Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said that an infiltration attempt by Bangladeshi nationals was foiled by the police and five people from the neighbouring country were "pushed back."

The incident happened in the Karimganj district. Assam Police conducted a late-night operation on Tuesday along the international border to check infiltration from Bangladesh into the Indian territory.

Five Bangladeshi citizens who were caught by the police are identified as Afroja Jahirul Sardar, Tumpa Haque, Ridoy Sk, Akhi Sk and Lakhipur Akhtar.

While the former Chief Minister and National Conference (NC) vice president, Omar Abdullah filed his nomination papers on Wednesday, six other candidates, including a Congress rebel, also entered the fray in the Ganderbal Assembly constituency.

Omar Abdullah arrived in the North Kashmir's Ganderbal Assembly constituency to file his nomination papers. Many senior NC leaders and party workers accompanied him from Srinagar to Ganderbal.

Reports here also said that Omar Abdullah is likely to contest the Assembly elections from the central Kashmir Budgam seat as well.

Among the prominent opponents of Abdullah, who filed the nomination papers on Wednesday include Ishfaq Jabbar of the Jammu & Kashmir United Movement (JKUM), and Sahil Farooq, the Congress rebel, who defied the Congress to stand against the former CM.

The Czech Republic firmly believes it will finally conclude a nuclear power plant deal with South Korea, the country's National Security Advisor was quoted as saying during a meeting with President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday.

The remark by Czech National Security Adviser Tomas Pojar came after Westinghouse Electric, a US nuclear energy firm, filed an appeal with Prague last month against the decision to select Korea Hydro &Nuclear Power (KHNP) as the preferred bidder for the project to build two nuclear power units, news agency reported.

"For the Czech Republic, we firmly believe that we will conclude a final contract with South Korea for the nuclear power plant construction in Dukovany," Yoon's office quoted Pojar as saying, referring to the nuclear plant site in southeastern Czech Republic.

After suspending the former and controversial Principal of R.G. Kar Medical College Sandip Ghosh on Tuesday, the West Bengal health department seems to have started acting tough on his close confidants, against whom there are complaints from the state’s medical fraternity, especially junior doctors.

The state health department, on Wednesday, transferred Dr Birupaksha Biswas from the chair of senior resident doctor of Burdwan Medical College & Hospital in East Burdwan district to Kakdwip Sub-Division Hospital in South 24 Parganas district. He was associated with Pathology department of Burdwan Medical College.

An insider from the state health department said that a transfer in the same post from a medical college to a sub-division officer is generally perceived as a sort of punishment posting.

Authorities have warned of a likely early start to Australia's bushfire season following the warmest August in recorded history.

The Australasian Fire and Emergency Services Authorities Council (AFAC) - the national council of fire and emergency service authorities in Australia and New Zealand - on Wednesday released the official seasonal bushfire outlook for the spring of 2024,news agency reported.

It revealed that the state of Queensland and the Northern Territory (NT) in Australia's north as well as the southern states of Victoria and South Australia (SA) are facing an increased risk of fires during the season, which began on September 1 and runs through the end of November.

Pakistan have been dropped two places in the ICC Men's Test Team Rankings, falling to eighth position following a 0-2 series defeat at home to Bangladesh.

This is Pakistan's lowest rating points in the Test rankings since 1965, excluding a brief period when they were unranked due to insufficient matches.

Pakistan was ranked sixth before two-match series against Bangaldesh, however, back-to-back losses on home soil have seen them slide below the West Indies, now sitting with 76 rating points.

This decline underscores a worrying trend for Pakistan in home Tests, where they have failed to secure a victory in their last ten matches, dating back to February 2021. In that period, Pakistan has lost six matches and drawn the remaining four, with series defeats against Australia, England, and now Bangladesh.

The United States on Wednesday strongly condemned the "unjustified" arrest warrant issued by a Venezuelan court for country's former opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia who had claimed massive irregularities in the recently held elections in the Latin American nation.

"Gonzalez Urrutia won the most votes in Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election, and this arbitrary and politically motivated action is a low point in Nicolas Maduro’s ruthless pursuit of his political opponents following his attempts to steal the July 28 presidential election," US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement.

Global real asset manager CapitaLand Investment Limited (CLI) on Wednesday announced to more than double its funds under management (FUM) in its core market India to $14.8 billion Singapore dollars (Rs 90,280 crore) by 2028 -- up from the current 7.4 billion Singapore dollars – as Prime Minister Narendra Modi began his two-day official visit to Singapore.

The announcement will contribute to CLI’s global target of achieving $200 billion Singapore dollars in FUM by 2028, the company said in a statement.

Singapore's High Commissioner to India, Simon Wong, posted on X that it is "good to see Singapore companies doubling down on investments in India".

CLI entered India 30 years ago with the development of its first IT park called the International Tech Park Bangalore (ITPB). Its footprint has since expanded to 14 business and IT parks, offering 23.5 million square feet of space strategically located across Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai and Gurugram, with more than 250,000 professionals working from these parks.

A major controversy has broken out over Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s wife Sunita Kejriwal expressing ‘relief’ on bail to the close aide Bibhav Kumar, accused of beating up former Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal inside the Chief Minister’s residence on May 13.

Sunita Kejriwal took to X and shared a photo of Kejriwal’s PS Bibhav Kumar and captioned the post, ‘Sukoon bhara din’ (a day full of relief).

Swati Maliwal, the AAP Rajya Sabha MP took strong exception to her remarks and hit out at the brazen defence of her tormentor, by none other than the CM's wife.

Swati Maliwal, who fell out with the party after the infamous assault incident, shared the screenshot of Sunita Kejriwal’s ‘feeling relieved’ post and hit out at AAP’s tall claims on justice for women.

AAP MLA from Amritsar North Kunwar Vijay Pratap today demanded an extension of the Vidhan Sabha session to discuss farmers' protests and sacrilege issues through special seatings of the House. Notably, the ongoing Vidhan Sabha session will end today.

AAP MLA also demanded that a law should be made in the House for the MSP of farmers as promised by the state government before polls.