Breaking News, November 8

Gujarat Assembly election 2022: Former IPS officer DG Vanzara, who was acquitted in the alleged fake encounter care, on Tuesday launched a political party- ‘Praja Vijay Party’ (PVP) based on "Hindutva" ideology. The controversial Ex-IPS official said his party will contest the next month's Assembly elections in Gujarat.

Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday said solving air, water and sound pollution is his government’s priority. 

“It's our priority to solve air, water and sound pollution. We are building roads worth Rs 60,000 cr around Delhi, which will make the area free from traffic jams. We brought electric vehicles and green hydrogen,” said Gadkari.

Tamil Nadu Idol Wing CID on Tuesday said three Chola-era idols, said to be in the possession of a German national, were seized from him in Auroville, Puducherry. Experts believe that these antique idols could belong to Chola-era and are reported to be worth several crores in the international market, the idol wing claimed.

In a jolt to the opposition Congress ahead of the Assembly polls in Gujarat, senior MLA Mohansinh Rathava on Tuesday resigned as a party member and legislator and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The High Court of Karnataka has directed the authorities to install GPS tracking systems on ambulances in the State to enable them to travel uninterrupted in traffic. A division bench of the High Court headed by Chief Justice Prasanna B Varale gave this direction after hearing a petition by 'Bharat Punaruttana Trust'.

In a tragic incident, Congress Seva Dal leader Krishna Kumar Pandey died while participating in the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Maharashtra. The development was confirmed by Congress MP Jairam Ramesh. The incident happened on Tuesday - the 62nd day of the Bharat Jodo Yatra. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron, will address the 25th edition of Asia's largest Tech Event 'Bengaluru Tech Summit' (BTS), during its inaugural here on November 16.

To increase India's cotton productivity, supply of good quality seeds is the need of the hour and requires some concrete action from related ministries on a war footing, Union Minister Piyush Goyal has said.

A drug developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) may reverse the heart damage caused by a protein in the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a study conducted in fruit flies and mice has found.

India's upcoming presidency of the G20 grouping is a matter of pride and a great opportunity for the country in its 75th year of Independence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday.

The Andhra Pradesh government will organise a Global Investors Summit-2023 in Visakhapatnam on March 3 and 4 to attract industrial investments into the state.

Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Tuesday said the Congress is making false promises but people won't be misled this time and bring back the Bharatiya Janata Party power.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) may soon get additional sets of weather observations through AMDAR that can help improve forecast accuracy, particularly when early warning systems are proving to be important in view of increasing instances of extreme weather events.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday held talks in Moscow covering a range of bilateral, regional and global issues of mutual interests.

The Congress on Tuesday said a new line of leadership has emerged in Himachal Pradesh and anyone can lead the party after the election results are announced.

The jury is still out on the efficacy of the decision to demonetise high-value currency notes on November 8, 2016, with the government claiming it has helped greater formalisation of the economy while critics saying it has failed to curb black money and reduce dependence on cash.

Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra on Tuesday demanded an apology from Rahul Gandhi over Karnataka Congress leader Satish Jarkiholi's remarks claiming the word 'Hindu' is Persian and has a very dirty meaning.

The Madhya Pradesh police have seized 26 quintals of poppy straw worth Rs 39 lakh from a truck in Mandsaur district, an official said on Tuesday. Acting on a tip-off, the police team intercepted a truck bearing a Rajasthan number plate on Mhow-Neemuch highway on Monday evening, Daloda police station in-charge Sanjeev Singh Parihar said.

A Bulgarian police officer has been shot dead at the border with Turkey, the interior minister said on Tuesday. The incident occurred at 8.30 pm on Monday, when an unidentified person shot at a border police officer and a serviceman who were patrolling a stretch of the border near the village of Golyam Dervent, minister Ivan Demerdzhiev said.

Long-hauled carrier Emirates is buying five Boeing 777 freighters in a deal valued at more than USD 1.7 billion, further expanding its cargo flight capacity, the two companies announced on Tuesday. Emirates previously announced a USD 1 billion investment to its cargo flights, including buying two new Boeing 777s and converting 10 Boeing 700-300ER passenger planes into freighter aircraft. The two new aircraft joined Emirates' fleet in 2022, while the conversions are scheduled to begin in 2023.

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday indicated that the expansion of his Cabinet is likely after Gujarat Assembly polls.
Gujarat will go to polls in two phases on December 1 and 5, with the counting of votes on December 8. "Cabinet expansion...I have already spoken.....our leadership is a bit busy with the Gujarat elections, as soon as it is over they will call me (for discussions)," Bommai said in response to a question.

A 27-year-old pharmacist drowned after a boat carrying a team of health department workers capsized in a river in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, officials said on Tuesday. The incident took place late Monday evening when the workers were returning after holding a medical camp in the remote Kosalnar village of the district located on the other side of the Indravati river, Bijapur's district programme manager (health department) Sandip Tamrakar said.

Five people were injured when a cylinder exploded in Vile Parle area of Mumbai on Tuesday morning, a civic official said.

A supporter of former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan has spray painted on the wall of the building here where Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML N) supremo Nawaz Sharif’s son Hussain has an office, in an act that constitutes "criminal vandalism" under law in the UK.

The jury is still out on the decision to demonetise high value currency notes on November 8, 2016, with the government claiming it has helped greater formalisation of the economy while critics saying it has failed to curb black money and reduce dependence on cash.

Ahead of the upcoming Gujarat Assembly polls, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Tuesday hit out at the BJP over its "arrogance", saying no one so far has apologised or resigned for the Morbi bridge collapse tragedy which claimed 135 lives.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said small and medium businesses suffered due to "wrong" policies of the Centre like demonetisation and poor implementation of the Goods and Service Tax (GST) as he entered Maharashtra on Monday night holding a 'flaming torch' (mashaal) as part of his 'Bharat Jodo Yatra'.

A court here has convicted two persons for causing grievous injuries to a man in 2017, even as it acquitted them of the offence of criminal intimidation. It was hearing a case registered against Abhimanyu and Naresh who were accused of assaulting and causing grievous injuries to Laturi on September 19, 2017.

North Korea on Tuesday accused the United States of cooking up a “plot-breeding story” on its alleged arms transfer to Russia, arguing it has never sent artillery shells to Moscow. Last week, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby accused North Korea of covertly supplying a “significant number” of the ammunition to Russia.

After waiting at sea for days, the German humanitarian group Mission Lifeline said Monday that Italy has directed its migrant rescue ship with 89 people on board to proceed to the port of Reggio Calabria.

India’s Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra met US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman here and discussed a wide range of issues between the two countries, a US official said.

Britain's Conservative government on Monday scrapped a 250 million-pound (USD 288 million) plan to build a national flagship that was supposed to tour the world as a “floating embassy" amid a public spending squeeze and to prioritize funding for boosting UK defenses against Russia.

The son of an Afghan refugee suspected in the shooting deaths of four Muslim men in New Mexico has reached an agreement with federal prosecutors to plead guilty to a charge that he provided a false address when buying two guns last year.