Breaking News, September 14 | HIGHLIGHTS

A sarpanch allegedly shot dead his wife in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district on Thursday, police said. He has been arrested after the registration of a case under charges of murder. According to the police, Yashpal, the sarpanch of Panchayat Halka Patrara, fired upon his wife, Neelam Devi, 46, using a .303 rifle in Sunderbani area of the district.

As many as 186 passengers on Thursday embarked on a 17-day, 8,250-kilometre Char Dham Yatra aboard a special tourist train that will take them to Badrinath, Puri, Rameshwaram and Dwarka. The 17-day pilgrimage aboard an AC deluxe train will also have stopovers in Varanasi, Nashik, Madurai and Hampi, a Northern Railway spokesperson said. The train, operated by the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation, was flagged off on Thursday evening from Hazrat Nizamuddin station.

Deputy Election Commissioner Hirdesh Kumar on Thursday convened a meeting with chief electoral officers and deputy commissioner-cum-district election officers from Haryana, Punjab and Chandigarh to review the preparedness for the Lok Sabha polls due next year. In the meeting, a detailed discussion was also held on the revision of voter lists in preparation for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, according to a Haryana government statement.

A special NIA court here on Thursday pronounced death sentence to two men linked to the ISIS for killing a retired school principal in Kanpur and indulging in terror activities, observing that the "motive of this murder was to spread terror among non-Muslims". The National Investigation Agency (NIA) court also imposed Rs 11.20 lakh fine on each of the two convicts, Atif Muzaffar and Mohammad Faisal, and said that the amount would be given to the dependents of deceased principal Ramesh Babu Shukla.

A man with a criminal background and his female companion were killed by another suspected history-sheeter and two others inside a private hospital in Rajasthan's Jhalawar district on Thursday, police said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi lauded the Israeli embassy for putting out a video of its officials mouthing several popular Hindi film dialogues on the occasion of Hindi Diwas on Thursday. Tradition, prestige and discipline are the three pillars of this Israeli embassy, Modi said, posting on X Israeli ambassador Naor Gilon's wordplay on a dialogue from the 2007 film "Mohabbatein".

A 31-year-old woman was allegedly strangled to death by her husband in Bhondsi area on Thursday, police said. According to the complaint filed by the victim’s brother Mukesh, around 2:30 am today, his brother-in-law Anil called him and asked him to reach Gurugram saying that his sister Seema was not feeling well.

A resolution tabled by the ruling BJP in the Gujarat assembly on Thursday said India received the G20 presidency because of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's efforts. While the resolution was passed by a majority vote, the opposition Congress snubbed the ruling party by pointing out that India got the presidency by rotation, and said that the BJP should not use foreign policy for its politics. The resolution was moved by Minister of State for Cooperation Jagdish Vishwakarma on the second day of the Monsoon session.

Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and Army's XV Corps commander Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai on Thursday paid homage to Colonel Manpreet Singh and Major Ashish Dhonchak who were killed in an encounter with terrorists in Anantnag district.

The Election Commission has called rival factions of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) for a personal hearing on October 6, sources said on Thursday.

The Congress government in Himachal Pradesh has failed to implement the guarantees promised by party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra during the assembly polls and her recent visit to the state was an attempt to hide the failures of the government, the BJP said on Thursday.

A teenager in Greater Noida ended her life at home on Thursday while her father and brother were at a police station to lodge a complaint of her being harassed by a local man, officials said. According to the officials, the girl was allegedly being harassed for quite some time by the accused who late last night dropped at her home to take her phone number and molested her.

A special PMLA court in Patna on Thursday sent Janata Dal-United (JDU) MLC Radha Charan Shah to judicial custody for 14 days. Shah, JD(U)'s Member of Legislative Council (MLC), will be in judicial custody till September 27.

