News in Short

• Two Indian Navy warships reached Guam to participate in the Malabar Naval Exercise, in which all four member nations of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue have been participating since 2020.
• INS Shivalik and INS Kadmatt reached Guam, a US territory, as part of their on-going deployment to nations in South East Asia and the Pacific Ocean.
• MALABAR series of maritime exercises commenced in 1992 as a bilateral IN-USN exercise and has grown in stature over the years to include four prominent navies in the Pacific and Indian Ocean Region.
• MALABAR-21 would witness high-tempo exercises conducted between Destroyers, Frigates, Corvettes, Submarines, Helicopters and Long Range Maritime Patrol Aircraft of the participating navies.

• India’s Shaili Singh won the silver medal in women’s long jump at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Nairobi with a best attempt of 6.59m.
• She came agonisingly close to the gold medal, falling short by just 0.01m, with Sweden’s Maja Askag winning it with a best effort of 6.60m.
• Ukraine’s Mariia Horielova took the bronze medal. It was India’s second silver medal and third overall at this year’s edition of the U20 Championships.

• Sri Lanka will issue captive elephants with their own biometric identity cards and ban their riders from drinking on the job under a wide-ranging new animal protection law.
• Many rich Sri Lankans keep elephants as pets to show off their wealth, but complaints of ill treatment and cruelty are widespread.
• The new measures are aimed at protecting the animals’ welfare and include strict regulations around working elephants, as well as mandating a daily two-and-a-half-hour bath for each creature.
• The new law will require all owners to ensure that animals under their care have new photo identity cards with a DNA stamp.

• Senior BJP leader from Tamil Nadu La. Ganesan was appointed as the new governor of Manipur.
• The post of the governor had fallen vacant after the retirement of Najma Heptulla earlier this month.
• Heptulla had demitted office on August 10 and on the same day the charge was given to Sikkim Governor Ganga Prasad.

• Former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Kalyan Singh succumbed to prolonged illness at the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI) in Lucknow. He was 89
• Apart from being the CM of U.P., Mr. Singh also served as the Governor of Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh.
• Singh left the BJP for the first time in 1999 after his verbal attacks on then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee before returning to the saffron fold in 2004.
• In 2009, he left the BJP again due to differences over distribution of tickets and joined hands with the SP but soon parted ways with Mulayam Singh.