Breaking News, September 19

US' former President Bill Clinton is calling on governments, businesses, philanthropies and other prominent institutions to draw together and help a world that is “on fire" as he reconvenes the Clinton Global Initiative, the meeting of international leaders, for the first time since 2016. “Somebody needs to show up and make something good happen,” he said during the conference's opening public session Monday. “That's what we're trying to do.”

(PTI) A woman died under suspicious circumstances in the Badshahpur area following which her relatives held a protest here and alleged that she was harassed by her in-laws for dowry. Based on their complaint, an FIR was registered against the woman's husband Bhagat Singh and in-laws at Badshahpur police station, officials said on Monday.

Three people, including a woman, died here as a speeding ambulance hit the two motorcycles they were on, police said on Monday. Superintendent of Police (City) Nipun Agarwal said Manmohan (34), Rishipal (32), and Raj Kumari (54) were travelling on two bikes. They were hit by the ambulance near Sidharth Vihar on Sunday night.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate on October 11 the first phase of the Rs 750 crore Mahakaleshwar Temple corridor development project in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Monday. The first phase has been developed at a cost of Rs 316 crore, Chouhan said after inspecting the completed works.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday called on Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in Cairo and the two leaders discussed bilateral military-to-military cooperation, with the latter emphasising that there is a need for both countries to exchange expertise and best practices in countering the threat of terrorism.

The monsoon is likely to withdraw from Delhi-NCR by the end of the month as against the usual date of September 24-25, weather forecasters said on Monday.

An offence has been registered against a 17-year-old boy for allegedly cutting 21 cakes with a sword while celebrating his birthday on a crowded street in the western suburb of Borivali here, police said on Monday.

The Nationalist Congress Party on Monday attacked the Centre and the Maharashtra government over the suicide of a farmer in Pune as well as the handling of the lumpy virus disease in cattle.

India and Saudi Arabia have held discussions on the feasibility of institutionalising Rupee-Riyal trade, and introduction of UPI and Rupay cards in the kingdom, the commerce ministry said on Monday.

A person in Khammam district of Telangana died on Monday after an unidentified man allegedly sought a lift on the former's motorcycle and quickly jabbed a fatal injection, police said.

A man has allegedly killed a canine with his airgun at Madagondanahalli in Doddaballapura near here, as he was apparently irked by its barking, police said. The incident is said to have taken place on Saturday evening, and the accused has been identified as Krishnappa (45), who owns a piggery.

A Russian missile struck close to a nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine on Monday, not damaging its three reactors but hitting other industrial equipment in what Ukrainian authorities denounced as an act of “nuclear terrorism".

A tropical storm slammed southwestern Japan with rainfall and winds Monday, leaving one person dead and another missing, as it swerved north toward Tokyo. Residential streets were flooded with muddy water from rivers, and swathes of homes lost power after Typhoon Nanmadol made landfall in the Kyushu region Sunday then weakened to a tropical storm.

The Mangaluru Dasara festival will be celebrated at the Kudroli Gokarnanatha temple from September 26 to October 6, former Union Minister B Janaradhan Poojary, patron of the temple, has said. This year's celebrations will be unique as the festival could not be held during the previous two years on account of the Covid-19 pandemic, he told reporters here on Sunday.

Senior Odisha BJP leader Bishnu Charan Sethi passed away on Monday at a state-run hospital, where he was undergoing treatment for kidney-related ailments. He was 61. The deputy leader in assembly was admitted to AIIMS, Bhubaneswar on August 16. "He had developed lung infection and suffered brain haemorrhage. However, the end came due to acute cardiac failure," AIIMS-Bhubaneswar Superintendent S N Mohanth told reporters.

The BJD and BJP are two sides of the same coin, and the two parties work in tandem at the Centre but indulge in "mock fights" in Odisha, senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh claimed. The Congress will agitate against both the BJP and the BJD when it launches its ‘Odisha Parikrama Yatra’ in the state, Ramesh told reporters.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav will lead a march that will be taken out by his party legislators highlighting the issues in Uttar Pradesh before the Monsoon Session of the state legislature commences on Monday. During the march, the party MLAs and MLCs will raise issues of unemployment, price rise, crime against women and poor law and order situation in the state, the SP's chief spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary said here on Sunday.

A recently retired Delhi Police head constable was arrested for allegedly impersonating a senior police officer to extort money from a man in Rohini, officials said. Accused Jai Bhagwan (60) retired from service on August 31, they said. The matter came to light on Saturday when the victim approached South Rohini police station alleging that he received multiple calls from a man who introduced himself as Samaypur Badli Station House Officer and later as South Rohini SHO, police said.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday directed police and other government officials to remain alert about minor incidents and act swiftly so that they do not assume any serious proportion. Chairing a law and order video conference and meeting late Sunday, Adityanath also said the state government has a zero tolerance policy towards crime and criminals, and it should be strictly adhered to, according to an official statement.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar arrived here for the high-level UN General Assembly session, with a packed diplomatic week ahead that will include more than 50 official engagements including bilateral, plurilateral and multilateral meetings.