Breaking News, August 7 | HIGHLIGHTS

The Punjab government is mulling setting up 66 solar power plants, each with a capacity of 4 MW, Minister of New and Renewable Energy Sources Aman Arora said. 

Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi chaired a meeting of his cabinet on Wednesday, officials said. The meeting, which was Majhi's fourth, was held at Lok Seva Bhavan, they said. However, the press was not informed about the decisions taken at the meeting as the assembly was in session.

J-K: The first batch of 700 devotees of Baba Buddha Amarnath Yatra reaches Poonch.

National Handloom Day: Weavers of Gujarat’s Bhujodi weave a story of resilience and revival.

 Olympic medalist Manu Bhaker met Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi at her 10, Janpath residence today.

Traffic congestion seen on the Delhi-Gurugram Road due to waterlogging after rainfall.

Former Prime Minister HD Devegowda met Union Health Minister & BJP President JP Nadda today.

 Indian Olympic Association (IOA) President PT Usha met Vinesh Phogat earlier today at the Olympic Village Polyclini in Paris. 

Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray met Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and other party leaders in New Delhi earlier today.

A joint team of Indian Army and Assam Rifles has recovered one AK rifle, one 12 bore Single Barrel Rifle, two 9mm Pistols, 11 grenades,  ammunition and other war-like stores during an operation in Kakching district of Manipur.

West Bengal Cabinet Reshuffle: Babul Supriyo gets IT, Public Enterprise & Industrial Reconstruction Department .

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma handed over 20 Inflatable Rubber Boats (with OBM) to Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve (KNP&TR).

 Assam | Heavy waterlogging in Panjabari area of Guwahati following rainfall.

Punjab: Police arrested 21 people involved in cybercrime.

Celebrated biochemist Govindarajan Padmanabhan selected for first Vigyan Ratna Puraskar.

 Scientists, engineers of Chandrayaan-3 to receive Vigyan Team award as government announces 33 Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskars.

Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) leaders are meeting at the Maharashtra Congress office in Mumbai, to discuss and strategise for Assembly elections and other related issues. 

Air Dynasty helicopter has crashed in Nepal's Nuwakot District.

Delhi: Former Maharashtra CM and Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray along with his son Aaditya Thackeray arrives at the residence of Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge.

Chennai: Tamil Nadu Youth Welfare and Sports Development Minister, Udhayanidhi Stalin inaugurated an indoor playground at Choolaimedu, today.

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath held a review meeting of the district-level development works, and law and order, at the Collectorate auditorium.

Mobile internet and bulk SMS services temporarily suspended in Sirsa district of Haryana.

Bihar: River Ganga is flowing just below the danger mark at Gandhi Ghat in Patna.

Mansukh Mandaviya speaks on issue of disqualification of Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat.

China's exports rose 7% in July from a year earlier, below economists' forecasts for growth closer to 10% as trade tensions and weakening growth in the United States and other major markets weighed on demand. Chinese leaders have ramped up investment in manufacturing to rev up an economy that stalled during the pandemic and is still growing more slowly than hoped. But moves to tame inflation by raising interest rates have bit into consumer demand in affluent Western countries.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said the setback suffered by wrestler Vinesh Phogat has certainly broken the hopes of millions of Indians but is sure she will bounce back to be the winner she always is. Phogat was disqualified from the Olympics after being found overweight ahead of her women's 50kg final in Paris. Before this morning, she was assured of at least a silver medal but will now be coming back empty-handed due to the disqualification.

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) informed the Delhi High Court on Wednesday that it will communicate within two days its order cancelling former probationary Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Puja Khedkar's candidature to her.

The CBI conducted searches at 15 locations in Chhattisgarh in connection with allegations of nepotism in the public service commission examination held in 2022, officials said on Wednesday. "Ineligible" family members of politicians, PSC officials and public servants were recruited in lucrative government jobs, they said.

The Bombay High Court has sought details from the Maharashtra government on the facilities of e-Mulakat and video conferencing in jails across the state. A single bench of Justice Bharati Dangre on August 2 sought statistics of how many accused have been produced before courts via video conferencing from jail and how many have been physically produced in the last six months.

