Breaking News, July 28 | Highlights

A 12-member Indian rescue team that was in Nepal to search for passengers and two buses swept away by a landslide into the Trishuli River in Chitwan earlier this month returned home on Sunday. Since last Sunday, the team of the Indian National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) had been collaborating with the Armed Police Force (APF) Nepal and the Nepali Army in search and rescue efforts.

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has started action against illegal coaching centres and will set up a high-level committee to probe the flooding of a basement in central Delhi which led to three civil service aspirants' deaths, an official said on Sunday.

A team of the civic body reached the Old Rajendra Nagar area Sunday to seal several illegally-run basements of coaching centres, a statement by the Delhi government said.

Delhi Coaching Centre Tragedy: The two accused detained in a case involving the death of three civil services aspirants in Delhi's Old Rajinder Nagar were sent to 14 days judicial custody on Sunday. 

On Delhi coaching centre tragedy, BJP MP Anurag Thakur said, "What have they done to Delhi? Three youths lost their lives in Delhi. Is this the model of Arvind Kejriwal and AAP? Ask the families who have lost their young ones, they sent their children to make their career but who knew that they will meet this fate."

Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Olympic Medalist Shooter Manu Bhaker and congratulated her on winning a Bronze medal in Women’s 10 M Air Pistol at Paris Olympics 2024. 

The Reserve Bank of India imposes fines on payment system operators Visa Worldwide, Ola Financial Services and Manappuram Finance for deficiencies in regulatory compliance.

Union Minister HD Kumaraswamy was taken to the hospital on Sunday after experiencing a sudden nosebleed during a press conference in Bengaluru. The incident occurred while Kumaraswamy was addressing the media, causing immediate concern. 

After the IAS coaching institute tragedy, Delhi Minister and Aam Aadmi Party Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj on Sunday said that there is a "big conspiracy hatched" against the people of the national capital, alleging that despite giving evidence and complaining of corruption in de-silting, no action was taken against the officers involved by the LG VK Saexna.

President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday congratulated shooter Manu Bhaker after she created history by winning a bronze medal at the Paris Olympics 2024. With this feat in the women's individual 10m air pistol event, India opened India's account at the Paris Olympics. She became the first-ever Indian woman and fifth overall to clinch an Olympic medal in shooting.

Manu Bhaker opened India's account at the Paris Olympics 2024 with a bronze medal in the women's individual 10m air pistol event on Sunday, July 28. She became the first-ever Indian woman and fifth overall to clinch an Olympic medal in shooting.

The Delhi Police on Sunday (July 28) detained the students gathered to protest over the death of 3 students in Old Rajinder Nagar after the basement of their coaching institute was filled with water yesterday.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday (July 28) appointed senior party leader Mata Prasad Pandey as Leader of the Opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma and former chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday congratulated Haribhau Kisanrao Bagde for being appointed as Rajasthan Governor. Bagde's appointment was announced by the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Saturday night.

The Punjab Police on Sunday said it has busted an international drug network with the arrest of two persons and also recovered over Rs 1 crore cash from them. The accused were working for two drug smugglers based abroad, said Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav.

The body of a South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL) official who was swept away after rain water flooded a portion of a mine in Chhattisgarh's Korba district was found on Sunday post a 16-hour search, police said. SECL assistant manager (mining) Jitendra Nagarkar (41) had gone missing at around 4:30 pm on Saturday at the Kusmunda coal mine, an official said.

Three more persons have been arrested in connection with BSP leader K Armstrong's killing, police said on Sunday. The arrested were identified as 21-year-old N Vijayakumar, V Mukilan (32) and N Vignesh, aged 27 years, police said. They were produced before a local court on Sunday and remanded to 15 days custody.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday welcomed the appointment of Lakshman Prasad Acharya as the new governor, maintaining that the state will benefit from his organisational and legislative experiences. He thanked outgoing governor Gulab Chand Kataria for his contributions during his tenure here, while also congratulating former Assam MP Ramen Deka on being named for the gubernatorial position in Chhattisgarh.

Eleven newly-elected legislators took oath as members of the Maharashtra legislative council at the Vidhan Bhavan on Sunday. The ruling Mahayuti alliance of the BJP, Shiv Sena and NCP won all the nine seats it contested in polls to 11 seats of the state legislative council held on July 12.

A woman was shot with an air gun allegedly by another woman who came in the guise of delivering a courier near Vanchiyoor on Sunday morning. Forty-one-year-old Shimi, a staffer of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), was attacked by a masked woman, the family members alleged.

Amid heavy rains, a fresh batch of 1,677 pilgrims left a Jammu base camp for the Amarnath shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas in the early hours of Sunday amid tight security arrangements, officials said.

