Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini on Tuesday set an example by riding a bicycle from the MLA Hostel to the Vidhan Sabha here to attend the Legislative Assembly session.

Speaker Harvinder Kalyan, members of the Cabinet, and several MLAs also joined the Chief Minister.

The initiative was aimed at promoting drug-free living and environmental protection.

"Exercise keeps a person active. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for the 'Fit India, Healthy India' movement. When we do yoga and exercise, we remain healthy," an official statement, quoting the Chief Minister, said.

Appealing to the youth to stay away from drugs, the Chief Minister said the youth "are the biggest asset of our country, but drugs destroy this precious asset".

As many as 406 people have been killed and 245 injured in rainfall and flash floods across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) since June 26, as the torrential rainfall continues to wreak havoc in Pakistan, local media reported on Tuesday.

According to the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA), the death toll included 167 women and 108 children.

The PDMA stated in a factsheet that 245 people have sustained injuries in various incidents across the province, including 121 men, 92 women, and 32 children.

It further reported that the Buner district has been the worst affected by the flooding, with the death toll rising to 237, while 128 people were injured in the disaster-affected district.

The domestic equity indices ended the session with a sharp decline on Tuesday amid worries over the US imposition of 50 per cent tariffs on Indian goods, scheduled to come into effect from Wednesday.

Sensex ended the session at 80,786.54, down 849.37 points or 1.04 per cent. The 30-share index opened in negative territory at 81,377.39 against the last session's closing of 81,635.91. The Index escalated the loss further during the intraday trade amid overall selling, and it touched an intraday low at 80,685.98.

Nifty settled at 24,712.05, down 255.70 points or 1.02 per cent.

ਮੌਨਸੂਨ-ਸੰਚਾਲਿਤ ਨਦੀ ਦੇ ਵਹਾਅ, ਬਦਲਦੇ ਤੱਟਵਰਤੀ ਹਾਲਾਤਾਂ ਦੇ ਨਾਲ, ਕੇਰਲ ਦੇ ਤੱਟ ਦੇ ਨਾਲ ਹਾਲ ਹੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਬਾਇਓਲੂਮਿਨਸੈਂਟ ਲਾਲ ਲਹਿਰਾਂ ਦੀ ਘਟਨਾ ਨੂੰ ਚਾਲੂ ਕੀਤਾ ਹੈ, ICAR-ਸੈਂਟਰਲ ਮਰੀਨ ਫਿਸ਼ਰੀਜ਼ ਰਿਸਰਚ ਇੰਸਟੀਚਿਊਟ (CMFRI) ਨੇ ਦੱਸਿਆ ਹੈ।

CMFRI ਦੇ ਸਮੁੰਦਰੀ ਜੈਵ ਵਿਭਿੰਨਤਾ ਅਤੇ ਵਾਤਾਵਰਣ ਪ੍ਰਬੰਧਨ ਵਿਭਾਗ (MBEMD) ਦੁਆਰਾ ਇੱਕ ਖੇਤਰੀ ਸਰਵੇਖਣ ਵਿੱਚ ਪਾਇਆ ਗਿਆ ਹੈ ਕਿ ਮਾਨਸੂਨ ਦੌਰਾਨ ਨਦੀਆਂ ਤੋਂ ਭਾਰੀ ਵਹਾਅ ਨੇ ਤੱਟਵਰਤੀ ਪਾਣੀਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਪੌਸ਼ਟਿਕ ਤੱਤਾਂ ਨਾਲ ਭਰਪੂਰ ਕੀਤਾ, ਜਿਸ ਨਾਲ ਨੋਕਟੀਲੁਕਾ ਸਿੰਟੀਲਨਜ਼ ਦੇ ਖਿੜਨ ਲਈ ਅਨੁਕੂਲ ਸਥਿਤੀਆਂ ਪੈਦਾ ਹੋਈਆਂ, ਇੱਕ ਵੱਡਾ ਬਾਇਓਲੂਮਿਨਸੈਂਟ ਡਾਇਨੋਫਲੈਜਲੇਟ ਜੋ ਅਕਸਰ ਅਜਿਹੇ ਵਰਤਾਰੇ ਨਾਲ ਜੁੜਿਆ ਹੁੰਦਾ ਹੈ।

