Two Naxals were killed following an exchange of fire with security forces in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district on Saturday morning, a top police official said.
The launch of the uncrewed flight test in the Gaganyaan Mission has been rescheduled for a lift-off at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday morning, an official statement said.
India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday said that a low-pressure area over the southeast and the adjoining southwest Arabian Sea has developed into a depression. This is expected to intensify into a cyclonic storm by the morning of October 21.
A total of 15 Khelo India Centres (KICs) were launched this morning in Haryana by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, in the virtual presence of Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Singh Thakur.
Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces struck several Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon overnight in retaliation for rockets and missiles fired into northern Israel, the military announced on Friday morning.
An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 on the Richter Scale hit the Andaman Sea in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Friday morning, the National Centre for (NCS) said in a statement.
Hamas-affiliated media reported on Thursday morning that Jamila al-Shanti, the first woman elected to the Hamas politburo was killed in an Israeli airstrike.