Breaking News, December 24 | Highlights

Ahead of the Delhi Assembly elections, AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday launched round-the-clock water supply in Pandav Nagar DDA flats in the Rajinder Nagar area here.

"When we came to power 10 years ago in Delhi, around 50-60 per cent of water was supplied by tankers. There used to be tanker mafia. I am happy to say that today, after 10 years, 97 per cent of Delhi gets water by pipeline," the former chief minister said.

A 16-year-old boy was shot dead by an unidentified person at a birthday party in Patna's Sri Krishna Puri area, police said on Tuesday. Talking to reporters on Tuesday, Sachiwalay-2 sub-divisional police officer (SDPO) Saket Kumar said the incident took place at house no. 54 in Gandhi Nagar locality around 11:30 pm on Monday when a birthday party was going on.

The driver of an LPG tanker that was involved in an explosion here last week which claimed 13 lives has appeared before police and will be questioned by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case, a senior official said on Tuesday.

The driver, Jaiveer (40), a resident of Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, managed to get out of the tanker in time after sensing the impact of the collision, which broke the tanker's outlet nozzles.

The upper reaches of Himachal Pradesh like Mandi are witnessing heavy snowfall. The upper reaches are mostly receiving snowfall. Moreover, the snow also covered the upper reaches of Jammu and Kashmir. 

Two people have been found dead in a caravan parked along the roadside near Vadakara town in this north Kerala district, police said on Tuesday. The bodies of the men, identified as Manoj, the driver of the caravan, and another person, Joel, were discovered in the caravan parked at Karimapanapalam on Monday evening.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached a flat of Iqbal Kaskar, brother of fugitive and Mumbai serial blast accused Dawood Ibrahim in Mumbai.   

Independent MP from Purnia Pappu Yadav joined the protest by BPSC candidates. The indefinite hunger strike of the students continues demanding re-examination of the 70th BPSC examination.

During his visit, he said, “We would like all the opposition MPs and MLAs to also come here, people should sit outside the houses of ruling party MPs and MLAs all over Bihar…what is the politics in this…these people have been protesting for so many days. And their only demand is that the examinations should be re-conducted...”

The Navi Mumbai police have arrested a 70-year-old man absconding for the last 33 years after allegedly killing his wife, an official said on Tuesday. The accused, Babu Gudgiram Kale, was apprehended on Sunday near Mulund suburb in neighbouring Mumbai, where he had been working as a labourer and selling flowers for livelihood, he said.

The case dates back to January 28, 1991, when Kale, following frequent domestic disputes with his wife, allegedly doused her with kerosene and set her on fire at his home in Panvel area of Navi Mumbai, Panvel Town police station's senior inspector Nitin Thackeray said.

Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah will inaugurate 10,000 newly formed multipurpose Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS), dairy, and fisheries cooperative societies on December 25.

Two CoBRA jawans were injured in the exchange of fire with Naxals in Thana Chintalnar, Sukma district, yesterday, the police said on Tuesday.