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With Patna recording the temperature of 44.1 degrees Celsius, the highest this season, the district administration issued an order directing all schools to wind up classes by 10.45 am from Wednesday. Sheikhpura district was the hottest at 44.4 degrees Celsius on Tuesday, closely followed by 43.2 degrees Celsius in Banka, Jamui, Nawada, Khagaria and Rohtas.
An order issued by Patna District Magistrate Chandra Sekhar Singh said, "The district administration prohibits academic activities for all classes (including pre-schools and anganwadi centers) after 10.45 am in all schools of the district." "The school authorities are hereby directed to reschedule their timings of academic activities in conformity of the order, which will come into force from April 19," it stated.
Maharashtra on Tuesday recorded 949 fresh coronavirus cases, while six more patients succumbed to the infection in the state, the health department said. With these additions, the state's overall COVID-19 tally rose to 81,57,293, while the death toll increased to 1,48,485, the department said in a bulletin. The state had recorded 505 cases and zero fatalities on Monday. The bulletin said at present the XBB.1.16 variant of Omicron is the dominant strain in the state. The number of patients detected with this variant stood at 681, while four deaths linked to the strain have been reported in the state. The health bulletin said since January 1 this year, the state has recorded 68 COVID-19 deaths and 73.53 per cent of these fatalities have occurred in patients above 60 years of age. It said 57 of the deceased had comorbidities, while 9 per cent did not have any additional illness.
Three children and a woman accidentally drowned in a lake in Narayanpet district of Telangana on Tuesday, police said. The incident happened in Boinpally village when the three children -- two boys, both aged 8, and a 11-year-old girl -- went for swimming in the lake but started drowning. Noticing it, a 28-year-old woman and mother of one of the boys tried to rescue them but she also drowned along with the children, they said. All the four bodies were recovered from the lake and investigations were on, an official at Narayanpet police station said.
A major fire broke out at a mall on Ghodbunder Road in Thane city on Saturday evening, a civic official said. There were no reports of anyone getting injured, said chief of the Thane Municipal Corporation's Regional Disaster Management Cell Avinash Sawant. The fire, which started around 8.30 pm, also spread to nearby commercial buildings, he said. Dousing operations are on, he added.
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is expected to visit Hyderabad in the first week of May and address a public meeting organised by the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee, its State president and MP A Revanth Reddy said on Tuesday. The TPCC has decided to organise a large-scale movement on unemployment and Telangana State Public Service Commision (TSPSC) paper leak issues and as part of this, a meeting will be organised on May 4 or 5 here and Priyanka Gandhi will be the chief guest, Reddy said in release issued by the party. As part of the activities undertaken by TPCC on unemployment and TSPSC paper leakage issues, a protest would be held at Mahatma Gandhi University in Nalgonda on April 21. Similarly, protest programmes would be held in Khammam on April 24 and in Adilabad on April 26.
A synergy conference between the Army and the Border Security Force was held in Jalandhar in Punjab on Tuesday and common issues of operational preparedness, joint training and contemporary operational challenges were discussed. The conference was held at the Vajra Corps headquarters. Lieutenant General Devendra Sharma, General Officer Commanding, Vajra Corps, presided over the conference, according to an official statement. Dr Atul Fulzele, IG, Frontier Headquarters BSF (Punjab), Major General Rajesh Pushkar, General Officer Commanding, Panther Division, Major General H S Vandra, GOC, Golden Arrow Division, and other senior officers of the Army and the BSF attended the conference.
The Congress on Tuesday demanded that the government should come out with a white paper on the Pulwama attack providing answers to questions such as what were the intelligence failures and why troops were denied aircraft. Days after former Jammu and Kashmir governor Satypal Malik's allegations over the 2019 Pulwama attack, the Congress held a press conference here by Col (retd) Rohit Chaudhry and Wing Commander (retd) Anuma Acharya, both associated with the party, and posed a series of questions to the government on the attack in which 40 CRPF jawans were killed. There has been no reaction from the government since Malik's interview to a news portal was released, while the BJP has said that there were serious questions about his credibility and cited various statements made by him in recent years.
