Breaking News, May 20 | HIGHLIGHTS

A 39-year-old man was injured after being shot at by two persons in southwest Delhi's Dabri area on Saturday, police said. The man was hospitalised and is condition is stated to be stable, they said. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Dwarka) M Harsha Vardhan said Sandeep was along with a friend when he was shot. Two people fired at him, he said.
Personal enmity is suspected to be the reason behind the incident, Vardhan said

 Authorities in Pakistan's Punjab province took complete control of the area surrounding Imran Khan's residence here on Saturday, months after the ousted prime minister's irate supporters started camping there to foil their leader's arrest in the Toshakhana corruption case.
Punjab Police on Friday met Khan, the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party to arrest "terrorists" reportedly hiding there and handed him a list of 2,200 suspects involved in the May 9 protests that targeted military installations and government buildings.

A 35-year-old Delhi Police head constable and his pregnant wife were shot at in north Delhi's Burari area by two people and robbed of a mobile phone and Rs 7,000 cash, police said on Saturday.
The incident took place around 9.45 pm on Friday when the head constable posted at the Special Cell Unit of the city police was walking with his wife from Burari to Jahangirpuri, they said.
The couple came under attack around 150 metres from the Burari Chowk, police said, adding two people shot at the wife first and then pointed the gun towards the head constable.

Three persons were killed on Saturday after their motorcycle was hit by an oil tanker in the Bhind district of Madhya Pradesh, a police official said. The incident took place on Bhind-Gwalior highway number 719 near Bahua village, Mehgaon police station inspector Ravinder Sharma told PTI.
"Three persons identified as Ajay Jatav (19), Srichand Jatav (55) and Mamta Jatav (28) died on the spot. Oil tanker driver Mahipal Lodhi, a resident of Pilbhit in Uttar Pradesh, was arrested. The truck has been confiscated," he said.

Posters accusing a Congress councillor of an alleged exodus of a Hindu family in the Kishanpole area here triggered a row, following which police were deployed, officials said on Saturday.
Recently, a Hindu sold his house near Purohito Ka Chowk to a Muslim family.

Some people put up posters alleging the "exodus of Hindu families" in Kishanpole and blamed Congress councillor Fareed Quereshi for it. DCP (North) Rashi Dogra Dudi said the property papers were checked and there was nothing illegal.

Pakistan's cabinet has endorsed the decision by the country's top security body to hold trials by military courts of those involved in attacks on key army installations following the arrest of former prime minister Imran Khan.
Protestors took to the streets on May 9 after the arrest of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party chairman and torched military and civilian buildings and vehicles.
The violence left 10 persons dead and thousands injured.

A special screening of "The Kerala Story" was organised at the main theatre of the Pune-based Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) on Saturday amid a protest by some students.
Despite the heavy police force deployed at the venue, FTII Students' Association (FTIISA) staged a protest claiming the student community was not informed about the show.
The screening, organised by MITEE Film Society, was scheduled to start at 9.30 am but it was delayed by an hour, sources said.

The toll in the blast at an illegal firecracker factory in West Bengal's Purba Medinipur district rose to 12 after two more persons succumbed to their injuries, a senior official said on Saturday.
Rabindranath Maity and Pinki Maity, who had third-degree burn injuries, died at the state-run SSKM Hospital in Kolkata where they were undergoing treatment, he said.

 A 15-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped by two people, including a milkman she was acquainted with, who also beat her up and threatened to kill her when she tried to resist, police said here on Saturday.
A case was registered against the accused, milkman Vinod and his friend Jasbir, under Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC at the Bhondsi police station on Friday based on a complaint by the minor's mother, they said.

The Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of the Jammu and Kashmir Police on Saturday raided the houses of five local terrorists who are currently operating from across the border and making desperate attempts to revive militancy in Doda district, a senior police officer said.
Senior Superintendent of Police of Doda district Abdul Qayoom said the raids were conducted by the SIU in the Gandoh area in connection with a case registered against the five terrorists in 2021 under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

 Union Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan on Saturday said India is advancing rapidly in digital education and the Centre is committed to bring the benefits of technology to all citizens.
Upskilling the youth and increasing digitalisation in education are the Union government's top priorities, he said addressing a gathering at the inaugural day of the two-day 'C20 Summit on Education and Digital Transformation' here.

