Breaking News, May 14 | HIGHLIGHTS

Three candidates were detained for alleged cheating in a competitive examination in Rajasthan's Bikaner district on Sunday, police said. During a raid at a centre during revenue officer and superintending officer 2023 examination conducted by the Rajasthan Public Service Commission, activities of two persons were found suspicious, Bikaner Superintendent of Police Tejaswani Gautam said. During checking, police found that the two had put on hair wigs which were fitted with batteries, SIM cards and other devices to be used for cheating during the exam, she said.

A shooting at a neighbourhood gathering in Arizona left two people dead and five wounded, police said on Sunday. The shooting happened just before 11 pm on Saturday in the southwestern city of Yuma, said Yuma police spokesperson Sgt. Lori Franklin. She said an investigation is underway but no suspects have been arrested. A motive for the shooting wasn't immediately known, but Franklin said there was no remaining threat to the community. Officers went to the gathering after getting reports of an aggravated assault, Franklin said. When they arrived, they found seven people with gunshot wounds.

Former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot on Sunday said the public has accepted the issues on which he started his "Jan Sangharsh Yatra" -- corruption and government recruitment exam paper leaks. The yatra, on its fourth day on Sunday, covered a distance of around 25 km from Mehla town in Jaipur district to Mahapura, where the dissident Congress leader is scheduled to stay the night. Addressing his supporters from the top of a bus in Mahapura on the Ajmer highway, Pilot said the yatra will reach its destination in Jaipur Monday. "The public has accepted the issues on which the yatra was started -- paper leaks and corruption -- for the future of the youth and clean politics," he said. "This is not about a person...the public is standing by the issues with which we started," he said.

A rubber manufacturing unit was gutted in a fire at Wada in Palghar district of Maharashtra on Sunday, Fire Brigade officials said. No casualty was reported. The blaze erupted at around 4 AM. It was brought under control after four hours, the officials said. A short circuit is the prime facie cause of the fire. 

Delhi on Sunday recorded 26 fresh COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 1.49 per cent, according to data shared by the city government's health department. With the fresh cases, Delhi's case tally climbed to 20,40,447. The death toll remained unchanged at 26,651, the health department said in its bulletin. The national capital has not reported any Covid-related deaths in the last two days. The health department did not issue a health bulletin on Saturday. Delhi recorded 43 COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 2.07 per cent and two deaths on Friday.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said Uniform Civil Code (UCC) will be implemented in the country soon and polygamy would come to an end. He was addressing “Hindu Ekta Yatra” organised by Telangana BJP president and Lok Sabha MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar at Karimnagar. "There are some people in India who thought they can marry four women. That was their thinking. But, I say you will not be able to do four marriages. Those days are going to come to an end. That day is not far. Uniform Civil Code (UCC) is going to come in India and time has also come to make India a true secular nation," Sarma said.

The defeat of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Karnataka Assembly elections is the result of its “nature” and “behaviour” and Rahul Gandhi's ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ definitely helped the Congress, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray said on Sunday. Speaking to reporters at Ambernath in Maharashtra’s Thane district, Thackeray said the “opposition party never wins the election, it’s the ruling party that loses in the polls”.

Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Thakur on Sunday said the drug mafia are spreading their tentacles and harming the youth, and sports can play a vital role in ending the menace. Addressing a public meeting in Pandwin village here, the minister called upon parents to encourage their children to actively participate in sports. "The drug mafia are spreading their tentacles and harming the nation as well as the youth. Sports can play a vital role in ending the drug menace," said Thakur. "A comprehensive policy has been framed for constructing playing fields across the country to engage the youth in sports and persuade them to shun drug use," he said.

Newly elected Congress MLAs in Karnataka on Sunday authorised party president Mallikarjun Kharge to pick the next chief minister, party sources said. The Congress Legislature Party, which met at a private hotel here Sunday evening, passed a unanimous resolution authorising the party chief to pick its leader. Earlier, the Congress central observers, along with AICC General Secretary (Organisation) K C Venugopal held a meeting with Leader of Opposition in the outgoing Assembly Siddaramaiah and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president D K Shivakumar.

