Srinagar – An Army soldier was killed on Wednesday while foiling an infiltration attempt along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Uri sector, officials said.
The incident took place in the Churunda area of Uri in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district when troops detected movement from across the border and engaged the infiltrators.
During the exchange of fire, one soldier lost his life, the officials confirmed.
The operation is still underway, and further details are awaited.
Can an Ambassador tell residents of his “host” country ‘what to do and what to say‘
Israel’s Ambassador to India Reuven Azar reacted sharply to Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s allegations accusing Israel of genocide in Palestine.
Using strong language, Azar said, “what is shameful is your deceit. Israel Killed 25,000 Hamas terrorists. The terrible cost in human lives derives from Hamas’s heinous tactics of hiding behind civilians, their shooting of people trying to evacuate or receive assistance and their rocket fire.”
“Israel facilitated 2 million tonnes of food into Gaza while Hamas tries to sequestrate them, thereby creating hunger. Gaza population has grown 450% in the last 50 years, no genocide there. Don’t buy Hamas numbers,” he said, leaving many netizens wondering whether an Ambassador of any country can publicly comment on a sitting MP of his host country.
His language, in particular, drew equally sharp comments with some also pointing whether an Ambassador can tell residents of his “host” country what to do and what to say
Priyanka had tweeted, “The Israeli state is committing genocide. It has murdered over 60,000 people, 18,430 of whom were children. It has starved hundreds to death including many children and is threatening to starve millions.”
She also condemned global silence, stating, “Enabling these crimes by silence and inaction is a crime in itself”. She criticized the Indian government, adding, “It is shameful that the Indian Government stands silent as Israel unleashes this devastation on the people of Palestine.”
The Congress general secretary has been raising voice against Israel’s actions in Gaza and expressing solidarity with Palestinians. Last year in December she was spotted carrying a handbag emblazoned with the word “Palestine” and Palestinian emblems, including a watermelon – seen as a symbol of Palestinian solidarity.
It followed a meeting with Abed Elrazeg Abu Jazar, Charge d’affaires of the Palestine Embassy, who has called on to congratulate the Congress leader on her election from Kerala’s Wayanad.
Earlier in 2024 Priyanka had also slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over what she had said were the Israel government’s “genocidal actions” in Gaza and accused his government of “barbarism”. The remarks came after Netanyahu defended Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza in a speech to the US Congress.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday announced the constitution of a three-member committee to investigate the corruption allegations against Justice Yashwant Verma in the backdrop of burnt cash recovered from his residence in Delhi.
The committee was formed after the Speaker received a resolution signed by members of ruling and Opposition parties seeking his removal.
Birla informed Lok Sabha that the committee will comprise Justice Aravind Kumar, Judge of the Supreme Court, Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava, Chief Justice of the Madras High Court; and B V Acharya, a Senior Advocate at the Karnataka High Court who will present the report as soon as possible.
“In accordance with sub-section 2 of section 3 of the Judges (Judges) Act, 1968, I have constituted a committee consisting of the following 3 members to examine the grounds of request for removal of Justice Yashwant Verma from the post,” Birla said.
The Supreme Court of India had initiated a three-member in-house inquiry into allegations surrounding the discovery of sacks of burnt cash in a storeroom at the official residence of Justice Yashwant Verma, a senior Delhi High Court judge, after a fire broke out on March 14, 2025.
This inquiry had led to his repatriation to the Allahabad High Court, sparking protests and an indefinite strike by Allahabad lawyers. Justice Verma was in Bhopal when the fire broke out, while his daughter and his elderly mother were at home. Justice Verma has denied any knowledge of the cash, suggesting it may be part of a deep conspiracy against him.
The union cabinet on Tuesday approved four more semiconductor projects under India Semiconductor Mission (ISM).
These four proposals are from SiCSem, Continental Device India Private Limited (CDIL), 3D Glass Solutions Inc., and Advanced System in Package (ASIP) Technologies.
“These four approved proposals will setup semiconductor manufacturing facilities with cumulative investment of around Rs 4,600 crore and are expected to generate a cumulative employment for 2034 skilled professionals which would catalyse the electronic manufacturing ecosystem resulting in creation of many indirect jobs,” the government said.
With these, total approved projects under ISM reached 10 with cumulative investments of around Rs 1.60 lakh crore in six states.
Given the growing demand of semiconductors in telecom, automotive, datacentres, consumer electronics and industrial electronics, these four new approved semiconductors projects would significantly contribute to making Atmanirbhar Bharat.
“SiCSem and 3D Glass will be set up in Odisha. CDIL is located in Punjab and ASIP will be set up in Andhra Pradesh,” it added.
SicSem Private Limited is collaborating with Clas-SiC Wafer Fab Ltd., UK, to establish integrated facility of Silicon Carbide (SiC) based Compound Semiconductors in Info Valley, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha. This will be 1st commercial compound fab in the country. The project proposes to manufacture Silicon Carbide devices.
This compound semiconductor fab will have an annual capacity of 60,000 wafers and packaging capacity of 96 million units. The proposed products will have applications in Missiles, Defence equipment, Electric Vehicles (EVs), Railway, Fast Chargers, Data Centre racks, Consumer Appliances, and Solar Power Inverters.
