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MEA remains silent on Bangladesh crisis as Sheikh Hasina resigns

Despite dramatic developments in Dhaka and the arrival of outgoing Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the Hindon airbase outside Delhi, the Ministry of External Affairs made no statement about the situation in Bangladesh or on Ms. Hasina on Monday. Sources said that the MEA, headed by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, was engaged in a number of meetings within the government as well as with military officials as soon as news broke of Ms. Hasina’s resignation, and then her decision to fly to India as she awaits asylum abroad.

Sheikh Hasina lands at Hindon Air Force station near Delhi, seeks asylum in U.K.

In a sudden turn of events, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina succumbed to protests and tendered her resignation on August 5.. She has reportedly reached India, where Ms. Hasina and her family were sheltered when the country faced a military coup earlier. However, this time it was not a coup and the protesters stormed the Prime Minister’s official residence in Dhaka after the news of her leaving the country emerged. The Bangladesh Air Force C-130 transport with Ms. Hasina landed at Hindon Air Force station, according to sources. Meanwhile, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval leaves for Hindon airbase for talks with Ms. Hasina. Western Air Command Chief PM Sinha is also present there.

BSF intensifies security along India-Bangladesh border in wake of Sheikh Hasina resignation

In the wake of political developments in Bangladesh, an alert was sounded along the 4096 km border with India, said a Border Security Force official. Director General-BSF Daljit Singh Chawdhary rushed to Kolkata on August 5 to take stock of the situation.

Preamble of the Constitution dropped from select new NCERT textbooks

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has dropped the Preamble to the Constitution from several Class 3 and 6 textbooks issued this year. In the old textbooks for Class 6, the Preamble was printed in the the English book Honey Suckle, the Science book, Hindi textbook Durva, and all three Social Science books — Our Pasts-I, Social and Political Life-I, and The Earth Our Habitat.

Train services between India, Bangladesh suspended after Sheikh Hasina’s resignation

The Indian Railways on August 5 suspended all train operations to Bangladesh amid the unrest in the neighbouring country where Sheikh Hasina has resigned as the Prime Minister and fled following protests.

A rocket attack at an Iraqi military base injures U.S. personnel

Several U.S. personnel were injured in a suspected rocket attack at a military base in Iraq, U.S. defense officials said on August 5, in what has been a recent uptick in strikes on American forces by Iranian-backed militias.

Google loses massive antitrust case over its search dominance

A judge on Monday ruled that Google’s ubiquitous search engine has been illegally exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation in a seismic decision that could shake up the internet and hobble one of the world’s best-known companies.

Paris Olympics | Sable storms into the 3,000m steeplechase final

India’s Avinash Sable, with a fifth place finish in the qualifying heat of the men’s 3,000m steeplechase, qualified for the final with a timing of 8:15.43. He is the first Indian Olympic track finalist since Lalita Babar in the women’s 3,000m steeplechase in 2016.

Elon Musk sues OpenAI, renewing claims ChatGPT-maker put profits before ’the benefit of humanity’

Elon Musk filed a lawsuit on Monday against OpenAI and two of its founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, renewing claims that the ChatGPT-maker betrayed its founding aims of benefiting the public good rather than pursuing profits. The lawsuit, filed in a Northern California federal court, called Musk’s case a “textbook tale of altruism versus greed.”

Neeraj begins quest to defend his crown today at Paris Olympics

At noon time in Paris, at the Stade de France, Neeraj Chopra will get the campaign to defend his title underway in the qualifying round of the men’s javelin throw competition. Neeraj will either have to be among the top 12 throwers in the qualification round or will have to make a throw of 84m in three attempts to automatically qualify for the final on August 8.

Mass burial for 27 unidentified victims of Wayanad landslides

Twenty-seven unidentified bodies and 154 body parts of the victims of the disastrous July 30 landslides of Chooralmala and Mundakkai were buried on Monday. The mass burial conducted in a cemetery prepared in the Harrisons Malayalam plantation followed an all-religion prayer. Eight unidentified bodies were buried on Sunday evening.

