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A tea break helped save 28 Kailash Mansarovar pilgrims from being caught in Nepal floods, after two buses that departed half an hour ahead of them got washed away. They had travelled around 80 km from Kathmandu when they stopped for tea and learned about the incident. "We didn’t get...darshan, but God brought us home safely," one Indian pilgrim said.

During his US visit, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said that he was once asked, "You are a Hindu organisation, you say Hindu Rashtra, what about us Muslims? Would you drive us out?" "I said no, that is not Hindutva. If any Hindu thinks that there should be no Muslim in Bharat, he will not remain Hindu," Bhagwat further said.

WWE icon The Great Khali narrowly escaped injury after his SUV collided with another vehicle near the Panipat toll plaza while he was travelling from Punjab to Sonipat. No one was injured, though Khali's SUV was damaged. He later left the damaged vehicle and continued his journey towards Sonipat in another car.

FSSAI has prohibited the sale of compounded Asafoetida (Hing powder) by Everest Food Products and Laljee Godhoo & Company over non-compliance with food safety standards. Everest’s samples were found misbranded and sub-standard, with some showing alcoholic extract below the prescribed 5% level. FSSAI also flagged non-compliance in Everest’s egg curry masala, chicken masala, and garam masala.

While the standard UPI transaction limit is generally up to ₹1 lakh per transaction, higher limits apply to several categories, according to Moneycontrol. Tax payments, IPO applications, the Retail Direct Scheme, and payments to hospitals and educational institutions have a limit of up to ₹5 lakh per transaction, it added. However, banks may still set lower limits.

Banks often recover less from personal guarantors because their actual personal assets may be far lower than the corporate guarantees they gave. Recovery is further affected by overlapping claims across related entities, limited assets available for repayment, and voting dynamics in insolvency tribunals, which can reduce the amount banks ultimately recover from guarantors after corporate default.

Two-time Olympic medal-winning javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra has been ruled out of the upcoming Asian Games 2026. The 28-year-old, who won gold medals at the previous two Asian Games editions, sustained a ligament tear in his ankle during training. "After discussions with my doctor and team, we've decided that I will sit out the rest of this season," Chopra said.

Activist Sonam Wangchuk has said that the Cockroach Janta Party's Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das, and Ashutosh Ranka have political ambitions. He said that they didn't talk to him about this, but it was his assessment. "They are definitely not saints who don't want anything," he said. Wangchuk sat on a hunger strike at a CJP protest in Delhi.

India emerged as a major supplier of gasoline to Russia amid its conflict with Ukraine, exporting nearly 1 million barrels over past two months. Russia’s energy infrastructure and refinery operations have been repeatedly targeted by Ukrainian drones. About 32 attacks were reportedly carried out on Russian refineries during July and August, which means roughly one attack every two days.

The Karnataka High Court has slammed the Whitefield Police in Bengaluru for arresting an activist, Mohan Gowda, over a Facebook post celebrating the cancellation of Kunal Kamra's show. The police had taken suo motu cognisance and travelled to Udupi at 2 am to arrest him. "The police constable gets concerned about the imaginary disharmony overnight," the court remarked.