Breaking News, October 5 | HIGHLIGHTS

The director of Jammu and Kashmir's Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Anand Jain has been posted as the new Inspector General of Police of Jammu region, a government order said on Thursday. He will replace additional director general of Police (ADGP) Mukesh Singh who was recently appointed as the Inspector General of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav here on Thursday said that killing of six persons in Deoria has exposed the "unjust working of the system" and held the BJP-led state government responsible for it.
Yadav also criticised the central government over the arrest of Aam Aadmi party MP Sanjay Singh and accused it of "misusing agencies like CBI and ED."

The Meteorological department on Thursday warned of heavy to very heavy rain in the sub-Himalayan districts of West Bengal till Friday morning owing to a low-pressure area. The weather office also forecast heavy rain in some districts of south Bengal owing to the system.

ISRO plans to undertake an inflight abort test of the crew escape system by this month-end using a test vehicle developed as part of the country's ambitious maiden human spaceflight venture Gaganyaan. "Preparations are going on. All vehicle systems have reached Sriharikota (for the launch). Final assembly is progressing. We are getting ready for launch by the end of October," Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) S Unnikrishnan Nair told PTI on Thursday.

Police have registered a case against a 35-year-old man from Vashi in Navi Mumbai for allegedly raping his teenage stepdaughter over a period two years, an official said on Thursday. The victim, aged 15 years, approached the police and lodged the complaint at the APMC police station in Vashi on Wednesday, he said.

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday reserved an order on an appeal by Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee with regard to a summons by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with an alleged teaching jobs scam. In an oral observation during the hearing, the court said that the MP should provide documents sought by the ED from him by October 10.

Train services in the Kharagpur-Bhadrakh section of South Eastern Railway, which was hit because of land slip below the tracks following persistent rainfall between Balasore and Haldipada stations, resumed with "speed restrictions" from Thursday, an official said.

A 44-year-old housewife from Navi Mumbai has been duped of nearly Rs 23 lakh through a “task” fraud, an official said on Thursday. In her complaint to the Panvel police on Wednesday, the woman said she lost the money between September 17 and October 4.

AAP leader Sanjay Singh was produced before a court on Thursday, a day after he was arrested in the Delhi excise policy case. The Rajya Sabha MP said his arrest was an act of injustice by Prime Minister Narendra Modi whose party was going to lose the next Lok Sabha elections.

Police on Thursday used a water cannon and hurled tear gas shells to disperse AAP workers who were trying to force their way through barricades to 'gherao' the office of Punjab BJP here in protest against the arrest of party leader Sanjay Singh. Police also used batons against the Aam Aadmi Party workers, who set on fire an effigy decrying the arrest of their leader.

Congress' top decision making body CWC will meet on October 9 here to deliberate on the current political situation, caste census and further firm up the strategy for the upcoming assembly elections in five states. The party is seeking to retain power in Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, while hoping to wrest power from the BJP in Madhya Pradesh, BRS in Telangana and the Mizo National Front (MNF) in Mizoram.

AAP workers on Thursday staged a protest in central Delhi decrying the arrest of Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh, who was taken in custody in connection with the excise policy case. Several leaders and workers gathered at AAP party office on DDU marg, holding banners and raising slogans against the BJP and demanding release of Sanjay Singh.

Fourteen bodies have been found so far while 102 people, including 22 Army personnel, remained missing after a cloudburst over Lhonak Lake in North Sikkim triggered a flash flood in the Teesta river basin, officials said on Thursday.

Police have registered an FIR against the acting dean and a doctor of a government hospital in Maharashtra's Nanded district, where 31 patients died in 48 hours, on the charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, an official said on Thursday.

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Thursday said that the state has filed a petition before the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) seeking a review of its order on the release of water to Tamil Nadu, and the government is making all preparations to go ahead with the Mekedatu balancing reservoir across the river.

Union Minister of State for External and Parliamentary Affairs V Muraleedharan on Thursday laid the foundation stone of a new regional passport office building here.

Comparing the arrests of Punjab Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira and AAP MP Sanjay Singh, BJP leader Sambit Patra on Thursday accused the Arvind Kejriwal-led party of "double standards". Speaking to reporters here, Patra claimed that all those involved in the Delhi excise policy case will be caught one after the other.

A newborn, who was declared dead by doctors at a private hospital here, was later found alive leading to tension in the area, an official said on Thursday. The newborn's father Ratan Das claimed that he took his wife to a private hospital on Tuesday evening where doctors said it was a difficult pregnancy and they could save either the mother or the child.

The CBI has registered an FIR in connection with the alleged misappropriation of more than Rs 300 crore against unidentified officials of the Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) in its collaborative institution programme, officials said on Thursday.

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Thursday released the teaser of Shimla Flying Festival-2023 to be held in Junga in the suburbs of Shimla from October 12 to 15. The festival is being organised jointly by the Himachal Pradesh Tourism Department and 'The Glide Inn' organisation.

The Delhi Police called journalist Abhisar Sharma for questioning on Thursday in connection with a case filed under anti-terror law UAPA, following charges that the NewsClick portal received money for spreading pro-China propaganda, officials said.

State-owned engineering firm BHEL on Thursday said it has paid Rs 88 crore as final dividend to Government of India for fiscal year 2022-23. A cheque towards the final dividend on the equity (63.17 per cent) held by Government of India was presented to Union Minister of Heavy Industries Mahendra Nath Pandey by BHEL Chairman and Managing Director Nalin Shinghal, it said in a BSE filing.

Japan has issued a tsunami advisory after an earthquake near its outlying islands. Officials say a potential tsunami could reach one meter in height.

Officials from the International Monetary Fund say they expect the United States will continue playing its key role in amassing multinational support that has helped keep Ukraine's economy afloat during Russia's invasion.

At least ten people died and 80 others, including 22 army personnel, went missing on Wednesday after a cloudburst over Lhonak Lake in north Sikkim triggered a flash flood in the Teesta River basin, officials said. All 10 who died have been identified as civilians including 3 of the dead who were washed up in north Bengal, they said adding that one of the 23 army men wh

Expressing concern over the flood-like situation in the state, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said that 10,000 people have been rescued and kept in 190 relief camps in nine districts in the southern and northern parts of the state.

Multiple people were reportedly shot on Wednesday afternoon in the downtown area of Holyoke, Massachusetts, police said. Holyoke Police Detective Beben told WWLP that multiple individuals had been shot, but did not indicate how many.