The operation to neutralise the terrorists involved in the encounter that led to the killing of four security forces personnel continued for the second day on Thursday as police claimed to have "encircled" two Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists in the higher reaches of Anantnag district of south Kashmir. Gunshots were heard in the Gadole forests of Kokernag in Anantnag district in the early hours of Thursday as reinforcements were rushed to the area to take down the terrorists who were believed to be hiding in a natural cave in the mountains, the officials said.

A loader at the IGI airport was arrested for allegedly stealing valuables from the bags of several passengers, police said on Thursday. According to the police, a complainant stated that he was going to Halifax, Canada along with his family and they were taking wheelchair assistance from an airline. The passenger was carrying an iPhone14 Pro Max in his luggage to gift it to his son in Canada.

The Centre on Thursday launched its third cleanliness drive with a focus on remote offices having a larger public interface besides creating wealth through the disposal of waste among other things. Launching the initiative here, Union Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has transformed the 'swachhata' campaign into a mass movement.

Seeking to clarify his remarks on taxation of diesel vehicles, Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday said that he wanted to convey to automobile manufacturers to take steps to reduce pollution, and also added that there is no proposal to levy tax on such vehicles. Earlier this week, the road, transport and highway minister's remarks regarding the need to levy 10 per cent tax on diesel-run vehicles to help cut emissions had generated lots of controversy.

A 45-year-old technician at a railway station here was arrested for allegedly killing a co-worker who was asking him to return the money she had loaned him, police said on Thursday. Mohammad Zakir, technical supervisor at Nizamuddin Railway Station, allegedly killed her by stabbing her multiple times on her neck and later poured acid on her face and body to hide her identity, they said.

At least 11 people, including a top religious leader and politician, were injured in a bomb attack in the Mastung district of Pakistan's restive Balochistan province on Thursday, police said.

Generally cloudy skies with light to moderate rainfall is expected in Delhi over the next five days, the weather office has said. On Thursday, the maximum temperature settled four notches above the season's average at 37.6 degrees Celsius while the minimum temperature was recorded at 27.8 degrees, three notches above normal, it said.

Flagging the arrest of 17 Tamil Nadu fishermen by Sri Lanka, Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday urged the Centre to secure their immediate release.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate an exhibition-conference hub, developed as part of the phase-I of the India International Convention and Expo Centre (IICC), at Dwarka on September 17, a senior official said. Special Secretary and IICC Dwarka Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Sumita Dawra said that the phase-I of the project has been completed. The first phase of the project has been built at a cost of over Rs 5,400 crore.

BRS MLC K Kavitha on Thursday said the Enforcement Directorate notice issued to her in the Delhi Excise Policy case is politically motivated, and that the party’s legal team would decide the future course of action on it.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday said 195 taluks in the state have been declared as drought hit, as per norms, and a memorandum will be submitted to the central government seeking relief. The state has a total of 236 taluks in 31 districts.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday termed the Opposition's INDIA grouping as "ghamandia" (arrogant), and alleged that it wants to "destroy" Sanatan Dharma and push the country into "a thousand years' slavery." The credit for the G-20 summit's success goes to the people of the country, he said, adding that it has boosted the self-confidence of even children in the villages.

As heavy rain battered Odisha, the IMD on Thursday forecast more heavy to very heavy precipitation with isolated extremely heavy showers in the state. The low-pressure area in the Bay of Bengal has intensified and become well-marked and is expected to move across Odisha and Chhattisgarh during the next two days, the IMD said.

A man and a woman, both in their early twenties and hailing from Ahmednagar in Maharashtra, allegedly committed suicide by hanging themselves in their rented residence in Thane district, police said on Thursday. The bodies of the deceased, identified as Somnath Sonawane (23) and Sujata Deshmukh (21), were recovered on Wednesday morning in their room located in a chawl in Tanaji Nagar area of Kasara, they said.

The Palghar district police has launched a search for a man who allegedly strangled his 20-year-old wife. Accused Sonu Makunda Sabar and his wife Pinki Sonu Sabar lived in Dandipada area of Palghar tehsil, police said.

