Breaking News, October 14

Ten Congress councillors from Jalandhar joined the AAP, with Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann formally inducting and welcoming them into the party fold, it said on Saturday. The move comes ahead of next month's municipal corporation elections in Jalandhar.

Rajamahendravaram central prison where is lodged for his alleged involvement in the Skill Development Corporation Scam case. A team of lawyers representing Naidu filed a petition for air-conditioning facility for the TDP supremo on Saturday in the Vijayawada ACB Court. "In view of the report of the team of doctors of Government General Hospital, Rajamahendravaram it is utmost necessary that the petitioner be provided with air-conditioning in his room at the earliest, in order prevent rapid aggravation of his skin condition," said the petition filed by the 73-year-old former Chief Minister's lawyers.

The Crime Branch of the Ghaziabad Police Commissionerate arrested a drug peddler and seized 300 kilogrammes of ganja, officials said on Saturday. The accused has been identified as 24-year-old Mohammad Zafar of Bareilly district.

The Excise department has seized synthetic drugs worth Rs 25 lakh and arrested a gang of four, including a woman, from near the international stadium at Kaloor here. Based on a tip off, the excise department apprehended the car in which the gang was travelling and seized 327 gram of the synthetic drug MDMA and arrested four persons.

Union Minister Kailash Choudhary on Saturday asserted that those who want to live in India should say 'Bharat Mata ki Jai'. Choudhary, MoS (Agriculture), was speaking at a farmers' convention organised by the BJP. Referring to the "language used" by public representatives in Hyderabad, he said a "lesson should be taught" to them in the time to come and that a government with nationalistic thinking should be formed in the state.

Two persons were shot at and injured in Bhiwandi taluka of Thane district, a police official said on Saturday. The incident took place late Friday night in Mendhe village in Padgha and the two injured persons, identified as Firoze Sheikh (27) and Azim Sayyed (30), have been hospitalised, Additional Superintendent of Police (Thane Rural) Dipali Dethe said. As per police, Sheikh, who is from Chandansar area of Virar in neighbouring Palghar district, has blamed his in-laws for the firing claiming they opposed his marriage to their daughter.

Seven people, including a child, were hospitalised with burn injuries after a small cooking gas cylinder exploded inside a house here, officials said on Saturday. The incident took place around 11.30 am in Salarpur village under Sector-39 police station limits, they said. "While making samosas, a small gas cylinder burst, due to which Gudiya (32), Maya (25), Malti (50), Vijay (32), Randhir (24), Saroj (22 years) and an 11-year-old boy present in the house got burnt," a police spokesperson said.

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Saturday demanded the immediate implementation of the Women's Reservation Bill, allowing quota for women in legislative bodies, saying women have "no more time to waste." She was speaking at the Women's Rights Conference organised by the DMK.

Five members of the banned Naxal outfit Tritiya Sammelan Prastuti Committee (TSPC), including two self-styled sub-zonal commanders, have been nabbed in Jharkhand's Chatra district, police said on Saturday.

The Congress' first list of candidates for the Chhattisgarh Assembly polls will be released on Sunday, Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel said. Assembly polls will be held in two phases on November 7 and 17, while votes will be counted on December 3.

The Congress on Saturday slammed Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan after he targeted party leaders Kamal Nath and AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra over poll promises.
Speaking to reporters here, Congress spokesman Charan Singh Sapra termed the ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh a "sinking ship".

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will embark on a six-day visit to Vietnam and Singapore from Sunday to shore up bilateral cooperation in diverse areas. In the first leg of his visit, Jaishankar will visit Vietnam from October 15 to 18 to discuss ways to review the progress in several areas and discuss ways to further enhance cooperation, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Saturday.

Angry over frequent fights among children, a man allegedly strangled his seven-year-old niece and threw her body in a pond in Nagar Kotwali Police Station area here, police said on Saturday. Superintendent of Police Keshav Kumar said that the girl, Shia, had come to her maternal uncle Karan Verma's house in Nomkoni area about two months ago with her mother.

The ruling Mizo National Front (MNF) in Mizoram and the Hmar People's Convention (Reformation), a faction of the HPC party, on Saturday formed an alliance ahead of the November 7 assembly polls in the state.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday inaugurated a Spices Park at Thodupuzha in this hilly district. Inaugurating the park, Vijayan said it will boost the processing and value addition of spices and allied products.

The Navi Mumbai police have registered an offence against a man for allegedly posting an objectionable video on Facebook in which he verbally abused and threatened the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities, an official said on Saturday.

India saw a single-day rise of 51 new Covid-19 infections, while the active caseload stood at 359, according to Union Health Ministry data updated on Saturday. The death toll has been recorded at 5,32,037, the data updated at 8 am stated. 

The Odisha government declared a 10-day vacation for schools from October 20 on the occasion of the Durga Puja festival, according to notifications. All the schools will remain closed for 10 days for the festivities till October 29.

A 42-year-old principal of a government primary school here was arrested for allegedly making obscene gestures towards a class 5 girl student, officials said.

A massive fire broke out at a godown in West Bengal's Howrah district on Saturday morning, officials said.

A group of 35 labourers from Odisha alleged that they were held captive by a company in Laos for which they were working. Urging the government to bring them back, the labourers in a video clip said the plywood company stopped its operations about one-and-a-half-months ago, but they were neither allowed to return nor paid wages.

Several people were injured allegedly after a reactor exploded in a private laboratory in the Bollaram industrial area in Sangareddy district. The injured have been admitted to a local hospital for treatment. Police present at the spot.

Former President Donald Trump said Friday that he stood with Israel and its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, as his GOP rivals continued to pointedly denounce his lashing out at Netanyahu days after Hamas' deadly attacks.

A Philadelphia police officer was shot and killed and a second officer was wounded when they confronted people breaking into a car at Philadelphia International Airport, police said.