Week ending 6 September 2026

The unit recently helped France and Spain after a two-year investigation to bust an Algerian criminal gang that made up to €24 million by smuggling migrants from Algeria.

Data Release and Surveys Volume XXII | Issue 4 | August 2026 MONETARY & CREDIT INFORMATION REVIEW Note from the Editor Governor Shri Sanjay Malhotra announced the MPC's decision on August 5, 2026, following the third Bi-monthly Meeting for 2026-27, to keep the repo rate unchanged at 5.25 per cent, the SDF rate at 5.00 per cent and the MSF rate and Bank Rate at 5.50 per cent, with the stance retained at neutral.

The codes have been archived in Figshare (https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.30003112).

When segments do not cross zero (upper and lower boundaries of the estimated marginal means), it indicates the relationship between SPEI and BAI is significant; e Tree-growth resistance to drought; f Recovery after drought (years); and g Tree-growth overall resilience to drought.

The standardized values in the five years before the selected drought year (negative values), the drought event (zero value) and the five years after the selected drought year (positive values) are shown.

At 21:12 BST/22:12 CEST Isar Aerospace’s two-stage launch vehicle soared from the launch pad.

A recent study found significantly higher caterpillar predation in Kerala’s sacred groves than in nearby multi-storied home gardens, indicating these small forest patches help sustain predator-prey interactions.

Plasticine caterpillars are widely used in ecological studies because predators leave distinctive bite marks on the soft models, allowing researchers to identify the broad groups responsible for the attacks without directly observing predation.

Green and reddish-brown artificial caterpillars, representing the most common caterpillar colours observed at the sites, were placed on leaves, branches and stems of trees and retrieved after 48 hours.

Several workers described a gloomy atmosphere at the agency since Mr Trump ordered the federal government to refer to Lake Ontario as Lake America amid a trade dispute with Canada.

Both companies changed Lake Ontario to Lake America for US users as a result, causing anger towards Mr Trump to spill over on to the two US technology giants.

Rohini Lakshané, an independent technologist, told MediaNama that a live system cannot determine who is on a watchlist until after comparison.

Meta will have to regularly test its age-assurance systems for accuracy, privacy and circumvention, while limiting how age-assurance data can be used and retained.

This essentially means there will be no changes to how Google displays news results in its search engine in India.

The reference generic structure could support future evolutionary and population genomics research on hornbills and aid in conservation decisions.

Before this, genomic data was available for the great hornbill and rhinoceros hornbill, but both were short-read-only assembly genomes generated with the Illumina platform.

When the team performed PSMC on the Asian hornbill genomes, it found that changing climates, particularly during the Pleistocene (2.5 million years to 11 thousand years ago), impacted all four species.

On the origin of the translation system and the genetic code in the RNA world by means of natural selection, exaptation, and subfunctionalization.

L. tRNAs are stable after all: pitfalls in quantification of tRNA from starved Escherichia coli cultures exposed by validation of RNA purification methods. mBio 14, e0280522 (2023).

Some researchers even estimate that this number could rise to 16,700 by the end of the century.

A 2016 study by Sivadas found that the distribution of polychaetes, gastropods and bivalves along the east and west Indian coasts was shaped by a combination of environmental conditions, habitats and oceanographic processes rather than geography alone.

Sivadas stressed that the aim should not only be to add more species names, but to understand their distribution and how they are responding to changing environments.

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has dismissed a writ petition filed by Anand Kumar Kedia, promoter group member managing Associated Alcohols and Breweries, challenging the demolition notice issued by the Indore Municipal Corporation to initiate a proposed widening of a 30-metre road near his residential home.

Noting that Kedia has suppressed material facts, the bench of Justice Sandeep N Bhatt imposed a cost of ₹20,000.

Despite frequent travel within India and abroad, Rawal noticed that she was not falling sick as much as before, which, she said, “was a welcome relief”.

India typically sees two influenza seasons, one from January to March and the other after the monsoon sets in.

Sub-clinical infection—with minimal or no outward symptoms—is widespread, explained Prakash, adding that “the more you test, the more positive cases you will identify”.

In a statement on Thursday, WhatsApp said the Bharat Connect (BBPS) network will power the bill payment service and give users access to 22,722 billers across 30 categories.

The BBPS Directions came into force on July 1, 2024, with media reports confirming that users could no longer make credit card repayments on non-compliant third-party apps.

This phase III trial provides evidence that resmetirom improves MASH resolution and fibrosis improvement in MASH after 52 weeks, leading to accelerated approval in this indication.

Resolution of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis with no worsening of fibrosis after bariatric surgery improves 15-year survival: a prospective cohort study.

Efficacy and safety of ervogastat alone and in combination with clesacostat in patients with biopsy-confirmed metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis and F2-F3 fibrosis (MIRNA): results from a phase 2, randomised, double-blind, double-dummy study.

In the third edition, the department started Special Campaign 3 on 7th July, 2026, for the timely and qualitative redressal of long-pending pension grievances/claims/issues.

The Himachal Pradesh High Court has held that merely because a person is deaf and dumb, it cannot be presumed that he is of unsound mind so as to necessitate appointment of a guardian under Order XXXII Rule 3 of the Code of Civil Procedure (CPC).

Som Dev was a person of unsound mind which is the fundamental requirement for proceeding under Order 32 Rule 3 of CPC.

Increased glucose transport-phosphorylation and muscle glycogen synthesis after exercise training in insulin-resistant subjects.

Efficacy and safety of ervogastat alone and in combination with clesacostat in patients with biopsy-confirmed metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis and F2-F3 fibrosis (MIRNA): results from a phase 2, randomised, double-blind, double-dummy study.

Nearly 20 people are still missing after a ferry capsized ⁠off northern Cyprus, killing at least eight, as divers join search teams scouring deep waters for ⁠any survivors.

The ferry ran into trouble shortly ⁠after leaving Kyrenia for the Turkish port of Taşucu in ​Mersin province, ​one of several daily sea shuttle ​links between Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus and mainland Turkey.

Separate accounts said the wide-bodied ​vessel jolted violently before ‌slamming on to ​the sea ​surface, with part of its bow bursting open on impact.

Description: PaperCut NG/MF contains an unsafe reflection vulnerability that allows an attacker to manipulate system configuration parameters and execute arbitrary Java bytecode residing on the application classpath under the security context of the PaperCut server process.

Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes).

Description: BerriAI LiteLLM contains an improper authentication vulnerability in the MCP Streamable HTTP endpoint that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to establish an authenticated MCP session using an arbitrary Bearer token.

Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes).

In July 2026, WhatsApp banned 5.364 million accounts in India under the country’s IT intermediary rules.

The remaining accounts were banned after user reports or other detection triggers during messaging activity.

Only 476 accounts were actioned as a result, representing a rate of about 2.5%.

Description: Kestra OSS contains an OS command injection vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to create and execute arbitrary workflows without credentials.

Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes).

Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

After observing the explanation, the driver engaged self-driving from slower speeds in a second round of tests (n = 23).

Conversely, explanations did not affect situational awareness for unsurprising events after Bonferroni correction (Extended Data Fig. 7 and Supplementary Table 6).

Taken with the results of the mental model elicitation studies, which found counterfactual prediction accuracy correlated with mental model goodness, these SAGAT results strongly indicate the improvements in situational awareness were due to underlying improvements in user mental models of the AV (n = 99; s.e.m. shown).

Description: Kludex Starlette contains a HTTP request/response smuggling vulnerability that could allow attackers to inject paths into the host part, prepending the actual path leading to issues such as authentication bypass when the authentication depends on the reconstructed URL’s path.

Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes).