Breaking News, October 6 | HIGHLIGHTS

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is slated to inaugurate an event on Monday that will bring together armed forces, defence PSUs, innovators and policymakers to discuss ways to advance indigenous innovation.

Karnataka BJP president B Y Vijayendra on Sunday claimed that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who is facing charges in the MUDA site allotment case, may resign after Dasara. JD(S) leader and Union Minister H D Kumaraswamy, meanwhile predicting the possibility of Assembly polls in the state, ahead of schedule, said that the last days of the Congress government are nearing, and one need not wait for the next election till 2028.

Though the air show by the Indian Air Force (IAF) on the sandy Marina Beach was a big draw, several thousand of people who converged on the idyllic shore on Sunday found it extremely arduous to return home after the event. Two persons took ill and died, police said.

A 60-year-old man was arrested for allegedly raping a minor girl in Odisha's Jajpur district, police said on Sunday. The incident was reported from Mangalpur area in the morning.

A 26-year-old biker died while his pillion-rider friend was severely injured when their speeding motorcycle crashed into a boundary wall in the Jankipuram area, police said on Sunday.

Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara on Sunday said the government has decided to place the much awaited Socio-Economic and Education Survey report, popularly known as the "caste census" before the Cabinet, where it will be discussed and decided whether to table it in the legislature or to make it public directly.

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami held a high-level meeting reviewing the recent malware attack that temporarily closed down the state's data centre. Taking stock of the situation, he directed the officials to complete the scanning of the state's data centre and restore all the important websites and online services by Monday.

Six people have been arrested for allegedly pelting stones at a police party outside the Dasna Devi temple on Friday night during a protest against priest Narsinghanand Saraswati's remarks on Prophet Muhammad. Amir, Shahzad, Sazid, Shoeb and two others from Masuri have been arrested as they allegedly pelted stones at the police party which was trying to disperse the mob outside the temple, officials said on Sunday.

Delhi Police on Sunday registered a case against AAP minister Saurabh Bharadwaj and three party MLAs for the ruckus at the Secretariat and Lt Governor's House over the issue of reinstatement of bus marshals. According to the FIR registered based on a complaint by Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Assembly Vijender Gupta, the AAP MLAs have been charged under in Civil Lines police station under sections 351(2) (criminal intimidation), 126(2) (wrongful restraint), and other relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).

The national capital on Sunday recorded a maximum temperature of 35.7 degrees Celsius, two notches below the seasonal average, according to the India Meteorological Department.

Attacking the BJP, JMM MLA Kalpana Soren on Sunday alleged that it wants Jharkhand to remain poor. Addressing a rally in Simdega district as part of 'Maiyan Samman Yatra', she alleged the BJP-led government at the Centre was meting out step-motherly treatment to Jharkhand in devolution of funds.

Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk on Sunday sat on a fast at the Ladakh Bhawan where he was staying, after the protesters were denied permission to stage the stir for Ladakh's Sixth Schedule status at Jantar Mantar. Wangchuk, in a brief interaction with media before starting the fast, said they were forced to stage the protest at the Ladakh Bhawan after failing to find any venue for their stir. Around 18 people, including Wangchuk, sat close to the gate of the Ladakh Bhawan, singing the Hindi version of 'We Shall Overcome', and raised slogans such as 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai", "Jai Ladakh " and "Save Ladakh, Save Himalaya".

With the arrest of two persons, Delhi Police on Sunday claimed to have unearthed an illegal gun manufacturing unit. Sixteen country-made pistols, six live cartridges, 41 barrels of country-made pistols and eight instruments and tools used in manufacturing illegal weapons were seized from a flat in Meerut, the police said.

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday countered Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s accusation that the MVA government stalled the Mumbai Metro 3 line work, saying they were not against development but wanted to save the Aarey forest.

The bodies of two missing children were found inside the water tank of an unoccupied house near their home in Rajasthan's Jaisalmer, police said on Sunday. The parents of Adil (6) and Hasnain (7), Babar Magra area residents, filed a complaint on Saturday after the children went missing, they said.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday handed over the first instalment of monthly stipends to girl students of class 11 to post-graduation under a new government scheme. The scheme was launched in August by the chief minister. He handed the cheques for the first month to the students at a programme in Guwahati, while similar functions were organised across the state in which the girls received the maiden instalment under the ‘Nijut Moina’ scheme.

Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday (October 6) threw a challenge at Prime Minister Narendra Modi to provide free electricity in the NDA-ruled states before the commencement of the Delhi Assembly Elections next year, and vowed to campaign for the saffron party if he fulfills this demand. His remarks came while addressing a public gathering at ‘Janta Ki Adalat’ where he accused the BJP’s "double engine" governments of failing across the states, while also predicting their ouster from Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir.

Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Champai Soren was hospitalised following complications related to his blood sugar, an official said on Sunday. He was admitted to Tata Main Hospital in Jamshedpur at around 9 pm on Saturday.

Three alleged drug peddlers were arrested along with 7.8 grams of heroin in Jammu and Kashmir's Samba district on Sunday, police said.

Rajman Singh alias Raman, Ranjeet Singh and Ram Kumar were travelling in a car when they were intercepted by police at Tapyal near Ghagwal on Jammu-Pathankot highway, a police spokesperson said.

Byculla police arrested three accused in the murder case of Ajit Pawar faction leader Sachin Kurmi in Mumbai's Byculla area. NCP leader Sachin Kurmi was murdered due to old enmity. The name of the accused include Anand Ashok Kale (39), Prafulla Pravin Patkar (26), Vijay Dyaneshwar Kakade (34).

Two children died after they were hit by a train while crossing the railway track in a village here, police said on Sunday. The incident took place on Friday when Kirti (3) and Jahnvi (5), daughters of Mohan Prajapati, were hit by the Gorakhpur Express near Sandauli village while they were crossing the railway track, police said.

The dead body of an unidentified 20-year-old woman was found in a sack on the road in Katra Bazar police station area here on Sunday, police said.

The body was found in Selhari village on the road going towards Manshapurwa, said Superintendent of Police Vineet Jaiswal.

Nine people, including two women from Nepal, were injured in a head-on collision between a tourist bus going from Delhi to Nepal and a container here on Sunday, police said.

The incident took place when a tourist bus full with passengers was going to Nepal from Delhi, Superintendent of Police (SP) Rajesh S.

Two foreign women mountaineers, who were stranded at a height of 6,015 metres on way to the Chaukhamba III peak in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district, were rescued on Sunday morning, the District Disaster Management Centre here said.

The mountaineers -- Michelle Theresa Dvorak from the USA and Fay Jane Manners from the United Kingdom -- were stranded since October 3.
Both are safe despite their ordeal lasting three days.

The junior doctors of the West Bengal Junior Doctors Front sat on a hunger strike as the government failed to meet their demands.

In the South 24 Parganas rape and murder case, a 10-year-old victim's aunt said that her body had injury marks and her limbs were broken. She also alleged that Police worked irresponsibly otherwise, the victim would be alive. 

Mumtaz Ali, brother of JD(S) MLC B M Farooq and former Congress MLA Mohiuddin Bava went missing. His car was found near the Kollur bridge.

Mangaluru Police Commissioner Anupam Agrawal said, "Today early morning we received information that a businessman Mumthaz Ali's vehicle was found near Kulur bridge. He might have jumped from the bridge. Local police reached the spot and started the investigation. As per the preliminary investigation, around 3 o'clock, he left the house in his car and roamed around the city and around 5 o'clock he stopped his car near the Kulur bridge. The car had certain accidental marks and then after that, his daughter informed the local police. Investigation is underway. SDRF and Coast Guard teams are searching the river and trying to find out whether he has jumped in the river or anybody is there or not..."

In view of the upcoming festivals of Durga Puja, Dussehra, Diwali, and Chhath Puja in Uttar Pradesh, IPS Prashant Kumar, DGP, has issued a circular imposing a ban on leaves for police personnel from October 8 to November 8.

A major fire broke out in a five-storey industrial estate in Mumbai, a fire official said on Sunday. No casualty was reported in the incident which took place on Saturday night, he said, adding the fire was later doused. The blaze erupted at 10.21 pm on Saturday at Bharat Industrial Estate in Sewri area, the official said.

Police cane-charged a group of protestors and detained five of them in Margao city of South Goa Saturday late night after they blocked a national highway demanding arrest of former Goa RSS chief Subhash Velingkar.

Devotees throng the Jhandewalan Temple in Delhi's Karol Bagh to offer prayers on the fourth day of the nine-day Navratri festival.