Operation Sindoor Live Updates: India Strikes 9 Terror Bases In Pakistan In Historic Tri-Services Operation

Operation Sindoor Live Updates: The Indian armed forces early Wednesday carried out missile attacks on nine terror targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir, including Muridke and Bahawalpur, which are the strongholds of terror groups Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed, respectively. 

The attacks, which were carried out at 1:44am, were in response to the terror attack in Pahalgam in Jammu & Kashmir's Anantnag district that claimed 26 lives -- 25 Indians and one Nepali citizen -- on April 22.

Taking note of the strikes, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said his country has "every right to respond forcefully to this act of war". "The Pakistani nation and the Pakistani armed forces know how to deal with the enemy. We will never allow the enemy to succeed in their nefarious goals," he said. 

India's strikes come hours before a planned security mock drill across the country for "effective civil defence in the event of a hostile attack", across 244 districts. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has vowed to pursue the perpetrators of the attack and those who took part in its conspiracy to the "ends of the earth" to inflict punishment on them "beyond their imagination.

Will file appeal against Mehul Choksi’s arrest in Belgium, says lawyer; bail plea to cite his cancer treatment

PNB Bank Fraud Case, Mehul Choksi Arrest News: The lawyers for fugitive diamond trader Mehul Choksi, who is accused in the PNB fraud case, had said earlier that he was in Belgium to undergo treatment for cancer.

Moment Nasa astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore made spectacular splashdown after 286 days in space

After an extended and unplanned stay in space, Nasa astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams safely returned to Earth on Tuesday, marking the end of a nine-month-long ordeal that saw them stranded aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Their SpaceX capsule successfully splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, just hours after their departure from the ISS.

Their journey, which was initially supposed to last a little over a week, turned into a record-setting mission due to persistent technical setbacks with Boeing's new Starliner crew capsule. The two astronauts originally launched aboard Starliner on June 5, but were forced to extend their mission indefinitely when a series of failures rendered the capsule unfit for a return trip. Nasa ultimately decided to bring them home via SpaceX, which faced its own delays, further prolonging their time in orbit.
Upon splashdown, SpaceX confirmed their safe return in a post on X, "Splashdown of Dragon confirmed – welcome back to Earth, Nick, Suni, Butch, and Aleks!"