Outgoing Jharkhand Governor C P Radhakrishnan on Sunday thanked President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his appointment as governor of Maharashtra. Radhakrishnan, who was also holding additional charge of Telangana, has been appointed as the new governor of Maharashtra, succeeding incumbent Ramesh Bais, the Rashtrapati Bhavan said on Saturday night.

Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Sunday condoled the death of three IAS aspirants due to waterlogging in the basement of a building here, and said common people are paying the price for unsafe construction, poor town planning and irresponsibility of institutions at every level.

Delhi Police on Sunday detained the owner and coordinator of the coaching centre where three students died due to flooding following heavy rains, officials said. Police have booked them under charges of culpable homicide among other charges, they said.

With only four states complying despite repeated reminders, the Centre is contemplating making it mandatory for states to enact floodplain zoning legislation if they want to access central flood management funds, officials have said. The four states that have enacted such legislations are: Manipur, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, and the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir.

The Adani Group will commission the first phase of a USD 4 billion PVC project by December 2026, making its foray into the petrochemicals sector that is marked by a mismatch between domestic demand and supply, sources said.

A day after three civil services aspirants died due to rain-induced flooding in the basement of a coaching centre, Delhi Mayor Shelly Oberoi on Sunday directed that take strict action be taken against commercial activities being run in basements. Oberoi directed the MCD commissioner to take strict action against all such coaching centres across Delhi which are under the jurisdiction of MCD and running commercial activities in basements, which she said are in violation of building bye-laws and are not as per norms. She also called for an inquiry to identify if any MCD officers were responsible in the incident.

"Kejriwal ji continuously writes letters to maintain his position, but now we should also see the condition of Delhi today," Delhi Congress President Devender Yadav said.

After seven hours of rescue efforts, the NDRF has ended its search at the coaching centre in Delhi's Old Rajinder Nagar area where three civil services aspirants died last night when the basement of the building was flooded following heavy rains, officials said on Sunday. Students held a protest and raised slogans against authorities outside the coaching centre over the deaths in the basement, which according to preliminary probe houses a library.

A 28-year-old man was arrested from Jogeshwari in Mumbai for allegedly raping a woman repeatedly and also forcing her to abort a pregnancy, a Thane police official said on Sunday. Riyasat Illias Qureshi befriended the 24-year-old victim and raped her several times between February 2022 and January this year on the promise of marriage, the Rabodi police station official said. "She filed a complaint after the accused, who is a tailor, refused to marry her," he said.

The national capital is likely to have a generally cloudy sky with light rains during the day, the weather department said on Sunday, a day after heavy downpours flooded a coaching centre in central Delhi, killing three IAS aspirants. On Sunday, the city recorded a minimum temperature of 28.2 degrees Celsius, 0.9 notches below season's average, according to the India Meteorological Department.

Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud said there was a marked shift in the way disability is looked at. Speaking at the inaugural session of India Accessibility Summit and State Disability Commissioners' Conclave in Bengaluru on Saturday, he said training, public meetings and policy-making have brought about the change.

The CPI(ML) Liberation, a constituent of the INDIA bloc, has claimed that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar skipped the NITI Aayog meeting out of embarrassment over the Centre’s refusal to grant special category status to the state. The party also slammed the NDA-led central government for "misleading" people over the special package, and announced protest marches next month. JD(U) leaders, however, were tight-lipped over the absence of Kumar, the party president, at the NITI Aayog meeting held in Delhi on Saturday.

A man was injured after the ceiling plaster in his room collapsed in the early hours of Sunday in Thane's Kopri locality, a civic official said. The incident took place at 4:05 am in a flat in a four-storey building that is 50 years old and has been classified as C-1 (most dangerous, needs evacuation and demolition), Thane Municipal Corporation regional disaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi said.

President Droupadi Murmu has appointed Governors in various states including Assam, Punjab and Jharkhand. Lakshman Prasad Acharya has been made the governor of Assam with the additional charge of Manipur while Gulab Chand Kataria has replaced Banwarilal Purohit as the governor of Punjab under major gubernatorial appointments, the Rashtrapati Bhavan has announced. Acharya has replaced Kataria, who has also been appointed the administrator of the Union Territory of Chandigarh, according to a communique issued by the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Saturday night.

Three civil services aspirants have died after the basement of a building housing a coaching centre was flooded following heavy rainfall in central Delhi's Old Rajinder Nagar area. According to the Delhi Fire Department (DFS), a call about waterlogging was received from Rau's IAS Study Circle at around 7:00 pm on Saturday (July 27) about the basement of the coaching institute being flooded.