Breaking News, November 26 | HIGHLIGHTS

The National Conference on Saturday asked the government to restore the democratic rights of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Speaking on the Constitution Day, NC MPs Mohammad Akbar Lone and Hasnain Masoodi said people of Jammu and Kashmir are being "denied" their rights enshrined in the Constitution of India.

A 50-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for allegedly raping a seven-year-old girl in this Uttar Pradesh district, police said. The victim is the granddaughter of the accused's cousin, they said, adding that the incident took place at a village under the Saini police station.

The Jharkhand government demanded a financial package of Rs 9,682 crore from the Centre for drought-hit blocks in the state, a minister said on Saturday. The JMM-led government had on October 29 declared 226 of the 260 blocks of the state as drought-affected and decided to provide a cash relief of Rs 3,500 to each affected farmer family under the chief minister's drought relief scheme.

Security forces on Saturday detected and diffused two Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in Jammu and Kashmir's Kulgam district, officials said.

Imran Khan on Saturday addressed a mega rally organised by his party here in Pakistan's garrison city, the first since the former prime minister was wounded during an assassination bid.

To motivate his students to excel in studies, a government school principal in a small village here has announced free air, rail and road trips to toppers. Sandeep Sharma, principal at the Government Senior Secondary School in Balag, will spend from his pocket to fund the trips.
The quiet village is situated on the Kotkhai-Solan road, some 60 km from Shimla.

Heavy rainfall triggered landslides early on Saturday on the southern Italian island of Ischia that left as many as 12 people missing as it cut a muddy swath through a port town, collapsing buildings and sweeping cars into the sea.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said terror attacks were rampant when Congress was in power and terrorists from Pakistan used to kill Indian soldiers but the then ruling party never condemned them due to "vote bank" politics. Paying tributes to the victims of the November 26, 2008 (26/11) Mumbai terror attack, Shah said it is impossible to carry out such an attack under the watch of the Narendra Modi government.

A modern environment-friendly shelter has been built for the Fire and Fury Corps of the Indian Army in Ladakh by architect Sonam Wangchuk.

Lauding the courage of India and the people of Mumbai, Israel has said that the enormous loss on that "horrible day" in November 2008 has forged a strong bond between the two countries. The remark was made in context to the 26/11 Mumbai attack that continues to be an emotional moment for a lot of Israelis who feel that the 26/11 terror strike "is a shared pain" that binds India and Israel together.

A Delhi court on Saturday dismissed a plea by jailed AAP minister Satyendar Jain seeking direction to Tihar officials to provide him special food items according to his religious beliefs.

With hardly a week to go for MCD polls, Delhi BJP has planned a mega visit of around 10,000 slum dwellers to EWS flats in Kalkaji, on Sunday, party leaders said.

An unidentified man allegedly fired a shot at a worker after he was not allowed to smoke a cigarette inside a convenience store in Gurugram, police said on Saturday. The man entered the 24-hour convenience store in Sector 22 with a cigarette in his hand around 4 am on Friday.

The Enforcement Directorate interrogated Shradhanjali, an erstwhile close associate of Archana Nag who is the prime accused in the alleged extortion and blackmailing case in Odisha, for the second time.

Work on setting up an integrated check post for smooth movement of cargo and passenger vehicles has started on the India-Nepal border in Uttar Pradesh's Maharajganj district, an official said on Saturday.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday released its manifesto for next month's Gujarat Assembly elections, in which it promised to implement the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the state if the party retained power.

With the BJP building its campaign around Prime Minister Narendra Modi, AAP's chief ministerial candidate Isudan Gadhvi on Saturday said this shows how people of Gujarat are fed-up with the ruling party's state leaders and claimed his party is on course to end its uninterrupted reign of nearly 25 years.

At least 25 children studying in a government school in Andhra Pradesh's Sri Sathya Sai district were taken ill after having food supplied by school authorities under the Mid-Day Meal scheme. The incident occurred in the municipal primary school in Kadiri town of the district. Of the 148 children, 121 attended classes on Friday. The students complained that the food served to them becoming stale. School principal Lavanya then asked the catering agency to supply fresh food to students.

Police and surveillance teams deployed by the Election Commission have so far seized cash and jewellery worth Rs 10.49 crore, while more than 91,000 persons have been placed under preventive detention in the run-up to the Assembly polls in Gujarat, an official has said.

As many as 240 government schools in Kerala will soon install weather stations, recording daily changes in weather conditions in the state, considered to be a first of its kind initiative in the country.

Three Maoists, including a woman, were killed in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Saturday, a police official said.

India saw a single-day rise of 389 coronavirus infections, taking the tally to 4,46,71,219 on Saturday, while active cases declined to 5,395, the Health Ministry said. The toll climbed to 5,30,608 with three fatalities, including one reconciled by Kerala, according to the ministry data

A 22-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death by his cousin and his five accomplices in Bamanwas police station limits of Rajasthan's ​​Sawai Madhopur district on Friday, police said.

The death toll from an earthquake in Indonesia's Java has risen to 310 while 24 people still remain missing, reports AFP News Agency citing the country's national disaster mitigation agency

Three people were arrested in connection with the mishap at the firecracker show in Odisha's Kendrapara district in which 40 people sustained burn injuries, police said on Friday.

A shooter armed with a semiautomatic pistol and wearing a bulletproof vest fatally shot two teachers and a student, and wounded 11 on Friday after barging into two schools in southeastern Brazil, authorities said.

One person has been injured in a shooting inside a North Carolina Walmart, police said. Officers are still searching for the shooter. Police were called to the Walmart in Lumberton for a report of gunshots around 11:30 am (local time) Friday, one of the biggest shopping days of the year, Lumberton police said in a news release.

NASA's Orion capsule has entered an orbit stretching tens of thousands of miles around the moon, as it neared the halfway mark of its test flight. The capsule and its three test dummies entered lunar orbit more than a week after launching on the USD4 billion demo that's meant to pave the way for astronauts. It will remain in this broad but stable orbit for nearly a week, completing just half a lap before heading home.