Lucknow student Mohammad Aryan Tariq is the state topper of the CISCE Class 12 examination, the results of which were declared on Sunday. Tariq of City Montessori Inter College, Rajajipuram, is also the all-India topper, jointly sharing the first rank with four others. He scored 399 marks out of 400 (99.75 per cent), as per information provided by the Council of the Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE), which conducted the examination.

The maximum temperature in the national capital on Sunday settled at 40.9 degrees Celsius, a notch above the season's average temperature, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The minimum temperature was recorded at 25.9 degrees Celsius, it said. The relative humidity oscillated between 30 and 60 per cent and the department has predicted partly cloudy sky with strong surface winds for Monday. The maximum temperature is likely to hover around 42 degrees Celsius while the minimum is expected to settle at 24 degrees Celsius on Monday, officials said. On Saturday, the maximum temperature was 41.8 degrees Celsius while the minimum was 22 degrees Celsius.

Five people, three of them members of a family, were killed on Sunday when the truck they were travelling in rolled down a 100-metre-deep gorge near Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh's Kangra district, officials said. The accident took place in the Rasehar village in the afternoon, they said. Four people died on the spot while one succumbed to injuries on the way to hospital. A team of personnel from the district administration, State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and police has arrived at the scene, according to a release issued by the Kangra District Public Relations Officer (DPRO). The wheat-laden truck fell into the gorge along the approach road near Uthadagran panchayat, it said.

Four members of a family, including a minor, died after being run over by a car in this district, police said on Sunday. The incident took place in Dadoli village on Saturday night, they said. Some members of the family were sitting in front of their house when the speeding car hit them and overturned, Pooramufti Station House Officer (SHO) Ashok Kumar said. Those killed were identified as Rajendra Gupta (35), Sarita Devi (32), Arnav (8) and Lallu Ram (50), while one person was injured and is undergoing treatment, he said.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday held wide ranging discussions with his Swedish counterpart Tobias Billstrom here and exchanged views on Indo-Pacific, European strategic situation and de-risking the global economy. Jaishankar is on a three-day visit to Sweden to participate in the EU Indo-Pacific Ministerial Forum (EIPMF). "Wide ranging discussions with FM @TobiasBillstrom as India and Sweden mark 75 years of diplomatic ties. Committed to taking bilateral cooperation to a higher level. Exchanged views on Indo-Pacific, European strategic situation and de-risking the global economy,” he tweeted.

Jammu and Kashmir BJP president Ravinder Raina on Sunday stressed the need for strengthening the party at booth-level, saying the Union Territory is likely to witness “major elections” in the near future. While the panchayat and urban local bodies are completing their five-year term between November 5 and January 9, 2024, almost all political parties are demanding early assembly elections in J and K for restoration of popular government.

The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) on Sunday announced a protest in Delhi against the collection of registration fees from pilgrims intending to visit the holy cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir. The registration process for the two-month Amarnath Yatra started last month. The annual pilgrimage is scheduled to start on July 1 from the twin tracks -- the traditional 48-kilometre Nunwan-Pahalgam route in the Anantnag district and the 14-kilometre shorter but steeper Baltal route in the Ganderbal district.

BJP councillor Pawan Sehrawat on Sunday returned to Aam Aadmi Party's fold and said it was like "coming back to my family".
AAP's MCD in-charge Durgesh Pathak made the announcement during a press conference here. The Bawana councillor had joined the BJP in February, ahead of a crucial MCD House meeting, and had alleged that he felt "suffocated" due to "corruption" in the party led by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Pathak said Sehrawat has returned to the AAP and he been welcomed back in the party.

The CISCE on Sunday declared the Class 10 and Class 12 results with 98.94 per cent and 96.93 per cent of students, respectively, clearing the board examinations. Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) Secretary Gerry Arathoon said the Class 10 (ICSE) examination was conducted in 63 written subjects of which 21 were Indian, 14 foreign and two classical languages.
"The Class 12 (ISC) examination was conducted in 47 written subjects of which 12 were Indian languages and three were foreign languages and one classical language," he said.

