Breaking News, September 30 | HIGHLIGHTS

Unidentified persons burgled an ATM in Vasai city in Palghar district of Maharashtra and decamped with more than Rs 10 lakh cash, police said on Saturday. The incident occurred on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday. The burglars sprayed the CCTV camera installed inside the kiosk before stealing the cash, an official said.

A man has been arrested here for allegedly killing a 44-year-old man who was out watching Ganesh immersion processions with his sister and niece, with a Congress leader claiming that the victim was resisting harassment of the two women by the accused.

The Delhi Police on Saturday said that Lokesh Srivas, the main accused in the Bhogal jewellery shop burglary, came to the national capital a couple of times before the heist to conduct a recce of the store and stayed at a guest house in the Chandni Chowk area.

A 28-year-old man was on Saturday detained at Patna airport for alleged unruly behaviour on an Indigo flight from Ahmedabad, officials said. He was handed over to police immediately after the flight landed around 3 pm, they said.

A case has been filed against a few people in Sohna area on the charge of bovine smuggling and animal cruelty following a failed attempt to transport cattle illegally, police said on Saturday.

Indian Railways is going to introduce ramps in trains for the convenience of wheelchair users and senior citizens, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday.

The National Investigation Agency Saturday arrested a second accused linked to the case of a transnational conspiracy by Myanmar and Bangladesh-based leadership of terror outfits to wage war against India by exploiting the current ethnic strife in Manipur, an official said.

"Aditya L1 has moved beyond the sphere of Earth's influence," informed ISRO.

The government in this financial year has allocated Rs 100 crore for the Aspirational Blocks Programme (ABP), which aims to improve governance at the block level, in order to enhance the quality of life of citizens, a top government official said on Saturday.

Three people died and one was critically injured when the car in which they were travelling rammed into a stationary truck here on Saturday, police said.

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday hit out Congress leader P Chidambaram for his remarks that reservation for women in legislatures was still years away, saying it is shameful to convert ignorance of the people into political equity.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Saturday forecast very heavy rainfall for Odisha over the next three days as the low pressure area formed over the Bay of Bengal intensified into a well-marked system. Weather scientist Umashankar Dash of the Regional Meteorological Centre, Bhubaneswar said that the well-marked low pressure area is likely to move towards the northern Odisha and adjoining West Bengal coasts over the next 24 hours.

 The Reserve Bank on Saturday extended the special drive to withdraw Rs 2,000 bank notes from the system by another week, till October 7.