Breaking News, September 2 | HIGHLIGHTS

A 15-year-old girl and her 12-year-old brother were killed on the way to school when their bicycle was hit by a truck in Bilaspur city in Chhattisgarh on Saturday, a police official said. The incident, at Bannak Square under Sirgitti police station limits on the outskirts of the city, led to a protest by residents and schoolchildren that resulted in the road being blocked for four hours, he said.

Assam’s flood situation continued to improve as the number of affected people decreased to below 2.5 lakh on Saturday even though one more person died due to the deluge, taking the toll to 17, an official bulletin said. The Brahmaputra river continued to flow above the danger level in several places, it said.

Ladakh Lt Governor Brigadier (Retd) B D Mishra has sought the intervention of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar for the speedy clearance of visas for Chinese technicians needed to install a Pashmina dehairing machine here, an official said on Saturday.

Heavy rains have caused huge damage in Uttarakhand and the state government will provide all help to those affected, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said on Saturday after conducting an aerial survey of the rain-ravaged Chamoli district. Officials have been asked to assess the damage caused by the rains and repair work will be started once the monsoon is over, he said.

The Sultanpuri underpass project in Delhi, work on which had begun in 2010, has been completed and it will be opened for the public on September 4, officials said on Saturday.

Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday met Maratha quota agitators injured in police action a day earlier in Ambad tehsil in Jalna and sought removal of the 50 per cent ceiling on reservations. He also said the issues of "caste census" as well as the removal of quota cap were discussed in the meeting of opposition bloc INDIA that took place in Mumbai on Thursday and Friday.

IIT Kharagpur has signed an MoU with the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) to organise joint academic programmes and faculty support for various courses.