MHOW: India's top military officer, General Anil Chauhan, on Tuesday spoke about the indigenous umbrella shield, Sudarshan Chakra, which is aimed at protecting both people and property. The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) said, "The aim is to develop a system to protect India's strategic, civilian, and nationally important sites. It will act both as a shield as well as a sword." He further added, "It will be India's own Iron Dome (Israel's missile shield) or Golden Dome." Highlighting the scale o...Read More
Srinagar: Heavy downpour on Tuesday disrupted mobile telephone and Internet services in the Kashmir Valley, while all major rivers in the Jammu division were flowing above the danger level, inundating many areas. The sudden disruption of mobile telephone services and internet facilities by various service providers affected normal life in Kashmir, as heavy rain threw life out of gear completely in the Jammu division. A bridge on the Jammu-Pathankot highway collapsed, forcing the closure of the...Read More
New Delhi: The obsession to be one-up on other social media users can cause great harm. Driven by the desire to click the perfect selfie, people end up taking risks which can even cost their lives. For instance, there have been incidents in India where people have got run over while trying to take a selfie on a railway track, completely unaware of an approaching train. A recent study has revealed the world's most dangerous countries for snapping selfies. And would you believe it, India tops th...Read More
New Delhi, Aug 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) India has emerged as the world's third-largest wind equipment manufacturing hub, positioning it to meet 10 per cent of global demand, according to a report released by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) on Tuesday. The report details how India's installed wind capacity can more than double from 51 GW to 107 GW by 2030, in line with state-level Resource Adequacy Plans (RAP). This is pivotal to help India achieve the least cost pathway for a successful energy...Read More
New Delhi [India], August 26 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will pay a visit to Tianjin, China, to participate in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit, at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Secretary (West) in the Ministry of External Affairs, Tanmay Lal said on Tuesday. The Prime Minister is expected to hold some bilateral meetings during the Summit's sidelines, the official said Addressing a special press briefing ahead of PM Modi's visits to Japan and China, ...Read More
New Delhi [India], August 26 (ANI): Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said on Tuesday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is embarking on an official visit to Japan on the evening of August 28. He will be in Japan on the August 29-30 for holding the 15th India Japan, annual summit with the Prime Minister of Japan Shigeru Ishiba. It is Prime Minister Modi's first annual summit with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. This is his eighth visit to Japan. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Japan and Ch...Read More
Katra, August 26: A landslide occurred near Inderprastha Bhojnalaya at Adhkwari cave temple located on the way to the Vaishno Devi shrine in Jammu and Kashmir, the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board (SMVDSB) said on Tuesday. Some injuries are feared, and rescue operations are underway with the deployment of necessary manpower and machinery. In a post shared on X, the Shrine Board stated, "A landslide incident has occurred near Inderprastha Bhojnalaya at Adhkwari, some injuries are feared. Rescu...Read More
New Delhi, Aug 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) Amid global geopolitical and supply chain volatility, Xiabing Feng, Principal Commercial Officer, US Embassy in India on Tuesday said that the US is committed to collaborate with India in terms of exporting high-quality products and services for India to achieve energy security and economic growth. Addressing the "3rd Energy Summit of the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce", the top official of the US Embassy in the national capital also noted that collaboratio...Read More
New Delhi, Aug 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) Afghanistan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi's visit to India, planned for later this week, has been cancelled, sources in Kabul told IANS on Tuesday. As Delhi and Kabul are facing a new tectonic shift in their bilateral relations after the takeover of the Taliban in 2021, both nations have enhanced their diplomatic relations, and it could have been a major development if Foreign Minister Muttaqi had visited Delhi. Sources in Kabul told IANS that the visit ...Read More
Chennai, Aug 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) The makers of director Bhanu Bogavarapu's eagerly awaited commercial entertainer 'Mass Jathara', featuring actor Ravi Teja in the lead, on Tuesday announced that the release of the film was being postponed and that it would not be arriving in theatres on August 27 as announced earlier. Taking to its X timeline, Sithara Entertainments, the production house producing the film, wrote, "Due to recent industry-wide strikes and unforeseen delays in wrapping up crucial...Read More
