Breaking News, June 25 | HIGHLIGHTS

Several parts of Goa's Panaji city were inundated due to heavy rains, civic authorities rush to provide help to affected people.

ED arrests RK Arora, CMD of Real Estate company Supertech.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi visited the shops of motorcycle mechanics in Karol Bagh, Delhi earlier today. 

India and France launch strategic Space Dialogue, seeking to further deepen their nearly six-decade old partnership. 

Sri Lanka's Parliament to hold urgent session on Saturday to discuss debt restructuring.

Himachal government shuffles nine IAS and nine HAS officers.

Security preparations underway in Jammu for the annual Amarnath Yatra. The pilgrimage is set to begin from July 1.

Delhi govt sets up centralised GST registration cell (Sewa Kendra) for boosting revenue collections and tackle tax evasion, said Finance department.

Delhi govt decides to organise Rozgar Mela and open 20 new employment centres for career counselling of youth.

Chhattisgarh Congress leaders including CM Bhupesh Baghel and TS Singhdeo are expected to meet party president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi tomorrow in Delhi to discuss election preparedness.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sustained injuries on her waist and legs when her helicopter made an emergency landing at Sevoke air base near Siliguri due to bad weather, said officials.

President Droupadi Murmu presents Distinguished Service Awards to Lt Gen Sunil Puri Goswami, Lt Gen Daljit Singh, Lt Gen Velayudhan Sreehari and Lt Gen Padam Singh Shekhawat at Defence Investiture Ceremony-II at Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi.

Heavy rain lashes parts of Delhi.

BJP leader Manoj Tiwari said, "I fully believe that after the CAG investigation (into Delhi CM's bungalow renovation issue), Arvind Kejriwal will go to jail."

Chhattisgarh: Body of a naxal recovered in search operation after an exchange of fire between naxals and security forces under Bhejji PS limit. More details awaited, said SP Sukma Kiran Chauhan.

AITC National General Secretary, Abhishek Banerjee begins campaigning for West Bengal Panchayat polls from Domkal in Murshidabad.

"PM has to answer the real questions of this country - unemployment, price rise and Manipur. The state is burning since last 60 days, why the PM hasn't said a single word?" said Congress general secretary KC Venugopal.

CAG to conduct special audit into alleged irregularities in reconstruction of Delhi CM's residence, informed Raj Niwas officials.

A 53-year-old man, who works as a labourer in Saudi Arabia, was allegedly cheated of more than Rs 4 lakh in foreign currency outside the Indira Gandhi International Airport here by two persons posing as Customs department officials, police said Tuesday.
According to the FIR, Mohammad Suleman, a native of Rajasthan's Ajmer, landed at the Delhi airport early on Sunday morning from Saudi Arabia.

 Light to moderate rainfall drenched many parts of Rajasthan while a few places recorded heavy rainfall in the 24 hours ended at 8.30 am on Tuesday, the Met office said.
Sojat in Pali received the highest rainfall at 10 cm. Malpura in Tonk received 9 cm of rainfall, followed by Chidwa in Jhunjhunu at 8 cm, it said.

Boosting bilateral cooperation in areas of maritime security, trade and investment, health and tourism will be high on agenda during Filipino Foreign Secretary Enrique A Manalo's four-day visit to India from Tuesday.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said Manalo's visit will provide an opportunity to comprehensively review bilateral relations between India and Philippines and to explore ways to further deepen and strengthen them.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Manalo will co-chair the fifth meeting of India-Philippines joint commission on bilateral cooperation (JCBC) on June 29.
The secretary of foreign affairs of the Philippines is visiting India at the invitation of Jaishankar.

The police in Maharashtra’s Thane city have arrested a man and woman, both aged 24, for allegedly hurling abuses at the driver and conductor of a civic-run bus and manhandling them, an official said on Tuesday. Both have been remanded in judicial custody for 14 days.

 Five people have been arrested in connection with the gunpoint robbery of a delivery agent and his associates inside the Pragati Maidan tunnel, police said on Tuesday.
CCTV footage received by the Delhi Police showed four motorcycle-borne men intercepted a car and looted about Rs 2 lakh from the delivery agent of Omiya Enterprises, Chandni Chowk, and his associate on Saturday. The incident happened when they were going towards Gurugram in a taxi to deliver the money.

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday visited Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh and flagged off five Vande Bharat trains connecting important cities in different parts of the country. Modi reached Rani Kamalapati railway station in the state capital Bhopal from where he flagged off the five trains - two physically and three in virtual mode.

 Light rainfall was recorded in parts of Delhi early Tuesday, and the minimum temperature dropped to 24.5 degrees Celsius, three notches below normal.
An official of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said the city received 5.6 mm rainfall in the last 24 hours ending at 8:30 am on Tuesday.
The relative humidity stood at 94 per cent at 8:30 am.

The rupee recovered 8 paise to 81.96 against the US dollar in the early trade on Tuesday after gains in domestic equities and a weak greenback in overseas markets.
The domestic currency opened higher at 82.02 against the dollar at the interbank foreign exchange market. It moved in a tight range of 81.95 to 82.02 in the early trade.

 Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty advanced in early trade on Tuesday helped by buying in index majors HDFC twins and Infosys amid a mixed trend in Asian markets.
The 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 235.52 points to 63,205.52 in early trade. The NSE Nifty advanced 72.4 points to 18,763.60.

 A boulder crashed on the Mumbra bypass road in Maharashtra's Thane district, affecting vehicular movement on the route, a civic official said on Tuesday.
No one was injured in the incident which took place at around 11.30 pm on Monday when the boulder crashed near a temple on the bypass, Thane Municipal Corporation's disaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi said.
Traffic on the Mumbra bypass was affected till Tuesday morning.

 An unidentified militant was killed in an encounter with security forces on Tuesday in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district, police said. They said one security personnel was injured in the operation.
"01 local #terrorist neutralised. Identification and affiliation being ascertained. Incriminating material including arms and ammunition recovered. Search going on. Further details shall follow," the Kashmir Zone Police said in a tweet.

A tornado struck an Indiana home, killing a man and injuring his wife, while two people died in Arkansas after a tree fell onto a house, as severe weather rumbled through several central states.
The tornado that hit the home Sunday evening was part of a storm system that pushed through a rural, wooded area of southern Indiana's Martin County.

Diwali, the festival of lights, will now be enshrined as a school holiday in New York City, authorities announced and described it as a “victory” for the city’s residents, including the Indian community.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said he was proud that the State Assembly and the State Senate have passed the bill making Diwali a New York City Public School holiday.

 Women activists were deliberately blocking routes and interfering in operations by security forces in violence-hit Manipur, the Army said, urging people to help it in restoring peace in the Northeastern state.
Terming such "unwarranted interference" detrimental to the timely response by security forces, the Army's Spears Corps shared a video on Twitter late on Monday of some such incidents.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Tuesday visit Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal, where he will flag off five Vande Bharat trains, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said. After arriving, Modi will head to Rani Kamalapati railway station from where he will physically and virtually flag off a set of five Vande Bharat Express trains connecting important cities in different parts of the country.
This is for the first time so many Vande Bharat trains will be launched in one day. Two of them will be for Madhya Pradesh, where the Assembly polls are due by the year-end.

A fire broke out at a restaurant in Maharashtra's Thane city on Tuesday morning, a civic official said.
There was so far no report of any casualty in the blaze which erupted at around 5.30 am at the restaurant located in Panchpakhadi area, Thane Municipal Corporation's disaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi said.