Breaking News, November 11 | HIGHLIGHTS

Prime Minister Narendra Modi who addressed a rally here on Saturday had to interrupt his speech for a moment after he noticed a young woman climbing a structure on which lights were fixed in the Parade Grounds.

A Myanmar military jet fighter crashed Saturday in a combat zone in the eastern state of Kayah, a military officer and a member of an anti-military resistance organization said. The resistance group said the plane had been shot down, but its claim could not immediately be confirmed.

Three people were injured in a fire that broke out at a shop in a three-storey building in Bahadurganj here on Saturday and one of them died of cardiac arrest later at a hospital, officials said.

The Anti-Terrorist Squad of the Uttar Pradesh Police arrested four people allegedly linked to the Aligarh module of ISIS, it said on Saturday.

A Delhi court on Saturday refused the ED's request seeking 14-day custodial interrogation of three men arrested in a case related to alleged irregularities in the recruitment of the Delhi Waqf Board, also involving AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan, after the defence counsel accused the agency of "illegal detention".

With the death of six more people, the death toll in a suspected case of poisoning due to the consumption of spurious liquor has jumped to 18 in Haryana, officials said on Saturday.

Hundreds of teachers in Jharkhand on Saturday gheraoed the central office of the ruling JMM in Ranchi, demanding pay fixation. These teachers, who have qualified Jharkhand Teacher's Eligibility Test (JTET), claimed that their pay scales are yet to be fixed despite being successful in the examination.

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Saturday said facts have to be verified before filing the FIR based on a complaint filed by a businessman alleging threat to his life and property. This comes a day after the Himachal Pradesh High Court issued a notice to the state police on Friday, seeking a status report on the complaint filed by the Palampur-based businessman.

Three bodies were recovered from the houseboats gutted in a blaze in the Dal Lake here on Saturday, officials said.

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, who was undergoing treatment at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi, arrived in Shimla on Saturday after 15 days. Talking to the media persons, Sukhu said he would not campaign in the poll-bound states of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Telangana as doctors have advised him to rest for two months.

A 29-year-old man was killed and his friend injured when the motorcycle they were riding was allegedly hit by an army truck in Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district on Saturday, police said.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday embarked on a five-day visit to the UK with an aim to review various aspects of bilateral ties.

The Delhi High Court has directed the authorities here to ensure that there are no illegal hawkers or vendors in Connaught Place.

At least five persons were killed and about 60 passengers injured when a state government bus and an omnibus collided head-on on the Chennai-Bengaluru national highway in the wee hours of Saturday, police said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tributes to freedom fighters Acharya Kripalani and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad on their birth anniversary on Saturday.

The Enforcement Directorate has arrested Amit Katyal, an alleged associate of RJD chief Lalu Prasad and his son Tejashwi Yadav, in connection with a money laundering investigation into the alleged land-for-jobs scam case, official sources said on Saturday.