Bengaluru’s 15-lakh sapling Guinness bid cost Rs 12.5 crore
Bengaluru’s 15-lakh sapling Guinness bid cost Rs 12.5 crore.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2026 · 17 stories
Bengaluru’s 15-lakh sapling Guinness bid cost Rs 12.5 crore.
‘Metro first’: Outer Ring Road firms spike WFH plan, seek pause on Rs 450-crore white-topping work.
Special court rejects co-accused’s plea to turn approver in Suraj Revanna case.

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The US Embassy in India has clarified that all minor applicants, regardless of age, must appear in person for their consular visa interview.
Social work has brought me closer to people.” She also recollected her party work, especially the intense contest between Congress leader Sonia Gandhi and former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj in Ballari in 1999. Unlock these with Subscription Karnataka Legislative Council Chairman Saleem Ahmed congratulates Congress MLC Umashree as she takes charge as Deputy Chairperson of the Legislative Council in Bengaluru on Tuesday.

“For 25 years, the heavy thumb of Washington, D.C., has hindered Montana’s ability to properly manage wildfire risk and road development on nearly 60 percent of Forest Service land across the Treasure State,” Republican Governor Greg Gianforte of Montana said in a statement. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed a proposal to rescind the entirety of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which prohibits road construction and logging on nearly 45 million acres (18 million hectares) of national forest land. Plowing roads into their habitat will bring human-caused.

Russian missile strike kills 10 civilians in Kharkiv | Newsfeed | Al Jazeera Russian missile strike kills 10 civilians in Kharkiv A Russian missile strike on Pechenihy, in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, killed at least 10 civilians and wounded 17 others. Published On 18 Aug 2026 18 Aug 2026 Save Click here to share on social media Share Add Al Jazeera on Google. Two missiles struck less than a minute apart, hitting a café and a service-station parking area while damaging nearby homes, shops, and vehicles.

US President Donald Trump is suing the BBC over the way a Panorama episode edited a speech A judge who was recently nominated by Donald Trump to serve in Florida's federal court has taken over as judge in the US president's $10bn defamation case against the BBC. He was previously an appeals court judge in Florida and replaces Judge Roy Altman, who had also been nominated by Trump in 2019. Announcing the nomination in April on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump praised Kuntz's work in Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeal, saying "Jeffrey has been TOUGH and SMART and delivered.

Joe Root will start his second innings as captain while Pakistan will be without Babar Azam.