Breaking news, August 5 | HIGHLIGHTS

An earthquake of 5.6 magnitude shook the Delhi-NCR on Saturday.

Nine pharmaceutical manufacturing companies and pharma trading units in Dehradun, Haridwar and Roorkee were raided and bogus billing and tax evasion worth more than Rs 6 crore was detected, the Uttarakhand tax department said on Saturday.

Three AAP leaders, including a District Development Council (DDC) member, along with many workers here resigned from the party. DDC member Taranjit Singh Tony, Yash Pal Kundal and the AAP's Jammu women wing president Namrata Sharma wrote separately to Kejriwal informing him about their decision to quit the party.

The police in Maharashtra’s Aurangabad city have arrested four persons for allegedly taking money from job aspirants on the promise of getting them employed as forest guards, a police official said on Saturday.

India's ambitious third moon mission, Chandrayaan-3 was successfully inserted into the lunar orbit on Saturday, the ISRO said. The required maneuver was done from an ISRO facility here, the city-headquartered space agency said in a tweet.

President Droupadi Murmu visited the Theppakadu elephant camp in Tamil Nadu's Nilgiris district on Saturday. She fed sugarcane to the pachyderms there, and later interacted with the tribal couple Bomman and Bellie, who were featured in Oscar-winning documentary 'The Elephant Whisperers.' She also interacted with other mahouts and cavadies (elephant caretakers), on the occasion.

Three persons including a father-son duo were killed by militants in Manipur’s Bishnupur district on Friday night while another three sustained bullet wounds following heavy exchange of fire between state forces and armed men in the same district even as the 24-hour general strike called by the coordinating committee of 27 assembly constituencies paralysed normal life in Imphal valley, police said.

L&T Finance Holdings Ltd (LTFH), a non-banking financial company, Saturday announced the launch of its 'Digital Sakhi' project in Baharampur town in West Bengal's Murshidabad district.

A terrorist was killed in an encounter with security forces in the Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), Jammu, Mukesh Singh said.

The biggest change after the abrogation of Article 370 is that the common people of Jammu and Kashmir are living life according to their own wishes, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said on Saturday, the fourth anniversary of the scrapping of the article. The Centre on this day in 2019 had revoked Article 370, which gave special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, and bifurcated it into union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has held a meeting with leaders of the allied parties to discuss the name of a caretaker prime minister to oversee general elections in the cash-strapped country as the government is about to complete its constitutional term.

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) on Saturday resumed its scientific survey work at the Gyanvapi mosque here to determine whether the 17th-century mosque was constructed over a pre-existing structure of a Hindu temple. Five members of the Muslim side also participated in the survey. Its advocate Tauheed Khan said advocates of the Intezamia Masjid Committee Akhlaq and Mumtaz accompanied the survey team. The Muslim side did not participate in the survey on Friday.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.2 on the Richter scale jolted Jammu and Kashmir's Gulmarg on Saturday, according to National Center for Seismology (NCS).