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Indian Air Force has inducted its latest Heron Mark 2 drones, which have strike capability and can carry out surveillance along the borders with both China and Pakistan in a single sortie itself. The four new Heron Mark-2 drones, which can be equipped with long-range missiles and other weapons systems, have been deployed at a forward air base in the northern sector, where Team witnessed their operations. The drones with satellite communication capability have given a long desired capability to the Indian Air Force, as its drones can operate at very long distances for close to 36 hours at a stretch and can also laser illuminate enemy targets from very long ranges to help fighter aircraft destroy them using their long-range weapons.

Joe Biden is struggling to sell Americans on the benefits of the Inflation Reduction Act. The hugely ambitious project is aimed at speeding America's transition to clean energy, rebuilding its industrial might and increasing social justice.

Ecuador was an island of peace wedged between Colombia and Peru, the world's largest cocaine producers. But since 2018, drug seizures and homicides have increased alarmingly, blamed widely on transnational organized crime groups.

Book culture is fading in Afghanistan gradually as 30% of booksellers have closed their businesses in the Talioban-annexed country. According to a report by local media Tolo News, high taxes, a ban on women's education in universities, and market troubles, Afghanis are unable to purchase books. A bookseller told Tolo News, "There are issues because of the lack of female students' presence in the universities.

data protection bill will be a 'game changer' for the country as Indians are not used to caring a lot about sharing their data with third parties and fall prey to a lot of identity theft, said Bhanu Chopra, founder and chairman of NSE-listed RateGain Travel Technologies, in an interview to ET. “With Google and Apple pushing towards data privacy, marketers will find it difficult to target and meet their numbers and this is not only in India, but all the large companies outside India that are looking to engage with the aspirational Indian population that wants to travel,” he added.

Also Read: India deploys upgraded MiG-29 fighter jets squadron at Srinagar to tackle threats from Pakistan, China "Both the countries should come clean on Kashmir. We have been fed up with duplicity and double standards. Unless both countries don't sit across the table with sincerity and integrity, it is a Tamasha (show-off)," he said.

At least 80 people have been killed amid deadly wildfires in the Hawaiian island of Maui this week. Hundreds of homes were reduced homes to ash with emergency workers scrambling to find temporary housing for survivors on Saturday. Cadaver-sniffing dogs were deployed with the search parties and officials warn that the death toll is likely to rise.

top drag on the Sensex index, followed by those of ICICI Bank, Infosys and Hindustan Unilever. Mid and smallcaps also fell but they still outperformed the benchmark. The BSE Midcap index ended 0.13 per cent lower while the Smallcap index ended with a loss of 0.31 per cent.

(Reuters) — Russia sent a task force to oversee cleanup of parts of the country's Far East on Sunday after Typhoon Khanun passed through the Primorye region, the emergencies ministry in Moscow said.

KYIV (Reuters) — Ukrainian border guards placed a new sign on Snake Island this weekend, recalling the early hours of Russia's invasion when a comrade on the strategic Black Sea outcrop used a choice phrase to refuse to surrender to a warship.

The organizer of a Malaysian music festival is seeking $2.7 million in losses from British band The 1975 over a breach of contract

A forensic audit into Lebanon’s central bank by a New York-based company has revealed yearslong misconduct by the bank’s former governor and $111 million in “illegitimate commissions.”

The Russian ruble, steadily losing exchange value in a long fall since the beginning of the year, has hit 99 to the dollar

Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill has been granted assent by President Droupadi Murmu, making it into law. The permission was granted by the President on August 11 and it was notified in the gazette the same day. India, which is one of the largest data markets in the world, will finally get its privacy law with the President’s assent.

Taiwan Vice President William Lai left on Saturday for a sensitive trip to the United States, which China has condemned and Taiwanese officials fear could prompt more Chinese military activity around the democratically governed island. Lai, the front-runner to become Taiwan's president in elections in January, is officially making only transit stops in the United States on his way to and from Paraguay for the swearing in of its president. Taipei and Washington say such stopovers are routine and no cause for China to take «provocative» actions, but Beijing has reacted with anger at what it sees as a further sign of U.S. support for Taiwan, which it claims as sovereign Chinese territory. China is likely to launch military drills next week near Taiwan, using Lai's stopovers in the United States as a pretext to intimidate voters ahead of a next year's election and make them «fear war», Taiwanese officials say. Lai, speaking to reporters at Taiwan's main international airport at Taoyuan, made only fleeting mention of the U.S. part of his trip, simply noting he was going to New York first.

Greece following his trip to South Africa for the BRICS summit later this month has been shaped by the fact that Greece, unlike many other western nations, has consistently supported India's position on Jammu and Kashmir for decades, said people with knowledge of the matter. What is relatively unknown is that following India's nuclear tests in May 1998, when most western countries were contemplating sanctions against India, Greece's defence minister visited India in December 1998 — the first defence minister from a NATO country to visit India after the tests — and signed a memorandum of understanding on defence cooperation, said an official.

Contesting the usefulness of GDP, however, is nothing new. US presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy questioned the Gross National Product (GNP) — GDP plus factor incomes earned by foreign residents, minus income earned in the domestic economy by non-residents — during the first campaign speech in 1968. 'It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile,' he had said.

India's warehousing and industrial sector is expected to reach 516 million sq ft by 2026 from 344 million sq ft in the first half of 2023. Around 15 million sq ft of new stock were added between January and June this year with Delhi-NCR, Mumbai and Bengaluru gaining maximum share of the supply, showed data from JLL India.

September 9-10, New Delhi will host the annual summit of the Group of 20, a global forum for economic cooperation, representing 85% of the world’s output. As over 40 world leaders are expected to huddle over that weekend at Bharat Mandapam, a newly revamped convention centre in the capital's Pragati Maidan, India, as its president, may have to tread a tightrope between warring factions, building a consensus in hashing out a declaration acceptable to its members. It is a daunting task.

Union minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Saturday said the Modi government believes in "politics of development" and not "politics in development" while urging Bihar minister Tejashwi Yadav to provide suitable land for the construction of AIIMS in Darbhanga. The comments come after Yadav, who holds the health portfolio in the Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government, accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of 'safed jhooth' (blatant lie) in his address earlier in the day when he spoke of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in the north Bihar district of Darbhanga. In a series of tweets on the microblogging site X (formerly Twitter), Mansukh Mandaviya said that the Modi government’s intention was clear and the permission for AIIMS was given by the government in 2020.

Cube Highways Trust (Cube InvIT) has posted a consolidated income of Rs 781.5 crore for the quarter ended on June 30, 2023. Earning before interest tax depreciation and amortisation was Rs 422.89 crore during the period under review, Cube InvIT said.