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July 31, 2026 10:47 Priyanka Gandhi, Opposition MPs protest against Amit Shah in Parliament Opposition MPs, including Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and others, hold a protest at the Makar Dwar of the Parliament against Union Home Minister Amit Shah over ‘police action’ against CJP protestors on 20th July. Source link
The story so far: On July 30, the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) released a set of guidelines called ‘Authorisation for Undertaking Planned Re-entry of Space Objects’. These guidelines provide a new framework for how companies and government agencies must handle the reentry phase of a space mission. What is a planned re-entry? Objects in…
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Every time an e-challan arrived on his phone, Praveen Kumar Reddy feared the worst. The notices carried the registration number of his family’s motorcycle that had vanished nearly a decade earlier, even though the traffic violations were being committed hundreds of kilometres away in Hyderabad. What began as a puzzling notice soon turned into a…
Mediator Pakistan insisted on Thursday (July 30) that negotiations between Iran and the United States were ongoing, even as Washington carried out a “heavy wave of strikes” on its foe in retaliation for fresh attacks targeting Jordan. The last two days have seen Saudi Arabia join the U.S. in striking militant groups in Iraq, while…
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The women of the slum under the Dhakuria bridge in south Kolkata stage a sit-in demonstration against the eviction notice issued against them. | Photo Credit: Shrabana Chatterjee Women domestic workers of a south Kolkata slum in Dhakuria are pushing back against an eviction notice which does not ensure their rehabilitation. They have started a 24-hour sit-in demonstration…
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A pair of donkeys munches away on dry leaves in a forest in Spain, only possibly unaware of the essential service they’re rendering. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement As firefighters in France and Spain continue to tackle raging wildfires that have forced thousands of people to evacuate, communities farther from the frontlines are turning to…
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On the morning of his birthday, instead of gifts, chocolates, and cakes, Sohan Gowtham Yenneti had something else in mind. A frequent visitor to Visakhapatnam’s Indira Gandhi Zoological Park (IGZP), he wanted his special day to include the animal he always stopped to admire. He ‘adopted’ a red-necked wallaby under the zoo’s animal adoption programme,…
Bharatiya Janata Party Punjab president Kewal Singh Dhillon. File Bharatiya Janata Party Punjab president Kewal Singh Dhillon on Thursday (July 30, 2026) blamed the Aam Aadmi Party government for the State’s, what he termed as “worsening drug crisis”, declaring that the AAP government’s widely-publicised ‘Yudh Nashian Virudh’ (War Against Drugs) campaign has failed entirely. Mr….
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A magistrate’s court in Thane district has directed Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray and Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde to appear before it in connection with a defamation complaint filed by the late Nationalist Congress Party leader Vasant Davkhare. The court has summoned Mr. Thackeray for August 5 and Mr. Shinde for August 6…
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Representative image. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphotos The Russian government extended its bans on export of diesel and gasoline until January 31, 2027, it said in a statement on Thursday (July 30, 2026). Russia initially introduced the ban on diesel from July 8 to July 31 as part of a broader package of measures to…
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