-NCR. During the investigation, police uncovered a network involved in obtaining Indian SIM cards and sending them to Pakistan, where they were purportedly used to access sensitive information

The US FDA has approved updated Covid-19 vaccines from Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech and Novavax-Sanofi for the 2026-27 immunisation season. The shots are approved for people aged 65 and older and younger high-risk individuals, with age eligibility varying by vaccine

Nepal floods death toll rises to 469 as rescue teams recover more bodies across eight districts and continue searching for missing people

The Ministry also said that 63 Indian workers at the Trishuli-I project in Rasuwa district are among those affected, including 21 from Tamil Nadu who had travelled for the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller were present during the Oval Office event

US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Allison M Hooker said she spoke with Nepal's Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal about the ongoing search-and-rescue efforts, including urgent efforts to locate missing US citizens

The Prime Minister shared his message on social media platform X as people across India marked the festival, which celebrates the bond between siblings

In the Olympics, there are so many different sports... Indian teams dont even participate in half of them, which means that we are not competing for a major chunk of the medal tally, Modi said

China's Ministry of Water Resources issued the alert for the Tibet Autonomous Region on Thursday night, citing concerns over the barrier lake that formed near the confluence of the Chhochen Khola and Purepu Tsangpo rivers

NCLT Member (Judicial) Nilesh Sharma, ruling as a third member, approved the plan under Section 114 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), rejecting objections by lenders that the recovery was too meagre to merit approval