Mumbai: Bollywood Badshah, Shah Rukh Khan, has the most hilarious reaction to Farah Khan's cook, Dilip's dancing skills. The filmmaker-choreographer took to her Instagram and shared a video of Dilip, showing him grooving to the song 'Badli Si Hawa Hai' from Aryan Khan's 'The Ba***ds of Bollywood.' In the video, Farah, seemingly engrossed in her phone, was surprised by Dilip's sudden performance in the kitchen. Dilip appeared fully immersed in the song's vibe, impressing viewers with his moves. ...Read More
Hyderabad: The National Commission for Women (NCW), on Tuesday, August 26, took suo motu cognisance of the gruesome murder of a Hyderabad-based pregnant woman, whose body was chopped into pieces by her husband and thrown into the Musi River. It has directed Telangana director general of police (DIG) to submit a detailed action report to the Commission within three days. Swathi, a resident in the Boduppal area of Medipally, was strangulated by Mahender on August 23 after the couple had an argum...Read More
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 26 (ANI): Mira Rajput has showered her daughter, Misha, with love and blessings as the little one turned nine on Tuesday. Mira took to her Instagram to share a picture of Misha to extend her birthday wishes. "Happy 9th Birthday to our sunshine sweetheart. My baby girl is a big girl! Fly my darling," she wrote in the caption, further also tagging her husband, actor Shahid Kapoor, in the post. https://www.instagram.com/p/DNz7GSl5IQe/ In the picture, the star...Read More
Patna, Aug 26 (PTI) Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday asked Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to "apologise to the people of Bihar" for inviting Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy to their 'Voter Adhikar Yatra'. The senior BJP leader made the remark at a function here, organised by the party's youth wing Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, on a day when Reddy was spotted with the siblings in Supaul district....Read More
Leh, Aug 26 (PTI) The high altitude areas of Ladakh, including the 18,379-feet-high Khardung La pass - the second highest motorable pass in the world - witnessed the season's first snowfall as moderate rain lashed the plains in the Union Territory, officials said on Tuesday. Most mountain passes have received light to moderate snowfall over the past 24 hours. This includes the Khardung La top, which serves as the gateway to the Shyok and Nubra valleys, the 17,950-foot high Changla Top along the...Read More
Jaisalmer: A rare fossil believed to date back to the Jurassic period has been discovered in Megha village of Fatehgarh Panchayat Samiti in Rajasthan's Jaisalmer district. The find, an extremely well-preserved vertebrate skeleton, was examined by Professor Virendra Singh Parihar, Head of the Geology Department at Jai Narayan Vyas University, Jodhpur, along with geologist Dr Narayan Das Inkhaia. According to Parihar, the fossil belongs to a species called 'Phytosaur', a reptilian creature that l...Read More
Ahmedabad, Aug 26 (PTI) A day before US President Donald Trump's additional 25 per cent tariff kicks in, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday made a vehement pitch for swadeshi and Make in India that should help create jobs in the country. Swadeshi should be everyone's life mantra and irrespective of who is investing, production must take place domestically, Modi asserted on a day when Japan's Suzuki Motor Corporation committed to invest over Rs 70,000 crore in the country in the next five t...Read More
Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), Aug 26 (PTI) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday commissioned two multi-mission stealth frigates, INS Udaygiri and INS Himgiri, here at the Eastern Naval Command of the Indian Navy. Udaygiri and Himagiri come from the Indian Navy's latest state-of-the-art Project 17 A and the commissioning marks the first occasion when two frontline surface combatants constructed at two different shipyards were commissioned simultaneously....Read More
Lucknow, Aug 26 (PTI) Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav met the opposition's vice presidential candidate V Sudershan Reddy at the party headquarters here on Tuesday and said the election was "a fight for justice and constitutional values, not merely for power". He said the former Supreme Court judge's long career in upholding the Constitution, law and people's rights made him the "best possible choice" for the high constitutional post....Read More
Chennai, Aug 26 (PTI) A Chennai policeman on night patrol stoked a controversy with his "harassment" remark at a woman feeding scores of stray dogs at Thiruvanmiyur beach and he reportedly snatched her mobile for recording the altercation between the two, but later returned the handset. Though the police department is yet to react to the incident of purported rude behaviour of the policeman, the video on the heated argument between the cop who identified himself as Karthik and the woman at whom...Read More
