Breaking News, April 29 | HIGHLIGHTS

A 22-year-old woman was shot dead by her neighbour in suburban Mankhurd in Mumbai on Saturday evening, police said. The incident occurred in Indira Nagar locality when a fight broke out between the woman and the wife of her neighbour over some issue, an official said. 

A 19-year-old resident of Bihar's Purnea district was on Saturday arrested for a provocative Facebook post, though he claimed his social media account was hacked, police said. According to Purnea Superintendent of Police Aamir Jawaid, Shakeel Ahmed was arrested from his residence in Kaliganj locality of Purnea town by a police team.

The BJP has made arrangements for the broadcast on Sunday of the 100th episode of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Mann ki Baat' (MKB) in 2000 enclosures at the booth level across Odisha and appealed to the people and other political parties, like the BJD and Congress to listen to it. The 100th episode of the monthly programme will be historic as it is all set to make a world record and the elaborate arrangement has been made so that it can reach out to more and more people, Odisha BJP president Manmohan Samal said on Saturday.

A 28-year-old woman died Saturday while her two kids suffered injuries in a fire that broke out at her home in north Delhi's Majnu Ka Tila area, police said. Deputy Commissioner of Police (north) Sagar Singh Kalsi said a police team responding to a call regarding the fire at an Old Chandrawal building found the body of the woman, identified as Arti, in a room.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today recorded the 100th episode of 'Mann Ki Baat'. The 100th episode of the PM's radio programme will be released tomorrow (April 30). 

Delhi University will distribute 10,000 copies of its newly launched Panchang -- an ancient Indian knowledge system-based almanac -- to the academic community across the country, the varsity officials said. The university on Friday launched its Panchang, also known as the Hindu calendar, and distributed more than 1,000 copies of it. A university official said the Panchang is the annual compilation of planetary movements.

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi "lacks comprehensive data" on dairy farms and 'gaushalas' in areas under its jurisdiction, an NGT panel said asking the civic authorities to carry out a complete inventory of the dairy farms by June 30. The solid-waste monitoring committee of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), which recently held a review meeting, asked the MCD to submit an action plan, including zone-wise details of dairy waste generated in their areas by July 31.

In a historic first, the Indian Army has inducted five women officers into its Regiment of Artillery and three of them have been posted to frontline formations along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China, military sources said. Lt Mehak Saini, Lt Sakshi Dubey, Lt Aditi Yadav, Lt Pious Mudgil and Lt Akanksha have joined the Army's premier artillery units after successfully completing their training at the Officers Training Academy (OTA) in Chennai.

The Supreme Court has directed the Madhya Pradesh government to re-examine its policy of granting 75 per cent quota to state residents in admission to Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) courses, terming it "wholesale reservation" which is unconstitutional. The top court said reserving 75 per cent of the seats for the residents of Madhya Pradesh is "too high", and as the figures for the last two years indicate, it is not serving the intended purpose.  A bench of Justices Dinesh Maheshwari and Sudhanshu Dhulia said though the state is within its rights to reserve seats for its residents, while doing so it must keep the ground realities in mind. "The number of seats from the next academic year shall therefore be fixed again for residents and non-residents, keeping in mind the observations made by us in this order. 

Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Saturday hit out at Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who is facing allegations of sexual harassment levelled by seven women wrestlers, and said the accused "has no conscience". Senior advocate Sibal is appearing for the wrestlers in the Supreme Court. In a tweet, Sibal said, "Wrestler Protest: Electricity and Water cut off but they will wrestle and succeed. While the accused has no conscience to wrestle with!"

A 26-year-old man was arrested for allegedly killing his live-in partner with the help of his brother and sister in Delhi's Teliwara area, police said on Saturday. The accused has been identified as Vineet Panwar, a resident of Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat, they said. On April 12, police received information that an unidentified woman’s body was found lying near Krishna Public School in Karawal Nagar, they said. Later, the body was identified to be that of Rohina Naaz alias Mahi (25), a resident of Mirajpur in Uttarakhand, police said. Panwar, his brother Mohit and sister Parul were the prime suspects in the murder case, police said. Panwar and Parul along with her friend Irfan were involved in dumping Naaz’s body in Karawal Nagar area after killing her at Teliwara Farsh Bazar, they said.

The Punjab Vigilance Bureau has said it has arrested a forest guard, posted in Moga district, in a bribery case. Amarjit Kaur was arrested on Friday for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 10,000, the bureau said in a statement. The complainant, Gurmit Singh of Mangewala village in Moga, had alleged that Kaur had demanded a bribe of Rs 15,000 each from him and his neighbour for not imposing fine for laying water pipes in forest land. The complainant further alleged that the deal was struck at Rs 10,000 each.

