Month: August 2026

Nepal flash floods: 95 dead, hundreds missing; India launches relief effort

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Nepal flash floods: 95 dead, hundreds missing; India launches relief effort

The death toll in Nepal’s devastating flash floods has risen to 95, while 384 people remain missing, including 105 Indian nationals. The disaster struck Nepal’s Rasuwa district near the Tibet border after a sudden surge in the Bhotekoshi River, causing widespread destruction and triggering one of the country’s worst flood emergencies in recent years. Source…

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Nepal flash floods: 95 dead, hundreds missing; India launches relief effort

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Nepal flash floods: 95 dead, hundreds missing; India launches relief effort

The death toll in Nepal’s devastating flash floods has risen to 95, while 384 people remain missing, including 105 Indian nationals. The disaster struck Nepal’s Rasuwa district near the Tibet border after a sudden surge in the Bhotekoshi River, causing widespread destruction and triggering one of the country’s worst flood emergencies in recent years. Source…

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AI dominates ‘Five Eyes’ security talks in Australia

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AI dominates ‘Five Eyes’ security talks in Australia

Australia introduced tough border controls and a policy to stop asylum seeker boats arriving to its vast shoreline 25 years ago in reaction to the rise of a populist anti-immigration party, One Nation. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters The “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing group of Britain, the United States, Australia, Canada and New Zealand held talks…

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Bombay HC orders FDA re-inspection of MCA eateries

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Bombay HC orders FDA re-inspection of MCA eateries

A Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Ravindra Ghuge and Justice Gautam Ankhad heard the MCA’s petition. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Bombay High Court has directed the Maharashtra Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) to conduct a fresh inspection of five eateries at the Mumbai Cricket Association’s (MCA) premises, whose licences were suspended. The…

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Zelenskyy awards Elon Musk Ukraine’s Order of Freedom for Starlink role

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Zelenskyy awards Elon Musk Ukraine’s Order of Freedom for Starlink role

Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, has become one of the most influential and contentious private sector figures in Ukraine’s war effort. File. | Photo Credit: AP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday (August 26, 2026) awarded Elon Musk the Order of Freedom, one of Ukraine’s highest state honours, for his “outstanding personal merits” in…

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Consider amending Aadhaar Act to help trace foreigners staying illegally in India: Bombay High Court to Centre

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Consider amending Aadhaar Act to help trace foreigners staying illegally in India: Bombay High Court to Centre

A view of the Bombay High Court in Mumbai. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Bombay High Court has directed the Union government and the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to consider amending the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016, to enable prompt tracing and deportation…

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Taiwan President pushes $6.6 billion military drone bill ahead of crucial vote

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Taiwan President pushes .6 billion military drone bill ahead of crucial vote

Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te. File. | Photo Credit: AP Taiwan must demonstrate its resolve to ‌defend itself and pass a six-year, T$210 billion ($6.6 billion) special ​budget to buy military drones, President Lai Ching-te said on Wednesday (August 26, 2026) ⁠ahead of a crucial vote in the Opposition-controlled Parliament. Taiwan’s Government says the plans to…

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‘Reservation Hatao Andolan’ solidifies into quota reforms/general category interest platform

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‘Reservation Hatao Andolan’ solidifies into quota reforms/general category interest platform

Over the weekend, after multiple days of attempting to dig in their heels at Jantar Mantar, what started as the ‘Reservation Hatao Andolan (RHA)’ has now solidified into the “RHA Reservation Reforms Movement” accruing demands that have described to be in the interest of the “general” category communities — or communities that are not classified…

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Iranian President says new U.S. sanctions will achieve nothing

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Iranian President says new U.S. sanctions will achieve nothing

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday (August 26, 2026) said that the United States would achieve nothing with its new round of economic sanctions, local media reported. “With the measures that the government’s economic sectors have foreseen, America will not achieve anything with economic pressure at…

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Nepal flash flood: What triggered the deadly Himalayan disaster?

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Nepal flash flood: What triggered the deadly Himalayan disaster?

A devastating flash flood has struck Nepal’s Rasuwa district near the Tibet border, leaving at least eight people dead and hundreds reported missing. The disaster swept through the Bhote Koshi River basin, causing widespread destruction to villages, roads, bridges and major hydropower projects. Authorities say hundreds of travellers are unaccounted for, including foreign tourists from…

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