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🚨 Multiple coaches of the 13126 Sairang Express derailed near Digaru in Assam’s Kamrup Metropolitan district today. Rescue teams have reached the site and are carrying out relief operations.

🇧🇩 Bangladesh’s NSI Director General Major General Abu Mohammad Sarwar Farid is on a visit to Pakistan. Notably, Farid had visited India in late October to attend the 8th South Asian Counter-Terrorism Conference in New Delhi.

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🚨 Major Incident at Pakistan’s Tarbela Dam T-5 Project! 🇵🇰 A section of rock collapsed during excavation work, triggering a massive water inflow into the T-5 powerhouse. All workers, including foreign personnel, were safely evacuated. One worker swept away by the water was rescued. Dewatering operations are underway, and construction work has been suspended.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh celebrates Diwali with Indian Air Force personnel at Air Force Station Bagdogra.

🇮🇳 13,629 FEET. HISTORY MADE! An Indian Air Force IL-76MD lands at Nyoma, achieving the highest-altitude landing ever recorded by this aircraft anywhere in the world. Where the air gets thin, India's resolve flies high! 🔥

GRAP-III air pollution-related measures implemented in Delhi-NCR

Security forces recovered 711 BGL shells hidden by Maoists near Karregutta Hills. Following the discovery, authorities issued a warning to civilians and announced plans to launch a demining operation.

🇮🇳⚠️ Indian Govt Issues High-Risk Warning for Millions of Android Users. India's CERT-In has issued a high-risk security warning for millions of Android users after multiple vulnerabilities were found in the operating system. The flaws could allow attackers to gain elevated access, steal sensitive information, or execute malicious code on affected devices. The affected versions include Android 14, 15, 16, 16-qpr2, and 17.

🇮🇳 Adani Ports to acquire Europe's second-largest independent liquid storage operator, Evos B.V., in a $2.88 billion (€2.56 billion) deal. The acquisition will add 8 terminals across 5 European countries, with 6.3 million cubic metres of storage capacity, expanding APSEZ's global footprint to 28 ports and terminals across 10 countries.

🇮🇳🇵🇭 India is nearing an $800 million deal to supply additional BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles to the Philippines. Manila is reportedly seeking 60 more missiles, marking a major expansion of defence cooperation and strengthening the Philippines’ maritime strike capabilities in the Indo-Pacific.

🇮🇳 India has invited Bangladesh PM Rahman to visit India, says MEA spokesperson, responding to a question about why he has not visited the country so far.

🇮🇳⚡️🇵🇰 India’s Trade Suspension Costs Pakistan $40 Billion (₹3.8 Lakh Crore), Claims Business Council Chief. Pakistan-India Business Council Chairman Noor Muhammad Qasuri claimed that Pakistan suffered losses of around $40 billion (₹3.8 lakh crore) after India suspended trade following the Pulwama terror attack. He urged both countries to restore commercial ties, adding that Pakistan had to import essential supplies from distant markets, increasing costs for businesses, PTI reports.

🇮🇳🇻🇳 NSA Ajit Doval meets top Vietnam official- General Phan Van Giang.

The three contenders are: Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) – Independent bidder. Larsen & Toubro (L&T) – Consortium with Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) and Dynamatic Technologies. Bharat Forge – Consortium with BEML and Data Patterns.

🇮🇳 AMCA Programme Update: Three contenders have submitted bids to the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) for the ₹15,000 crore contract to develop prototypes of India’s Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA), marking a major step forward in India's indigenous fifth-generation stealth fighter programme.

🇮🇳 “Indian seafarers have faced attacks not only from Iranian actors but from several other actors as well. We have unequivocally condemned every such attack,” says Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri at the IISS Manama Dialogue 2026, addressing the West Asia conflict.

🚨 BREAKING: “Restoring our combat strength to the sanctioned level will be my top priority,” says newly appointed Air Chief Marshal Ashutosh Dixit.

Air Chief Marshal Ashutosh Dixit takes charge.