Supaul (Bihar), Aug 26 (PTI) Launching a scathing attack on the NDA government at the Centre over the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, senior Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday alleged that the BJP was hatching a conspiracy to steal votes across the country as it has lost the trust of the people. Vadra joined her brother and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi in the ongoing 'Voter Adhikar Yatra' in Bihar's Supaul....Read More
VMPL New Delhi [India], August 26: In the sanctified atmosphere of the NSCI Dome, Worli, Mumbai, seekers from across the globe have gathered to immerse themselves in the sacred tide of Paryushan Mahaparva 2025. This most venerated festival of the Jain tradition commenced on 20th August, and over the course of eight transformative days, it is uniting aspirants in a profound journey of devotion, reflection, and inner elevation. With the blessings of Param Krupalu Dev and under the compassionate...Read More
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 26 (ANI): The Indian stock market on Tuesday witnessed a sharp sell-off after the Trump administration issued a notification to impose an additional 25 per cent tariff on Indian imports. The secondary tariffs will come into effect from August 27 and take the total tariff on Indian goods to 50 per cent. Stock markets traded under pressure today and slipped below crucial support levels, derailing the recent recovery momentum. Also Read | Trump's 50% Tariff Ta...Read More
New Delhi, Aug 26 (PTI) Calling the dissemination of videos and pictures of her new Mumbai house an "invasion of privacy and a serious security issue", actor Alia Bhatt on Tuesday requested media to take such images down immediately and asked her fans to not reshare them. Bhatt's Instagram post comes days after the visuals of her and husband Ranbir Kapoor's Bandra home, which seems to be taken from a neighbour's balcony, started circulating online. "I understand that in a city like Mumbai, spa...Read More
Mumbai: Actress Alia Bhatt is upset after an inside video of her unfinished bungalow in Mumbai's Bandra area circulated on social media without her knowledge or consent. Taking to her official Instagram handle, Alia expressed her concern through a sincere note that read: "I understand that in a city like Mumbai, space is limited - sometimes the view from your window is another person's home. But that does not give anyone the right to film private residences and push those videos online. A vide...Read More
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], August 26 (ANI): Inaugurating the three-day "Rozgar Mahakumbh 2025" in Lucknow on Tuesday, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced that every youth employed in Uttar Pradesh will be assured minimum wages, ending any scope for worker exploitation. He said companies must pay their employees fairly, while the state government will bear any additional burden. This initiative, he stressed, will guarantee dignified employment, job security, and complete protection of...Read More
New Delhi, Aug 26 (PTI) Avadhut Sathe Trading Academy, which is facing Sebi scrutiny over allegations of misleading investors with stock tips disguised as education, on Tuesday said it is fully cooperating with the regulator and remains committed to providing any additional information or assistance sought. Avadhut Sathe Trading Academy is operated by financial influencer Avadhut Sathe. In its statement, the academy said, "We are fully cooperating with Sebi and remain committed to providing an...Read More
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], August 26 (ANI): Indian pacer Mohammed Siraj talked about his learning from playing alongside former Test skipper and legendary batter Virat Kohli, saying that he learnt having a "fighting approach" in the game where the opposition would be an "enemy" for him. Siraj recalled his learnings from Virat while speaking to Boria Majumdar at Revsportz. Siraj formed a close bond with Virat during his playing days with Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) from 2018 to 2024 and...Read More
Jammu, Aug 26 (PTI) The Northern Railway has cancelled 18 trains to and from Katra, Udhampur and Jammu railway stations on Tuesday as relentless heavy rain wreaked havoc in the Jammu region, officials said. The Jammu region has been experiencing its heaviest rainfall in decades since Monday night, which damaged bridges, disrupted road connectivity and inundated large tracts of land, forcing people to shift to safer areas. The traffic on the Jammu-Srinagar and Kishtwar-Doda national highways wa...Read More
New Delhi, Aug 26 (PTI) Nearly one-third of school students take private coaching and the trend is more common in urban areas, the Centre's Comprehensive Modular Survey (CMS) on education has found. The survey noted that government schools play a pivotal role in providing education across India, accounting for 55.9 per cent of total enrolments. "It is higher in rural areas, where two-thirds (66.0 per cent) of students are enrolled, in comparison to urban areas (30.1 per cent). The private unai...Read More