Govt to borrow Rs 6.77 lakh crore in Oct-Mar, Rs 10,000 cr via Sovereign Green Bonds

Indian cricket star Suryakumar Yadav pleads ‘not guilty; for his Pahalgam comments after the Pakistan Cricket Board filed an official complaints against him. As a result, India’s T20 skipper was summoned for a hearing by the ICC match referee Richie Richardson.

After the September 14 India vs Pakistan match, SKY refused to shake hands with the other team. He eventually dedicated Team India’s win to the Indian Armed Forced over Operation Sindoor, while also expressing solidarity with the Pahalgam terror attack victims.

After six decades of service, the Indian Air Force’s MiG-21 will retire today.

“Today, 26th September, I shall be in Chandigarh. Shall attend the Decommissioning ceremony of IAF’s MiG-21. Looking forward to it,” Defence Minister Rajnath Singh tweeted on Friday morning.

Three illegal Bangladeshi migrants were detained in New Delhi’s RK Puram, according to IANS. The Operations Cell of South West District Police has since identified them as Jhalak Pal, Md. Nurul Abser and Mohammed Azizul Hoque.

All education institutions, including colleges, have been closed for the day in Thiruvananthapuram district due to heavy rainfall. The District Collector declared a public holiday after the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) an orange alert for eight districts in Kerala – Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha, Kottayam, Idukki, Ernakulam, and Thrissur.

Meanwhile, 18 districts in Odisha were put on high alert as low-pressure area formed over the Bay of Bengal, as per PT. Southern Odisha district Malkangiri has since also announced all government and private school be shut on Friday.

Longtime president and chief operating officer of Nintendo of America, Doug Bowser, announced his retirement on Thursday (US time). The company’s executive vice president of revenue, marketing and consumer experience, Devon Pritchard, has been announced as his successor, who will then become the first woman president of the brand. On top of that, another crucial member of the leadership team, Satoru Shibata, will be coming in as the new CEP.

After sustaining a “significant brain injury” on Saturday, Chichester City FC Billy Vigar has unfortunately passed away. The former Arsenal player was 21 years old, and his team shared the devastating news on Thursday (US time).

“After sustaining a significant brain injury last Saturday, Billy Vigar was put in an induced coma,” read a statement from his family, issued by Chichester. “On Tuesday he needed an operation to aid any chances of recovery. Although this helped, the injury proved too much for him and he passed away on Thursday (25th) morning.”

“The responses to the original update show how much Billy was thought of and loved within the sport. His family are devastated that this has happened whilst he was playing the sport that he loved.”

James Comey’s lawyer Patrick J Fitzgerald shared a statement to the media indicating the former FBI director’s stance on the formal allegations against him.

It reads: “Jim Comey denies the charges filed today in their entirety. We look forward to vindicating him in the courtroom.”

Meanwhile, Comey himself spoke out in a video message shared on Instagram, asserting his innocence.

Calling the US president a “tyrant,” he said, ” My family and I have know for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump. We will not live on our knees.”

He added, “I’m innocent. So let’s have a trial.”

External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar shared via X: “Glad to join the G4 Foreign Ministers Meeting along with colleagues Takeshi Iwaya, Johann Wadephul and Mauro Vieira in New York today. G4 reiterated its commitment to reforming the United Nations, including the UN Security Council. It also assessed the current state of the Inter-Governmental Negotiation process.”

On Thursday (US time), Trump announced a fresh wave of tariffs. As per the new development, the US will be imposing 100% import taxes on branded drugs, 20% tariffs on all heavy-duty trucks and 50% tariffs on kitchen cabinets. Additionally, 30% tariffs are expected to hit upholstered furniture next week.

Emphasising the need for a stark focus on US manufacturing, the US president said, “The reason for this is the large scale ‘FLOODING’ of these products into the United States by other outside Countries.”

James Comey became the first former FBI Director to be indicted on an alleged crime on Thursday (US time). He’s been charged with lying to Congress in a criminal case files days after President Trump apparently pushed his attorney general to prosecute him.

As a fierce critic of Comey, Trump hailed the indictment on social media. Calling the ex-FBI head “one of the worst human beings” on Truth Social, he wrote, ” JUSTICE IN AMERICA!”

“Today he was indicted by a Grand Jury on two felony counts for various illegal and unlawful acts. He has been so bad for our Country, for so long, and is now at the beginning of being held responsible for his crimes against our Nation. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

“We are very encouraged by the growing interest of Indian companies to invest in SICA (Central American Integration System) countries, in SICA economies, particularly in agriculture, in renewable energy, in pharmaceuticals, and in IT,” External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said the India-SICA Foreign Minister’s Meeting in New York this week.

“At the same time, our payments, digital payments interface, called the UPI, we’ve actually had great success in ensuring a seamless, real-time, and secure method of transferring funds. Today more than half of the world’s cashless payments take place in India because of this.”

He added, “We would be very happy to work with SICA partners to see how this digital payments system can be applied to our economies if there is such interest.”

Jaishankar continued, “Over the past decade, India’s engagement with SICA has deepened significantly. We have had high-level visits that demonstrate a commitment to closer ties with Central America.”

US President Donald Trump spoke to reporters at the White House on Thursday (US time), informing the world of the new TikTok deal he’d officialised with a fresh executive order signing.

“I had a very good talk with President Xi, a lot of respect for him. Hopefully, he has a lot of respect for me, too. We talked about TikTok, and he gave us the go-ahead,” he said ahead of his meeting with Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif.

” You know, it’s run by American investors and American companies, great ones, great investors, the biggest….The young people really wanted this to happen… We have American investors taking it over, running it, highly sophisticated, including Larry Ellison and Oracle, I guess, is going to play a very big role in terms of security, safety, and everything else.”