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), which is probing the recent seizure of over 2,500 kilograms of methamphetamine from a vessel in Indian waters in a joint operation with the Navy, on Saturday moved the court seeking custody of the accused.
The agency sought the custody of Pakistan national accused, Zubair Derakshshandeh for five days from May 22. The accused is currently under judicial custody.
"...the court may be pleased to order production of the accused person... before this court on 22-05-2023 and grant the custody to the petitioner for custodial interrogation in the case for 5 days w.e.f 22-05-2023 to 26.05.2023," the application filed by the agency said.

Two persons were arrested on Saturday for allegedly fomenting last week's communal violence in central Maharashtra's Akola city, police said.
It took the number of persons arrested in connection with the incidents of May 13 to 148.
Of the two men held on Saturday morning, a 23-year-old man was the one who had lodged a complaint about an objectionable Instagram post, claiming that it hurt religious sentiments.

 A 33-year-old Indian-origin man is among members of a drugs smuggling gang busted and convicted for their role in conspiring to supply cocaine and cannabis from the Netherlands to the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
Joshpal Singh Kothiria was caught as part of a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation in Britain, which uncovered his role as a driver from Wolverhampton in central England who supplied the smuggled drugs to Ireland.
He along with others was convicted at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Friday and will be sentenced at a later date.

 Apart from summit meetings and other key interactions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's three-nation tour will be marked by engagements aimed at augmenting the presence of Indian culture in these countries.
After unveiling a bust of Mahatma Gandhi at Hiroshima in Japan on Saturday, Modi is set to release "The Tirukkural", a classic Tamil text written by venerable poet and philosopher Thiruvalluvar, in Tok Pisin language in Papua New Guinea, the next country on his itinerary, officials said.

 The Indo-Pacific region is an "engine" of global trade, innovation and development and its success and security are important for the whole world, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday.
Modi said this in his opening remarks at the Quad summit in Hiroshima that was also joined by US President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese.

A portion of a road caved in on Saturday morning near a metro construction site in south Delhi's Maidan Garhi area, police said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter and wrote, "Glad to have met my friend, Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz on the sidelines of the G-7 Summit in Hiroshima."

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday shared a hug with his British counterpart Rishi Sunak at the G7 Summit in Japan's Hiroshima.   

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrives in Hiroshima for G7 Summit 

Former NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede on Saturday appeared before the CBI here for questioning in a case in which he is accused of demanding Rs 25 crore bribe from superstar Shah Rukh Khan for not implicating his son Aryan in the Cordelia cruise 'drug bust' case, an official said. 

India on Saturday recorded a single-day rise of 782 COVID-19 infections, while the number of active cases came down to 8,675, according to Union health ministry data.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday held wide-ranging talks with his Vietnamese counterpart Pham Minh Chinh and discussed expanding cooperation in areas like trade and investment, defence and energy.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) carried out raids at four locations in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district in a terror-related case on Saturday, officials said.

Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah will be on a two-day visit to his home state Gujarat from Saturday, during which he will inaugurate and lay foundation stones of several projects and attend programmes in Devbhumi Dwarka, Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, officials said.

The Railway Board on Friday approved the procurement of 238 Vande Bharat Metro trains for Mumbai, senior Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation (MRVC) officials said.

Karnataka chief minister-designate Siddaramaiah and deputy chief minister-designate D K Shivakumar have discussed the modalities of cabinet formation in the state with the party leadership in Delhi and are learnt to have shortlisted some names of ministers and their portfolios.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a bust of Mahatma Gandhi during his visit to Japan amid the G7 summit.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday met his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida on the backdrop of the G7 summit which is being held in Japan's Hiroshima this year.