Motivated India eye German scalp to script another historic chapter in Olympic men’s hockey

Having displayed nerves of steel to be within touching distance of a second successive Olympic medal, the Indian hockey team will fancy its chances against familiar foe and reigning world champion Germany in the semifinal of the ongoing Games, hoping to better the bronze that it claimed in the Tokyo edition. India won last of their eight Olympic gold medals way back in the 1980 Moscow Games. Paris provides them a great opportunity to make history. A semifinal win will ensure a silver for India, which they last won in the 1960 Rome edition.

Manika Batra-led India beat Romania 3-2 to enter quarterfinals of women’s table tennis team event

Riding on her killer instinct to win, paddler Manika Batra recorded victory in both her singles matches, including the high-pressure decider, in different situations as India, playing for the first time as a team, recorded a superb 3-2 win over a higher-placed Romania in the women’s team pre-quarterfinals of the Olympics at the South Paris Arena in Paris on August 5. Manika, who became the first Indian to reach the last-16 stage, bounced back from her disappointing loss in the singles pre-quarterfinals to shoulder the responsibility with composure.

Delhi coaching centre deaths: Supreme Court takes suo motu cognisance, issues notice to Centre, Delhi government

The Supreme Court on August 5 took suo motu cognisance of the drowning of three ciivil services aspirants trapped in the flooded basement of their Rajinder Nagar coaching centre during a heavy bout of rain in Delhi. “We are not sure as to what effective measures have been taken so far by the NCT of Delhi or the Union of India. The recent unfortunate incidents taking away lives of some of the young ones who joined coaching centres for their career pursuits are an eye opener for one and all,” a Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan remarked.

Supreme Court gives West Bengal ‘opportunity’ to explain inclusion of 77 castes in its OBC List

The Supreme Court on August 5 gave the West Bengal government an “opportunity” to justify the reason for including 77 castes, largely Muslim communities, in the State’s Other Backward Classes (OBC) List. The order follows an appeal by the State against a May 22 judgment of the Calcutta High Court striking down the inclusion of several of these castes in the OBC List.

Bill to provide STs representation in Goa Assembly introduced in Lok Sabha

Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal on August 5 introduced a bill in the Lok Sabha to provide reservation to Scheduled Tribes (ST) in the Goa Legislative Assembly. As of now, the ST community has no seats reserved in the State’s Assembly. The bill is titled Readjustment of Representation of Scheduled Tribes in Assembly Constituencies of the State of Goa Bill, 2024. It will empower the census commissioner to notify the population of STs in Goa.

Asha Kiran shelter home deaths: Delhi High Court directs water testing, seeks report from authorities

Delhi High Court on August 5 remarked that the recent deaths of 14 inmates in the city government-run Asha Kiran shelter home for the mentally challenged was a “strange coincidence” and directed the social welfare secretary to visit the premises on August 6 and file a report. Noting that “nearly all” the deceased suffered from tuberculosis, a bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Manmohan directed the Delhi Jal Board to test the quality of water in the shelter home as well as the condition of water and sewer pipelines and file a report.

Article 370 abrogation watershed moment in nation’s history: PM Modi

On the fifth anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370 and Article 35(A), Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 5 described the step as a watershed moment in the nation’s history, starting a new era of progress and prosperity in Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh. He said in a post on X, “I assure the people of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh that our government will keep working for them and fulfil their aspirations in the coming times.” He said the move to scrap these provisions meant that the Constitution of India was implemented in these places in letter and spirit, in line with the vision of the great men and women who made the Constitution.

British PM Keir Starmer calls emergency meeting over ‘far-right thuggery’ on U.K. streets

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called an emergency COBRA meeting of senior ministers and police chiefs at 10 Downing Street in London on August 5 after a weekend of riots across several cities in the country, which he termed a “far-right thuggery” that will face the full force of the law. Hundreds of arrests have been made as police officers in riot gear responded to violent scenes in Rotherham, Middlesbrough, Bolton and other parts of the U.K. on August 4, after days of some of the worst rioting seen on the streets of the country in the wake of the fatal stabbings of three schoolgirls in Southport, north-west England.

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