Breaking News, August 11 | HIGHLIGHTS

A 70-year-old man was shot dead by his grandson in a village here on Friday, police said.

The incident happened in an area under Mawana police station of the district. Accused Tarun has been arrested, they said.

There were 24 "fatal casualties of soldiers" in 2020 due to ceasefire violations from the Pakistan side, the government informed the Parliament on Friday.

Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt said this in response to a query in the Lok Sabha. Ever since the Director General of Military Operations understanding came into existence in February 2021, there have been "just three incidents of ceasefire violations and no incident of shelling along the Line of Control". However, our troops remain prepared for all such eventualities, he said.

Two weeks after an FIR was lodged against Congress MLA Gopal Meena and five police officers for harassing a Dalit man here, officials Friday dismissed the allegations as “false” and “baseless”.

Preliminary investigation suggested that the the FIR was registered at the behest of a ex-IPS officer Navdeep Singh to mount pressure on police to close a case registered against him in a land-related dispute, Rajasthan Police said in a statement issued here. Meena allegedly forced the Dalit man to lick his shoe and an officer urinated on him, while other police officers beat him up, according to the complaint registered on July 27.

A wanted criminal was arrested from Ludhiana in a joint operation by the Punjab Police and the Uttar Pradesh police's Special Task Force, Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav said here on Friday.

Arvind Kashyap alias Pintu, a close associate of mafia-don Dhruv Kuntu, was allegedly involved in the 2013 murder of former Sagri MLA Sarvesh Sipu and the Uttar Pradesh Police had declared a reward of Rs 1 lakh on his arrest, the police chief said. Sipu was shot dead in broad daylight allegedly by the members of Pintu's criminal gang at the behest of Dhruv Singh Kuntu, he said.

A 54-year-old man, a Sri Lankan Tamil, arrived here using illegal boat service from the island nation, police said here on Friday.

A resident of Colombo, he alighted from the illegal boat at the shoreline close to Dhanushkodi near here on Thursday evening and he was brought to the Mandapam Marine Police Station for enquiry and to initiate appropriate further steps, they added.

The purpose of the three new bills that seek to replace the Indian Penal Code (1860), Criminal Procedure Code (1898) and Indian Evidence Act is not to punish but to give justice, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Friday. He said the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill, 2023; Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita Bill, 2023 and Bharatiya Sakshya Bill, 2023 will protect all the rights of citizens given by the Constitution.

"The three outgoing laws were made to strengthen and protect the British rule and their purpose was to punish, not to give justice. The three new laws made with Indian thought process will bring a huge change in our criminal justice system. The Modi government has brought these laws taking a very principled decision to bring citizens at the centre instead of governance," he said.

Twelve policemen were injured in stone pelting, following a scuffle between two groups on a highway in Maharashtra's Dhule district, police said on Friday.

The incident took place on Mumbai-Agra Highway (NH-3) at Sangvi village in Shirpur taluka around 9.30 pm on Thursday, an official said. A scuffle broke out between two groups, following which people staged a "raasta roko" blocking the movement of vehicles on the highway, he said.

Almost a year after two minor Dalit sisters were hanged here after being raped, a special court on Friday convicted four of the six accused in the case, a government advocate said.

The POCSO (Protection of Children From Sexual Offences) court also said that a hearing on the sentence of the four convicts will be held on August 14, Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) Brijesh Pandey said. The incident took place on Sep 14, 2022, when the two minor Dalit sisters of a village in the Nighasan area here had been kidnapped and brutally murdered after gang rape.

A two-day meet to revitalize the National Cadet Corps (NCC) in the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh commenced here on Friday, a defence spokesman said.

Additional Director General of NCC for Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh Maj Gen Rajesh Kumar Sachdeva and Principal Secretary Alok Kumar were among the dignitaries who attended the inaugural function. The initiative, "Manthan-2", holds a profound vision of breathing a new life into the NCC engagements by shifting the focus from a personality-centred approach to a process-oriented framework, the spokesman said.

A woman and her daughter died allegedly after consuming some poisonous substance following a dispute here on Friday, police said.

Circle Officer (CO) Dipanshi Rathore said an argument broke out between Basmati Devi (55) and her daughter Kajal Yadav (16) and in a fit of rage, the duo consumed some poisonous substances. The incident happened in Dalelganj village in Khalilabad area of the district when the other family members had gone to the farm for work, she said.