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An ambulance caught fire due to overheating in Delhi’s Barapullah flyover on Tuesday afternoon, a police official said. According to police, information regarding the incident was at around 3.40 pm. No casualty was reported. Two fire tenders were also rushed to the spot to douse the blaze, they said. On enquiry, the caller informed that he was going to take a patient from Safdarjung hospital. When he was on the Barapullah flyover, his CNG fitted ambulance car caught fire due to overheating, a senior police officer said. He was alone in the vehicle at the time of the incident. By the time he stepped out of the vehicle, it bursted into flames. No casualty was reported, police added.
In his first political programmes in Karnataka after nomination filing ends on Thursday, Home Minister Amit Shah will hold road shows in Davanagere and Devanahalli on April 21 and 22 and attend several organisational meetings in Bengaluru as the BJP's campaign to retain power in the state goes into a higher gear. Party sources said Shah will be in the state between April 20-23 and will leave for Telangana on the last day to attend political programmes in Telangana's Chevella Lok Sabha seat. Shah's road shows are expected to give a fillip to the party's mass connect in Karnataka. His several meetings with the state party leaders tasked to spearhead the campaign are expected to fine-tune the poll strategy. The 224-member assembly is scheduled for the polls on May 10. The Congress is the main challenger to the BJP in the high-stakes elections in which the Janata Dal (Secular) is also an important player.
The Aam Aadmi Party has enrolled over 11 lakh new members during a month-long drive in Haryana, it said on Tuesday, claiming that it received the maximum support in the assembly constituencies represented by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and his deputy Dushyant Chautala. Senior party leader Ashok Tanwar said AAP enrolled 35,654 new members in Khattar's Karnal assembly segment and it was the maximum for any Vidhan Sabha segment in the state. He said 25,060 people from Chautala's Uchana constituency joined AAP during the drive and these top two were followed by Education Minister Kanwar Pal's Jagadhri constituency with 14,550 new members. Karnal also topped in terms of Lok Sabha constituencies, according to the party.
More than 100 former militants joined the ruling BJP in Assam's Karbi Anglong district on Tuesday. They were previously cadres of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) and were led by Nabin Chandra Bodo. Welcoming the new members at the BJP office here, Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC) chief executive Tuliram Ronghang said, "A total of 110 former members of the NDFB have joined our party today. They are from different areas and held various top positions in the militant outfit." He said this will strengthen the party not only in Karbi Anglong, but also in neighbouring West Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao districts.
A court here has convicted a father-son duo for rioting and arson in a case of the 2020 North East Delhi riots, saying the prosecution proved the charges against them beyond reasonable doubt. Additional Sessions Judge Pulastya Pramachala was hearing a case against Mithhan Singh and his son Jony Kumar, who were accused of being present in a riotous mob that torched several properties in lane number four of Khajuri Khas on February 25, 2020. “I find that it is proved beyond doubt against both the accused… that they were part of the mob which burnt the property (of complainant Shabana Khatoon)... Thus, they are held guilty of the offences under sections 147 (rioting) 148 (rioting, armed with a deadly weapon) 436 (mischief by fire or explosive substance with intent to destroy house, etc.) read with section 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object) of the Indian Penal Code and convicted accordingly,” the judge said in an order passed on Monday.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition by a death row convict in the 2006 Mumbai train blast case seeking disclosure of information pertaining to the ban imposed on terrorist outfit Indian Mujahideen. Ehtesham Qutubuddin Siddique had filed an application under the RTI Act seeking "background notes" of the Centre and reports of state governments of Gujarat, Delhi and Andhra Pradesh in relation to the ban on the organisation, which was stated to have carried out the blast. The outfit was proscribed under the stringent anti-terror law Unlawful Activities(Prevention) Act (UAPA). The petitioner challenged in the high court an order passed by the Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) on June 13, 2019 denying him the information on the ground that it was covered under the exemptions provided in the RTI Act.
A Delhi court on Tuesday reserved its order on the bail application of AAP leader Manish Sisodia, arrested in a money laundering case related to the alleged Delhi excise policy scam, for April 26. Special Judge M K Nagpal reserved the order after hearing arguments on his application seeking relief claiming his custody is no longer required for investigation. The ED opposed the application, asserting the investigation was at a "crucial" stage and claiming the former Delhi deputy chief minister had planted fabricated e-mails to show there was public approval for the policy. The federal anti-money laundering agency also said it has found fresh evidence of his complicity in the alleged crime.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday sent another letter to Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee informing him that the earlier notice for questioning has been kept in abeyance till further orders from the Supreme Court. The central probe agency's letter was dispatched a day after it had sent a notice to the TMC MP asking him to appear before its sleuths at its Kolkata office for questioning in connection with the school jobs scam following certain allegations of arrested Trinamool Congress youth leader Kuntal Ghosh. Ghosh is an accused in the scam.
