National Handloom Day 2026: From Alia Bhatt to Samantha Ruth Prabhu; Actresses who celebrated India's textile heritage as brides

The Royals enter the Doctor Who universe: King Charles and Queen Camilla beam into Commonwealth Games in TARDIS

Unitree Robotics targets $9 billion valuation in landmark IPO backed by DeepSeek and Tencent

India names 27 sites in Arunachal Pradesh

Bharat Bhhagya Viddhaata OTT: When will Kangana Ranaut's film stream online?

How many soldiers operate one S-400 battery?

Shakib Al Hasan ready to return to Bangladesh—under one condition

‘Fake news’: MEA rejects report claiming India sought defence pact with Israel after Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey deal

Rockstar to unveil GTA 6 extended look ahead of November launch

Russia forms Ukrainian Volunteer Spetsnaz Brigade to fight Ukraine

Drug-resistant fungus that hides in hair and enters bloodstream reported in 23 US states

Technology transfer deal boosts India's defence manufacturing ambitions

Border row erupts in Europe after Ceuta crossings, Spain imposes border controls on Italy

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'Security can't be bought with Pakistan, Turkey deal': Iran tells Saudi Arabia

Baba Vanga's 2026 prophecy: 2 predictions 'already came true', 3 terrifying ones remain. Details inside

Colombia’s new president Abelardo de la Espriella vows to ‘defeat narco-terrorists’, signals hardline shift

New Friday OTT releases (August 7, 2026): Operation Safed Sagar, Vadhandhi, Main Vaapis Aaunga- 6 movies and TV shows on Netflix, Prime Video and more

Squadron Leader Bhawana Kanth scripts history as Indian Air Force gets its first woman ‘Top Gun’ pilot

RSS says Gen Z protests reflect genuine distress

Trump says Iranian school bombing photos could be AI-generated - 'I don’t think...'

IAF officer held for sharing sensitive information in 'honey trap' case, booked under Official Secrets Act

Stray Kids under scrutiny? Fans react to Grammy submission silence after BTS boycott

Why the Su-30MKI doesn't need external fuel tanks to fly vast distances

Jugal Hansraj reunites with Shekhar Kapur after 40 years for Masoom: The Next Generation

New speed limits, automatic challans: Big traffic change coming to Delhi-Meerut Expressway. All you need to know

India officially names 27 places in Arunachal to counter China's renaming claims

Trump calls White House ballroom ruling a 'national disgrace' as court says Congress approval needed

US sanctions Iran’s crypto network after Strait of Hormuz attacks, offers $15m bounty for intel on IRGC finance

Why the Su-30MKI is one of the heaviest fighters ever built

Uttarakhand young innovator builds India's own flying vehicle, conducts first test flight: WATCH

Chilling video shows students take cover as teen opens fire at Thai school

Reese Witherspoon's father hospitalised after poolside incident in Nashville: Report

The Philippines is home to Asia’s only dedicated exorcism centre, where priests from across the region train to perform rituals, while experts stress the need to distinguish possession claims from mental illness.

Inside Asia’s only exorcism centre where priests are trained to battle ‘demons’ – All about Philippines’ unusual school

US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine has urged senior Trump advisers to seek an off-ramp from the Iran war, as Washington and Tehran explore ways to secure commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

Top US general warns Iran war could backfire, seeks off ramp: Report

Yellow heat health alert, was issued at 9am on Saturday, covering most of England, apart from the North East and North West.

Intense heatwave to grip UK next week, temperature to touch 36 degrees

Kosovo PM Albin Kurti was pelted with eggs in Parliament as coalition talks stalled, deepening the political crisis and threat of fresh elections

WATCH | Kosovo PM Albin Kurti pelted with eggs in Parliament amid political deadlock

Iran sets tough conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, demanding US sanctions relief, military withdrawal, compensation and frozen assets

Strait Of Hormuz reopening: These conditions set by Iran could decide what happens next

An explosives-laden drone crashed near a strategic pipeline in Bulgaria, with authorities saying there was currently no evidence that the incident was deliberate.

Explosive-laden drone, likely from Ukraine, crashes in Bulgaria near gas pipeline, Kyiv denies targeting

Under current regulations, H-1B workers who lose their jobs generally have up to 60 days to remain in the United States, unless their authorized stay expires sooner.

US to scrap 60-day grace period for H1B visa holders, what impact will it have on Indian professionals?

Uber is committing over $10 billion to autonomous vehicles — $7.5 billion to procure robotaxis and $2.5 billion in equity stakes in Lucid, Rivian and others — targeting 120,000 vehicles across 15 cities and the largest share of global AV trips by 2029.

Uber built an empire on not owning cars! It's about to buy 120,000 of them

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model, reportedly ran autonomously for over 16 days — starting from an empty repository and building its own coding harness with state machine, dispatcher and testing loop. The claim is vendor-reported and unverified independently.

An AI coded alone for 16 days and built its own tools to do the job

The EU AI Act moved to active enforcement on August 2 with the AI Office now supervising high-risk systems. China fined 12 companies 4.2 million RMB in the first week of companion-AI enforcement. The US Great American AI Act remains stalled over state preemption.

The AI enforcement era started this week and China has already issued fines

AI-related securities class actions were 13% of core filings in H1 2026 but accounted for nearly three-quarters of all alleged investor losses. Fifteen were filed in six months, nearly matching all of 2025 — concentrated in the largest-dollar cases.

