U.S. President Donald Trump told Axios on Wednesday that there's "practically nothing left" to target in Iran and that the war there will end "soon." "Little this and that... Any time I want it to end, it will end," Trump said during a brief phone interview. The conflict began nearly two weeks ago with strikes on Iran by the U.S. and Israel aimed at dismantling Iran's military capabilities and nuclear program.

As many as 28 Indian vessels with 778 seafarers onboard are stuck in the Persian Gulf, a government official said on Wednesday (March 11, 2026). "We are monitoring all the vessels actively for their safety and security. Authorities, ship managers and recruitment agencies...are closely coordinating with Indian embassies and local authorities to ensure safety and render medical assistance to them," the official said. Advisories have been issued by DG Shipping directing all Indian flag vessels and Indian seafarers to adopt enhanced security measures and strictly comply with reporting protocols, including submission of real-time details. The DG Shipping is also maintaining contact with ship owners, operators, and assemblies of the seafarers to provide timely updates and necessary assistance.

The recent no-confidence motion moved by the Opposition against Om Birla has reignited the debate over the constitutional position and accountability of the office of the Speaker of the Lok Sabha. The office of the Speaker is one of the most critical pillars of India’s parliamentary democracy. The Constitution establishes the Speaker as an impartial arbiter expected to rise above party politics once elected. The process begins when a member submits a written notice to the Secretary-General of the Lok Sabha seeking removal. However, several challenges affect the functioning of the Speaker’s office.

A van smashed through a security barricade near the White House early Wednesday (March 11, 2026), police said, forcing a shutdown of the area in downtown Washington during morning rush hour. The driver was taken into custody and there were no reported injuries following the pre-dawn incident at Lafayette Square, just north of the White House. The Secret Service, which handles presidential security, said in a statement it was “looking into a suspicious vehicle. The driver of the car has been detained and is being questioned.”Washington has been under heightened security amid the U.S.-Israel war on Iran. Police closed off several major streets around the White House, halting government employees and city workers from getting to their offices, while traffic congestion snarled the area.

As many as 28 Indian vessels, carrying 778 seafarers, are currently situated in the Persian Gulf, a government official said on Wednesday. Sinha emphasised that the ministry is maintaining a vigilant watch over the shifting maritime environment in the region. In response to the escalating situation in West Asia, authorities have bolstered monitoring and readiness protocols to guarantee the protection of all Indian maritime assets and personnel. 3 more ships struck by projectiles in Strait of Hormuz Three additional ships were struck by unidentified projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, according to maritime risk and security specialists. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have issued warnings that any vessel attempting to transit the Strait will be considered a target.

Iran's military command said on Wednesday the world should be prepared for oil to hit $200 a barrel, as three more ships came under attack in the blockaded Gulf. "Get ready for oil to be $200 a barrel, because the oil price depends on regional security which you ​have destabilised," Ebrahim Zolfaqari, spokesperson for Iran's military command, said in comments addressed to the United States. ADVERTISEMENTAfter offices of a bank in Tehran were hit overnight, Zolfaqari also said Iran would respond with attacks on banks that ​do business with the United States or Israel. People across the Middle East should stay 1,000 metres from banks, he added. Iran fired at Israel and targets across the Middle East on Wednesday, demonstrating it can still fight back ​and disrupt energy supplies despite what the Pentagon has described as the most intense U.S.-Israeli strikes yet.

Online fraudsters are using new technology that bypasses security features of UPI apps to carry out financial transactions, cyber intelligence firm CloudSEK claimed in a report. Digital Lutera represents a structural attack on device trust. UPI apps process transactions after verifying the SIM of the phone number with which the account associated with it is installed in the mobile phone. The result is disturbing: a victim's UPI account can be registered and controlled on a completely different device - even though the actual SIM card never leaves the victim's phone," the report said. The cyber intelligence firm said that after manipulating the android device, it makes the UPI app believe that messages for verification have genuinely emanated from the smartphone.

