Army jawan killed in Jammu
An Indian Army jawan was ‘killed in action’ during an intense gunfight with a group of terrorists, possibly trained in guerrilla warfare, in the forest area of Kanji bordering Udhampur-Doda districts of the Jammu region on Saturday. In Srinagar, a Major rank officer also made the supreme sacrifice in the line of duty in Baramulla district.
CID to probe Zubeen’s death
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday said his Government would conduct an inquiry into singer Zubeen Garg’s death. An FIR has been lodged against North East India Festival organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta and the singer’s manager Siddhartha Sharma at Morigaon police station. “Assam Police will probe the death of Zubeen Garg and both Mahanta and Sharma, along with those who were present with the singer in his last moments, will be interrogated,” Sarma told reporters. There are reports that the singer was taken to a party the night before his death and “we are also trying to ascertain its veracity”, he said. Garg died in Singapore on Friday, while “swimming in the sea without a life jacket”.
Russia launches attack on Ukraine
Russia launched a large-scale missile and drone attack targeting regions across Ukraine early Saturday, killing at least three people and wounding dozens more, Ukrainian officials said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said attacks took place across nine regions, including Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, Zaporizhzhia, Poltava, Kyiv, Odesa, Sumy and Kharkiv. “The enemy’s target was our infrastructure, residential areas and civilian enterprises,” he said, adding that a missile equipped with cluster munitions struck a multi-story building in the city of Dnipro. “Each such strike is not a military necessity but a deliberate strategy by Russia to intimidate civilians and destroy our infrastructure,” he said in a statement on his official Telegram. Zelenskyy said he expected to meet US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly next week.
Goyal to visit US on September 22
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal will lead an official delegation to the US for trade talks on September 22, an official statement said on Saturday. The delegation plans to hold talks with US team to take forward discussions with a view to achieve early conclusion of a mutually beneficial trade agreement, it said. The minister will visit New York and will be accompanied by special secretary in the ministry Rajesh Agrawal and other officials. During the last visit of the team of officials from the office of United States Trade Representative to India on September 16, positive discussions were held on various aspects of the trade deal, and it was decided to intensify efforts in this regard. "In continuation of these discussions, a delegation led by Commerce and Industries Minister is visiting the United States for meetings with the US side on 22nd September 2025," it said.