Breaking News, January 1 | HIGHLIGHTS

2 dead, 4 injured after two armed men open fire in Dungri village

A balloon seller was killed while two people were injured when a cylinder used for filling balloons with gas exploded here on Sunday, police said. The incident occurred in Phutahwa Inar under Chauri Chaura police station area, they said. The deceased has been identified as Srikishun Gupta (35), they said.

A court in Chhatarpur in Madhya Pradesh has sentenced the headmaster of a school to five years in jail for taking a bribe of Rs 2,000 from a guest teacher. Chandrabhan Sen was convicted under the Prevention of Corruption Act by special court judge Sudhashu Sinha on Saturday and was also fined Rs 30,000, special public prosecutor KK Gautam said.

Four people from Tamil Nadu, who were heading towards Gokarna after New Year celebrations in Goa, were killed when the car that the group of friends was travelling in collided head on with a Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation bus on Sunday, police said. One person sustained serious injuries and was admitted to the hospital, they added.

Ukrainians had a grim start to 2023 on Sunday, with yet more sirens and fresh missile attacks on their territory, as the death toll from Russia's massive New Year Eve assault across the country climbed to at least three. Night-time shelling that battered parts of the southern city of Kherson killed one person, wounded another and blew out hundreds of windows in a children's hospital, according to deputy presidential chief of staff Kyrylo Tymoshenko. Meanwhile, a 22-year-old woman injured in a rocket attack in eastern Khmelnytskyi later died of her wounds, the city's mayor Oleksandr Symchyshyn said.

With the addition of four new cases of coronavirus, tally of infections in Mumbai reached 11,55,128 on Sunday, an official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.

The Gujarat police cracked down on people found consuming liquor, drinking and driving and violating traffic rules during New Year celebrations in the dry state. As people came out in large numbers at clubs and hotels, some even resorted to vandalism at a venue in Ahmedabad city where organisers prepared to stop the party at midnight in view of the notification issued by the administration.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a militant attack on a police checkpoint in Egypt's Suez Canal city of Ismailia that killed at least four people, including three police.

Thousands of devotees including women and children visited the 12th century Shree Jagannath Temple here on Sunday to seek the blessings of the holy deities and begin their new year on a positive note. Devotees across Odisha and other states were seen queuing outside the temple since early morning to have glimpse of the Holy Trinity and seek the blessings of Lord Jagannath.

Acquitting six accused of the charge of dacoity and five of them of the charge of being illegal residents, a court here has observed that in the country's prevailing scenario, it would be a "misuse" of the Foreigners Act to charge "suspected criminals" with "issues relating to citizenship".

Miscreants tried to kidnap a woman in Haryana's Yamuna Nagar city yesterday. After doing gym, the woman sat in her car. 4 people came & entered her car & tried to kidnap her. 

Aviation safety regulator DGCA took 305 enforcement actions, including imposing financial penalties against various operators and individuals, among others for non-compliance of various norms during 2022, an official statement said on Sunday.

Members of Jain community protested in Mumbai against the decision of Jharkhand govt to declare 'Shri Sammed Shikharji' a tourist place and vandalisation of their temple in Palitana, Gujarat.

Pakistan's new year celebrations were marred by customary gunfire by the exuberant revellers in several big cities, injuring at least 22 people, including children and women, in the Karachi metropolis. As the clock struck midnight to announce the arrival of the new year on Saturday, the port city resonated with the sounds of heavy gunfire.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday held a 'Janata Darshan' here with almost 300 people in attendance who shared their complaints with him.

The Election Commission (EC) is focusing on 929 polling booths across Tripura, setting a target of 92 per cent voter turnout in the assembly elections due early this year, an official said on Sunday. These booths recorded a voter turnout of less than 89 per cent, which was the average across 3,328 booths in the 2018 assembly polls, he said.

Two men died on Sunday near Thalavady in this coastal district of Kerala after a police jeep rammed into their two-wheeler while they were returning to their home in Kottayam.

Australia and Canada have joined a growing list of countries requiring travellers from China to take a COVID-19 test prior to boarding their flight, as China battles a nationwide outbreak of the coronavirus after abruptly easing restrictions that were in place for much of the pandemic. Australian health authorities said on Sunday that from January 5.

Five people were killed and another injured after a car collided with a truck carrying bricks in Rajasthan's Hanumangarh district, police said on Sunday. The accident occurred late Saturday night near Bisrasar village on the Rawatsar-Sardarshahar highway.

Three employees of a private telecom company were killed and another injured when their vehicle skidded off the road and fell into a 300-foot deep gorge in Kathua district, police said on Sunday.

Dense fog engulfed parts of Moradabad lowering visibility in many areas. As per IMD, Moradabad will witness a minimum temperature of 6°C & a maximum temperature of 16°C while very dense fog will continue to persist today.

Ganga Arti was held at Varanasi's Assi Ghat in the early hours of New Year 2023.

 The Uttar Pradesh ATS has arrested one person suspected of radicalising youths for terror activities, it said in a statement on Saturday. The Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh Police arrested Saharanpur native Azharuddin on December 30.