Breaking News, September 16 | HIGHLIGHTS

Akasa Air on Saturday said it has taken legal action against a "small set of pilots" for leaving the airline without serving their notice period. The departure of pilots had led to cancellation of many flights. Pilot shortage is impacting services of the airline, sources said.

Prohibitory orders under CrPC section 144 restricting unlawful assembly of five or more people, unauthorised public events, including religious and political processions, will be enforced across Noida and Greater Noida from September 16, police said on Saturday.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has approved the draft of 'Rajasthan Green Hydrogen Policy-2023' and a notification in this regard will be issued soon. The state government has taken the decision keeping in mind clean energy production, future needs and climate change, according to a release.

Ace badminton player PV Sindhu on Saturday met Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who said the nation takes pride in the international acclaim she has received for her exceptional sporting talent.

In a relief for the Kerala government, no fresh positive cases of Nipah virus were reported on Saturday in the state even as five more persons, who came into contact with those infected, showing some symptoms of the disease were admitted in isolation at the medical hospital here.

A 30-year-old man was allegedly killed in a clash in Odisha's Sambalpur district on Saturday, police said. A clash took place between two groups over a dispute regarding the collection of puja donation in Katapali in Burla police station area on Friday night, a police officer said.

The Delhi Commission for Women has issued notices to state and central governments over complaints regarding the non-availability of free sex reassignment surgery in public hospitals, it said in a statement on Saturday.

The AAP on Saturday claimed that the SAD and the BJP have already "finalised" an alliance in Punjab and are waiting for a suitable time to announce it. Malvinder Singh Kang, the AAP's chief spokesperson in Punjab, claimed that former Union minister and Bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal initiated efforts to seal the alliance.

Four more workers who were hospitalised after a service lift crashed at an under-construction society in Noida Extension succumbed to their injuries on Saturday, raising the death toll in the accident to eight, officials said. A financial aid of Rs 25 lakh each has been granted to families of those killed, a senior officer said.

The Delhi government has rolled out the process to engage consultants for redevelopment of 26 non-conforming industrial clusters in the national capital, officials said on Saturday. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a meeting with representatives of these industrial clusters in July had said the government will soon engage consultants and bear 90 per cent of the redevelopment cost.

The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal of Naina Desai, widow of late Bollywood art director Nitin Desai, against an order of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) that had rejected his appeal against NCLT order initiating insolvency proceedings against his company.

A 26-year-old man died after he was brutally attacked by sharp weapons by three persons in a village here, police said on Saturday.

Madhya Pradesh Congress president Kamal Nath on Saturday said the proposed rally of the opposition bloc INDIA in Bhopal in October has been cancelled, a move which Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan claimed was due to the "public anger" over remarks made by DMK leaders against Sanatan Dharma.

Scores of devotees offered prayers at the Golden Temple and Gurdwara Sri Ramsar Sahib here on Saturday on the occasion of the first 'parkash purb' of Guru Granth Sahib, the holy book of the Sikhs.

The National Investigation Agency on Saturday raided 31 locations in Tamil Nadu and Telangana to thwart a radicalisation and recruitment campaign by proscribed global terror group ISIS, an official said. Several digital devices, documents and incriminating books in vernacular and Arabic languages, and Rs 60 lakh as well as USD 18,200 in cash were seized during the searches, a spokesperson of the federal anti-terror agency said.