Supreme Court Decides to Watch Progress on Cauvery Water-Sharing, Tells Tamil Nadu Water Is Being Given The Supreme Court on Monday, August 17, 2026, decided to wait and watch the progress in Cauvery water sharing between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, even as Karnataka reported that over 12,000 cusecs was r...
Iranian Army Chief Offers $30,000 Bounty for Killing or Capturing US Soldiers, Doubles Reward for Women Iranian Army Chief Amir Hatami has announced a $30,000 bounty for anyone who kills or captures a US soldier, with the reward reportedly doubled if the act is carried out by a woman, amid ongoing frict...
Oman Imposes OMR3.24 Million in Fines Over Labour Violations, Nearly 3,000 Deported Oman's Ministry of Labour has imposed fines totalling OMR3.246 million and deported nearly 3,000 workers following a nationwide crackdown on labour violations, according to the ministry's latest inspe...
Indonesia Earthquake: Death Toll Rises to 54 as Rescuers Race to Reach Devastated Flores Communities Rescuers were digging through collapsed buildings and clearing landslide-blocked roads on Monday, August 17, 2026, as Indonesia's death toll from a powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake rose to at least 5...
Indian Marble Waste Dump Becomes Unlikely Tourist Attraction A vast expanse of white marble waste in Kishangarh, Rajasthan, is drawing tourists, photographers, and filmmakers to a landscape that oddly resembles a snow-covered valley, despite being little more t...
Iran Says It Has Reached an Agreement With Oman on Hormuz Even as Oil Prices Rise The Middle East war entered another tense day on Monday, August 17, 2026, with efforts to resolve the US-Iran standoff showing little sign of a real breakthrough, even as the crisis around the Strait ...
The Property He Sold in Delhi — And the TDS Surprise Waiting for Him in Toronto Arjun Mehta had not lived in Delhi for almost nine years. Toronto had become home. His work, his family, his bank accounts and most of his investments were now in Canada. The Delhi apartment, meanwhil...
18% Gone Before It Even Arrived: How Hidden Fees Quietly Ate Into an NRI's Remittance It was supposed to be a straightforward transfer. Arjun, an NRI living in Dubai, had been planning to send money to his family in India for several months. He had recently sold an overseas investment ...
The Family Office That Was Paying Tax in Three Countries — For the Same Rupee The Bansal family had never thought of itself as having a tax problem. They had something much more complicated: a global wealth structure that had grown faster than the family's oversight of it. Over...
Detained at the Checkpost: How One Missed Field Cost a Transporter His Entire Shipment It was around 6:30 in the morning when Rajesh received the call every transporter hopes never comes. “Sir, truck checkpost par rok diya hai.” The truck had left Ahmedabad the previous evening and was ...
Gold Appraiser Arrested Over Alleged Fake Pledge Loan Fraud at Kochi Cooperative Society Police in Kerala's Kochi have arrested a 44-year-old gold appraiser in connection with an alleged loan fraud at a cooperative society. The accused allegedly misused his official position to create rec...
Fake L&T Manager Offers Cheap Diesel, Churu Man Falls Into Cyber Fraud Trap A 29-year-old man in Rajasthan's Churu district was allegedly cheated of ₹1.73 lakh after a cyber fraudster posed as an L&T manager and promised to provide diesel at a price lower than the market rate...
