President Donald Trump on Friday said the conflict in Iran is "small potatoes" as he defended Vice President JD Vance for asserting that months of on-and-off attacks in the Middle East are not a "war."

Asked during an Oval Office exchange about Vance's comments made a day earlier, Trump noted that US strikes on Iran are now "intermittent" and seemed to downplay the intensity of a war that's cost US taxpayers more than USD 37.5 billion and left 18 US service members dead.

Giving a major push to the electronics manufacturing ecosystem in Tamil Nadu and India, Zollner Elektronik AG (Zollner), considered one of the largest European electronics manufacturing services (EMS) companies, has announced the formation of a joint venture (JV) with Avalon Technologies Ltd (Avalon).

The companies will set up a Rs 1,000 crore manufacturing unit for high-precision items like printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs), complete box builds, cable harnesses and electronic sub-assemblies at Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on Friday successfully launched India’s first dedicated imaging satellite in geosynchronous orbit from the spaceport in Sriharikota.

The EOS-05 satellite, dubbed the “eye in the sky”, was launched aboard a GSLV-F17 rocket at 2.55 am on Friday from the second launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre.

Around 600 children remain unaccounted for in Nepal's Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts after the devastating flash floods, as the death toll rose to 1,282 on Friday with more than 4,700 missing.

The flash floods, triggered by an ice-rock avalanche near the Nepal-Tibet border on August 26, devastated towns and villages in northern and central Nepal, leaving a trail of destruction.

Italian market regulator Consob has approved the offer document for Tata Motors’ voluntary tender offer for all the common shares of commercial vehicle maker Iveco Group, clearing the way for the acceptance period to begin on September 7.

The offer is being made by TML CV Holdings, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Motors, at €14.10 per Iveco share on a cum-dividend basis, the automaker said in a stock-exchange filing on Friday.

Maharashtra has received more than $300 billion of investment interest in data centres and currently accounts for 66 per cent of India’s data centre capacity, Kaustubh Dhavse, chief advisor, investments and strategy, to the chief minister of Maharashtra, said on Thursday.

Speaking at the Naredco Real Estate & Infrastructure Investors’ Summit 2026 in Mumbai, Dhavse said data centres were among the key opportunities for Maharashtra’s next phase of growth.

HDFC Bank Ltd. is barely holding on to its position as the most influential stock on India’s equity benchmark as a leadership upheaval and governance concerns deepen a selloff.

The country’s most-valuable lender’s weighting in the NSE Nifty 50 Index has shrunk to 9.81 per cent, narrowly ahead of rival ICICI Bank Ltd.’s 9.34 per cent.

The government is planning to roll out Bharat NCAP 2 from October 2027, which will assess the complete safety framework and will address the severe challenge of road accidents in the country, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday.

Addressing the 66th SIAM Annual Convention 2025, the Minister for Road, Transport and Highways highlighted the success of Bharat NCAP.

The death toll due to the devastating flash floods in Nepal rose to 1,252 on Thursday as more bodies were recovered from the affected areas while thousands remain missing after more than a week of the disaster, police said.

According to the data released by Nepal Police, 355 bodies were recovered from Chitawan district, 218 from Nawalparasi East, 208 from Nawalparasi West, including 18 recovered from India and handed over to Nawalparasi West, and 177 from Nuwakot.

Incessant rains lashed several parts of Bihar over the past 24 hours, causing water levels in major rivers to rise and prompting authorities to remain on alert, officials said on Wednesday.

All 69 gates of the Sone Barrage at Indrapuri in Rohtas district have been opened to facilitate the flow of water and help control the flood situation, they said.

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