Breaking News, October 7 | HIGHLIGHTS

The mortal remains of eight Army personnel, who were part of a group of soldiers that went missing following flash floods in Sikkim, were found on Saturday, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will leave for New Delhi on Monday to participate in the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, which is likely to discuss the party's strategy for the upcoming elections.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday chaired a meeting to review preparations for implementing various announcements he had made during his Independence Day speech this year.

A 13-year-old boy, pretending to hang himself while playing with his friends, accidentally died in a village here, a police official said on Saturday. Anand (13), the deceased, was playing with his younger brother and some other children when the incident in Madhopur village in Rasra police station area, the official said.

The Indian Navy on Saturday said it has institutionalised a "transformative" appraisal mechanism as the present system has an inherent limitation of a "top-down" approach.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said he hopes to see a de-escalation of the India-Canada diplomatic row in a call with his Canadian counterpart, Justin Trudeau, which was dominated by the standoff over the killing of a Sikh separatist leader in June.

A Congress leader has filed a petition in a court against BJP national president JP Nadda and party's IT cell incharge Amit Malviya over a social media post by the saffron party, showing party leader Rahul Gandhi as 'a new age Ravan'.

The NewsClick portal has rejected as untenable and bogus allegations levelled in a Delhi Police FIR against it, and said the proceedings initiated are "nothing but a blatant attempt to muzzle the free and independent press in India".

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Saturday said it is on course to commence unmanned flight tests for the country's ambitious Gaganyaan mission, and preparations are underway for the Flight Test Vehicle Abort Mission-1 (TV-D1).

The tribal district of Kinnaur was cut off from the state capital Shimla following a massive landslide on the Hindustan-Tibet Road (National Highway 5) at Chaura, officials said on Saturday. Huge boulders and other debris came down sliding on the road near the natural tunnel at the entry of the Kinnaur district on Friday night, hindering even pedestrian movement.

A four-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by the driver of a van that ferried children to a private playschool in Madhya Pradesh's Indore, police said on Saturday.

A police jawan, who was abducted by Naxalites in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district last week, has been released by them, officials said on Saturday. Shankar Kudiyam (28), belonging to 'Bastar Fighters', a newly-raised unit of the state police, had been missing for nearly a week. On Thursday, Naxalites claimed that they had abducted him on September 29.

A 44-year-old Nigerian national was arrested for alleged possession of cocaine and mephedrone worth Rs 84.85 lakh in Navi Mumbai, police said on Saturday. The police intercepted the accused Julius O Anthony Onyekachukwu at Ulve around 4 pm on Friday and recovered 706 gm of mephedrone and 95 gm of cocaine from him, an official said.

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader Kalvakuntla Kavitha said the Women’s Reservation Bill will inspire many women around the world to come forward in public life and called on women across continents to mobilise around the issue.

Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will address separate public rallies in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh on October 10 and 12 respectively, a party functionary said. Elections to the 230-member Madhya Pradesh assembly are due in November this year. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is striving to retain power, while the opposition is trying to return to the helm.

The air quality in the national capital on Saturday was in the 'poor' category, and the minimum temperature settled at 20.9 degree Celsius, a notch below the season’s average, officials said. The Air Quality Index (AQI) in the national capital was recorded at 231 at 9 am. An AQI between zero and 50 is considered 'good', 51 and 100 'satisfactory', 101 and 200 'moderate', 201 and 300 'poor', 301 and 400 'very poor', and 401 and 500 'severe'.

Three labourers were killed and five others critically injured when the vehicle they were travelling in skidded off the road and plunged into a deep gorge in Dod district of Jammu and Kashmir, police officials said on Saturday. The labourers boarded the vehicle at Khellani and were on the way to their homes in Marmat area, the officials said.

The Delhi police carried out a raid at the residence of former NewsClick employee Anusha Paul near Kodumon here and seized her laptop and phone for examination as part of a probe. After a three-member team of the Delhi police recorded her statement and confiscated electronic devices on Friday, Paul told reporters that she was questioned about her association with NewsClick and the CPI(M).

Delhi Finance Minister Atishi on Saturday said tax evasion notices worth Rs 1.5-lakh crore to online gaming companies will finish them and vowed to seek their withdrawal at the GST Council meeting during the day. She said the sector employed over 50,000 youths and attracted Rs 17,000 crore foreign investments, therefore it is important to withdraw the notices to protect the industry.

In the wake of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra predicting Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh's Chouhan's exit from the top post following the year-end assembly polls, the latter asked people at a rally whether he should become the CM again or not.

Jharkhand reported 70 fresh cases of dengue, an official said on Saturday. According to a bulletin of the health department, blood samples of 373 people were tested and of those, reports of 70 turned positive on Friday.

With assembly elections approaching, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot announced the state will conduct a caste survey on the lines of the one done in Bihar. The issue was discussed on Friday at a core committee meeting of the Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee (RPCC) held at the party's war room here.

Two workers of a private company were killed and one other was critically injured here after a truck crashed into their bike while they were returning from a friend's birthday party, police said on Friday.

The Centre on Friday declared a site in Tamil Nadu out of bounds for common people. The site is believed to be a launch site of the India Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) SSLV project. In a notification, the Union Home Ministry said the central government is satisfied that the information with respect to certain activities carried out in the places specified will be "useful to an enemy".

A 14-year-old Muslim girl allegedly committed suicide in Kalamboli area of Navi Mumbai, police said. While the girl had left home on Eid (September 29) after a tiff with the family and was missing since then, her death was confirmed on Friday.

A court here on Friday sent two teenage students, who allegedly shot their former teacher in the leg outside their coaching institute, to police custody. The students, aged 16 and 18, who were nabbed after the incident on Thursday noon, had also boasted on social media that they would pump more bullets into him six months later.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and appealed to him to look into the long-pending issues related to the state including the Polavaram Irrigation project. During the 45-minute meeting at Shah's residence, Reddy again flagged these issues and requested him to address them in the interest of people of Andhra Pradesh.

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday announced the formation of three new districts in poll-bound Rajasthan, taking their total number to 53. The announcement comes before the Model Code of Conduct takes effect in the state. The Model Code comes into force when the date for assembly elections, due later this year, are formally announced.

The AIADMK decided to separately face the 2024 Lok Sabha polls only to protect the rights of the people of Tamil Nadu, party chief Edappadi K Palaniswami said here on Friday.

Police said on Friday they have found at least 115 bodies at Colorado green' funeral home under investigation for improper handling of remains. Fremont County Sheriff Allen Cooper said they are coordinating with other agencies to determine if there is any wrongdoing. The Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, Colorado, performed “green” burials without embalming chemicals or metal caskets.

At least 18 migrants, mostly from Venezuela and Haiti, died early Friday in a bus crash in southern Mexico, authorities said. Prosecutors in the southern state of Oaxaca said the dead include two women and three children, and that 27 people were injured. There was no immediate information on their condition.

The Centre on Friday assured full support in terms of legislative requirements and resource deployment to federal and state agencies to weed out the menace of terrorism from the country. Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla gave the assurance while chairing the concluding session of a two-day anti-terrorism conference, organised by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) here.