The outcome of the coming Assembly elections in Karnataka will herald a beginning and open the door for the Congress in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, says the party's State unit chief D K Shivakumar. In an interview with PTI, he sounded upbeat about the party's prospects in the May ten polls to the 224-member Assembly, saying it would win 141 seats. The ruling BJP was deploying its entire central leadership for campaigning in the State out of fear of losing the May 10 polls, he said and asserted the 'Modi factor' will not work in the southern State, where people are purely focused on local and developmental issues. Shivakumar said there is no tussle between him and Leader of Opposition Siddaramaiah over the Chief Minister's post, and that the only aim now was to defeat the BJP at the hustings and ensure that the Congress comes to power. In the event of the party winning, the high command, "on its own electoral process," will take a call on the CM, he said. Siddaramaiah had also made a similar statement last week in an interview to PTI. The 60-year-old Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee President (KPCC) said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman are "disturbed" by the poll "guarantees" announced by his party as "they could not deliver what they promised".

A man in Tripura's West district allegedly killed his wife and cut her body into two pieces, police said on Saturday. The husband identified as Kayer Miah was arrested on Friday and he has confessed to the crime, the police said.
Tajuja Begum, a resident of Aralia was married to Kayer Miah, a day wager around eight months ago, said Bapan Miah, younger brother of Tajuja. On Friday morning, Tajuja's mother came to know that her daughter was missing. After receiving the information, she along with Bapan rushed to Tajuja’s house at Muslimpara area and spotted blood stains but found none.

Delhi Metro services will be curtailed on a section of the Airport Express Line for two hours in the morning of April 30 due to scheduled track maintenance, officials said. The maintenance will be undertaken between the Dhaula Kuan and Delhi Aerocity section from 5:30 am to 7:30 am, they said. Trains will run on a single line between Dhaula Kuan and Airport (T-3) metro stations when the maintenance is underway on the other track. Normal train movement will be maintained from Airport to Dwarka-21 and Dhaula Kuan to New Delhi sections, the DMRC said in a statement Friday. Due to this, trains will be available with increased headway on the Airport Express Line originating from both ends, officials said. Passengers availing Airport Express Line services during these hours are advised to plan their journey accordingly. Normal train movement on the entire Airport Express Line should be available after 7:30 am as per the regular time table, the statement said.

Former Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara who sustained a head injury during a roadshow in a village in this district in a stone-pelting incident is recovering, doctors treating him said on Saturday. The former state Congress chief got a deep wound on the head when a miscreant threw a stone at him at Bhairenahalli in Koratagere Taluk on Friday.

The Assam Rifles has arrested five cadres of the NSCN-IM and rescued six people kidnapped by members of the insurgent outfit in Nagaland's Dimapur district, an official said. The six people, including a headmaster of a school, were kidnapped by NSCN-IM insurgents between April 13 and April 27, and kept at a house in Bamanpukhri area, with ransom being demanded from family members, he said. "In a bold and swift operation launched around Thursday midnight, Assam Rifles rescued six civilians who were held captive in Dimapur," a release issued by PRO (Defence), Kohima, stated on Friday. The arrested NSCN-IM insurgents have been identified as Khenito Assumi, Neison, Mughahuto, Chonpenthung Murry and Katoho Yeptho. The rescued people also include two persons from Assam, two from Dimapur district and one from Bihar, the release added.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra met with wrestlers protesting at Jantar Mantar in the national capital. 

The powerful sister of North Korea's leader says her country would stage more provocative displays of its military might in response to a new US-South Korean agreement to intensify nuclear deterrence to counter the North's nuclear threat, which she insists shows their “extreme” hostility toward Pyongyang. Kim Yo Jong also lobbed personal insults toward US President Joe Biden, who after a summit with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday stated that any North Korean nuclear attack on the US or its allies would “result in the end of whatever regime” took such action.

A 45-year-old man who was serving a five-year jail term at the district prison here died after his health suddenly deteriorated, officials said on Friday. His family members, however, alleged that he was murdered by the jail authorities. The wife of the deceased, Satyendra, has sent a complaint to the district magistrate in this regard. Acting Pilibhit district jail superintendent Sanjay Kumar Rai said Satyendra and his brother Rajveer were sentenced to five-year imprisonment in October 2022 in a case under the Gangsters Act. Satyendra's health deteriorated on Thursday and he was taken to the jail hospital. Later, he was sent to the district hospital where he died, Rai said, rubbishing allegations of murder.

A gunman of a Congress MLA allegedly thrashed a toll plaza employee on Gurugram-Faridabad road, forced him into his car, and drove him to a police outpost, according to a police complaint filed by the toll plaza management. The incident happened at the Bandhwari toll plaza when NIT-Faridabad MLA Neeraj Sharma stopped there with his staff and a row erupted between them and the toll workers, police said on Friday. The entire incident was captured in CCTV footage which is purported to have shown the MLA's gunman and other staff thrashing a toll worker and forcing him into the MLA's car.

Three people were killed and another injured in a shooting in a Philadelphia residential neighbourhood on Friday, authorities said. It wasn't immediately known what spurred the shooting, which was reported around 3:35 pm, or how many shooters may have been involved.