Breaking News, June 28 | HIGHLIGHTS

A high meeting has been going on at the Prime Minister's residence since 7 pm. 

Delhi Lt Governor V K Saxena on Wednesday assured that the three landfill sites in the national capital will be cleared in the 'next 18 months' while the Najafgarh drain will be cleaned in the 'next few months'.

FMCG products maker Procter & Gamble India on Wednesday said it will invest Rs 2,000 crore here to set up a new personal healthcare manufacturing facility in Gujarat.

Three Rafale fighter jets of the Indian Air Force will take part in the Bastille Day flypast over the Champs Elysees in Paris on July 14, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend this year's Bastille Day Parade as the guest of honour.

A leader of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) on Wednesday sought permission to offer prayers on the occasion of Bakrid at the Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) office in Bhopal.

Delhi's Patiala House Court sends Supertech's Chairman RK Arora to ED custody till July 10 in a money laundering case

A man allegedly strangled his wife to death in a farm in a village in the Dholpur district, police said Wednesday. Rajveer of Molani village strangled his wife Sangeeta when she went to give him his tiffin at farm, they sai

Sleuths of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted extensive searches at the houses of three absconding suspects in the murder case of BJP youth wing leader Praveen Nettaru in Dakshina Kannada district last year, the NIA said here Wednesday.

Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud-led five-judge collegium has undergone a change with the inclusion of Justices BR Gavai and Surya Kant, after two senior judges demitted office during the summer break. Justices KM Joseph and Ajay Rastogi, who were part of the collegium, retired on June 16 and 17, respectively.

The rupee slipped 2 paise to settle at 82.04 (provisional) against the US currency on Wednesday amid firm oil prices in the international market and a rebound in the greenback.

The district court here in Maharashtra has sentenced a 43-year-old woman to rigorous imprisonment for five years on the charge of attempt to murder after she poured hot oil on another woman resulting in serious injuries to her over a monetary dispute.

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) got into a huddle to build its case against a Uniform Civil Code, hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a strong pitch for a common law for all communities. The Board held a meeting Tuesday night through video conferencing in which the draft document to be submitted to the Commission was discussed, according to AIMPLB member Khalid Rasheed Farangi Mahli. Addressing a gathering of BJP workers in Bhopal on Tuesday, Modi called for implementation of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) and said the Constitution also mentions about giving equal rights to all citizens. He also said that the BJP has decided it would not adopt the path of appeasement and vote bank politics, and alleged that the Opposition was using the issue of UCC to mislead and provoke the Muslim community.

A businessman was allegedly robbed of Rs 4.5 lakh by two unidentified men in north Delhi's Kashmere Gate area, police said on Wednesday. According to police, the victim stopped his vehicle on the Yudhishthir Setu flyover on Tuesday to attend a phone call when the culprits came there in a scooty and took away the money. The businessman is a resident of Shahdara in east Delhi. Police said the matter is being investigated.

Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Wednesday inaugurated two hospitals of 100 beds each in Baltal and Chandanwari built by the DRDO and the Jammu and Kashmir administration ahead of the annual Amarnath Yatra. According to officials, the hospitals are equipped with all modern facilities to provide treatment to the pilgrims. Jammu and Kashmir Health and Medical Education Secretary Bhupinder Kumar said the administration provided Rs 13 crore for building each hospital.

At least five persons were killed and nine others critically injured when a speeding truck ploughed into a wedding procession in Odisha's Keonjhar district in the early hours of Wednesday, police said. The incident took place at Sathighar Sahi near National Highway-20. Preliminary reports said that the deceased included the groom's nephew and three of the bride's side from Sathighar Sahi, said Town Police Station Inspector-In-Charge Sunil Kar. Police said five people were killed on the spot as the speeding truck ran over them.

A car rolled down into a gorge on Bhadrash-Rohru link road in the district on Wednesday, leaving four people dead and another seriously injured, police said. The occupants of the car were returning to Devathi after attending a marriage when the accident took place. The bodies of the victims were pulled out from the gorge with the help of the fire brigade, Sub Inspector Jaidev said. The deceased have been identified as Avinash Manta (24), Sandeep (40), Suman (22), and Himani (22), all from Rampur Tehsil.  The injured woman was identified as Shiwani (22).

With the level of lakes supplying water to Mumbai going down due to inadequate rainfall in their catchment areas, the city civic body has decided to impose a 10 per cent water cut here starting from Saturday, officials said. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal has also appealed to citizens to save water and use it judiciously.

Four minors and a woman were killed and several others injured when a truck in which they were travelling overturned and fell into a river in Madhya Pradesh's Datia district on Wednesday, state Home Minister Narottam Mishra said. The accident took place in the wee hours near Buhara village in Datia district when some people from Gwalior were going to Jatara in Tikamgarh district for a marriage ceremony, Mishra told reporters. The truck carrying the people, belonging to Khatik community, overturned and fell into the Buhara river, he said. A 65-year-old woman, a boy aged 15 and three other children were killed in the accident, he said. Many others were injured. Most of them were rescued and undergoing treatment in hospital, the minister said. Rescue operation was underway at the spot, he added.

