Breaking News, November 4 | HIGHLIGHTS

Kerala Police on Saturday said it has registered 54 cases for spreading communally instigative contents through social media in the aftermath of the recent blasts at a Christian prayer meet near Kalamassery in Kochi.

A rape victim tried to set herself on fire during a grievance redressal programme here on Saturday, a senior official said.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday opened the second phase of overhead metro rail service to ease Dhaka's notorious traffic jams, earning the city an ill repute of being the world’s slowest city. “Today, we're so delighted,” Hasina said while opening the metro rail service between Uttara and Motijheel, which has eight stations and spans 9.53 kilometres.

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar will visit Mumbai on Monday where he will interact with students of IIT-Mumbai, his office said.  

A major tragedy was averted with the timely detection of an improvised explosive device (IED) - weighing two kg - along a busy road here on Saturday evening, a police official said.

ISRO Chairman S Somanath on Saturday said he was withdrawing from the publishing of his upcoming autobiography, after a controversy erupted over some of his alleged critical remarks about his predecessor K Sivan in the book.

Air India has entered into an interline partnership with Alaska Airlines. The partnership will allow Air India customers to "avail seamless connections from New York JFK, Newark-New Jersey, Washington DC, Chicago, San Francisco, and Vancouver gateways to and from 32 destinations in the USA, Mexico, and Canada on Alaska Airline's network", according to a release.

Rajasthan Congress leader Sachin Pilot on Saturday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party keeps trying to create conflict in the name of religion and asked people to be careful.

A British-Indian London Assembly member tabled a motion this week calling on the Metropolitan Police to include the breakdown of hate crimes by religion to tackle growing instances of anti-Hindu hate.

A major fire broke out at a bangles factory in the Bawana Industrial Area here on Saturday morning, officials said. A call was received around 9 am about the fire in the factory located at G Block of Bawana, a Delhi Fire Services (DFS) official said.

Ahead of assembly elections in five states, the government on Saturday approved the issuance of 29th tranche of electoral bonds that will open for sale on November 6.

Edtech firm Think and Learn Private Ltd, which operates under the brand name of BYJU's, on Saturday reported narrowing of operational losses in core business to Rs 2,253 crore for the 2021-22 fiscal.

Haryana Agriculture Minister Jai Prakash Dalal on Saturday slammed the Bhagwant Mann government in Punjab over the stubble-burning incidents in the state, prompting a sharp reaction from the Aam Aadmi Party. In his post on X, Dalal shared statistics of farm fires in Punjab and Haryana over the last three days. "We have demanded water from (Arvind) Kejriwal ji and Bhagwant Mann ji, not smoke of paddy stubble,” Dalal wrote in Hindi.

Two history-sheeters were arrested at Virar in Palghar district of Maharashtra for allegedly stealing jewellery and other valuable items of a man, police said on Saturday. The arrested duo has several criminal cases registered against them in Thane, Mumbai and Palghar districts, they said. The man lodged a complaint against the duo, accusing them of stealing his gold ornaments after striking a conversation with him in September 2023, an official of the Mira Bhyandar-Vasai Virar police commissionerate said.

He also requested him to convene an emergent meeting of neighbouring states' Environment Ministers.

A POCSO court here on Saturday convicted the lone accused in the sensational Aluva rape and murder case of a five-year-old girl from Bihar. Special POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) court judge K Soman convicted Ashwaq Alam, a migrant labourer from Bihar.

A man was arrested for opening fire at a police team, which had come to arrest his son, an accused in a criminal case, in this district. However, no one was injured in the incident, police said on Saturday. The incident occurred on Friday night when a team of police personnel attached to the Valapattanam station went to the house of Roshan in Chirakkal to arrest him.

A major fire broke out at a factory in the Bawana Industrial Area here on Saturday morning, officials said. A call was received around 9 am about the fire in the factory located at G Block of Bawana, a Delhi Fire Services (DFS) official said.

A man was arrested for opening fire at a police team which had come to arrest his son, an accused in a criminal case, in this district. However, no one was injured in the incident, police said on Saturday.

A senior Congress leader was critically injured after being shot at by armed men in Jharkhand's Hazaribag district in a land dispute case, police said. The incident took place when Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee general secretary (OBC cell) Prakash went to Canary Hill Road in Korra area on Friday evening to oversee the progress of construction work on a piece of land he had purchased.

Drone camera footage from ITO area shows a layer of haze in the air.