Breaking News, September 29 | HIGHLIGHTS

The Delhi government issued a notification on Friday, asking the licensees to renew their existing excise licences by October 5. The city government has decided to extend its existing excise policy by six months due to the time needed for coming up with a new liquor trade regime.

Around four crore families from rural as well as urban areas of the country have received homes under PM Awas Yojana, Union minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday. The minister was speaking at the 'Times Now Amazing Indians' award ceremony in the national capital.

E-commerce company Amazon India will start its annual festive season sale 'Amazon Great Indian Festival' on October 8 with early access to its paid members a day before, the company said on Friday. The company said products from 12 lakh sellers will be available during the upcoming festival sale.

The annual 'All India Meeting of Women Coordination' of the RSS will commence here on Saturday, the organisation said in a statement. About 300 participants from all over the country are expected to attend this two-day meeting which will be held at the Keshav Vidyapeeth in Jamdoli here, the statement said.

The Chhattisgarh Police has arrested two people in connection with a Rs 20-crore burglary from a jewellery store in New Delhi earlier this week and recovered around 18.5 kg of gold and diamond ornaments from them, a senior official said on Friday.

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann asserted on Friday that anyone found involved in a drugs-related case will be held accountable. Mann's comments came a day after Congress leaders slammed the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab over the arrest of MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira in a 2015 case involving drugs, calling it a political vendetta.
 

Three cousins, between seven to nine years old, drowned in an under-construction pond at Karhiya village in Gwalior district on Friday, police said. The boys had gone to the pond for bathing, and when one of them started drowning, the other two tried to save him.

A local court in Muzaffarnagar on Friday convicted a man and sentenced him to life imprisonment for looting two police rifles and gunning down a constable.

The situation in Manipur's Imphal valley was calm but tense on Friday after a night of violent clashes, including an attempt to attack the empty ancestral residence of Chief Minister N Biren Singh here.

Seven employees, including the chairman and directors of a private hospital here, have been booked for alleged medical negligence causing a patient to suffer a miscarriage in June 2022, police said on Friday.

It is a matter of serious concern that objectionable remarks are being made against constitutional institutions just for certain political reasons, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar said on Friday. Addressing the students and faculty of Nalanda University at an open house session, he said any adverse comment about such institutions is against India's rich cultural heritage.

The Delhi government on Friday launched a 15-point action plan to mitigate air pollution in the national capital during the winter, with a strong emphasis on addressing dust pollution, vehicular emissions and the open burning of garbage.

A 25-year-old Naxalite carrying a reward of Rs 14 lakh was killed in an encounter with an elite combat unit of the Madhya Pradesh police in the state’s Balaghat district on Friday morning, a senior official said. The Naxalite, identified as Kamlu, was an active member of the ‘Naxali Dalam Tanda Dadekasa’ unit of the banned outfit, he said.

A bus carrying dozens of schoolchildren overturned on a highway near the English city of Liverpool on Friday, killing the driver and a 14-year-old girl, police said.

Farmers squatted on railway tracks and blocked the Chandigarh-Ambala-Delhi national highway in Punjab on Friday, demanding compensation for crop damage in the recent floods, a legal guarantee on MSP and a sweeping debt waiver.

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Friday said the state is contemplating imposing a ban on the adoption of dogs from certain aggressive breeds. Talking at an event held here to mark World Rabies Day, the chief minister said that dogs from certain breeds are aggressive and attack people.

Over 2.5 million people will join the massive cleanliness drive across Kerala on Gandhi Jayanti as part of the 'Malinya Muktham Nava Keralam' campaign, covering every nook and cranny of the state including urban and rural stretches, the Local Self-Government Department (LSGD) said on Friday.

At least 12 persons were killed, including nine from drowning, during Ganpati idol immersions over the past 24 hours across Maharashtra, police officials said on Friday.

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Friday said there was no need for a bandh over Cauvery row as his government is protecting the interests of the State.

Taking a swipe at the Congress and the AAP over the arrest of Punjab MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira, Union minister and BJP leader Hardeep Singh Puri on Friday said it was their "mohabbat ki dukan" and showed the opposition coalition INDIA was falling apart in Punjab and Delhi.

A teenage girl and a boy committed suicide by jumping in front of a moving train here on Friday, police said. Bodies of Akash Kumar (16) and Ayushi (12) were recovered near railway tracks in the Civil Lines police station area in the morning, Superintendent of Police (City) Kapil Dev Singh said.

Thousands of devotees gather at Arunachalesvara Temple in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvannamalai on the occasion of 'Purattasi Pournami'.

Karnataka: Mallikarjun Baladandi, Additional SP of Bengaluru Rural district said, "We have made proper arrangements as a bandh has been called by several pro-Kannada organisations. More than 50 people from the organisations have been taken into custody... We have sufficient staff and we will make sure nothing goes wrong..."

Karnataka: Bengaluru Police detain members of pro-Kannada organisations, protesting over the Cauvery Water Issue.

EAM Jaishankar meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the US Department of State.

Appeals court rejects Donald Trump's request to delay civil trial in wake of fraud ruling that threatens business empire, reports AP.

 Devotees gather at Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar for night long prayers on Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi.