2026 News Archive

Exclusive: Sadiq Khan urges Westminster council to adopt ‘positive vision of economic growth’ of nightlife Sadiq Khan has ordered Westminster council to scrap a policy that would ban new pubs and bars from opening in Soho and the West End of London. This comes after the Guardian revealed the council’s new licensing policy asks pubs to stop customers from standing up while consuming beverages, which it calls “vertical drinking”. The policy is under consultation and also asks pubs to have table service rather than allowing orders at the bar...

Gautam Krishnan, the fisher who went missing after a boat capsized off Neendakara

The celebrations featured a two-day programme ‘Samanwaya - Uniting Academia’ on August 6 and 7

The party alleges that the arrest is a ‘drama’ intended to divert attention from lapses in flood relief operations and protest by the coastal community

A wildfire in southern France forced the evacuation of two hamlets on Sunday as more than 200 firefighters battled flames that had scorched around 90 hectares in the Lozere region. Officials said the blaze, possibly sparked by a vehicle fire, remained out of control amid extremely dry conditions.

Hong Kong authorities are under pressure to review the warning system for heat stress at work after the lowest-level alert remained in force on Sunday, despite the city sweltering through its hottest day on record. Labour unionists, joined by a leading meteorologist, also proposed relaxing the law to recognise heatstroke as a work-related injury, thus entitling workers to compensation. A scorching 36.9 degrees Celsius (98.4 Fahrenheit) was recorded at the Hong Kong Observatory in Tsim Sha Tsui...

The grand security bargain between the United States and Gulf countries is widely perceived to be fraying, creating what analysts see as an opening for Beijing to expand its presence in the region. For decades, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states relied on Washington’s defensive shield, while it in turn relied on them for access, energy and influence. Riyadh’s decision to sign a mutual defence agreement with Turkey and Pakistan is the clearest sign yet of that shift. Signed this week in Mecca,...

The operator of a boat that capsized in New York Harbor, killing a mother and her infant daughter, is facing criminal charges and authorities are investigating whether the vessel was an illegal charter, the US Coast Guard said on Sunday. The 22-foot Bayliner speedboat overturned at 10.25pm on Saturday near Liberty Island, home to the Statue of Liberty, the US Coast Guard said. Twelve people were rescued from the water before police arrived and police divers later located the 27-year-old woman...

Around 10,000 people gathered in Cologne on Sunday for a demonstration in support of the queer community following the Islamist attack at Berlin Pride. The organisers of Cologne’s own Pride celebrations called for the rally two weeks after the shocking attack in the German capital. Participants gathered in the Deutz district on the eastern side of the Rhine River and marched across to the city centre, with turnout significantly higher than the 2,000 registered with police in advance. A dpa...

A fast-moving wildfire was raging in southern France on Sunday, forcing evacuations as more than 200 firefighters raced to contain the blaze. The fire broke out at around 12.45pm in the Lozere region, about 140km (85 miles) northwest of Montpellier. Officials said it might have been sparked by a car catching fire on a local road. By late afternoon, the fire had burned some 90 hectares (220 acres) and continued to spread. Around 220 firefighters from Lozere and neighbouring departments were...

World No 1 out of tournament with knee injury Italian trying to stay fit for US Open which starts 30 August World No 1 Jannik Sinner has pulled out of the Cincinnati Open due to a right knee injury, the Italian announced on Sunday. “After consulting with my doctors and my team, I have to announce that I need to withdraw from the Masters 1000 tournament in Cincinnati,” he said in a statement posted on the ATP website. “My right knee has been bothering me and even though we have been working hard with my medical team, I have to accept that I’m not ready to compete yet.”..

Tebas says Swiss is ‘destroying essence of football’ Any reform at highest levels must be ‘genuine’ Javier Tebas says Gianni Infantino’s position as Fifa president is untenable, claiming he is “destroying the very essence of football” and calling for reform at the highest levels of the game. The La Liga president, who is a longstanding and vociferous critic of the current Fifa regime, said “the Infantino era is over” and called for control of the game to be expanded beyond the current “elite”...

Ahmed al-Jubouri and a close associate were arrested on charges of misusing contract funds in Saladin province.

Number one ranked player in men's tennis will miss the tournament due to a knee issue, he says via organisers.

