Breaking News, August 22 I HIGHLIGHTS

Two men drowned in a waterfall in Shahpur tehsil of Thane district on Tuesday evening, police said. The incident took place at Mahuli Gad, Khor village, said inspector Samsher Tadvi of Vashind police station.

The government of Tamil Nadu gives assistance of Rs 10 crores to Himachal Pradesh for relief works in the rain-ravaged state.

 Pakistan's cash-strapped national carrier has grounded 11 aircraft, including three of its Boeing 777s, due to unavailability of funds to carry out replacement of parts.

 A court has sentenced a Police Sub Inspector to undergo five-year rigorous imprisonment for accepting bribe of Rs 5,000 from a man.

The CBI has arrested a Canada-based businessman in connection with a defence espionage case in which a journalist and a former Navy commander were held in May, officials said on Tuesday. 

Court sends suspended Delhi government officer Premoday Khakha accused of repeatedly raping a minor to one-day judicial custody.

The Delhi High Court has awarded Rs 50,000 each as compensation, to be borne by the State, to two accused who were acquitted in a murder case, saying it was a "classic example of terrible investigation" which made them suffer the ordeal of long trial and undergo incarceration for a crime they never committed.

The body of a man was found from a footpath in south Delhi's Lodhi Colony on Tuesday, police said. An information was received around 6.30 am regarding the body lying near Khanna Market, they said.

Iran's Defence Ministry unveiled a drone on Tuesday resembling America's armed MQ-9 Reaper, claiming that the aircraft is capable of staying airborne for 24 hours and has the range to reach the country's archenemy Israel.

Seven policemen were suspended here in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, six of them for allegedly conniving with a criminal, a senior police official said. They were suspended by Bareilly Senior Superintendent of Police Ghule Sushil Chandrabhan, Superintendent of Police (SP), Rural, Rajkumar Aggarwal said.

The rupee recovered from its all-time low levels and settled for the day higher by 19 paise at 82.94 (provisional) against the US dollar on Tuesday, as the American currency retreated from its elevated levels.

A seven-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by her neighbour in south Delhi's Lodhi Colony area, police said on Tuesday. On Monday around 2.20 am, a PCR call was received at Lodhi Colony police station regarding the sexual assault of a girl. The call was made by the victim’s mother, a senior police officer said.

A 52-year-old worker died after hot slag fell on him at a steel plant in Chhattisgarh’s Raigarh district on Tuesday, the police said. Slag is a byproduct of steel manufacturing.

Bharatiya Janata Party will be deploying its top guns including Union Ministers Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh in poll-bound Rajasthan to step up their electoral preparedness.
The party is scheduled to kick-start its four 'Parivartan Yatras', in the state from next month spanning over a period of 23 days, sources said.

A Mumbai to Ranchi IndiGo flight on Monday made an emergency landing at Nagpur airport after a passenger started vomiting blood. Upon emergency landing in Nagpur, the passenger was taken to a hospital where he succumbed to his disease.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Tuesday, left for South Africa to participate in the much-awaited BRICS Summit. According to the Ministry of External Affairs, the Indian Prime Minister left Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi at around 7 am IST and is likely to land at Johannesburg around 5.15 pm IST.

 Former President Donald Trump says he will surrender to authorities in Georgia on Thursday to face charges in the case accusing him of illegally scheming to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state.

Divisive ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra returned to Thailand on Tuesday after years of self-imposed exile to face criminal charges on the same day that a party affiliated with him plans to start forming a new government.
Thaksin has said his decision to return has nothing to do with an expected vote in Parliament later in the day on a candidate from the Pheu Thai party for prime minister. But many believe his arrival is connected to the party's pursuit of power.

Japan will start releasing treated and diluted radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean as early as Thursday — a controversial but essential early step in the decades of work to shut down the facility 12 years after its meltdown disaster.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida gave the final go-ahead Tuesday at a meeting of Cabinet ministers involved in the plan and instructed the operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, to be ready to start the coastal release on Thursday if weather and sea conditions permit.