Two key operatives of Canada-based listed terrorist Arsh Dala were arrested by sleuths of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in an early morning operation, as soon as they at landed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport from Manila, Philippines: NIA

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday accused the opposition of carrying out a 'mischievous' campaign against his government for political gains.

Addressing a public meeting at Amalapuram in Konaseema district as part of disbursing YSR Sunna Vaddi scheme, the Chief Minister lashed out at TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu for allegedly provoking people at his public rallies. “TDP leaders and Jana Sena president (Pawan Kalyan) are making derogatory remarks and threatening the ruling party leaders,” claimed Reddy and said they were displaying 'demonic behaviour.'

Amid the shock and furore over the death of a young Jadavpur University student in a hostel allegedly because of ragging, West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Friday decided to form a high-level committee headed by a former chief justice and present interim VC of a university to study the issues and come up with suggestions to end the menace of ragging during an emergency meeting of teachers in-charge of anti-ragging squads of universities at Raj Bhavan.

A Raj Bhavan statement said it has been also been decided to put an end to the entry of outsiders on university and college campuses which may lead to physical violence and intimidation of freshers.

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) arrested a Ugandan man, who allegedly ingested 65 capsules of cocaine worth Rs 7.85 crore, at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport here, an official said on Friday.

Acting on a tip-off, DRI officials intercepted a Ugandan passenger suspected to be carrying drugs at airport on August 7, an official said. On interrogation, the passenger admitted to have ingested capsules containing cocaine to smuggle it into the country, he said.

Members of the Samajwadi Party walked out of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly on Friday, the fifth day of the Monsoon session, over the issue of unemployment in the state.

During the Question Hour in the Vidhan Sabha, the SP members had asked the Minister of Labour and Employment Anil Rajbhar about the major employment schemes being implemented by the Labour Department at present and the number of educated unemployed youth in the state. However, dissatisfied with Rajbhar's response, the SP members staged a walkout and raised anti-government slogans.

China's plans to build a new embassy near the Tower of London have stalled following local opposition to what would be the biggest diplomatic compound in Britain.

The borough of Tower Hamlets, the local government council in London responsible for the area, blocked the project in February, citing concerns about the increased risk of terror attacks, protests and traffic in an area visited by millions of tourists each year. Chinese authorities had until Thursday to appeal the decision to the UK government but did not, Tower Hamlets said.

The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Congress on Friday welcomed the interim bail granted to former Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik by the Supreme Court on medical grounds in a money laundering case.

Malik, a senior NCP leader, was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in February 2022 in the case allegedly linked to the activities of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and his associates. Party's national spokesperson Clyde Crasto thanked the apex court for granting interim bail for two months to the politician, saying the 64-year-old former minister can avail medical treatment for his multiple health issues during this period.

AAP MP Raghav Chadha after being suspended says, "Why was I suspended? What was my crime? Was I suspended because I asked questions from the leaders of the largest party that is the BJP? Or my crime was that I put forth my point on the Delhi Services bill & asked for justice from BJP...This week I received two notices from the Committee of Privileges...Opposition is not given a chance to speak in Parliament...BJP is accusing me of forging signatures but the truth is any MP can propose the name for the formation of any committee and neither the signature nor the written consent of the person whose name is proposed is required..."

A Pakistani court on Friday cancelled the pre-arrest bail of former prime minister Imran Khan in seven terrorism cases, including an attack on a senior military officer's house here, following his failure to appear before the court since he is in jail after he was sentenced in a corruption case.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Khan has been lodged in Attock Jail since August 5 after he was sentenced to three years in a corruption case by a trial court in the Toshakhana corruption case.

The Supreme Court on Friday sought responses from the Centre and the Enforcement Directorate on a plea filed by Basant Bansal and Pankaj Bansal, directors of Gurugram-based realty group M3M, against an order of the Punjab and Haryana high court refusing to release them on bail in a money laundering probe linked to an alleged bribery case against a former judge.

A bench of Justices A S Bopanna and M M Sundresh issued notices to the Union of India and the ED while seeking their replies within three weeks.

Pakistan's Supreme Court in a unanimous verdict on Friday struck down as null and void a recently enacted law modifying the review process of its judgements, dampening former premier Nawaz Sharif's hopes as he seeks to challenge his lifetime disqualification from holding any public office.

A three-member bench of the apex court led by Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial and comprising Justice Ijazul Ahsan and Justice Munib Akhtar ruled that the Supreme Court (Review of Judgments and Orders) Act 2023 was "unconstitutional".