The move comes against the backdrop of a letter from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs on July 9, asking the States and Union Ministries to “strictly comply” with its January 28 directive that the National Song, ‘Vande Mataram’, be played before the National Anthem at official events

In an undated letter, they allege that the AIADMK general secretary "disregarded" senior BJP leader Amit Shah's proposal of alliance for the 2021 Assembly election. They also accuse him of having missed an opportunity to have an alliance with TVK

The exercise will enhance the ability of the participating teams to respond to complex challenges in explosive ordnance disposal in the maritime domain

Census form likely to have 40 questions, defence structures to be recorded on paper

Students to march to State Assembly on Monday; three JPSC members resign; Chief Minister Hemant Soren assures protesters that “justice will be delivered with full transparency”

Wildfires have spread near Albania’s capital and in parts of southern Spain, prompting hundreds to evacuate.

Hot weather and ageing infrastructure have led to the rationing, affecting hundreds of thousands of people.

The world’s most populous country needs state-generated demand to industrialise, decarbonise and avoid China’s overcapacity trap India is attempting to do something the world has never seen before. So claimed Niti Aayog, the government of India’s policy thinktank, earlier this year. It said that no major economy has tried to expand GDP nearly eightfold within a generation while simultaneously redirecting its energy and industrial systems to reach net zero within two generations. Hence its detailed report’s claim that there is “no historical precedent”. There is something to this. China industrialised at vast scale, but not on a sustainable net zero path. Korea, Japan and Europe became wealthy by industrialising before decarbonising. Today, rich nations have already satisfied the basic demands of their people and created the infrastructure and high per-capita energy use that India is still trying to build. The world’s most populous country has to do this while also reducing emissions...

The units developed by the Nagpur-based CSIR-NEERI are expected to make ambient water drinkable at 3,500 litres per hour

In the three-minute video, men are seen wrapping the body in a plastic sheet and placing it on the tractor-trolley.

The theatrisation exercise is aimed at creating a more integrated war-fighting structure by bringing the capabilities of three Services under unified operational command structures

Monkey Barrel, Edinburgh The SNL UK star’s romantic failures and house-share humiliations make for a fun hour of downbeat yet twinkling comedy A recent star of Saturday Night Live UK, Paddy Young is enjoying a moment of life-changing fulfilment and success. But “I’ve brought the worst plus-one to the party,” he says – by which he means himself. If ever the truism that money can’t buy you happiness needed demonstration, look no further than Young’s new show, Will Sir Be Laughing Alone? It finds the 35-year-old lamenting (as ever) the circularity of his domestic life, a luckless perma-bachelor doomed for ever to watch on as his housemates graduate to more grown-up, loved-up lives elsewhere. Young has cultivated the perfect persona to sell this sorry tale: a plangent northerner, half-turned away from the audience and side-eyeing us coyly with this or that tale of hapless manboyishness. Is it an act? Well, no, it’s an exaggeration, and part of the fun is to work out how sincere sad-sack Paddy really is, halfway through his three score years and 10, stuck in a house share with “three PS2s and not a lamp in sight”. He’s bothered not that his flatmate is having sex too noisily, but that it’s not audible enough (“Let me in!”). Ghosted by a recent date, he has resorted to stalking his first teenage kiss on Facebook, then all the way to Copenhagen, fantasising about inserting himself into her wholesome family life...

Molly O’Brien responds to an article by Natalie Morris about her five-day labour, while an NHS doctor shares her personal experience of feeling ‘othered’ It is not clear whether Natalie Morris’s labour began spontaneously or was induced (By day five of my labour, I didn’t want an ‘ideal birth’. I only wanted to survive, 6 August). Nevertheless, what is described is not a debate about “ideal birth”, but an account of undiagnosed labour dystocia. By day four she had contractions but no cervical dilatation, was exhausted, unable to sit down, and knew instinctively she needed help. These are features of pathophysiology that should have prompted reassessment. That failure was not ideology. It was a lack of education and training among both midwives and doctors in recognising difficult labour, also known as labour dystocia. This same issue, with tragic consequences, was highlighted in the Nottingham maternity review. That system’s failure receives far less attention than the “culture wars” surrounding birth...

Daniel Kinahan is the latest alleged member of the multinational organised crime group to face charges in Dublin.

Marmoush scores twice in three minutes as City rallies to beat Atletico in club friendly at the Seoul World Cup stadium.

Their victories highlight ongoing clashes between centrist Democrats and more progressive candidates.

Police are investigating a drone sighting over a miltary base reportedly used for housing Patriot missile system parts.

