#NDTVBeeps: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday became the fourth-longest serving Prime Minister of India. The feat also makes PM Modi the country's longest-serving Prime Minister not from the Congress.
#NDTVBeeps: Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria flew a MiG-21 Bison jet at a frontline airbase in the Western Command and also reviewed the operational preparedness of the base.
#NDTVBeeps: Sheela, a Royal Bengal tigress, has given birth to three cubs at a wildlife safari park in north Bengal's Siliguri. The Bengal Safari has been shut to visitors since the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
#NDTVBeeps: In Uttarakhand's Nainital, a 12-year-old boy, identified only as Sunny, is being praised for rescuing a 22-year-old man from drowning in the fast-flowing Kosi river.
#NDTVBeeps: With the country still battling COVID-19, over 1,200 'Dahi Handi' organisations decided to scrap celebrations this year. Instead, many marked 'Aarogya Utsav' and participated in blood donation drives.
#NDTVBeeps: India's deepest underground rail ventilation shaft was completed in Kolkata amid the coronavirus pandemic. At 43.5 metres deep, it is equal to a 15-storey building.
#NDTVBeeps: To honour his late wife Madhavi, Karnataka's Srinivas Murthy installed a lifelike silicone statue of her in his new home. He said it had been her dream to own a house and he commissioned the statue so she could live in her new 'dream home.'
#NDTVBeeps: As heavy rain continues to batter flood-hit Karnataka, relief workers are finding stories of hope and survival. One such heart-warming example is a photo tweeted by the NDRF chief Satya Pradhan that captures a boy who was rescued along with his pet dog.
#NDTVBeeps: Sikkim's ancient Kirateshwar temple is in danger of being washed away after a very sharp rise in the water level of the Rangit river. Several landslides have been reported in the state, battered by heavy rain
#NDTVBeeps: At least 13 people have been killed after heavy rain caused a landslide in Kerala's Idukki district early this morning. Very heavy to extremely heavy rain has been forecast for the district for today and tomorrow.
#NDTVBeeps: South Mumbai's Colaba area, which includes iconic landmarks such as the Gateway of India, reported its heaviest single-day rainfall in August in 46 years on Wednesday, when rains and cyclonic winds reaching speeds of up to 107kmph hit the city
#NDTVBeeps: Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid a 40-kg silver brick for a Ram temple at Ayodhya after participating in a "Bhoomi Pujan" or a ground-breaking ceremony
#NDTVBeeps: The enormous blast that tore through Lebanon's capital with the force of an earthquake, killing more than 100 people and injuring over 4,000, resulted from the ignition of a huge depot of ammonium nitrate at Beirut's port, say officials
#NDTVBeeps: Olympic champion Katie Ledecky swims the length of a swimming pool while balancing a glass full of chocolate milk on her head in a video that is massively viral
#NDTVBeeps: Heavy rain overnight and this morning battered several parts of Mumbai, leading to flooding and travel chaos. Mumbai and a few neighbouring districts are on red alert for "extremely heavy rainfall" today and tomorrow.
#NDTVBeeps: A man has filed a police complaint against a popular restaurant in central Delhi's posh Connaught Place, alleging he was served food with a dead lizard in it.
#NDTVBeeps: NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday after a two-month voyage to the International Space Station. They were in a capsule built and operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX.