Breaking News, May 27 | HIGHLIGHTS

 A snowy avalanche in northern Pakistan killed 11 people Saturday, including a 4-year-old boy, and injured 25 from a nomadic tribe as they crossed a mountainous area with their goat herds, police said.
The avalanche struck the nomads in the Chambeli area of Shounter Pass that connects the Astore district of the Gilgit Baltistan region to the bordering Azad Kashmir region.
Four women and a 4-year-old boy were among the dead, said Gilgit Baltistan senior police officer Ziarat Ali.

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday met Adheenams at his residence and took their blessings a day before he inaugurates the new Parliament building.
The Adheenams, who arrived from Tamil Nadu earlier in the day, met Modi at his residence and handed him a special gifts including 'Sengols' amid chanting of 'mantras'.

While joy swept Raj Bhavan as 24 ministers were sworn in on Saturday, the discontent among many senior legislators who were denied a ministerial position in the 34-member Cabinet of the Siddaramaiah government erupted in the form of protests outside.

Dejected supporters of the legislators who could not make it to the Cabinet raised slogans outside the Governor's residence where the ministers took oath.

 Four people were arrested on Saturday in connection with the attack on senior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee's convoy, in which state minister Birbaha Hansda's vehicle was vandalised, police said.
The accused were identified as Ajit Mahato, Anit Mahato, Manmohit Mahato and Anup Mahato, they said.
While Anup is a resident of Manikpara in Jhargram district, the other three are residents of Garh Salboni where the incident happened on Friday evening, they added.

Security has been stepped up in Lutyens’ Delhi ahead of the inauguration of the new Parliament building by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday at an elaborate ceremony to be attended by many eminent personalities.
Police have already issued a traffic advisory that the New Delhi district will be treated as a controlled area for the period and entry of vehicles will be restricted.
The Parliament building is located in a high-security area. Besides additional deployment, there is continuous monitoring through CCTV cameras, the police said.

A 17-year-old girl allegedly died by suicide after failing to clear the Class 12 Maharashtra state board examination here, police said. Akansha Sonbarse (17) was found hanging from the ceiling fan hook at her house in Chichbhuvan Basti in Beltarodi area on Thursday afternoon, said a police official. She was alone at home at the time.
Akansha was apparently depressed after failing the examination, the results of which were declared on Wednesday.
A case of accidental death has been registered, the official said.

Speaking in support of the women wrestlers staging a protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, yoga guru Ramdev has said Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh should be put in jail.
He has also said the allegations of sexual harassment against Singh, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP, are shameful.
The protesting grapplers, including Olympic medallists Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik and Asian Games gold medallist Vinesh Phogat, have been demanding Singh's arrest, alleging that he has sexually harassed several women wrestlers, including a minor.

Banned e-cigarettes and hookahs worth Rs 72,190 were seized from a shop in Naya Nagar area of Thane district, a police official said on Saturday.
The 32-year-old owner of the shop has been arrested and further probe into the case was underway, MBVV police's central crime unit senior inspector Rahul Rakh said.

 A Bengaluru-bound Nepal Airlines aircraft was forced to return to the Tribhuvan International Airport here on Saturday after it reportedly suffered a bird hit.
The A320 aircraft of Nepal’s flag carrier landed safely at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) and technicians were examining the aircraft, according to TIA spokesperson Teknath Sitaula.

Iron ore mining in Goa may resume in 2023-24, said Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Saturday and asserted that the coastal state has turned the G20 and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meetings into opportunities to promote its tourism industry.
Speaking at a meeting of the NITI Aayog, the Centre’s apex public policy think tank, in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Sawant said Goa has taken steps for the auction of iron ore blocks to resume mining activities.
The industry, which used to be one of the major revenue earners for the state, had come to a standstill in 2018 after the Supreme Court quashed 88 mining leases.

A 24-year-old man, suspected to be suffering from hydrophobia, allegedly killed an elderly woman and ate her flesh in Rajasthan's Pali district following which police arrested the person and admitted him to a hospital, officials said on Saturday.

Doctors at Bangar Hospital said Surendra Thakur, a resident of Mumbai, "is suffering from hydrophobia" -- a fear of water caused by late-stage rabies infection -- possibly because he was bitten by a "rabid dog" in the past and did not get the right treatment.

The Tourism Ministry's office currently located in the Transport Bhawan on Parliament Street will be shifted to a building near India Gate, a senior official said on Saturday.
The Transport Bhawan, built in the 1960s near the old Parliament building, has to be vacated for reusing the site as part of the Central Vista redevelopment project, sources said.

Delhi Police filed further status report. Statements of victims under section 164 recorded. Copies of the status report supplied to the complainants. Matter put up for further hearing on 27th June.

“They (protesting wrestlers) should have gone home the day FIR was registered and come back if they were not satisfied with the probe,” says WFI President Brij Bhushan Singh on wrestlers’ protest against him.

Delhi CM and AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann and other AAP leaders meet Telangana CM and BRS chief K Chandrashekar Rao in Hyderabad.

J-K: Three brothers died in an incident at Pullar Nagseni yesterday, where a house collapsed due to heavy rain. All three brothers were blind, said DC Kishtwar.

Complaint filed against Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and others for making incite-full statements citing caste of President Droupadi Murmu regarding the event of the inauguration of the new Parliament building with the intent to promote enmity among communities/groups and trying to create distrust for GoI to fulfil their political motives which are an offence u/s 121,153A,505 and 34 IPC.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi chairs the 8th Governing Council meeting of Niti Aayog on the theme of 'Viksit Bharat @ 2047: Role of Team India' at the new Convention Centre in Pragati Maidan, Delhi.

Karnataka Cabinet expansion: Congress leader HK Patil, Krishna Byregowda take oath as Karnataka Minister. 

 "What was the need for a new Parliament? The earlier building was a historic one. I have repeatedly said that the people in power will change the history of this country. There was no sense to attend the NITI Aayog meeting today and also the inauguration of the new Parliament building tomorrow," said Bihar CM Nitish Kumar.

Karnataka | Congress leader Rudrappa Lamani's supporters stage protest outside Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) office demanding ministerial post for the leader.

Bengaluru: Congress leader Madhu Bangarappa to take oath as Karnataka Minister. "I am very happy that the people of Karnataka have given a clear verdict in favour of Congress. We are going to deliver what he had promised," said Madhu Bangarappa.

A total of four flights were diverted to Jaipur this morning due to bad weather. All flights were coming to Delhi from different cities, said Airport official.

Thiruvavaduthurai Adheenams leave for Delhi from Chennai airport to attend the inauguration ceremony of the new Parliament building. Seers of Dharmapuram Adheenam to present a special gift to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde speaks on the new Parliament building inauguration row.

"Congress high command will take a decision on whether they will meet Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal or not. When all opposition parties were together, he kept praising BJP, Arvind Kejriwal should realise his mistake," said Delhi Congress President Anil Chaudhary.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, party leaders Rahul Gandhi, KC Venugopal and others pay floral tribute to India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his death anniversary, at his memorial Shanti Van in Delhi.

 Delhi witnesses a sudden change in weather and receives light rainfall this morning.