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August 28, 2026 9:53 AM
As rescue teams searched Thursday for missing people following catastrophic flooding along the Nepal-China border, Earth scientists reviewed satellite imagery for clues to the cause and assessed the devastation. The flooding killed hundreds of peopl...
August 28, 2026 9:01 AM
Iran war mediators have placed renewed emphasis on reopening the Strait of Hormuz, with Tehran agreeing to draw up a list of conditions to restore normal traffic after a Qatari emissary pressed the Iranians to respect freedom of navigation. With the...
August 27, 2026 7:33 PM
The Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY), launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 28, 2014, has completed 12 years, with more than 59 crore accounts opened, deposits of ₹3.17 lakh crore accumulated and 41.29 crore free-of-cost RuPay de...
August 27, 2026 11:56 AM
The Nepal flash floods were triggered by a glacial collapse and not by a 4.4 magnitude earthquake as reported earlier, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. The USGS said additional analysis of the long-period seismic waves indicated that the tremor...
August 27, 2026 11:50 AM
Shipping traffic rises at the Strait of Hormuzrose slightly even as a geopolitical standoff persisted between the United States and Iran, while the market also monitored Iran-Oman talks about the waterway, data showed on Thursday. Visible commodity ...
August 26, 2026 5:15 PM
President Donald Trump's administration has issued a pause on immigrant visa appointments for applicants around the world during an ongoing immigration crackdown by the U.S. government in the Republican leader's second term in the White House. A U.S...
August 25, 2026 10:52 AM
President Donald Trump's administration on Monday warned countries to cut their business ties with Iran or face secondary sanctions as part of what it billed as an "economic D-Day," but the Treasury Department stopped short of actually imposing penal...
August 25, 2026 8:35 AM
Iran promised to retaliate against expanded U.S. economic sanctions that the Americans said would cut off Iran's economic lifeline, with Tehran expressing confidence that major trading partners would resist Washington's pressure campaign. U.S. Treas...
August 24, 2026 7:31 PM
What happens when a woman becomes famous, financially independent, and visible in Pakistan? In many cases, she is treated as a threat. On 14 August 2026, as Pakistan celebrated its Independence Day, 28-year-old TikTok creator Shamsoo Bibi, known o...
August 24, 2026 5:29 PM
The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) will complete 10 years of operations on August 25, marking a decade of transformation in India's digital payments ecosystem and emerging as a globally recognised real-time payments platform. Launched on Augus...
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