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A view of around the Hussainsagar lake in Hyderabad on September 26, 2026. | Photo Credit: G. Ramakrishna Ganesh idol immersion at Hussain Sagar continued on Saturday (September 26, 2026) morning, with a large number of idols still awaiting immersion and a long queue of trucks stretching along the Tank Bund area. The movement of…
Concept image of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. Source: www.nasa.gov The robotic spacecraft that failed to rescue an aging NASA telescope plunged back to Earth on Friday (September 25, 2026) less than three months after launching on the bold mission. Katalyst Space Technologies announced the demise of its three-armed spacecraft named Link. It reentered the…
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Representational image of India and United States of America flags. | Photo Credit: GettyImages/iStockphoto India, with massive energy needs, has for a long time been exploring ways to diversify its energy sources, and the U.S. is looking to meet those demands, a senior State Department official has said. Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump signed…
The Chhattisgarh government has declared a holiday for schools across the State on Saturday (September 26, 2026), as heavy rain battered parts of the State, inundating several areas and cutting off villages. Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai, in a post on X on Friday (September 25, 2026), announced the closure of all government, private and…
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Dhiraj Bommadevara. File. | Photo Credit: R.K. Nithin Fresh from his World Cup Final triumph, Dhiraj Bommadevara made a strong start to his Asian Games campaign, smashing the men’s recurve qualification record with 698 points to top the standings Okazaki City on Saturday (September 26, 2026). Asian Games 2026 LIVE Dhiraj, currently ranked fourth in…
President Donald Trump, from right, and first lady Melania Trump attend a tea with China’s President Xi Jinping, from left, and his wife Peng Liyuan in the Red Room of the White House, on Friday, September 25, 2026, in Washington. | Photo Credit: AP The United States and China will set up a “communication channel”…
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A dam in Hosapete, Karnataka, 2020. | Photo Credit: Alka Jha/Unsplash IIT-Madras tool bridges quake science and dam safety An IIT-Madras team evaluated 6,545 dams under India’s National Dam Safety Authority and found standard seismic zone maps misjudge earthquake risks. For Himalayan ‘mega-dams’ like Tehri and Bhakra, site-specific modelling revealed previously projected ground accelerations were…
The core committee meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Uttarakhand unit to discuss potential candidates for the State’s sole Rajya Sabha seat. (X/@deeptirawatbjp) The core committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Uttarakhand unit met to discuss potential candidates for the State’s lone Rajya Sabha seat, with elections scheduled for October 16. State general…
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India and Chile have started discussions on a “mutually beneficial and comprehensive” trade pact, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Tuesday (April 1, 2025). This came after state-owned copper mining firms from the two countries signed an agreement that will expand Chile’s access to the mining market in India. While welcoming Chilean President Gabriel Boric…
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi speaks during a press conference in Peshawar, Pakistan, September 25, 2026, in this screengrab from a video | Photo Credit: via Reuters Jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party has postponed a planned long march from Peshawar to Islamabad until October 4, the Chief Minister of the…
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