Breaking News, October 17

Shiromani Akali Dal president Simranjit Singh Mann was on Monday evening stopped from entering Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.

Waves of explosives-laden suicide drones struck Ukraine's capital Monday, setting buildings ablaze and tearing a hole in one of them. People scurried for shelter or tried to shoot down the kamikazes.

A special court on Monday sent former Mahoba superintendent of police Manilal Patidar to judicial custody till October 31 in connection with a case of alleged extortion from truck drivers.

Maharashtra on Monday recorded 201 new coronavirus cases, but no fresh death linked to the infection was registered in the state, where 219 more patients recovered, the health department said.

Nine persons have been arrested for allegedly stealing gold and cash cumulatively worth Rs 1.01 crore in July this year from a nursing home in Ulhasnagar in Thane district, a police official said on Monday.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar during a two-day visit to India, his spokesperson said here on Monday.

Chief Justice of India U U Lalit on Monday released virtually a book, titled 'Momentous Challenges in Two Decades', by former Supreme Court judge K T Thomas. During the event, the CJI hailed Justice (retired) Thomas for his clarity of thought, courage of conviction, and his great sense of compassion.

The naked body of an unidentified woman was found inside an abandoned suitcase near the IFFCO chowk on Monday. Police sent the body to a mortuary. DCP, West Deepak Saharan said an FIR has been registered in the matter.

An 18-year-old tuition teacher was allegedly raped by the driver and a passenger of the auto-rickshaw she had boarded to her home, police said on Monday. One accused was arrested and a police officer was suspended for laxity in duty.

The German government said Monday that it is launching a new program to help to bring about 1,000 people who are at risk of persecution in Afghanistan to Germany each month. The program is part of an agreement between the three governing parties. It provides a formal structure for the way German authorities were already handling applications from Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover last year.

 More than half of the flood victims in Pakistan's worst-hit Sindh province have returned to their homes over the past three weeks as the waters there gradually receded, officials said Monday.

A man died allegedly by suicide here after killing his wife and two children, police said on Monday. The family was last seen on Friday and neighbours experienced a foul smell emanating from the house this morning, the police said. The house was locked from the inside and the police were informed.

Britain’s new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, will make an emergency statement on Monday in an attempt to reassure the markets about the country’s “fiscal sustainability” and calm the shockwaves of his predecessor Kwasi Kwarteng's mini-budget last month.

Ashok Gehlot on Monday said his relations are beyond any contention or logic. The Rajasthan chief minister's statement came while the voting to elect new Congress president was underway across parts of the country. Gehlot, who arrived at the state Congress headquarters to vote in the president's election, said, "My Gandhi family relations are beyond any contention/logic and will remain so even after October 19."

PM Kisan Samman Sammelan 2022: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday releases PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana 12th Installment of Rs 16,000 crore on Mela Ground IARI Pusa, New Delhi. 

Several loud explosions rocked the center of the Ukrainian capital on Monday, a week after Russia orchestrated a massive, coordinated air strike across the country. Kyiv city mayor Vitali Klichko said the central Shevchenko district of the capital had been hit and urged residents to take shelter.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Mamata will be on a four-day visit to north Bengal from Monday. During her visit, the chief minister is likely to meet flash flood victims as well as meet industrialists. She will also take part in administration meetings.

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Monday will appear before Central Bureau Of Investigation (CBI) as he was summoned by the investigation agency for questioning in connection with alleged corruption in the formulation and implementation of the excise policy for the national capital. Section 144 was imposed around Sisodia's residence to avoid any kind of protests by his supporters.

Sisodia in a Twitter post claimed that a fake case has been made to arrest him to keep him out of the Gujarat Assembly elections as he was scheduled to hold campaign in the poll-bound state.

Jharkhand’s East Singhbhum district authorities on Sunday handed over Rs 25,000 as compensation to the family of a Dalit girl who set herself afire after allegedly being forced to remove her dress by a teacher who suspected that she resorted to unfair means during an exam.

A fresh set of guidelines have been issued by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ahead of the Diwali and Chhath festivals. According to a government spokesman, top officials of the state sat for a late-night meeting on Sunday and discussed ways to keep the law and order situation in the state intact, during the upcoming festivals.

 Four people were hurt, including three students, in a shooting during Clark Atlanta University's homecoming outside a campus library, authorities said. 
A large group of people were listening to a DJ near Atlanta University Centre's Robert W. Woodruff Library around 12:30 am on Sunday when officers on patrol in the area heard gunshots, Atlanta police said.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman visited the National Science Foundation headquarters here and was given presentations on key issues like astronomy, AI for robotics and public messaging during health crises. Sitharaman was in the American capital to attend the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. She started her six-day trip last Monday with an interaction with the think-tank community at the prestigious Brookings Institute.

In-charge of BJP's National Information & Technology Dept Amit Malviya has claimed that a whisper campaign is going ahead of the Congress president election asking party leaders, workers that if they don't vote for Mallikarjun Kharge then they won't be having any future in the Congress.

Stage is set for Congress leaders to cast their votes for the much-awaited presidential election scheduled to take place today (October 17). The face-off is between Shashi Tharoor and Mallikarjun Kharge, who is rumored to be backed by the Gandhi clan. The results of the polling will be declared on October 19.