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Adani Energy Solutions Ltd (AESL) on Monday announced it has successfully raised Rs 8,373 crore ($1 billion) via the qualified institutional placement (QIP) route, the largest in the country's power sector. 

The affected trains include the Kolkata-Dhaka-Kolkata Maitree Express (13109/13110), Kolkata-Dhaka-Kolkata Maitree Express (13107/13108), Kolkata-Khulna-Kolkata Bandhan Express, and Dhaka-New Jalpaiguri-Dhaka Mitali Express, which has been suspended since June 21.

Amid turmoil in Bangladesh, a high alert has been sounded in India's bordering areas with the neighbouring nation where the situation has become extremely volatile following protests over a quota-related issue. 

Agartala Smart City Limited inaugurated its own Data Centre on Monday, becoming the first smart city in India to establish a dedicated data centre under a smart city project.

Local media in Bangladesh reported on Monday that "thousands of protesters" have vandalised the residence of the country's Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal in Dhanmondi, an upscale area in Dhaka, following the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) Tripura University Unit has called for the immediate suspension of Augustine Zimik, an Assistant Professor at Tripura University. The student organization accuses Zimik of engaging in unauthorized religious conversion activities on campus in collaboration with the Union of Evangelical Students of India (UESI).

As the Prime Minister of the neighbouring country of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina left the country following the intensification of the students’ protest, the Tripura’s royal scion Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barma demanded the Government of India to initiate Plan-B and secure the boundaries of the North East region of the country.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned, and an interim government will be formed to run the country, Army Chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman announced on Monday.

Noting that the NDA government has strengthened health infrastructure in India, Union Health Minister JP Nadda in Lok Sabha on Monday, said that the number of medical colleges in the country has risen to 731 from 387 in 2014.

As violence gripped Bangladesh amid ongoing student protests, several reports indicated on Monday that Sheikh Hasina has resigned as the country's Prime Minister and left the country in a military helicopter.

India, the world’s third-largest importer of crude oil, stands to gain as oil prices have fallen to an eitht-month low at $75.8 a barrel in the international market, with a more than $4 a barrel decline since Friday as the slowdown in the US and Chinese economies have raised fears of dampening demand.

On the seventh day of Kerala’s worst-ever natural disaster, a huge mass burial will take place on Monday afternoon, said the state's Revenue Minister K. Rajan in the aftermath of the landslide at Wayanad that took place in four villages in the wee hours last Tuesday.

Eyeing the upcoming state Assembly elections, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) President Raj Thackeray slammed the ongoing caste controversy while demanding jobs for all the locals in the state, here on Monday.

The United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned "far-right thuggery" in his televised address as riots continue across the country following the deadly knife attack in Southport.

Officials said that the Army opened fire after noticing suspicious movement of two groups of infiltrators along the LoC in the Akhnoor sector of the Jammu district and the Sunderbani sector of Rajouri district.

Rescue operations entered the seventh day on Monday when the toll in Kerala’s worst natural calamity touched 387, while180 people still missing after the massive landslides and floods in Wayanad last week.

Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha on Sunday made his first visit to Gandacherra in Dhalai district of the state, where several families were rendered homeless due to a clash between two groups.

Infiltration from Bangladesh into Tripura remained unstoppable after 12 more Bangladesh nationals including three women were arrested for their illegal entry into India, officials said on Sunday.

Maulana Shahabuddin Razvi Bareilvi, the national President of the All India Muslim Jamaat, has responded to the Central government’s proposed amendment to Waqf Board Act.

The Indian Embassy in Bangladesh on Sunday issued an advisory urging Indian nationals residing in the country to "remain alert" as the student protests resumed in Sylhet, in which an unspecified number of people have got injured.

The Chief Ministers of Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma and Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath are expected to visit Tripura on August 27 to inaugurate the newly constructed Shanti Kali Temple in Barkathal village located in the Mohanpur Sub-division of Tripura's West District.

Three air-conditioned coaches of an empty stationary express train were gutted in a fire accident at Visakhapatnam Railway Station on Sunday, police said.

The Srinagar-Leh highway was closed on Sunday after mudslides, triggered by a cloudburst in J&K’s Ganderbal district, said officials here, adding that there were no reports of any loss of life.

The Indian Army, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), Kerala Fire and Rescue Services, police and other agencies resumed the search operation on Sunday morning for the missing people in the Wayanad landslides.

The overseas participants at the 32nd International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE), which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Saturday, have hailed India's agricultural potential and its overall growth story.