Demanding students' union elections in colleges and universities of the state, the Congress-backed NSUI demonstrated outside the residence of Odisha Higher Education Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak in Bhubaneswar on Thursday.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will announce the winter action plan on October 1 to check pollution in the capital, Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai said on Thursday. Addressing a press conference after holding a meeting with 28 departments, Rai said that 13 hotspots have been identified in Delhi and a special plan will be made for them.

BJP chief J P Nadda on Thursday launched an offensive against the opposition INDIA block alleging that its constituents are doing just two things – bashing the 'Sanatan' culture and "bullying" the media. "The Emergency era mindset is alive among these parties," he charged in a post on 'X'.

Will retire from public life if proven wife's firm received central subsidy, said Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma.

Telangana CM K Chandrashekar Rao's daughter BRS MLA K Kavitha has been summoned by ED to join the investigation tomorrow in connection with the Delhi Excise policy case. More than one dozen persons are also summoned who were involved in carrying out cash transactions in the scam.

Pawan Kalyan says the Jana Sena Party and TDP will form an alliance for the upcoming polls.

Malegaon 2008 blasts case | NIA files application in Special NIA court, informs the court that it has completed the recording of evidence and no more witnesses are needed to be called for recording of statement from their side. NIA recorded 323 witnesses in this trial, while 37 witnesses turned hostile.

PM Modi credits 140 crore people of India for G-20 Summit success, said this has raised pride of people and country.

Opposition ‘ghamandia’ alliance wants to destroy Sanatan Dharma, said PM Modi.

Govt to provide 75 lakh new gas connections to women in the country, said PM Modi.

 Several people feared drowned in the Bagmati river in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. More details are awaited.

 Maharashtra: Maratha activist Manoj Jarange Patil withdraws his hunger strike as Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde offers him juice.

Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal sent to judicial custody for 14 days by the PMLA Court. He was produced before the Special PMLA Court in Mumbai after his ED custody ended today.

BJP issues a line whip to all party MPs of Lok Sabha to be present in house from 18th to 22nd September to discuss very important legislative business and support the government's stand.

 Anantnag: Search operation underway in the forest area of Gadole, Kokernag.

Chief Justice of India announces that the Supreme Court of India to come under the National Judicial Data Grid platform which provides tracking of pendency of cases. CJI said it will bring transparency and accountability.

School students in Jammu pay tributes to three security forces officials, who lost their lives in the Anantnag encounter.

Central team visits Nipah-affected areas in Kozhikode, Kerala.

15 people arrested in Assam's Hailakandi district for conducting child marriages by preparing fake documents, said police.

Mumbai: Airport Customs seized 24-karat gold dust on 12th September weighing two kilograms valued at approximately Rs 1.05 crores from an Indian family travelling from Singapore. The passengers concealed the gold in their inner garments and the diaper of their three-year-old child, said Mumbai Customs.

Visuals from the Kokernag area of Anantnag where an encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists, yesterday. 

Hyderabad: Telangana BJP president & Union minister G Kishan Reddy continues his hunger strike against the KC Rao government at Telangana BJP State party office, Nampally, Hyderabad.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi extends best wishes on the occasion of Hindi Diwas.

CM Yogi Adityanath attends mock drill conducted by NSG commandos at UP Police headquarters in Lucknow.

2 Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists encircled in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district where 3 security officers were killed in an encounter on Wednesday, said police.

National Security Guard (NSG) and UP Police conduct mock drill outside Lok Bhawan in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Chhattisgarh on Thursday to launch a slew of projects.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Madhya Pradesh's Bina today to lay the foundation stone of projects worth more than Rs 50,700 crore.

Telangana: The Warangal Police arrested four inter-state robbers and recovered gold, diamonds and silver jewellery worth over Rs 2.5 crore.