ਸੰਸਥਾ ਦੇ ਨਵੀਨਤਮ ਨਿਰੀਖਣ, ਅਗਸਤ ਦੇ ਅੱਧ ਵਿੱਚ ਖੋਜ ਜਹਾਜ਼ ਸਿਲਵਰ ਪੋਂਪਾਨੋ 'ਤੇ ਕੀਤੇ ਗਏ, ਕੋਚੀ ਤੋਂ 40 ਕਿਲੋਮੀਟਰ ਤੱਕ ਅਤੇ 40 ਮੀਟਰ ਦੀ ਡੂੰਘਾਈ 'ਤੇ ਖਿੜਾਂ ਦਾ ਦਸਤਾਵੇਜ਼ੀਕਰਨ ਕੀਤਾ ਗਿਆ।

Continuous monsoon-driven river runoff, coupled with changing coastal conditions, has triggered the recent bioluminescent red tide event along Kerala’s coast, the ICAR–Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) has pointed out.

A field survey by the CMFRI’s Marine Biodiversity and Environment Management Division (MBEMD) found that heavy inflows from rivers during the monsoon enriched coastal waters with nutrients, creating favourable conditions for the bloom of Noctiluca scintillans, a large bioluminescent dinoflagellate often linked to such phenomena.

The institute’s latest observations, made in mid-August aboard the research vessel Silver Pompano, documented the bloom up to 40 km off Kochi and at depths of 40 metres.

Entrepreneur Mira Rajput Kapoor who is also known for being Bollywood star Shahid Kapoor's wife, alongside being a professional is also a doting mother to both her children.

Mira recently took to her social media account in wishing her elder daughter, Misha on account of her 9th birthday. Sharing a cute picture of Misha on Instagram, Mira wrote, “Happy 9th Birthday to our sunshine sweetheart. My baby girl is a big girl!. Fly my darling.” Misha is Mira Rajput and Shahid Kapoor's first born.

The couple got married in 2015 and welcomed Misha in 2016. The name Misha is derived from a combination of her parents' names, Mira and Shahid. Embracing parenthood for the first time, Shahid, back then, had announced Misha's birth on Twitter and wrote, “She has arrived and words fall short to express our happiness. Thank you for all your wishes.”

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday predicted heavy rain in Bhavnagar, Dahod, and Chhota Udepur districts in Gujarat, and issued a warning to fishermen, advising them not to venture into the sea until August 28.

The authorities have directed those already at sea to return and secure their boats at the nearest port with mandatory return entries.

Rainfall was reported in 152 talukas of Gujarat, though the showers have yet to bring substantial relief. The IMD has further predicted that heavy rain will continue across Gujarat for the next six days. Districts, including Banaskantha, Patan, Sabarkantha, Aravalli, Morbi, Kutch, Devbhoomi Dwarka, Jamnagar, Bhavnagar, Mehsana, Gandhinagar, and Ahmedabad, are likely to receive heavy downpours.

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou announced on Monday that he has requested a Confidence Vote in the National Assembly for September 8 over his 44-billion-euro (51 billion US dollars) budget cut plan.

Speaking at a press conference, Bayrou warned that France was on the verge of over-indebtedness, News Agency reported.

"An immediate danger weighs upon us, which we must face, not tomorrow, but today, without delay of any kind; otherwise the future will be closed to us," he said.

According to Bayrou, who heads a minority government, by seeking the Assembly's confidence, deputies would grasp "the seriousness of the situation."

Domestic demand in India is set for a strong revival, with the Nifty expected to touch 27,609 in the next 12 months, a new report said on Tuesday.

The data compiled by PL Capital in its latest India strategy report said multiple factors, including benign inflation, government tax cuts, normal monsoons, and recent rate reductions by the Reserve Bank of India, are creating conditions for broad-based consumption growth.

The report titled “Ready for next leg of growth” highlighted that consumer price inflation has eased to 1.6 per cent, helped by food deflation, while rural incomes are getting a boost from normal rains.

A Rs 1,000 billion tax cut announced for FY26 is also expected to support demand. The report further added that the RBI’s 100 basis points rate cut will lower EMIs, encouraging demand for housing, cars, and personal loans.

Another two polio cases were detected in the southern parts of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, raising the overall tally to 23 in 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said on Tuesday.

According to the statement of the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at NIH in Islamabad, the new cases include a 16-month-old girl from Union Council Mullazai in Tank district and a 24-month-old girl from Union Council Miran Shah-3 in North Waziristan district of the province, local media reported.

It further said that with these detections, the total number of polio cases in Pakistan in 2025 has reached 23, including 15 cases from KP, six from Sindh, and one each from Punjab and Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan.