Here’s your 5-minute wrap of the day’s top headlines from across the country, the world and the field of sports and entertainment. Good evening!
Read more here . The Union cabinet has decided to give Agniveers an option to continue in service for two more years beyond their four-year tenure and apply for absorption into the armed forces at the end of this extended period, chief of defence staff General NS Raja Subramani announced on Wednesday.
Read more here . President Donald Trump suffered a major blow as voters turned out to challenge his party’s narrow majority in Congress. Read more about key contests here .
Democrats have snatched control of the US House of Representatives from Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections. A 30-year-old IT engineer from Bengaluru has been arrested by the Mumbai police crime branch for allegedly sending threat and extortion messages to several actors, including Ayushmann Khurrana and Tusshar Kapoor.
Iran has exempted merchant vessels from India, China, Iraq and Qatar from restrictions on using the Strait of Hormuz, and the measure is aimed at facilitating the procurement of medicines from India, an influential Iranian lawmaker has said. Deputy chairman of the Iranian parliament’s national security and foreign policy committee, said ships from these four countries can “pass freely”. The police said the accused thought of making a quick buck, taking advantage of the recent threats and firing incidents, allegedly undertaken by Lawrence Bishnoi gang to terrorise Bollywood celebrities.