The United Nations' cultural agency on Wednesday urged all parties to protect the region's outstanding cultural sites, saying four of Iran's 29 world heritage sites had been damaged since the start of the U.S. and Israeli war with Iran. ADVERTISEMENT"UNESCO is deeply concerned by the first impact that the hostilities are already having on many world heritage sites," Lazare Eloundou Assomo, director of the World Heritage Centre, told Reuters, adding he was also concerned for sites in Israel, Lebanon and across the Middle East. Tehran's Golestan palace, damaged in U.S.–Israeli strikes, is testimony to the grandeur of Iran's civilization in the 19th century, he said. Buildings close to the buffer zone of the prehistoric sites of the Khorramabad Valley have also been damaged, UNESCO said. UNESCO has shared coordinates of key cultural sites to all parties, Eloundou Assomo said, and was monitoring damage.

Nassiri was signed by East Bengal along with fellow Iranian players Majid Bishkar and Mahmud Khabbasi. ADVERTISEMENT“We were dreaming of playing football and especially playing for the country,” Nassiri, 67, tells The Telegraph Online My Kolkata over the phone. “After nearly 27 to 30 years, Aligarh University was the first team to be invited to play football in Bombay,” added Nassiri. In the same season, East Bengal also won the Rovers Cup with Nassiri playing a big part. By now, Nassiri is a pucca Bengali who loves the cuisine, the rituals and the football heritage of the state.

A Thai bulk carrier travelling in the crucial Strait of Hormuz was attacked on Wednesday (March 11, 2026), with 20 crew members rescued so far, the Thai Navy said. Photos shared by the Royal Thai Navy showed heavy black smoke billowing from the hull and superstructure of the Thai-registered Mayuree Naree, with life rafts floating in the water. The Omani Navy had rescued 20 sailors and "efforts are currently underway to rescue the remaining three crew members", it said. Iran has launched strikes against its oil-exporting neighbours, threatening shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and plunging the global energy economy into crisis. The Thai Navy said it is owned by a Thai transport company, Precious Shipping.

CHENNAI: Defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru will take on Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League 2026 season opener at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on March 28, the BCCI announced on Wednesday. However, all matches in Bengaluru are subject to clearance by expert committee on March 13. The IPL has announced the schedule even as the country is experiencing a major crisis in dwindling stock cooking gas. In the first set of schedule announced, Chennai, Guwahati and Kolkata — three cities that has state elections — will host only two, three and three matches, respectively. While the opening weekend do not have any afternoon games, the subsequent weekends will have double-headers with first 20 matches set to be played in 16 days.

— Ali Larijani | علی لاریجانی (@alilarijani_ir) March 10, 2026Earlier in the day, Mr. Trump threatened Iran with “death, fire and fury”. “If Iran does anything that stops the flow of Oil within the Strait of Hormuz, they will be hit by the United States of America TWENTY TIMES HARDER than they have been hit thus far. This is a gift from the United States of America to China, and all of those Nations that heavily use the Hormuz Strait,” he added. About 20–21 million barrels of oil move through the strait every day. Traffic through the strait has been disrupted since the U.S. and Israel started the war on February 28.