A man has been arrested here for allegedly sharing a provocative post on social media in connection with the killing of gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf, police said on Tuesday. An FIR was filed at Izzatnagar police station on Monday night against the accused, Farooq (25), for trying to vitiate the atmosphere through provocative posts on social media, they said. Subsequently, Farooq, a resident of Abdullapur Mafi village, was arrested under the IT Act and other relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, Bareilly SP (City) Rahul Bhati said. Apart from Farooq, a few others from the district's Bhojipura area have also posted inflammatory content on social media and police are trying to identify them, the SP added. Ahmad (60) and his brother Ashraf were shot dead at point-blank range by three men in the middle of a media interaction Saturday night in Prayagraj while police personnel were escorting them for a medical checkup.
As many as 31 people belonging to Hakki-Pikki tribal community from Karnataka are stranded in Sudan, where rival factions of the ruling military regime have been battling for control of the African nation. Karnataka State Disaster Management Authority Commissioner Manoj Rajan said, “We have got a message that a group of 31 people hailing from Karnataka are stranded in Sudan. We have informed the Ministry of External Affairs about it.” The officer said his department has asked the group to follow the instructions of the Indian embassy in Sudan.
A US Embassy convoy came under fire in Sudan, Washington's top diplomat said Tuesday as he stepped up efforts for a cease-fire between the country's two top generals.
Still, forces of the two rivals pounded each other for a fourth day with heavy weapons in the capital of Khartoum. The attack on the convoy in Khartoum, along with an assault on the EU envoy's residence and the shelling of the Norwegian ambassador's home, signalled a further descent into chaos in the fighting. Millions of Sudanese in the capital and in other major cities have been hiding in their homes, caught in the crossfire as the two forces battle for control, with each general so far insisting he will crush the other.
A 15-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped by a youth on the pretext of marriage in a village here, police said on Tuesday. The incident happened in Narhi police station area at least eight months ago, Deputy Superintendent of Police Sadar Ashok Mishra said. On the complaint of the girl's father on Monday, the 18-year-old accused has been arrested. He is from the same village as the victim, he said. A case under sections of the Indian Penal Code, the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and SC/ST Act has been registered against the accused, he added.
Police here have registered a case against a man from Jharkhand who threatened to kill Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, officials said on Tuesday. Aman Raja shared a post on Facebook in which he vowed to shoot Adityanath. A screenshot of the post was tweeted to the Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Director General of Police and other officials. Circle officer, Baghpat, D K Sharma said a case was registered against Raja at Kotwali police station here on Monday.
A two-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her uncle in a village here, police said on Tuesday. The incident happened in Payagpur police station area on Monday evening, they said. The accused uncle was arrested on Tuesday for raping and injuring the minor girl, Additional Superintendent of Police (City) Kunwar Gyananjay Singh said. A case has been registered under sections of rape and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act on the complaint of the minor’s mother, he said. The medical examination of the girl has been conducted and further probe is underway, Singh said.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday began hearing arguments on a batch of pleas seeking legal validation for same-sex marriages, with the Centre insisting its preliminary objection on whether the court can at all go into this question or it would be essential for the parliament to go into it be heard first.
A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud told Solicitor General (SG) Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, that the nature and tenability of the preliminary objection will depend on the canvass the petitioners open up and the court wants to have a view of their argument.
Mehta told the bench, also comprising Justices S K Kaul, S R Bhat, Hima Kohli and P S Narasimha, the petitioners can advance their submissions on what they want and also an overview confined to the preliminary objection raised by him.
"I am sorry Mr solicitor, we are in charge,” the CJI told Mehta, adding the court will hear the petitioners’ side first.
Three persons, including a member of the Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC), have been detained by the Special Operations Group of the state police in connection with a teacher recruitment paper leak case in 2022.
The SOG has detained Babulal Katara, an RPSC member, his nephew Vijay Katara and RPSC driver Gopal Singh in the case.