3D Glass Solutions Inc. (3DGS) will be setting up a vertically integrated advanced packaging and embedded glass substrate unit in Info Valley, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha. This unit will bring world’s most advanced packaging technology to India.
Advanced packaging brings the next generation of efficiency to semiconductor industry. The facility will have a large variety of advanced technologies including glass interposers with passives and silicon bridges, and 3D Heterogeneous Integration (3DHI) modules.
Advanced System in Package Technologies (ASIP) will setup a semiconductor manufacturing unit in Andhra Pradesh, under technology tie-up with APACT Co. Ltd, South Korea, with an annual capacity of 96 Million units. The manufactured products will find applications in mobile phones, set-top boxes, automobile applications, and other electronic products.
Meanwhile, Continental Device (CDIL) will expand its discrete semiconductor manufacturing facility at Mohali, Punjab. The proposed facility will manufacture high-power discrete semiconductor devices such as MOSFETs, IGBTs, Schottky Bypass Diodes, and transistors, both in Silicon and Silicon Carbide.
The annual capacity of this brownfield expansion will be to the tune of 158.38 million units. The devices manufactured by these proposed units will have applications in Automotive electronics including EVs and its charging infrastructure, Renewable energy systems, Power conversion applications, industrial applications and communication infrastructure.
A high voltage drama unfolded on Monday when Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav was seen jumping over a police barricade and later detained along with Congress MPs Rahul and his sister Priyanka Gandhi while marching from Parliament to Election Commission of India.
The protest march was being carried out by Opposition bloc INDIA against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar and allegations of “voter fraud” during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
INDIA bloc’s protest march to the Election Commission of India (EC) from Parliament was met by Delhi Police.
Ahead of the opposition’s march to the Election Commission over “poll fraud”, Delhi Police had said no one has sought permission for holding the protest.
A group of over 300 MPs from the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha were participating in the march which began at around 11.30 am.
Delhi police deployed personnel and put up barricades at multiple points along the route to maintain order and prevent any untoward incident during the INDIA bloc protest march.
Additional security vehicles and quick reaction teams were also stationed in the vicinity of the EC office and surrounding roads to ensure smooth traffic flow.
The protest march came days after Rahul Gandhi’s press conference of last Thursday, in which he presented what he termed as an “atom bomb” of proofs over poll body resorting to “vote chori”.
Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party leaders protested in Deoria after the detention of Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav in Delhi.
After this incident, SP leaders of Deoria gathered at Subhash Chowk intersection in the afternoon. District President of Yuvajan Sabha Ranveer Yadav called this an attack on democracy. The workers were demanding the release of Akhilesh Yadav. Traffic was affected at the intersection due to the protest.
The Delhi Police on Tuesday arrested a criminal wanted in 13 year old murder case of his aunt in an ongoing property dispute, in New Delhi.
According to police, the accused has been identified as Babloo (41), a resident of Chandni Chowk who was declared proclaimed offender on July 9, 2012.
“In a swift and well-coordinated operation, the Cyber Cell, Crime Branch, Delhi Police, has arrested a wanted criminal who was declared a Proclaimed Offender in a murder case registered at PS Welcome,” the police said.
A dedicated Cyber Cell team led by Insp. Manjeet Kumar, under the supervision of Anil Sharma, ACP, Cyber Cell, executed the operation successfully.
The team comprising SI Pravesh Kumar Rathi, ASI Kanwarpal, HC Anuj Kumar, HC Manish Dabas, and HC Vinod, on Aug 11, 2025, after verifying the authenticity of the input, conducted a meticulously planned raid near Jain School, Ansari Raod, Dariyaganj, Delhi.
“The team, fully prepared for immediate engagement and lawful arrest, moved swiftly and apprehended the accused after a brief chase,” police added.
The police said that the accused is illiterate and comes from a family with a history of criminal activities. He took shelter in multiple cities, including Nagpur, Hyderabad, Jaipur, and Gogamedi, continuously concealing his identity and whereabouts.
On Jan 29, 2012, accused persons Ashok, Bharat, Heera, Sonu, and Babloo poured kerosene oil on Rajrani, second wife of Bharat and set her ablaze due to an ongoing property dispute over her claim to her husband’s property.
Former Pentagon official Michael Rubin slammed Pakistan army chief Asim Munir over his recent nuclear rhetoric, saying that Islamabad was behaving like “a rogue state” with the war mongering.
Speaking to a news agency, Rubin compared Munir with Osama Bin Laden, the terrorist behind the 9/11 attack and said that threats on American soil were unacceptable.
The remarks came after Field Marshal Asim Munir threatened that if Pakistan “goes down”, it would take half the world down with it.
The comments were reportedly made during a meeting in Tampa, Florida, in the presence of US military officials.
“Pakistan’s threats on American soil are completely unacceptable,” Rubin said in an interview with the news agency.
“Americans look at terrorism through the lens of grievance…They don’t understand the ideological underpinnings of many terrorists. Asim Munir is Osama bin Laden in a suit,” he said.