जयप्रकाश रंजन, जागरण। रूस से तेल खरीदने को लेकर भारत पर दबाव बनाने वाले अमेरिका के सुर अब पूरी तरह बदलते नजर आ रहे हैं। कुछ महीने पहले तक अमेरिकी प्रशासन भारत से रूस से तेल खरीद बंद करने की मांग कर रहा था और यहां तक कि दबाव बनाने के लिए 25 प्रतिशत अतिरिक्त टैरिफ जैसे कदम भी उठाए गए थे।लेकिन पश्चिम एशिया में युद्ध और वैश्विक ऊर्जा बाजार में अस्थिरता के बीच अब अमेरिका भारत की भूमिका को तेल बाजार को स्थिर रखने में अहम मानने लगा है। अमेरिका के भारत में राजदूत सर्जियो गोर ने सोशल मीडिया मंच एक्स पर कहा कि भारत वैश्विक तेल कीमतों को स्थिर रखने में एक बड़ा साझेदार रहा है।उन्होंने लिखा कि भारत दुनिया के सबसे बड़े तेल उपभोक्ताओं और रिफाइनरों में से एक है और वैश्विक बाजार की स्थिरता के लिए अमेरिका और भारत का साथ-साथ काम करना जरूरी है। वैश्विक तेल बाजार में अनिश्चितता रविवार को अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति डोनाल्ड ट्रंप ने भी कहा था कि भारत को रूस से तेल खरीदने की जो छूट दी गई है, उसका मकसद अंतरराष्ट्रीय बाजार में कच्चे तेल की कीमतों पर दबाव कम करना है। यह बयान उस समय आया है जब ईरान पर अमेरिका और इजरायल के हमलों के बाद वैश्विक तेल बाजार में अनिश्चितता बढ़ गई है और आपूर्ति बाधित होने की आशंका से कीमतों में तेज उतार-चढ़ाव देखने को मिल रहा है।वैश्विक बाजार में इस अस्थिरता का खामियाजा दुनिया भर के देशों को भुगतना पड़ा रहा है। अमेरिका को डर है कि इससे ईरान पर उसकी कार्रवाई का विरोध बढ़ेगा। इसी कारण अमेरिका अब उन देशों की भूमिका को अहम मान रहा है जो वैश्विक बाजार में मांग और रिफाइनिंग के जरिए संतुलन बनाए रखते हैं।रूस से तेल खरीदने पर ट्रंप प्रशासन का भारत पर दबाव कुछ ही समय पहले तक ट्रंप प्रशासन भारत पर यह दबाव बना रहा था कि वह रूस से तेल खरीदना बंद करे। रूस के खिलाफ पश्चिमी प्रतिबंधों के बाद अमेरिका चाहता था कि भारत जैसे बड़े खरीदार भी रूसी तेल से दूरी बनाएं।इस दबाव के तहत भारत पर 25 प्रतिशत अतिरिक्त टैरिफ लगाने की चेतावनी भी दी गई थी और अमेरिकी अधिकारियों ने रूस से तेल खरीदने के संभावित “नकारात्मक परिणामों” की बात कही थी। लेकिन पश्चिम एशिया में युद्ध के बाद ऊर्जा बाजार की स्थिति बदलने पर वही अधिकारी अब इसके फायदे गिनाने लगे हैं।भारत में अमेरिका के पूर्व राजदूत एरिक गार्सेटी भी पहले कह चुके हैं कि भारत को रूस से तेल खरीदने की छूट इसलिए दी गई है ताकि अंतरराष्ट्रीय बाजार में कीमतों को स्थिर रखा जा सके। उनका कहना था कि अगर भारत जैसे बड़े खरीदार अचानक बाजार से हट जाएं तो वैश्विक तेल बाजार में भारी अस्थिरता पैदा हो सकती है।भारत दुनिया का तीसरा सबसे बड़ा तेल उपभोक्ता भारत दुनिया का तीसरा सबसे बड़ा तेल उपभोक्ता देश है और रोजाना लगभग 55–56 लाख बैरल तेल की खपत करता है। वैश्विक स्तर पर यह कुल तेल खपत का लगभग 5–6 प्रतिशत हिस्सा है। इस वजह से भारत की खरीद का वैश्विक तेल बाजार पर सीधा असर पड़ता है।यदि भारत अचानक अपनी खरीद कम कर दे या किसी बड़े स्रोत से तेल लेना बंद कर दे तो वैश्विक मांग का बड़ा हिस्सा एक साथ दूसरे सप्लायरों की तरफ मुड़ जाएगा। इससे कीमतों में तेज उछाल आ सकता है और कई देशों के लिए आपूर्ति संकट पैदा हो सकता है।वैश्विक सप्लाई चेन का महत्वपूर्ण हिस्सा भारत केवल बड़ा उपभोक्ता ही नहीं बल्कि बड़ा रिफाइनिंग हब भी है। देश की रिफाइनरियां आयातित कच्चे तेल को प्रोसेस कर पेट्रोल, डीजल और अन्य पेट्रो उत्पाद बनाती हैं और एशिया व यूरोप समेत कई क्षेत्रों को निर्यात भी करती हैं। इस वजह से भारत की खरीद वैश्विक सप्लाई चेन का महत्वपूर्ण हिस्सा बन गई है।

An Air India Express flight from Hyderabad to Phuket made a hard landing in Thailand, damaging its nose wheel. Flight IX 938, a Boeing 737 MAX 8, departed Hyderabad at 6:23 am on Wednesday, and all 132 passengers were safely evacuated to a waiting area. The aircraft’s nose gear broke during landing, causing it to slide along the runway. Emergency teams and airport authorities rushed to secure the scene, and the runway was closed for aircraft removal and safety inspections until 6:30 pm. An Air India Express spokesperson confirmed the incident, highlighting that the nose wheel is a critical part of an aircraft’s landing gear system, and the crew followed all safety protocols.

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