Breaking News, June 7

Parts of northwest and central India were in the grip of a heatwave on Tuesday with Banda in Uttar Pradesh recording the highest maximum temperature of 46.6 degrees Celsius with no relief in sight at least till Friday. At least 37 towns and cities across Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh reported maximum temperatures above 44 degrees Celsius.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will launch its 'tiranga shakhas' in Uttar Pradesh from July 1 with an aim to remind people of their national duty and strengthen democracy, party leader Sanjay Singh said here on Tuesday. Addressing a press conference, Singh said these 'shakhas' would be different from that of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

A 25-year-old man was held for allegedly raping a four-and-half-year-old girl in Rana Pratap Nagar area of Nagpur, a police official said n Tuesday.

A 30-year-old undertrial prisoner lodged in Luksar jail in Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar died allegedly due to health complications, officials said on Tuesday. This is the second death of a prisoner at the Luksar jail in a month.

A 45-year-old man allegedly shot dead his estranged wife and injured his mother-in-law with the butt of his pistol near a court in Shirur area of Maharashtra's Pune district on Tuesday, police said. The shooting took place around 12 noon on the premises of the public works department, which is located near the civil court, said Abhinav Deshmukh, superintendent of police Pune (rural).

Two infants are among the 22 worshippers killed in an attack on a church in southwestern Nigeria that has shocked the West African nation, an emergency official told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The dead have been taken to the morgue while about 50 wounded people are still being treated in hospital following the attack at the St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo town in Ondo state, said Kadiri Olanrewaju, head of Nigeria's National Emergency Management Services in Ondo.

Four men were arrested for allegedly killing a minor after he refused to give them Rs 10 for buying a cigarette in central Delhi's Anand Parbat area, police said on Tuesday. The accused have been identified as Praveen (20), Ajay (23) and Jatin (24), all residents of Baba Faridpuri, and Sonu Kumar (20), a resident of Anand Parbat, they said. 

Mumbai on Tuesday reported 1,242 new coronavirus infections, almost double the previous day's count, but no pandemic-related death said the civic body Brihanmumbai Mumbai Corporation (BMC)

A leopard was found dead with its body parts missing in Udanti Sitanadi Tiger Reserve in Chhattisgarh's Gariaband district, forest officials said on Tuesday. The carcass, around 4-5 days old, was found in a decomposed condition in south Udanti range close to the Odisha border on Monday evening, Deputy Director of Udanti Sitanadi Tiger Reserve Varun Jain said.

Maharashtra on Tuesday recorded 1,881 new coronavirus cases, a sizable increase compared to 1,036 infections reported a day before, the state health department said.

Two Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants, including one from Pakistan, were among three ultras killed in two separate encounters with security forces in Kupwara and Shopian districts of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, police said.

The Telangana government on Tuesday issued an order imposing a total ban, henceforth, on private practice for doctors recruited through direct recruitment.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Tuesday cut short her three-nation foreign trip after testing positive for COVID-19 while in Pakistan.

A 28-year-old man allegedly murdered his father Tuesday following an argument over some issue in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. Joginder Kumar attacked his father Gopi Ram in his sleep with a hammer on his head at their house in Kagot village of Ramnagar, a police official said, adding that Ram died on the spot.

The Telangana High Court has sentenced four police officials including an IPS officer to four weeks imprisonment in a contempt of court case. Justice G Radha Rani, who awarded the jail term to them on Monday also imposed a fine of Rs 2,000 on each of them.

The CBI has taken over the probe in a case of alleged rape and killing of a 14-year-old girl in a school in Noida's Sorkha village, officials said on Tuesday.

Mumbai Police has recorded the statement of Bollywood actor Salman Khan in connection with a letter threatening him and his father, an official said on Tuesday.

The country's largest private sector lender HDFC Bank on Tuesday announced a 0.35 per cent hike in lending rate. The hike, which comes a day ahead of the RBI's scheduled policy review, is the second such move from the lender in as many months, taking the cumulative hike to up to 0.60 per cent.

The Board of Secondary Education Assam (BESA) announced the results of the class 10 board examinations on Tuesday, in which 56.
49 per cent of 4,05,582 candidates were declared successful, officials said.

Four persons have been arrested in connection with an improvised explosive devices (IED) attack that took place in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir last week, in which an army soldier was killed, police said on Tuesday.

A decomposed body of a West Bengal native has been found near the KINFRA park in Pathanamthitta district, police said on Tuesday. The body was discovered in Enadimangalam panchayat after some residents noticed a foul smell emanating from the area and informed the police.

AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday claimed no one from the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in Maharashtra has contacted them for support in the upcoming elections to six Rajya Sabha seats from the state.

Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said regulators and other entities should be well advanced and ahead of the curve in understanding digitisation to ensure that there is no misuse of technologies. Sitharaman, who is in charge of finance and corporate affairs ministries, also emphasised the need to have firewall mechanisms in the context of digitisation.

The environment department in West Bengal has disbursed Rs 2 crore to Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) to begin dredging work at Bongheri Bheri, a part of Ramsar-recognised site East Kolkata Wetlands, having cleared encroachments in the area.

A fire broke out at a bank branch in the Supreme Court complex on Tuesday morning but no casualty was reported, fire service officials said. Delhi Fire Services Director Atul Garg said the information about the fire in the UCO bank branch in the Supreme Court premises was received at 9:10 am.

The Mumbai civic body has received 232 suggestions and objections after it drew a lottery for reservation of wards for the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and general category seats for women for the forthcoming city municipal elections, officials said on Tuesday.

The Congress has lodged a complaint with the Election Commission, alleging that BJP president JP Nadda violated the model code of conduct by "canvassing" for his party's Mandar bypoll nominee at a tribal rally, which was supposed to be a "non-electoral" programme.

The minimum temperature rose slightly in the city to settle at 27.6 degrees Celsius on Tuesday morning, even as the weather office forecast strong surface winds later in the day.

The Punjab Vigilance Bureau arrested former state minister and Congress leader Sadhu Singh Dharamsot on corruption charges in the early hours of Tuesday, official sources said. The social welfare and forest minister in the previous Congress government was arrested from Amloh.

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has slammed Congress leader Siddaramaiah for his remarks on the revised textbooks and said that the former CM is "politicking in everything" as this is not the first time the Textbook Revision Committee has been dissolved.

Different countries will engage with the Taliban regime in different ways, and India has a set of interests when it comes to engaging with them, the United States said on Monday, days after the first-ever Indian delegation visited Kabul since the hardline group took control over Afghanistan last year.

India on Monday successfully carried out a night launch of the nuclear-capable Agni-4 ballistic missile from the APJ Abdul Kalam Island in Odisha, marking a significant boost to the country's military capabilities.

Under the dynamic leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India has shown the world how to handle a pandemic, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said here on Monday.