India News: Massive fire breaks out near Kolkata bypass

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah met Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel in Gandhinagar during his two-day visit to Gujarat. As part of the visit, he will also tour the iconic Statue of Unity at Ekta Nagar on Thursday, highlighting efforts to strengthen inter-state relations and promote national unity.

India News Live: Massive fire breaks out near Kolkata bypass

The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday reserved its judgment on a petition filed by Abbas Ansari challenging the order of an MP-MLA court at Mau that had rejected his application for a stay on his conviction in a 2022 hate speech case.

Abbas Ansari, son of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari,  was disqualified in June this year as a member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly from the Mau seat, after he was convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment by the Chief Judicial Magistrate (MP-MLA court), Mau on May 31, 2025.

Two government teachers lost their lives after being caught in a flash flood in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Wednesday.

Jagdev Singh, 37, and Sanjay Kumar, 39, residents of Ghordi village of Ramnagar in Udhampur, were on a motorcycle when they were swept away by the strong current of a mountain stream near Nathatop on Tuesday, they said.

Their bodies were retrieved on Wednesday, nearly 300 metres downstream from the link road where they are believed to have been swept away, officials said. - PTI

Mayor Alexander Ovsyannikov confirmed full evacuation of Russia's Kuril Islands after a tsunami caused flooding and structural damage.

Ahead of the upcoming Bihar elections, the Nitish Kumar government has tripled ASHA workers' incentives to ₹3,000 and doubled Mamta workers' delivery payment to ₹600. Additionally, journalist pensions under the Bihar Patrakaar Samman Pension Scheme have been hiked from ₹6,000 to ₹15,000 per month.

India’s Consulate in San Francisco issues Tsunami advisory for West Coast and Hawaii

Workers at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in northeast Japan were evacuated Wednesday after an 8.7-magnitude earthquake off Russia's far east triggered tsunami warnings around the Pacific.

"We have evacuated all workers and employees" at the Fukushima Daiichi plant -- which went into meltdown after being hit by a tsunami in 2011 -- a spokeswoman for plant operator TEPCO told AFP, adding that "no abnormality" had been observed at the site.

Japan's weather agency upgraded its tsunami warning Wednesday after a magnitude-8.7 earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, saying waves of up to three metres (9.8 feet) were expected.

The waves were expected to hit between 10:00 am and 11:30 am (0100-0230 GMT) along Japan's Pacific coast, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said.

A massive 8.7 earthquake off Russia's far east has prompted tsunami warnings of waves up to three meters possibly hitting the coasts of Russia and Hawaii, US authorities warned late Tuesday.

Waves one to three meters (3.3 to 10 feet) high could also threaten Japan and the US island territory of Guam, according to the US Pacific Tsunami Warning Center based in Honolulu.

GSLV-F16 with NISAR set for launch today at 5:40 PM IST: ISRO

The Assam government began a major eviction operation in Golaghat’s Rengma forest, targeting over 2,600 alleged encroachments and affecting thousands of families.