Two square pillars with Jain Tirthankara sculptures and inscriptions, which showed the existence of a Jain monastery nearby, during the 9th-10th centuries CE, were recently found in a village on the outskirts of Hyderabad. Noted archaeologist E Sivanagi Reddy, a former government official, said he inspected the spot at Enikepalli village in Moinabad mandal in neighbouring Ranga Reddy district after P Srinath Reddy, a young archaeologist and heritage activist, provided information about the presence of the two pillars. Sivanagi Reddy said the two pillars, one of granite and another of black basalt, bore four Jaina Tirthankaras, namely Adinatha, Neminatha, Parsvanatha and Vardhamana Mahavira seated in meditation on their four sides and decorated with 'Keerthimukhas' on the top.

A man allegedly stabbed his wife and later hanged himself after a fight broke out between them in outer Delhi's Narela area on Wednesday morning, police said. When police reached the spot, bodies of both the man and his wife were found in the house, a senior police officer said. Preliminary enquiry revealed that the couple had a fight in the morning following which the man allegedly stabbed his wife and later hanged himself, he said. The crime scene is being inspected and further investigation was underway, the police officer said.

Japanese regulators began the final inspection Wednesday before treated radioactive wastewater is released from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean. The inspection began a day after the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings had installed the last piece of equipment needed for the release- the outlet of the undersea tunnel dug to discharge the wastewater 1 kilometre (1,094 yards) offshore. TEPCO said the Nuclear Regulation Authority inspectors were to examine the equipment related to the treated water transfer and its safety systems as part of their three-day inspection through Friday. The permit for releasing the water could be issued about a week later, and TEPCO could start discharging the water soon after, though an exact date has not been decided.

The Biden administration announced on Tuesday that it is sending up to USD 500 million in military aid to Ukraine, including more than 50 heavily armoured vehicles and an infusion of missiles for air defence systems, as Ukrainian and Western leaders try to sort out the impact of the brief weekend insurrection in Russia. The aid is aimed at bolstering Ukraine's counteroffensive, which has been moving slowly in its early stages. It's the 41st time since the Russian invasion into Ukraine in February 2022 that the US has provided military weapons and equipment through presidential drawdown authority. The programme allows the Pentagon to quickly take items from its own stocks and deliver them to Ukraine.

It was literally a "tamso ma jyotirgamaya" (moving from darkness to light) moment in the life of 70-year-old Noorjahan and a "Swades" moment for IPS officer Anukriti Sharma as an LED bulb started glowing in the elderly woman's house on Monday. According to police sources, a few days ago, women and girls in Khedi village, located within the Agauta police station limits, were made aware of various government schemes by Assistant Superintendent of Police Sharma under "Mission Shakti Abhiyan".

NATO's chief has said that the power of Russia's military shouldn't be underestimated following the weekend mutiny against it by Wagner Group mercenaries, and said the alliance has increased its readiness to confront Russia in recent days. Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance may decide to further boost its strength and readiness to face Russia and its ally Belarus when NATO leaders meet in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius on July 11-12. ”So, no misunderstanding and no room for misunderstanding in Moscow or Minsk about our ability to defend our allies against any potential threat," Stoltenberg said Tuesday. At a meeting in The Hague of eight NATO leaders, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said that neighbouring countries would face a heightened danger if the Wagner Group deploys its "serial killers" in Belarus.

Even at a time when monsoon has drenched the desert state after the Biparjoy cyclone, and people in Rajasthan are craving for ginger tea, there is no respite as ginger is costing Rs 320 per kg. Not only ginger, tomato is costing Rs 120 per kg in Jaipur, while cauliflower is available for Rs 300 per kg, bitter gourd for Rs 120 per kg, and lady finger for Rs 80 to Rs 100 per kg. In fact, the vegetables mainly available in the market are bottle gourd, pumpkin and potatoes while the rest are just not coming. Due to untimely rains, the prices of vegetables have skyrocketed. Rains have lashed many parts of the state due to which a huge quantity of vegetables got spoiled, ruining the supply chain. "Rajasthan is badly impacted by rains. If there is smooth weather in states supplying vegetables to us, the prices can come down," Yogesh Kumawat from the Jaipur Sabji Mandi said. 

The US has imposed sanctions on four firms and one individual connected to the Wagner Group, the Russian mercenaries that led a brief revolt against the Kremlin last week. Tuesday's sanctions from Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control targeted entities in the Central African Republic, the United Arab Emirates and Russia that were connected to the Wagner Group and its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin. The sanctions are not directly related to last week's uprising. The US has previously issued sanctions against Prigozhin and the Wagner Group multiple times, including alleging that he tried to interfere with the 2016 US election.