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Escalating the West Asia theater into its most volatile state of direct confrontation since the 2026 conflict ignited, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched coordinated ballistic missile and suicide drone salvos targeting United States military installations in Kuwait and Bahrain. Executed under the operational banner of “Operation Martyr Soleimani II” on Sunday, June 28, 2026, the massive counter-offensive was explicitly declared by Tehran as direct retaliation for the devastating U.S. Navy and Air Force precision bombings on Qeshm Island earlier this weekend. Iranian state-run media confirmed that waves of Fateh-110 tactical ballistic missiles and Shahed-136 delta-wing kamikaze drones simultaneously targeted Ali Al Salem Air Base in western Kuwait alongside maritime infrastructure housing the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet at NSA Bahrain. While the Pentagon’s integrated air defense network—including localized Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors—successfully neutralized a significant majority of the incoming threats, local defense ministries reported minor structural debris damage and runway craters near both installations. The White House issued an emergency national security condemnation, branding the multi-state barrage a reckless breach of international sovereignty, as global energy trading desks braced for an immediate freeze of maritime trade lines through the critical Strait of Hormuz shipping lane.
The West Bengal government has launched the Annapurna Yojana, under which more than 28.25 lakh women received ₹3,000 each through direct benefit transfer (DBT) on the first day of implementation. Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari formally inaugurated the scheme at Nabanna and announced that 28,25,769 verified beneficiaries had already been enrolled.
In a monumental ecological milestone for Jammu and Kashmir, pink lotus flowers have blanketed the waters of Wular Lake for the first time since 1992. The iconic flora completely vanished over three decades ago when devastating regional floods choked Asia’s largest freshwater lake under a thick, suffocating blanket of silt, decimating its aquatic ecosystem. The loss deeply fractured local economies in Bandipora, wiping out the seasonal harvesting of Nadru (lotus stem), a prized staple of traditional Kashmiri cuisine. Following a multi-year, aggressive restoration campaign helmed by the Wular Conservation and Management Authority, intensive desilting and weed-clearing operations have successfully revived the lake’s water quality. The return of the vibrant lotus beds not only marks a crucial biodiversity triumph for local fish populations but also signals a welcome economic resurrection for thousands of dependent fishing families.
On 10 th September 2025 Indian PM Modi and Italian PM Georgia Meloni engaged in a telephonic conference on the state of war in Ukraine and both leaders agreed that the war must stop and there must be peace in the country. It also meant improving the ties between India and Italy.
Tourist visas have started to be issued by the Indian government after a gap of five years. This news was issued by the Indian Embassy in Beijing on Wednesday. The Chinese Ministry of Affairs called this a “positive” decision, calling it marks another step in normalising India-China ties ruptured by the military standoff at the Line of Actual Control and Galwan clashes in 2020.
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