World ‘Extremely hazardous’: Seafarers’ union urges PM Modi to deploy Navy after Indian vessel sinks August 5, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com FSUI urges PM to deploy Indian Navy assets to protect Indian-flagged vessels & Indian seafarers in the Hormuz, Black Sea and Red Sea The Forward Seamen’s Union of India (FSUI)…
World After Japan’s devastating 2011 tsunami, volunteers have planted more than 680,000 trees to protect the coast from future tsunamis | World News August 5, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com When a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and the devastating tsunami that followed struck Japan’s north-eastern coast in March 2011, entire towns were swept away, nearly 20,000 people were killed or went…
World Across America’s three coasts, 84% of wetlands are slowly submerging; only 16% are rising fast enough to keep pace with the sea August 5, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com As sea levels continue to rise at an alarming rate, coastal wetlands are facing unprecedented inundation. A staggering eighty-four percent of these essential ecosystems are currently experiencing loss on a…
World California’s winter monarch migration has collapsed from millions in the 1990s to 12,260 butterflies in 2025; the third-lowest count ever recorded | August 5, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com This winter’s survey of the western monarch butterfly revealed over 12,000 individuals, a small rise from last year. Despite this slight increase, conservationists remain alarmed as numbers are still critically…
World Nearly 1,000 migrant children were left stranded in Spain’s Ceuta after a mass crossing from Morocco overwhelmed border authorities | World News August 5, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com For a few days, Spain’s small North African enclave of Ceuta became the centre of a sudden migration crisis as thousands of people crossed from Morocco in a desperate attempt…
World Brazil’s Snake Island is home to just two snake species, including one of the world’s most venomous pit vipers | World News August 5, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Image: Left/Golden lancehead (Bothrops insularis)/Right/Dipsas albifrons (Sauvage’s snail-eating snake)/AI Generated About 33 kilometres off the coast of São Paulo lies Ilha da Queimada Grande, better known as Snake Island. Shrouded…
World Meet Akshath Anand, the Surrey Grade 9 student who built a wearable device that detects IV leaks before swelling begins; his first national science fair ended with gold August 5, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Grade 9 student, Akshat Anand, wins gold for wearable that detects IV leaks earlyPhoto credit: Surrey Schools At just 13 or 14 years old, most Grade 9 students are still…
World Polish swimmer becomes the first person to swim from Sweden to Poland across the Baltic Sea in 55 hours | World News August 5, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com In a historic feat, Bartłomiej Kubkowski, an ultra-swimmer from Poland, became the first person to successfully swim across the Baltic Sea from Sweden to Poland without any physical help. Making…
World Scientists placed 42 sea sponges in a polluted Spanish port. 455 days later, one species had thrived while four others died | August 5, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Representative Image of marine life thriving around resilient chicken kidney sponges in polluted waters (AI-generated image) Researchers in Spain spent 455 days tracking how sponges from five species of Mediterranean…
World ‘Operation Eau de Fraud’: Chicago YouTuber charged after replacing luxury perfumes with modeling clay in return scam; police seize $250,000 worth of fragrances | World News August 5, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Image: Phillip Carter/ Youtube A Chicago YouTuber known for reviewing luxury fragrances has been charged after authorities accused him of carrying out an elaborate return fraud scheme involving expensive designer…
