Jakarta, 2/8: At least five people are dead and 41 are still missing after a ferry caught fire off Indonesia’s Madura island, the country’s search and rescue agency said in a statement on Sunday. Below are the details: * The ferry was carrying 271 passengers and crew members, 225 of whom have been rescued, agency…
Washington 2/8: US President Donald Trump on Friday said that the United States is holding fresh attacks on Iran despite having locked targets, provided a deal is agreed upon with Tehran and other Middle Eastern countries. The U.S.A. is locked and loaded and ready to go against the Islamic Republic of Iran, at levels of…
Mysuru, 2/8: Karnataka on Saturday released around 10,000 cusecs of water from the Kabini reservoir towards Tamil Nadu following heavy rainfall in its catchment area, including Wayanad in Kerala and Kodagu. Till Saturday afternoon, the officials managing the Kabini dam, located in Mysuru district, were releasing only 4,000 cusecs of water. However, with the inflow…
Bengaluru, 1/8: The Karnataka government may decide to take back the sites allotted from various societies and the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) if the allottees fail to construct houses within five years of allotment.Chief Minister D K Shivakumar, referring to poor maintenance of vacant sites, said that such vacant sites are usually not maintained well…
Hyderabad, 1/8: NDA partners in Andhra Pradesh, the TDP and Jana Sena, came out in strong support of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership on Saturday amid the controversy surrounding the Gen Z protests. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu, at the top of his voice, declared that in his entire political…
Lucknow, 1/8: A case was registered in Varanasi against Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and two other MPs on Saturday for allegedly insulting Sanatan Dharma. The case was filed on them for enacting a play in Parliament premises on Friday in in a symbolic depiction of ‘fund theft’ at Ram Temple in…
Mumbai, 1/8: Boxer Preeti Pawar punched her way to the gold medal with a dominant 5-0 win against Canada’s Scarlett Delgado in the women’s 54 kg bout at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Saturday. Pawar got off to a stunning start in the gold-medal match, winning the opening round unanimously with all five judges…
Thiruvananthapuram, 1/8: At least seven persons, including three children, were killed and many injured in rain-related calamities in various parts of Kerala since Friday night. Minor landslides were reported in various parts of Idukki and Kottayam, while many areas of Pathanamthitta, Kozhikode, Wayanad and Malappuram were flooded.
New Delhi,, 1/8: The Bill to amend anti-paper leak law on Saturday got President’s assent after having got the Parliament nod late on Thursday night.The Rajya Sabha passed the Public Examination (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, 2026, that proposes to provide for stringent punishment for those involved in paper leaks and other unfair means…
New Delhi, 1/8:The Congress on Saturday slammed Prime Mnister Narendra Modi alleging he is “playing victim card” instead of apologising for brutality on protesting students. The opposition party also claimed that the prime minister’s “InstaGram sabhas”, which it termed an act of “supreme self-obsession”, are fooling no one.
