US President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced he would raise tariffs on Indian imports “very substantially” within the next 24 hours, citing New Delhi’s ongoing imports of Russian oil.

“They're fueling the war machine, and if they're going to do that, then I'm not going to be happy,” Trump told CNBC in an interview. He also criticised India’s existing tariff structure, calling it the primary point of contention.

The Congress on Wednesday said the Opposition's demand for a discussion on the "votebandi" by the Election Commission is "non-negotiable" in both Houses of Parliament.

There has been a logjam in Parliament over the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Bihar, which the Opposition has alleged is being done to cut votes ahead of the state election.

The Supreme Court strongly criticised an Allahabad High Court judge for permitting criminal proceedings in what was "clearly a civil case". The top court called his reasoning "shocking" and found his understanding of criminal law to be deeply flawed, Bar and Bench reported.

The apex court also directed the Chief Justice of the High Court to remove Justice Prashant Kumar from all criminal matters and ordered that such cases should not be assigned to him in the future.

The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, on August 5 cleared multiple defence proposals worth around ₹67,000 crore, aimed at significantly enhancing the operational capabilities of the Indian Armed Forces.

In an official statement, the Ministry of Defence said, “The Defence Acquisition Council, under the chairmanship of Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh on August 5, approved various proposals amounting to a total cost of about Rs 67,000 crore.”

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday came out strongly in support of her brother Rahul Gandhi, a day after the Supreme Court criticised him over his past remarks on the Indian Army. The top court had questioned his statement made during the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ in December 2022, where he claimed that China had occupied 2,000 square kilometres of Indian land.

Former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satyapal Malik passed away at Delhi's Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital after a prolonged illness, his secretary KS Rana confirmed in a post on X.

Malik had been suffering from kidney-related ailments and was under treatment for dialysis since May 2025, when he was first admitted to Delhi's Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday cancelled bail granted to former DHFL promoter Dheeraj Wadhawan in the multi-crore bank loan scam case.

A bench of Justices Sanjay Kumar and Satish Chandra Sharma passed the order after perusing the report filed by a medical board and directed Wadhawan to surrender within two weeks.

Reliance Group Chairman Anil Ambani reached Delhi on Tuesday after being summoned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for questioning in an alleged ₹17,000-crore loan fraud case, news agency ANI reported. He has been asked to appear before ED officials on Tuesday at their headquarters in the national capital.

On August 1, the ED issued a Look Out Circular (LOC) against Anil Ambani to stop him from leaving the country while the investigation is ongoing.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chipmaker and a linchpin of global electronics supply chains, has dismissed several employees and launched legal proceedings over suspected breaches of internal rules involving access to sensitive chipmaking information.

The company confirmed to Nikkei Asia that it had “detected unauthorised activities during routine monitoring, leading to the discovery of potential trade secret leaks”.

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Monday issued a sharp rebuttal to US President Donald Trump’s threat of imposing higher tariffs on Indian goods, calling the criticism over Russian oil imports “unjustified and unreasonable.” The ministry stressed that India’s energy ties with Russia are driven by national "necessity" and are far smaller in scale compared to trade between Russia and the West.

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