Urgent calls for foreign nationals to leave Lebanon grew on August 4 with France warning of “a highly volatile” situation as Iran and its allies ready their response to high-profile killings blamed on Israel. Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement, which has traded near-daily fire with Israeli forces since the Gaza war broke out in October, announced…
Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, August 4, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters An Israeli airstrike hit two schools in Gaza City on August 4, killing at least 25 people, the Palestinian official news agency said, while the…
A vehicle from Chief Minister Mohan Yadav`s cavalcade on Sunday collided with an autorickshaw, leaving three persons with minor injuries in Madhya Pradesh`s Rajgarh district, police said. The incident occurred near a hotel in Sarangpur when the chief minister was going towards Shajapur from Bhopal, an official said. Superintendent of Police (SP) Aditya Mishra said…
Indian Army personnel were deployed at an inundated residential area in Maharashtra`s Pune amid heavy downpours and water discharge from Khadakwasla dam, officials said on Sunday, reported the PTI. According to the PTI, in view of the discharge of water from the Khadakwasla, Mulshi, Pavana and other dams in the Pune region, Maharashtra Chief Minister…
The administration in Maharashtra`s Nashik district has issued an alert for the citizens amid a rise in the water level of the Godavari river due to heavy rains, officials said on Sunday, reported the PTI. An official said that in the wake of incessant Maharashtra rains in Nashik district, the authorities released 4,000 cusecs of…
Saudi Arabia on August 4 called on its citizens to leave Lebanon without delay, as regional tensions soar following high-profile killings in Tehran and Beirut blamed on Israel amid the Gaza war. The Saudi embassy in Beirut said in a statement posted on social media platform X that it was “following closely the developments in…
A 24-year-old kanwariya died after being hit by a car at JLN Marg in Rajasthan`s Jaipur on Sunday, the police said, reported the PTI. According to the PTI, Suraj Sharma, a resident of Sheetla Mata of Chaksu, was returning from Galtaji Teerth after filling water when a speeding car hit him from behind on JLN…
Police have arrested two owners of a building in Madhya Pradesh`s Rewa district where a wall collapse claimed the lives of four children, officials said on Sunday. The wall of the abandoned and dilapidated building collapsed on the children, aged 5 to 7, while they were returning home from school under Garh police station area…
An Israeli woman looks at posters on a bomb shelter set up at the site of the Nova festival where party goers were killed and kidnapped, marking 300 days since the October 7 attack by Hamas gunmen from Gaza, in Reim, southern Israel, on August 1, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters A Palestinian attacker stabbed…
The Queen Mother of Bhutan, Gyalyum Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck is the chief patron of the Bhutan Echoes Drukyul’s Literature Festival Echoes. | Photo Credit: Facebook/@bhutanechoes The stage is set in a traditional Bhutanese living room format for the Bhutan Echoes – Drukyul’s Literature Festival Bhutan Echoes in Thimphu, where locals say, families share stories….
