Category: INDIA

• NEW DELHI
• MAHARASHTRA
• GUJARAT
• PUNJAB
• UTTAR PRADESH
• Jammu and Kashmir
• WEST BENGAL
• KARNATAKA
• HARYANA
• RAJASTHAN
• MADHYA PRADESH
• HIMACHAL PRADESH
• TAMIL NADU
• ODISHA
• JHARKHAND
• ANDHRA PRADESH
• BIHAR
• KERALA
• UTTARAKHAND
• ANDAMAN
• Chhattisgarh
• Sikkim
• Goa
• Puducherry
• Telangana

Fresh polling was underway on Monday at  696 booths across19 districts of West Bengal for the three- tier panchayat system with reports of sporadic violence coming from different pockets of the state.

With the flood situation in Punjab's Ropar and Patiala districts worsening owing to incessant rain and heavy flow of water in rivers on the third consecutive day, the Army was deployed on Monday to carry out evacuation, and take measures to prevent breach of swollen water channels.

Expressing grief over the loss of lives, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has given instructions to immediately distribute a relief amount of Rs 4 lakh each to the families of the deceased and provide proper treatment to those injured in various natural calamities.

With the Met Office predicting heavy to extremely heavy rain on a third consecutive day on Monday in Himachal Pradesh that previously caused statewide landslides and blocking of highways and link roads, the government advised to avoid travel until it is extremely necessary.

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, who returned here from his US visit on Sunday, said that he, along with his RJD's chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, will do "surgery" of the BJP in the coming days.

The IMD also issued ‘Yellow’ alert for Monday - the second of four color codes to indicate weather warnings. While green denotes no action required, yellow is to stay alert and informed, orange is for being prepared, and red to take immediate action.

A day after violence-marred panchayat polls, the West Bengal State Election Commission (WBSEC) late on Sunday announced that re-polling on Monday will be conducted in just 697 polling booths in different districts of the state.

In view of the heavy downpour for last days in several parts of north India, the Northern Railways on Sunday announced that it has cancelled 17 trains and diverted 12 others.

“The tomato prices are too high and people become violent at times. They start arguing and even use bad language. Since we do not want any trouble of disturbance at the shop, I have hired bouncers,” he said.

The Lok Janshakti Party-Ram Vilas on Sunday authorised party chief Chirag Paswan to take all decisions for the party. The decision was taken during the national Executive Committee meeting held in Patna on Sunday.

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K. T. Rama Rao on Sunday questioned why the Central agencies were not probing the claim by Telangana BJP MLA that his party spent Rs 100 crore in an Assembly bypoll in the state.

After a portion of a Delhi government school collapsed following heavy rain, Delhi Education Minister Atishi on Sunday ordered an immediate physical inspection of all  government schools to ensure that children do not face any problem after reaching schools on Monday morning.  

The council is likely to draft a new rule under which entities are likely to be quizzed about the excess ITC claimed by them. They may even be asked to deposit the excess amount with the government, sources said.

Two persons were killed and one injured on Sunday when a landslide hit a bus in J&K's Doda district. Officials said that a bus was hit by a landslide in Gandoh village of the district.

In a tough operation in the Himalayas, rescuers on Sunday rescued nearly 200 tourists stranded in the vicinity of the glacial-fed Chandertal or moon lake in Himachal Pradesh's Spiti Valley owing to heavy rain that triggered snapping of road links, officials said.

The department of consumer affairs is in the process of preparing guidelines for social media influencers, especially in the field of health and finance, to ensure that they are not pedalling half-baked or misleading information.

Thirty college students, who were travelling from Spiti to Manali, have been rescued to safety after snapping of the road link owing to flash floods and landslides in high mountains in Himachal Pradesh, officials said on Sunday.

The government through a gazette notification, notified the exchange of information between ED and GSTN under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) to help in such kind of investigations.

The national capital on Saturday received 126.1 mm rainfall between 8.30 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. -- the highest-ever in a day since 133.4 mm recorded on July 10, 2023, an official said, adding the city had logged an all-time high of 266.2 mm on July 21, 1958.

Rescue teams of army, police and the state disaster response force were pressed into service immediately to locate the missing soldiers, but there has so far been no trace of them.

Due to this inconsistency, the found it difficult to rely on their claims and concluded that it remained a matter of circumstantial evidence to establish that both incidents were caused by a mob. 

The highest number of deaths has been reported from Murshidabad district at four, followed by two deaths each in Malda, Cooch Behar and East Burdwan districts, while Nadia, South 24 Parganas and North Dinajpur districts reported one casualty each.

A farewell function organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association for Justice Krishan Murari, witnessed an atmosphere filled with poetry by Chief Justice of India (CJI) D.Y. Chandrachud.

In one of the rarest and newest type of cyber fraud, the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Odisha Police detected a case of huge cyber financial fraud in which more than Rs 14 crore has been siphoned off by manipulating QR codes of a Fintech company, an official said.

Former chief minister and Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) chairman Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday said that enforcing the uniform civil code (UCC) is not possible in India.