Breaking news on November 11

PMC Bank case: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) today arrested two auditors and they will be produced in Court tomorrow. Earlier five accused have been arrested in the case.

Congress on Monday, releases a list of 19 candidates for the upcoming Jharkhand Assembly Polls.

Senior CPI(M) leader Badal Chowdhury, arrested in a corruption case, was remanded to police custody for four days on Monday by a local court.

Chowdhury, a CPI(M) central committee member who was the PWD minister during the Left Front regime, was arrested on October 30 from a private hospital where he was admitted.

The Mathura district administration has decided to set up a monkey rescue centre in Mathura to overcome the pestering simian menace in the religious tourism belt of Mathura-Vrindavan, an official said.

Tourists visit in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam as the region received snowfall. 

Light rains brought down the mercury in Himachal Pradesh on Monday with more showers and a fresh spell of snowfall expected later in the week, officials said.

A 40-year-old man was given life imprisonment on Monday for raping a six-year-old girl a year ago at Jatkhedi area in the state capital, a district prosecution official said.

The Congress government in Chhattisgarh will soon enact a law to ensure the protection of journalists, an official release said on Monday.

The government is in the process of formulating a policy on credit ratings for micro, small and medium enterprises to help investors and other players take informed decision, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Monday.

Nine naxals, including a self-proclaimed commander carrying the reward of Rs 10 lakh on his head, surrendered on Monday in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district, police said.

Ministry of External Affairs said, India welcomes signing of Riyadh Agreement between Yemeni Government and South Transitional Council on November 5 in Riyadh. India hopes it'll lead to early settlement of conflict resulting in peace,progress and prosperity of people of Yemen. India continues to provide humanitarian assistance to Yemen.

Nigerian Air Force Chief Air Marshal SB Abubakar, today called on IAF Chief Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria and Army Vice Chief Lt Gen MM Narwane. The two sides discussed ways of further strengthening their defence ties.

National Investigation Agency (NIA), today, filed a charge sheet in NIA special court, Guwahati against 8 accused, linked to ULFA (I) in grenade lobbing case. Case pertains to attack on security personnel at RG Baruah Road, Guwahati,on May 15, in which 12 persons were injured.

As per data released by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), the passenger vehicle sales in India rose marginally by 0.28% in the month of October. A total of 2,85,027 units were sold in the month, as compared to 2,84,223 units in the year-ago period. 

A one-and-a-half-year-old girl was crushed to death under the wheels of a tempo in outer Delhi's Narela on Monday after she crawled under the vehicle and it started moving. The incident was reported to police at around 11 am.

At least five persons, including two policemen, have been killed in Pakistan's Punjab province after gunmen opened fire on a police vehicle, according to media reports.

The attack took place on Sunday in Arbi Tibba area of the Rajanpur district where a police team was conducting a raid after receiving information about the presence of the fugitives in the locality, the News International reported.

An inverter battery exploded in a village mosque in Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar district on Monday creating panic in the area, police said. The incident took place in Bairagi village under Turkpatti Police Station area of Padrauna township of the district, they said.

There was no casualty as nobody was inside the mosque at the time of the incident, Kushinagar Superintendent of Police, Vinod Kumar Mishra said. The walls and roof of the mosque that was built around four years ago were slightly damaged, the SP added.

Two porters were reported missing after a snow avalanche hit the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district on Monday, police said.

The incident took place in Gulmarg sector in north Kashmir, a police official said. Efforts were underway to rescue them, the police added.

Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' earlier today met the students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and assured them that a solution to their issues will be found soon, Ministry of HRD said in a statement.

Students of JNU continue to protest over different issues including fee hike. Rent for student single room hiked from Rs 10 to Rs 300, rent for student double room hiked from Rs 20 to Rs 600, one-time refundable mess security deposit hiked from Rs 5,500 to Rs 12,000.

Process of trust formation for Ayodhya begins. A team of bureaucrats set up to study technicalities of the supreme court order.

Legal opinion being taken from Attorney General  and law ministry regarding court order for trust.

HRD minister inside AICTE auditorium since morning as JNU students escalate protests, cancels two scheduled events in ministry

A software engineer under the influence of alcohol rammed  his car into two youngsters on the newly-inaugurated Biodiversity flyover in Hyderabad on Sunday. The deceased had parked their bikes on the flyover and were taking selfies when the incident happened.

Both the youngsters were killed in the incident. The accused also hit two more vehicles, injuring four others.

Senior Shiv Sena leader and MP Sanjay Raut has been admitted to Mumbai's Lilavati hospital on Monday afternoon after he complained of uneasiness. A party spokesperson, requesting anonymity, termed it "a routine check-up and probably necessitating an angiography."

The notification for the second phase of the Jharkhand Assembly elections was issued on Monday and the last date for filing the nominations is November 18. In the second phase, 20 Assembly seats will go for polls on December 7.

The notification said the existing Legislative Assembly of Jharkhand will continue till January 5, 2020, unless dissolved earlier.

Elections to the state's 81 Assembly seats will be held in five phases, beginning November 30, and the results will be announced on December 23.

A sub-inspector was arrested for allegedly taking bribe in Rajasthan's Sawai Madhopur district on Monday, an Anti-Corruption Bureau official said. The accused Harbhan Singh posted at Boli Police Station of the district had demanded Rs 3000 as bribe from complainant Shivraj Gurjar to settle a case.

The complaint was verified and a trap was laid to arrest the accused, ACB inspector Narendra Singh said. 

Security has been tightened around the famous Har Ki Pairi ghat in Haridwar after an anonymous caller on the mobile phone of Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat threatened to blow it up, police said on Monday.

Haridwar SSP Senthil Avoodai Krishna Raj said an anonymous caller rang up the chief minister on his mobile phone at around 3.30 pm on November 9 and made the threat.

Unidentified miscreants on Monday triggered a low-intensity blast at the residence-cum-office of a contractor in Imphal West district. No casualty was reported in the incident, a police officer said.

The Improvised Explosive Device (IED) exploded at around 5.04 am at the office of Bhartiya Infra Project Limited at Langthabal locality, smashing windowpanes of the building and damaging the compound wall of the structure, he said.

A villager killed by Naxals on the suspicion of being a police informer in Jagargunda village of Sukma.

 At least 13 people have been killed due to falling trees, collapsed houses and illness after cyclone Bulbul ripped through southern Bangladesh, authorities said on Monday.

The health directorate's Health Emergency Operation Centre and Control Room, local administrations and police confirmed the toll on Sunday, local media reported.

Senior Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on November 11 said if the BJP was not willing to fulfill its promise of sharing the chief minister's post in Maharashtra, there was no point in continuing the alliance.

"The BJP's arrogance that it would sit in the opposition but not share the chief minister's post has led to this situation...if the BJP is not willing to implement its promise, then there is no meaning in stay with the alliance," the Rajya Sabha member said.

Justice Sanjay Karol was sworn in as the chief justice of the Patna High Court on Monday. Governor Phagu Chauhan administered the oath to Karol at the Raj Bhavan.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi, state ministers, judges of the High Court and other senior officials were present at the swearing-in ceremony.

India has apprised the international community about the Pakistan Army gradually increasing troop deployment and enhancing its firepower on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) since the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5, sources said on Monday.

The Indian Army had carried out a detailed analysis in this regard and shared a report with the government.

Two terrorists have been killed during an encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Bandipora

India Meteorological Department (IMD) on cyclone Bulbul: The deep depression weakened into a depression over southeast Bangladesh and adjoining south Tripura at 05:30 am today. It will weaken into a low during the next 6 hours