India deploys national response team to Gujarat after Chandipura virus kills 22 children; outbreak also reported in Rajasthan

US parasitic outbreak surpasses 10,000 cases with 517 hospitalizations and 2 deaths, Newsweek reports. The diarrhea-causing parasite spreads through contaminated food or water.

The number of cases of a diarrhea-causing parasite in the United States has exceeded 10,000, Newsweek reports. At least 517 patients have been hospitalized and two have died; infection occurs through consumption of contaminated food or water.

Lightning strikes kill 14 in India's Jharkhand state, eight injured across Giridih, Dumka, and Latehar districts Tuesday. India Met Dept forecasts widespread rainfall through Saturday.

Lightning strikes killed at least 14 people and injured eight others in India's eastern state of Jharkhand on Tuesday, according to multiple local media reports cited by Xinhua.

India's central bank RBI holds repo rate steady at 5.25% as the Monetary Policy Committee unanimously maintains its neutral stance amid global headwinds.

India's central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), on Wednesday announced it kept the repo rate unchanged at 5.25%, with the Monetary Policy Committee voting unanimously to maintain the neutral stance.

China sentences former defense technology agency deputy Zhang Jianhua to 10 years in prison for bribery, fining him 3.8 million yuan, a Dazhou court ruled Wednesday. Prosecutors said he took over 43 million yuan in bribes from 2008-2025.

Zhang Jianhua, former deputy head of China's State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday for bribery and fined 3.8 million yuan by the Dazhou Intermediate People's Court in Sichuan Province, with illicit gains to be recovered.