The United States launched new strikes on Iran on Wednesday (July 8, 2026) after President Donald Trump vowed to hit “hard” following Iranian attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Mr. Trump, while ordering retaliation against Tehran, said he expected the latest military flare-up to end quickly and left the door open to more talks.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said on Wednesday (July 8, 2026) that Lawrence Bishnoi, a Punjab-born gangster currently lodged in a high-security prison in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, used WhatsApp and other encrypted messaging applications as recently as December 2025 and January 2026 to allegedly extort and attempt to extort $5 million from victims in Los Angeles and Thousand Oaks in the U.S.
One person was killed and at least five others were feared trapped after a four-storeyed under-construction building collapsed in north-west Delhi’s Rohini Sector 16 on Wednesday evening. “The police received a PCR call at 4.28 p.m. and a rescue operation was launched immediately,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Rohini) Shashank Jaiswal said, adding that the area was immediately secured and nearby buildings were evacuated as a precautionary measure. Delhi Fire Services and National Disaster Response Force personnel were also pressed into the rescue operation, officials said.
An Indian national was among the inmates killed in Sri Lanka’s prison riots on Monday (July 6, 2026), Colombo-based official sources told The Hindu, identifying the victim as Unnikrishnan S., aged 73 years.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday (July 8, 2026) appointed new All India Congress Committee (AICC) in-charges for Tamil Nadu and West Bengal as part of the party’s ongoing organisational reshuffle. A statement from AICC general secretary (organisation) K.C. Venugopal said Ghulam Ahmed Mir is the new AICC general secretary in-charge of Tamil Nadu in place of Girish Chodankar.
The search for five people missing after a debris slip near the entrance to the under-construction Wayanad tunnel road project at Kalladi, near Meppadi, continued for the second day on Wednesday (July 8, 2026), with no breakthrough till late in the evening.
The United States said on Wednesday (July 8, 2026) it will delist Syria as a state sponsor of terrorism, a decades-old designation that severely impeded investment, in a new vote of confidence in leader Ahmed al-Sharaa.
E. Jean Carroll can be paid the $5.8 million that was set aside after a jury found three years ago that President Donald Trump sexually abused her in 1996 before he became President and defamed her after she publicly revealed the attack, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday (July 8, 2026).
Aswath S. needed to win his last three games to achieve the Grandmaster title, and he did so by winning it on demand at the Pune International Round-Robin chess tournament on Wednesday. With an awesome finish in Pune, the 17-year-old Aswath became India’s 98th GM after beating Kannan Vaidyanathan with black pieces in the final round.
Published - July 09, 2026 06:47 am IST