AI lawsuits are just 13% of cases but three-quarters of all investor losses

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned of a brutal winter as Russian strikes damaged Ukraine's thermal power infrastructure, while fresh attacks killed four people, including a child, in the Kyiv region.

Ukraine braces for brutal winter as Zelenskyy warns virtually no thermal plants remain intact

It is for the first time that whole genomes have been successfully designed by AI. This raises hopes for new medicines but also concerns on technology safety.

Scientists use artificial intelligence to design brand new viruses; what implications could it have?

Anthropic confirmed on August 5 it is building an in-house team to design custom AI chips for Claude, hiring semiconductor engineers at up to $485,000 and scouting Samsung as a manufacturing partner. It follows a compute deal committing it to $1.25 billion a month to a rival.

Anthropic is building its own chips! Weeks after agreeing to pay Musk $1.25 billion a month for compute

The UK's AI Security Institute logged 19 unauthorised actions by AI agents across 122 cyber test runs — 17 from Claude Mythos 5, two from GPT-5.6 Sol. One agent created fake online identities to pressure an open-source maintainer into approving malicious code.

UK caught AI agents inventing fake people to sneak malicious code into open-source software

Ukraine targets Wildberries warehouses in Russia as drone strikes disrupt e-commerce, small businesses, military supplies and the country’s consumer economy

Explained: Why Ukraine is targeting Wildberries warehouses across Russia in its drone campaign

Pentagon revokes former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall’s classified access over an alleged Air Force One disclosure as he denies sharing secret information

Pentagon revokes former Air Force secretary Frank Kendall’s classified access over alleged Air Force One disclosure

UAE condemns an alleged Iranian attack on an ADNOC vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, accusing Iran of 'acts of piracy' and disrupting oil shipping

UAE accuses Iran of 'acts of piracy' after attack on ADNOC vessel in Strait of Hormuz

Senate passes a stopgap spending bill to avert a September government shutdown, restrict Border Patrol fund transfers and delay an intoxicating hemp ban

US Senate passes Stopgap Spending Bill to avert September government shutdown

Trump-linked Texas oil company Greenland Energy plans oil drilling in Jameson Land despite Greenland authorities warning that required approval has not been granted

Greenland raises ‘strong warning’ over Trump-linked oil firm’s drilling plans

India is exploring Russian gas imports to diversify supplies after West Asia disruptions exposed vulnerabilities in energy routes. But a deal could bring cheaper supply and greater bargaining power while also exposing India to sanctions and a new geopolitical dependency. WION Decodes.

India turns to Russia for gas: Could it cut costs or trigger US sanctions? WION Decodes

US intelligence assessments reportedly warn that Putin could test NATO's resolve through cyberattacks, sabotage, drone incursions or a limited attack on the Baltics or Poland, potentially probing Trump's willingness to invoke Article 5. Scroll down to read. 

Putin to target NATO next? US intel warns of Russian 'limited attack'

US President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Todd Blanche was confirmed as US Attorney General on Saturday (Aug 8) by the US Senate.



Trump’s ex lawyer Todd Blanche confirmed as US Attorney General

Typhoon Dolphin battered Japan’s Okinawa, injuring five and cutting power to 14,000 buildings, as China shut ports and ferry routes ahead of the storm’s expected landfall.

WATCH | Typhoon Dolphin batters Japan as China braces for landfall

With five months left in 2026, Baba Vanga's alleged predictions have resurfaced, with followers claiming two have already come true. Three more supposedly await humanity. What horrors can we expect next?

Colombia's new President Abelardo de la Espriella has vowed a sweeping crackdown on armed groups and drug trafficking, declaring dialogue "completely exhausted" and promising a US-backed "Plan Colombia II" against narco-terrorism.

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Inside Asia’s only exorcism centre where priests are trained to battle ‘demons’ – All about Philippines’ unusual school

Top US general warns Iran war could backfire, seeks off ramp: Report

Intense heatwave to grip UK next week, temperature to touch 36 degrees

WATCH | Kosovo PM pelted with eggs in Parliament amid political deadlock

Iran sets conditions to end Strait Of Hormuz closure. Here’s what Tehran wants

Ukraine-linked drone crashes near Bulgaria gas pipeline, Kyiv denies targeting

US to scrap 60-day grace period for H1B visa holders?

Uber built an empire on not owning cars! It's about to buy 120,000 of them

An AI coded alone for 16 days and built its own tools to do the job

The AI enforcement era started this week and China has already issued fines

AI lawsuits are just 13% of cases but three-quarters of all investor losses

Ukraine braces for harsh winter as Zelenskyy warns all thermal plants damaged

Scientists use artificial intelligence to design brand new viruses

Anthropic is building its own chips! Weeks after agreeing to pay Musk $1.25 billion a month for compute

UK caught AI agents inventing fake people to sneak malicious code

Wildberries under attack: Why Ukraine is targeting Russia’s e-commerce network

Former Air Force secretary Frank Kendall loses classified access. Here's why

UAE accuses Iran of 'acts of piracy' after attack on ADNOC vessel in Hormuz

US Senate passes Stopgap Spending Bill to avert September government shutdown

Greenland raises ‘strong warning’ over Trump-linked oil firm’s drilling plans

India turns to Russia for gas: Could it cut costs or trigger US sanctions?

Putin to target NATO next? US intel warns of Russian 'limited attack'

Trump’s ex lawyer Todd Blanche confirmed as US Attorney General

WATCH | Typhoon Dolphin batters Japan as China braces for landfall

Baba Vanga's terrifying 2026 predictions: 3 'horrors' still await humanity

Colombia's new right-wing president declares war on drug gangs