Rubin further noted that Munir’s remarks are raising questions in many people’s minds about whether Pakistan can fulfil the responsibilities of being a state.
“The Field Marshal’s rhetoric is reminiscent of what we’ve heard from the Islamic State,” he said.
Earlier India slammed Pakistan Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir for his latest remarks on Islamabad’s “nuclear prowess,” asserting that New Delhi would not yield to “nuclear blackmail.”
MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal urged the international community to note the “irresponsibility emanating from such threats.”
“India has made it clear it will not give in to nuclear blackmail. We will continue all necessary steps to safeguard our national security… Nuclear sabre-rattling is Pakistan’s stock-in-trade,” he said.
US President Donald Trump has said that its steep tariffs on India over its import of Russian oil have dealt a “big blow” to Moscow’s economy, which he said was not performing well.
“I think Russia has to get back into building their country. It’s a massive country…They have tremendous potential in Russia to do well. They are not doing well. Their economy is not doing well now because it’s been very well disturbed by this,” he said.
“Doesn’t help when the President of the United States tells Their largest or second-largest oil buyer that we’re putting a 50 per cent tariff on you if you buy oil from Russia. That was a big blow,” he added.
He said that no one would be this tough and I haven’t stopped there. “I was gonna do things far bigger than that but I got a call that they wanted to meet and I wanted to know what they wanted to meet about.”
US President Donald Trump has slapped an additional 25 percent tariff on India along with additional tariffs of 25 per cent on Indian imports, taking the total tariffs imposed on Indian goods to 50 percent.
After the announcement of tariffs last week, US President Trump ruled out the possibility of trade talks with India until the issue of tariffs is resolved. When asked whether he expects increased trade negotiations with India after announcing 50 per cent tariffs, Trump said, “No, not until we get it resolved.”
Meanwhile, India is considering announcing tariffs countering the United States’ punishing 50 per cent tariffs on steel, aluminium and their derivatives from India.
India follows a declared No First Use (NFU) policy, committing to use nuclear weapons only in retaliation to a nuclear attack. Pakistan, however, does not follow NFU and keeps policy deliberately ambiguous in mind India’s conventional military superiority
ndia on Monday slammed Pakistan Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir for his latest remarks on Islamabad’s “nuclear prowess,” asserting that New Delhi would not yield to “nuclear blackmail.”
MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal urged the international community to note the “irresponsibility emanating from such threats.”
“India has made it clear it will not give in to nuclear blackmail. We will continue all necessary steps to safeguard our national security… Nuclear sabre-rattling is Pakistan’s stock-in-trade,” he said.
Warning about the risks of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, he added: “It reinforces doubts about the integrity of nuclear command and control in a state where the military works hand in glove with terrorist groups.”
“It reinforces doubts about the integrity of nuclear command and control in a state where the military works hand in glove with terrorist groups.”
Jaiswal called it “regrettable” that such statements were made from the soil of a “friendly third country” — the United States.
On Sunday in Tampa, Florida, Munir reportedly said, “If we go down, we will take down half the world.” He also threatened India over the Indus Waters Treaty: “We will wait for India to build a dam, and when it does so, we will destroy it with 10 missiles.” This was Munir’s second visit to the US in under two months.
This was Munir’s second US visit in less than two months
India and Pakistan both maintain nuclear arsenals developed in the backdrop of their complex security environment.
India follows a declared No First Use (NFU) policy, committing to use nuclear weapons only in retaliation to a nuclear attack. Pakistan, however, does not follow NFU and keeps policy deliberately ambiguous in mind India’s conventional military superiority
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated 184 newly constructed Type-VII Multi-Storey Flats for Members of Parliament at Baba Kharak Singh Marg in New Delhi.
Addressing the gathering on the occasion, he said that recently he had inaugurated the Common Central Secretariat, known as Kartavya Bhavan, at Kartavya Path and today, he had the opportunity to inaugurate a newly constructed residential complex for Members of Parliament.
The PM highlighted the four towers of the complex—Krishna, Godavari, Kosi, and Hooghly—named after four great rivers of India, remarking that these rivers, which give life to millions, will now inspire a new stream of joy in the lives of public representatives.
He added that the tradition of naming rivers binds the nation in a thread of unity. “The new complex will enhance the ease of living for MPs in Delhi. The availability of government housing for MPs in Delhi will now increase,” he said.
Acknowledging the challenges faced by first-time elected MPs in securing housing in Delhi, Modi stated that the newly constructed buildings will help eliminate these difficulties.
He informed that over 180 MPs will reside together in these multi-storey buildings and underscored the significant economic dimension of the new housing initiative.
“21st-century India is as eager for development as it is sensitive to its responsibilities”, exclaimed Modi, remarking that while the nation builds Kartavya Path and Kartavya Bhavan, it simultaneously fulfills its duty of delivering piped water to millions of citizens.
He added that as the country completes new housing for its MPs, it also facilitates homeownership for 4 crore poor families through the PM Awas Yojana.
He emphasized that while the nation constructs a new Parliament building, it is also establishing hundreds of new medical colleges. He affirmed that the benefits of these initiatives are reaching every section of society.