After activist Manoj Jarange asked the Marathas to prepare for the upcoming Maharashtra assembly elections, BJP leader and former Union Minister Raosaheb Danve challenged him to field 288 Maratha candidates in the polls if he was not satisfied with the reservation granted to his community. Addressing a press conference on Tuesday evening, he said the state government has already provided 10 per cent reservation to the Maratha community.

In a shocking turn of events, Vinesh Phogat was on Wednesday disqualified from the Olympics after being found overweight ahead of her women's 50kg final here. Vinesh had scripted history by becoming the first Indian woman wrestler to reach the gold medal bout in the event on Tuesday night.

Puja Khedkar has petitioned the Delhi High Court against the cancellation of her UPSC candidature. Represented by Senior Advocate Indira Jaising, Khedkar claimed she has not received the official cancellation order, only a press release.

The Supreme Court has directed the National Green Tribunal to oversee the impact of silicosis-prone industries and factories across India and ensure that the Central Pollution Control Board and the respective state pollution control boards comply with its earlier directions on the issue. Silicosis is an incurable occupational lung disease caused by prolonged inhalation of silica dust.

Congress leaders including party's General Secretary KC Venugopal, MP Deepender Singh Hooda held a placard 'Vinesh Phogat ab Gold ki baari' ahead of Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat's final bout at Paris Olympics 2024.

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav slammed the government's reported refusal to pay 18 months dearness allowance (DA) arrears to central government employees, and questioned its claim of being a "global economic superpower". He also asked the government where is the money from the ever-increasing 'GST collection' going.

Palestinian militant group Hamas named its Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar, who is another high-profile name targeted by Israel, as its new chief after the death of his predecessor Ismail Haniyeh in a suspected Israeli strike in Tehran, the group announced on Tuesday.

Police have registered an FIR against a 31-year-old woman and three of her male friends for allegedly abetting her husband's suicide in Maharashtra's Thane district, an official said on Wednesday. The woman and her friends allegedly blackmailed and harassed the 42-year-old victim following which he hanged himself at his home in Dombivli area on December 20, 2023, he said.

The British government has called on Elon Musk to act responsibly after the tech billionaire used his social media platform X to unleash a barrage of posts that officials say risk inflaming the violent unrest gripping the country. Justice Minister Heidi Alexander made the comments Tuesday morning after Musk posted a comment saying that “Civil war is inevitable” in the U. K. Musk later doubled down, highlighting complaints that the British criminal justice system treats Muslims more leniently than far-right activists and comparing Britain's crackdown on social media users to the Soviet Union.

A driver in the Mexican border city of Tijuana apparently had the bright idea of connecting his Tesla to an illegal electricity hookup connected directly to a powerline. Not only did the Tesla eventually burst into flames, the blaze was so hot it set a neighboring house on fire.

About a dozen F/A-18 fighter jets from the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier have flown to a military base in the Middle East, as part of the Pentagon's effort to help defend Israel from possible attacks by Iran and its proxies and to safeguard U. S. troops, according to a U. S. official.

Israel's Olympic team said some athletes have received threats as they compete in Paris amid larger tensions over Palestinian deaths during the war in Gaza and the threat of a wider regional conflict in the Middle East. Yael Arad, president of the Israeli National Olympic Committee, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that team members had received “centralized” threats meant to generate “psychological terror” in athletes, without giving further details.

The United States has expressed deep concerns about the continued violence in Bangladesh including attacks on members of religious or political groups, and said it will be vital for the new government to credibly investigate all such instances and provide justice to victims.

The Biden administration on Tuesday imposed sanctions on a Paraguayan tobacco company for allegedly enriching the country's controversial former president, a cigarette tycoon sanctioned last year by the White House for corruption. The U. S. Treasury Department said it was targeting cigarette producer Tabacalera del Este over its links to Horacio Cartes, one of the Paraguay's richest men who served as president from 2013 to 2018 and still wields significant political power in the country. Paraguay's current president, Santiago Peña, is a political protégé of Cartes who also hails from the dominant conservative Colorado party.