Karnataka Director General of Police Praveen Sood has been appointed as the next director of the Central Bureau of Investigation, a government order said on Sunday. The 59-year-old has been appointed to the post for a period of two years from the date of taking charge after Subodh Kumar Jaiswal completes his tenure on May 25, according to officials. Sood is a 1986-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the Karnataka cadre and the senior-most IPS officer in the country after Jaiswal.

Super cyclone Mocha made landfall along the Myanmar-Bangladesh coasts on Sunday after intensifying into the equivalent of a category-five storm, a senior Met official said. The powerful made landfall shortly after midday on the Teknaf shorelines before making its way through the Naf River that divides Bangladesh and Myanmar. “The ‘eye’ or the centre point of the cyclone made its landfall shortly after midday today on the Teknaf shorelines, coming through the Naf River, ahead of its anticipated time,” Bangladesh Met office spokesman AKM Nazmul Huda told PTI.

The body of a CBSE Class 12 student, who went missing after being placed in the compartment category in two subjects in the board examination, was recovered from a drain in Delhi's Aman Vihar area, police said on Sunday.
The victim went missing from her home around 3.30 pm on Friday after the CBSE examination results were declared, they said. Her father had informed the police that the girl was depressed after being placed in the compartment category in two subjects and left a suicide note before running away from home, a senior officer said.

A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a man here on the pretext of marriage, police said on Sunday. On May 6, the girl, a resident of Bihar, had gone to her maternal grandmother’s house in a village under Bairia police station area to attend a function, SHO Dharamveer Singh said. The same day, accused Mukesh Kumar (22), a resident of the same village, raped her on the pretext of marriage, he said. The accused was arrested on Saturday, he said. An FIR under relevant sections of IPC and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act has been registered against him and he has been sent to jail on judicial custody, the SHO said.

Praveen Sood has been appointed as the Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for a period of two years: CBI

Assam government releases pictures post eviction drive at Burachapori Wildlife Sanctuary.

PM Narendra Modi visited Jana Shakti, an exhibition at the NGMA, Delhi. This exhibition contains works by India’s top artists on themes covered in Mann Ki Baat such as Swachhata, water conservation, agriculture, space, India’s northeast, Nari Shakti and Yoga, Ayurveda.

Tamil Nadu: 3 people died after inhaling toxic fumes after they entered a newly-built septic tank in a house in the Cuddalore district last evening. Cuddalore Police have registered a case and an investigation is being done, said Cuddalore Police Officials.

Newly elected AAP MP from Jalandhar, Sushil Kumar Rinku met AAP national convener and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal & Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann in Delhi.

The Modi wave is over and now our wave is coming across the country. Our preparation for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections has started and today a meeting has been called under the chairmanship of Sharad Pawar, we will discuss about the 2024 elections in this meeting and start preparing for it: Uddhav Thackeray faction leader Sanjay Raut

Delhi Police Crime Branch arrests sharpshooter of Chenu Pehlwan gang Mohit Chauhan, he is the main accused in the murder cum dacoity case of Civil Lines area and was previously involved in 19 criminal cases, said police.

COVID-19: India reports 1,272 new cases and 2,252 recoveries in the last 24 hours; the active caseload stands at 15,515.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 occurred 151 km South-southeast (SSE) of Kabul, Afghanistan at around 8.14am. The depth of the earthquake was 60 km, said National Center for Seismology.

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Supporters of senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah put up a poster outside Siddaramaiah's residence in Bengaluru, referring to him as "the next CM of Karnataka."

An encounter has started at Andwan Sagam area of Anantnag. Police and security forces are on the job, said Kashmir Zone PoliceReportedly 2 militants believed to be trapped in the area. Police and security forces are on the job.

ICSE (Class 10th) and ISC (Class 12th) results will be declared today at 3 pm.