Controversy over absence of Poonjar MLA M.J. Sebastian, with the LDF and the UDF trading charges over his decision to travel to the U.S. on a personal visit

Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan assures welfare measures for SC/ST communities; promises rehabilitation of fishers displaced by development projects

Addressing the Jharkhand Adivasi Mahotsav in Ranchi, the Chief Minister says strictest action would be taken against those responsible for the irregularities in recruitment exams, and the individuals involved have already been identified

Adivasi-Dalit convention and Declaration of Rights held at Sulthan Bathery in Wayanad on Sunday. Bommi Amma of Cheeral, the oldest surviving participant in the Muthanga struggle, inaugurated the gathering

A 1993-batch Indian Revenue Service officer of the Income Tax cadre, 59-year-old Navin has been leading the federal anti-money laundering agency as its full-time chief since August 14, 2024

However, sources in the Greater Bengaluru Development Authority (GBDA), the project’s implementing agency, confirmed that this was a “rare possibility”.

Youth and student organisations took out protest marches to his house demanding legal action. Leaders of the Students Federation of India and the All India Students Federation filed complaints against him

Syria and Russia have agreed to end Moscow’s use of two strategic Mediterranean bases as military outposts, Syria's foreign ministry said Sunday. Under the deal, Damascus will take control of the Hmeimem air base and part of Tartus port, while the remaining military facilities will be converted into joint training centres.

US defense industry pressed to boost output as munitions shortages raise security concerns amid Middle East tensions.

Iran’s national security chief has outlined a list of demands for the US to meet before Tehran reopens the Strait of Hormuz. They include lifting the US naval blockade of Iranian ports, compensation for war damages and the release of frozen Iranian assets. Separately, Iran and Oman say they are close to reaching a deal on managing the strategic waterway. Charlotte Lam reports.

At an exhibition organised on International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, the Chief Minister walks through the stalls admiring the handicrafts displaying tribal heritage, sipping the famous Araku Valley Coffee, and sampling unfiltered wild harvest honey

A delegation of BJP leaders petitioned Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot, urging him not to accept the resignation of Legislative Council Chairman Basavaraj Horatti, on the grounds that he was allegedly forced to quit by the Congress leaders

Agriculture Minister T. Siddique says assessments up to August 9 have pegged the losses to the farm sector at ₹127.61 crore

It seeks the RSS’s ‘written and public condemnation’ of Mohandas’s controversial statements and immediate severance of all platforms and courtesy extended to him by Sangh Parivar organisations

According ‌to ⁠witness interviews, the perpetrator had begun showing interest in studying the use ⁠of firearms for some time, about one to two years, says Atthapol Anusit, Deputy Commissioner of the Provincial Police Region 1

Appealing to party workers to set aside all their work and fight against vote theft, the Chief Minister said that efforts were being made to delete one crore voters in the Special Intensive Revision.

Court says in an acid attack case, the criminal court is under a statutory obligation to consider the question of awarding adequate compensation to the survivors

Prosecutors accuse six others, including the leader of cartel Los Lobos, of having an indirect role in the murder of Fernando Villavicencio.

Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy is scheduled to participate in the special Vedic ritual, while Irrigation and Civil Supplies Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy will lead the programme.

Students who have participated in past protests allege repeated home visits by police personnel, questioning of parents and relatives across India, and surveillance and intimidation for months and years after demonstrations in Delhi

East Godavari SP says charges may be altered based on findings of further probe

Høgh scored first goals since joining from Bodø/Glimt O’Neill ‘doing better’ after procedure in hospital Kasper Høgh scored a hat-trick, his first goals for Celtic, as the Scottish champions made light of the absence of their manager Martin O’Neill with a 5-1 win away to Kilmarnock on Sunday. Victory made it two wins out of two Scottish Premiership games for Celtic, with 74-year-old boss O’Neill missing the trip to Rugby Park after what the club had said earlier this week was a “small procedure” in hospital...

Although the Chief Minister’s office is yet to make an official clarification or withdraw the directive, Health Minister K. Muraleedharan says only the first two stanzas will be sung in the State government’s programmes

Eight government medical colleges from Andhra Pradesh feature in the IIRF’s top 150 rankings; AMC tops the State and ranks fourth in the South

Twelve people were rescued from the water after a large search and rescue operation, police say.

Poll shows 70 percent of Jewish Israelis fear election integrity risks as Netanyahu government faces mounting criticism.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday that as many as 50,000 North Korean soldiers could be deployed to Russia, reflecting growing military cooperation between the two countries. He did not elaborate on his sources for this information, but warned that Pyongyang could gain valuable battlefield experience and military technology through its support for Russia.

A Prayagraj court’s summons to Independent MP Pappu Yadav for his skit at Parliament complex over the alleged theft of donations at Ram Temple raises the question of territorial jurisdiction

The court observed that two of the accused, being ASIs, were in a position to influence the investigation