Rudi Garcia will leave as Belgium's coach after failing to agree a contract extension with the Royal Belgian Football Association. The federation said on Monday it would not renew his deal beyond the end of this month and is seeking a successor. The French coach took Belgium to the World Cup quarterfinals, where they lost to eventual champions Spain.
The Supreme Court on Monday suggested a Special Investigation Team of senior police officers look into alleged embezzlement of donations to the Ram temple trust, while warning petitioners against turning a straightforward criminal complaint into politics. The complainants want a CBI inquiry and publication of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust's full finances, including foreign contributions. The bench will pass orders on July 27.
A senior Iranian official told Reuters that mediators have proposed a 10-day ceasefire to give room for reviving last month's interim understanding with Washington, as fighting entered a second week. The Wall Street Journal named Qatar and Pakistan as the main brokers, with Qatar also seeking an end to shipping curbs in the Strait of Hormuz, where traffic has fallen to around 10 vessels a day.
Kushagra Ojha made a composed unbeaten hundred to rescue India U-19 from a poor start against Sri Lanka on the rain-shortened opening day of the second Youth Test in Colombo on Monday. His innings carried the visitors to 253 for three from 65 overs before umpires ended play early because of bad light, leaving India well placed.
Marvel has released the first trailer for Avengers: Doomsday, giving fans an early look at Robert Downey Jr as Doctor Doom, with the Russo brothers directing and a December 18 release. Lewis Pullman is confirmed as Sentry, but Tom Holland's Spider-Man is not in the cast; his story continues in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Returning figures include Thor, Loki, Magneto and the Fantastic Four.
Thousands of largely young, student protesters pushed through barricades and reached within about 100 metres of Parliament on Monday before being tear-gassed and baton-charged, The Hindu reported from the scene. A senior official said roughly 3,000 personnel were outnumbered despite an internet shutdown. The leaderless crowd, marching from Jantar Mantar over NEET exam grievances, was finally blocked by buses near the complex.
A senior Indian official told journalists on Monday that the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty needs review and renegotiation and will not function again in its present form, saying any revival of river-sharing provisions must take a different shape. India suspended the treaty after the April 2025 Pahalgam attack. The official also argued the move sets no precedent for China's Brahmaputra dam.
Ryan Fox holed a 12-foot birdie putt at the last at Royal Birkdale to win the British Open by a stroke, sealing it just after 5:30am back home before sunrise. New Zealanders woke on Monday to a fourth major champion from their country. The victory lifted Fox from 56th to 22nd in the Official World Golf Ranking.
Lumio co-founder Raghu Reddy told Hindustan Times that the chip shortage that has already lifted smartphone and laptop prices will push Indian television prices up over the next six months, and that every brand including his own will be affected. Co-founder Kailash Sankarnarayanan described the company's focus on content discovery, including a WhatsApp-linked assistant tested across nine Indian languages.
Writing on X, PV Sindhu said she contacted Virat Kohli at the lowest point of her career, when injuries were mounting and results had dried up, and that he replied within minutes and met her the next day. The 31-year-old kept the conversation private but said it reframed her purpose. A toe ligament injury had kept her out for three months.
Donald Trump declared on Truth Social that Benjamin Netanyahu will not be arrested in any way while in the United States, responding to New York mayor Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani has said he is unsure whether he can direct police to detain a foreign leader and is consulting his legal team before September's UN General Assembly.
Delhi Police said more than 118 personnel were hurt during Monday's CJP protest, among them a Special Commissioner, a Joint Commissioner and several women officers, and that around 60 protesters were also injured. The force said demonstrators pelted stones, breached barricades and damaged 15 to 20 government vehicles. About 70 people were detained and an FIR is being registered.
A Dawn analysis of Pakistan's latest official household surveys puts the poverty rate at 28.9% in 2024-25, up from 21.8% in 2018-19 and the first such reading in nearly six years. Rural areas worsened most, rising about eight percentage points against six in cities. The report blames balance-of-payments crises, the pandemic and inflation, with wage-dependent families hit hardest.
India's largest carrier IndiGo said on Monday it will order over 1,000 engines from CFM International to power 510 aircraft from the A320 neo family. The memorandum was signed at the Farnborough International Airshow in the UK. CFM is an equal joint venture between GE Aerospace and Safran Aircraft Engines. Chief executive designate Willie Walsh cited the LEAP engine's reliability.
Former India captain Diana Edulji has argued for a split-captaincy arrangement in the women's team, saying it is time to move on from Harmanpreet Kaur in white-ball cricket after India went out at the group stage of the recent ICC Women's T20 World Cup. She suggests handing the white-ball role to Smriti Mandhana. Edulji spoke at the Maharani Trophy launch in Bengaluru.
Donald Trump said on Monday that Iran would pay many times over for every American service member killed, posting the warning on Truth Social and saying the instruction had gone to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Joint Chiefs chairman Daniel Caine and military commanders. The Pentagon confirmed three US deaths over the weekend, two at a base in Jordan and one in northern Iraq.
India deposited its instrument of acceptance on Monday to become a party to the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies, the Commerce Ministry said. The pact bars state support for illegal fishing and overfished stocks, covering marine wild-capture fishing but not aquaculture or inland fisheries. Adopted by consensus in Geneva in June 2022, it took effect on 15 September 2025.
Four Indian seafarers died and one was left critically ill when the commercial vessel MV Golden Leo came under attack while departing the Ukrainian port of Odesa on Sunday, the Ministry of External Affairs said. Seventeen crew were aboard, five of them Indian. The ministry condemned the targeting of commercial shipping and said its mission in Ukraine is assisting those affected.
Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni reached Islamabad on Monday evening leading a delegation that includes senior Revolutionary Guard commanders, with meetings expected with Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir. It coincides with a ninth consecutive night of US strikes on Iranian military sites, Iranian retaliation against Gulf states, and a reported mediator proposal for a 10-day ceasefire.
Tamil Nadu has created 2.54 crore Ayushman Bharat Health Accounts, the 14-digit digital health identifiers generated from a person's Aadhaar number under the Centre's Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission launched in 2021. Government facilities, including primary health centres, have been registering patients over the years. The state is now linking ABHA with its Health Management Information System 3.0 across public institutions.