Breaking News, September 12 | HIGHLIGHTS

The Nagaland Assembly on Tuesday decided to refer the Nagaland Municipal Bill 2023 to the Select Committee for further consideration. The decision to this effect was taken on the second day of the monsoon session of the Assembly after the members deliberated on the Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) election which has not been held in the northeastern state for almost two decades.

Lawyers of the Allahabad High Court will continue to abstain from judicial work on Wednesday to protest against the state government's "inaction" in an incident of alleged police lathi-charge on advocates in Hapur.

Yoga enhances expression of genes beneficial for mental health and can play a critical role in reducing severity and delay in onset of memory defects and dementia, AIIMS Delhi experts said Tuesday. Yoga is a mind-body energy medicine which has tremendous transformative power, said Dr Rima Dada, Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Professor in-charge of the Media Cell.

A 23-year-old man was stabbed to death and his brother injured after a person attacked them over a minor dispute in southeast Delhi's Khadda Colony area, police said on Tuesday.

The much-awaited Chambal Riverfront project in Kota was inaugurated on Tuesday by Rajasthan Assembly Speaker C P Joshi as Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot cancelled his visit to the city due to "unavoidable reasons".

A girl student of Class 11 was allegedly gang-raped by five men in a village here when she was returning from school, police said on Tuesday. The five accused were arrested on Tuesday, they added.

Capital market regulator Sebi has imposed fines totalling Rs 35 lakh on seven entities for indulging in non-genuine trades in the illiquid stock options segment on the BSE. In seven separate orders on Monday, the regulator slapped a fine of Rs 5 lakh each on Subhash Kumar Poddar HUF, Manoj Kumar Goenka HUF, Ayan Akhter Husain, Ankita Didwania, Rakesh Golechha, Ankur Taneja HUF and Yogesh Kumar Gupta HUF.

India's domestic air passenger traffic rose about 23 per cent year-on-year to 1.24 crore in August and was 6 per cent higher than the pre-Covid level (August 2019) of around 1.18 crore, credit rating agency Icra said on Thursday. On a sequential basis, the growth in traffic during the previous month was around 3.2  per cent, with 1.21 crore passengers flying on domestic routes in July, it added.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Thursday lay the foundation stone of Rs 49,000 crore petrochemicals complex and refinery expansion project of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd's (BPCL) Bina refinery in Madhya Pradesh.

A red alert for likely heavy showers was issued in six districts of Uttar Pradesh, including Barabanki and Gonda that have been the worst hit by the latest spell of rainfall that claimed 19 lives in the state on Monday. A senior official said that in the past 48 hours, more than 100 mm of rainfall was recorded in seven districts of the state and 10 other districts recorded 50 mm of rain. Certain parts of Bahraich and Barabanki have received over 250 mm rainfall in the past 24 hours.

A Pakistani court on Tuesday ordered the five siblings of a 10-year-old girl who was found dead with extensive injuries near London put into a children's protection centre after they were located by police. The police are continuing their search for the girl's father and stepmother in connection with her death.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday virtually inaugurated 36 road and bridge projects in Arunachal Pradesh, including the strategically located Nechiphu tunnel connecting Tawang with Assam's Balipara. The defence minister dedicated to the nation a total of 90 key border infrastructure projects across the country virtually from Jammu.

A 53-year-old man was killed in an attack by a wild elephant in this north Kerala district on Tuesday, police said. The incident was reported from Thavalappara area under Vellamunda forest station in the hill district at 11.30 am, they said.