The accused are being interrogated to break down the nexus, an official statement said.
In December last year, 55 people, including 37 candidates, were arrested in the grade-2 teacher recruitment examination paper leak case.
A massive landslide struck a key highway near the Torkham border town in northwestern Pakistan that killed at least two Afghan citizens, injured eight others and buried some 20 trucks on Tuesday morning, according to a media report.
The landslide occurred in the early hours of Tuesday following a strong thunderstorm on the main road through Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Khyber Pass near the Afghanistan border, burying the trucks transporting goods, the Dawn newspaper reported.
According to rescue officials, two Afghan citizens have been killed in the landslide and authorities were trying to recover their bodies.
"Two Afghan citizens had been killed in the landslide and authorities were trying to recover the bodies.
At least eight people were injured and they have been provided with first aid," Abdul Nasir Khan, the deputy commissioner of the Khyber district, was quoted as saying.
Iran's president on Tuesday reiterated threats against Israel while marking the country's annual Army Day, though he stayed away from criticising Saudi Arabia as Tehran seeks a détente with the kingdom.
The comments by Ebrahim Raisi came as fighter jets and helicopters flew overhead in Tehran, and as Iranian submarines sailed across its waters during a ceremony carried live by state television.
The day celebrates Iran's regular military, not its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, whose expeditionary forces operate across the wider Mideast and aid Iranian-allied militia groups like Lebanon's Hezbollah.
The Guard also routinely has tense encounters with the US Navy.
Speaking at the ceremony, Raisi threatened Israel, which is suspected of carrying out a series of attacks targeting Iran since the collapse of its nuclear deal with world powers.
Carcass of an elephant calf was found in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district, a senior forest official said.
The carcass was found in Asanbani Reserve Forest area of Betnoti Range in Baripada Forest Division on Monday.
"Post mortem of the recovered carcass will be done on Tuesday," the senior official said.
A herd of about 22 elephants from West Bengal was staying in the forest for a brief time, then they left the area on April 15.
The carcass was found by forest staff while patrolling the area, he said.
A letter by Atiq Ahmad with instructions to send it to the Uttar Pradesh chief minister and the chief justice of India in case of his death is being dispatched to them, the slain gangster-turned-politicians lawyer said on Tuesday.
"That letter in a sealed envelope is neither with me nor sent by me. It is kept somewhere else and being sent by some other person. I don't know the contents of the letter," said his lawyer Vijay Mishra.
The Sambalpur district administration on Tuesday further extended the suspension of internet services for another 24 hours while the curfew relaxation hours have been increased, an official said.
The internet services would remain suspended till 10 am of Wednesday.
The district administration has also further increased curfew relaxation hours.
Now, the curfew has been relaxed in the city from 7.
30 am to 1 pm and from 3.
30 pm to 6 pm for the convenience of the public, said District Collector Ananya Das.
While heat waves are expected to hit seven mandals in Alluri Sitarama Raju district, 16 in Anakapalli, four in East Godavari, two each in Eluru, Palnadu, Visakhapatnam and Nandyala, six in Gunturu and 10 in Krishna, said the disaster management department in a statement on Monday.
Likewise, four mandals in Krishna district, 13 each in NTR and YSR Kadapa, 12 in Parvatipuram Manyam, five in Srikakulam and 19 in Vizianagaram.
Out of the 117 mandals, Chintur and Nellipaka in Alluri Sitarama Raju district are likely to record 44.7 degrees Celsius and 44 C respectively today.
Three persons were killed when their speeding car rammed into a trailer-truck on Indore-Ahmedabad national highway in Madhya Pradesh's Dhar district on Tuesday, a police official said.
The accident took place at around 3.
30 am near Bhopavar intersection in the district, he said.
The car hit the trailer-truck from behind.
Three car occupants died on the spot due to the impact of the collision, Sardarpur sub-divisional officer of police Ram Singh Medha said.
The deceased have been identified as Gopal Garg (27), Akshay Trivedi (27) and Sandeep Rathor (28), the official said.
Group of Seven foreign ministers vowed to intensify sanctions against Russia over its war in Ukraine as they wrapped up their meeting in Japan on Tuesday.
