✈ *INTERNATIONAL NEWS*
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#External affairs Minister: Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
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1. The External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar held a meeting with the leadership of India-Japan Council in Delhi. Dr Jaishankar appreciated their commitment to realize the full potential of this important relationship.
2. India has selected Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla and Group Captain Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair for the Axiom-4 mission to the ISS, with Shukla as the primary mission pilot and Nair as the backup.
🌎 *WORLD NEWS* 🌍
UNO Gen. Secy : António Guterres.
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1. United States will deploy additional fighter jets and Navy ships to West Asia in order to defend Israel, the US Department of Defence said.
2. Amid heightened regional tensions in West Asia, the United States and the United Kingdom on Saturday (Aug 3) urged their citizens to leave Lebanon.
3. Students in Bangladesh called for a nationwide civil disobedience campaign over the police crackdown on protesters as demonstrations against civil service job quotas continued.
4. In Somalia, at least 35 people killed in suicide bombing and gun attack on a hotel in its capital Mogadishu. Al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda-linked armed group has claimed responsibility for the yesterday’s attack on Lido Beach.
5. Eastern Indonesia hit by 5.0-magnitude earthquake. The quake struck at 12.32 p.m. local time, with its epicentre located 28 km northeast of Puncak Jaya Regency at a depth of 100 km. There have been no preliminary reports of damages or casualties after the earthquake.
6. The US Embassy in Dhaka has issued a security alert for US nationals residing in Bangladesh.
7. Turkey blocked access to the social networking platform Instagram in the country. The Turkish government has accused Meta, the US-based parent company of Instagram of blocking condolence posts on the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
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