"We remain committed to intensifying sanctions against Russia, coordinating and fully enforcing them," the G-7 ministers said in a communique released after the meeting Tuesday.
“There can be no impunity for war crimes and other atrocities such as Russia's attacks against civilians and critical civilian infrastructure,” they said.
The ministers also agreed to continue their utmost support for Ukraine.
At least 15 two-wheelers were destroyed in a fire at a public parking plaza in Maharashtra's Palghar district, a fire official said on Tuesday.
No person was injured in the blaze which broke out at around 10.
30 pm on Monday at the parking facility located at Naigaon in Vasai area of the district, the fire official from the Vasai Virar Municipal Corporation said.
A fire broke out in a wooden scrap godown in Mandala area of eastern Mumbai in the early hours of Tuesday and efforts were still on to douse the flames, officials said.
There was no report of any casualty, they said.
The blaze erupted at around 3 am in the godown of a scrap corporation located near a temple on Ghatkopar-Mankhrud link road in Mandala area, the official said.
Group of Seven foreign ministers vowed to intensify sanctions against Russia over its war in Ukraine as they wrapped up their meeting in Japan on Tuesday.
"We remain committed to intensifying sanctions against Russia, coordinating and fully enforcing them," the G-7 ministers said in a communique released after the meeting Tuesday.
“There can be no impunity for war crimes and other atrocities such as Russia's attacks against civilians and critical civilian infrastructure,” they said.
The ministers also agreed to continue their utmost support for Ukraine.
The airport customs has seized 2.4 kg of heroin worth Rs 16.8 crore at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport after arresting a foreign national, an official said on Monday.
According to the official, based on specific intelligence, the Mumbai airport customs intercepted the foreign national who arrived from Entebbe, Uganda, and seized 2.4 kg of the contraband value at Rs 16.8 crore from him on Sunday.
During the probe, customs personnel found the drug was concealed in a false cavity of a carton, he said.
Secret Service was investigating reports of a single gunshot early Monday morning near the US Naval Observatory, which is the home of Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, according to media reports.
Secret Service officers responded at 1:30 am to reports of a single gunshot at 34th and Massachusetts Ave, Fox News News quoted Secret Service spokesman Lt.
Paul Mayhair as saying in a statement.
"No one was reported to be injured and there is currently no indication that this incident was directed towards any protectees or the Naval Observatory," Mayhair said.
"Roads around the intersection are temporarily closed due to the ongoing investigation.
Punjab Police Monday night conducted a search operation here. However, police remained tight-lipped about the operation.
Though some reports suggested that two persons were detained in connection with the Amritpal Singh case, there was no official word on the same.
During the operation, police carried out a search at a house.
The Mexican Navy said Monday it is using ships and a plane to search for three Americans who went missing along with their sailboat off Mexico's northern Pacific coast.
The Navy said it is using four patrol boats and a twin-engine prop airplane to search the area, but apparently no sign of the missing people has turned up yet.
The three Americans were aboard the 44-foot (13.
5 metre) sailing vessel “Ocean Bound.
” The US Coast Guard gave their names as Kerry O'Brien, Frank O'Brien, and William Gross.
A massive landslide struck a key highway near the Torkham border town in northwestern Pakistan before dawn Tuesday, burying several trucks and injuring some people, police and rescue officials said.
Police official Ishrat Khan said dozens of firefighters and rescuers were trying to save the lives of the truck drivers and other people hit by the landslide near Afghanistan.
Officials said the landslide was triggered by lightning amid rain.
He said the injured are being transported to a nearby hospital.
Top Indian American oncologist Dr Dattatreyudu Nori has been appointed senior advisor to the Chennai-centre of the prestigious Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center from New York.
Observing that the opening of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center from New York in India – the first of its kind outside the United States -- “is a big deal,” Dr Nori said getting treatment of and consultations on cancer from the world’s best cancer institute would not only save a large number of lives, but will also help increase awareness in the fight against the deadly disease.
A 2017 Padma Shri awardee for his contribution to the field of medicine, Dr Nori said he wants to bring the best practices of cancer treatment from the United States to India.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center opened its first ever overseas centre in Chennai last August, and in March this year Dr Nori was appointed as its senior advisor.
The Indian American doctor, who has just returned from India visiting several states including Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Assam, said in cancer, the first treatment has to be the best treatment.
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