Breaking News: November 28 | Highlights

Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation will soon introduce electric buses to transport visiting pilgrims to Tirumala Hills, where the famous temple of Lord Venkateswara is located, from Tirupati, top functionary of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) said on Saturday.

A major fire broke out in the Noida warehouse of Chinese phone maker Oppo on Saturday, said officials. Smoke billowing from the warehouse was visible from a distance during the fire that broke out around 5 pm.

“Multiple fire tenders were deployed at the warehouse located in Ecotech 1 police station area and firefighting was underway,” a police official said.

No person was harmed in the blaze and the cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained, the official said.

There was no comment yet from Oppo over the incident.

Cold weather conditions prevailed in most parts of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday with Gulmarg tourist resort in the Valley being the coldest place at minus 5.6 degrees Celsius, the meteorological department said.

It has predicted dry weather in the union territory till December 4.

In the first electoral exercise in Jammu and Kashmir since the abrogation of Article 370, nearly 52 percent turnout was recorded on Saturday in the maiden District Development Council (DDC) polls. The first round of polling on Saturday in the eight-phase DDC election passed off peacefully, except for a minor incident of stone-pelting in Kulgam.
 
State Election Commissioner K K Sharma told reporters that 51.76 percent of the 700,842 eligible voters exercised their franchise during the voting which began at 7.00 AM and ended at 2.00 PM.
 
Reasi in Jammu recorded the highest voter turnout of 74.62 percent while militancy-infested Pulwama witnessed the least voter participation at 6.7 percent.

Sharma said the voting was peaceful across the Union territory, barring one incident of stone-pelting that took place in Kulgam district of South Kashmir.

In the first phase of the DDC elections, voting was held in 43 constituencies, including 25 in Kashmir, and 1,475 candidates were in the fray, according to officials.

It is the first election since the Centre scrapped Article 370 that gave special status to J-K in August last year and bifurcated the state into UTs.

The air quality remained “moderate” in Faridabad but slipped to “poor” level in Gurgaon, Noida, Greater Noida and Ghaziabad on Saturday, according to a government agency.

• Under the guidance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah repealed Article 370, giving full freedom to the people of Hyderabad and Telangana to purchase land in Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said.
• In Bihar, a newly-elected MLA of AIMIM declined to utter the word 'Hindustan' during oath-taking. They will live in Hindustan but when it comes to taking oath in the name of Hindustan, they hesitate. This shows the true face of AIMIM, UP CM Yogi Adityanath said.

US President-elect Joe Biden will let health experts decide who will get a COVID-19 vaccine in the country first, according to Dr. Celine Gounder, a member of his coronavirus advisory board.

Retirement fund body EPFO has extended the deadline for submission of life certificates by pensioners till February 28, a move which would benefit over 35 lakh persons who could not submit the document by November due to coronavirus pandemic.

A security official of the Eastern Coalfields Ltd (ECL) died on Saturday after falling ill during a search operation by the CBI at his residence, sources told PTI.

Dhananjay Roy, the security inspector of the state-run firm in the Kunustoria area in Raniganj in West Bengal''s Pashchim Bardhaman district, fell sick when the search operation was underway, ECL sources told PTI. He was rushed to a hospital where he died, they added.

A drug peddler was arrested and 2,053 Codeine Phosphate cough syrup bottles worth over Rs 4 lakhs recovered, in Shivaji Nagar area of Mumbai, Maharashtra, Anti Narcotics Cell, Ghatkopar unit, CBCID, Mumbai told ANI.

So far 22.12 per cent votes polled till 11 am across Jammu and Kashmir in the ongoing District Development Council (DDC) elections.

Churches in Mumbai to restart mass services from tomorrow, with guidelines to ensure COVID-appropriate behaviour

Four dead after a car rammed into a bus on Yamuna Expressway, Greater Noida, says police

Maharashtra: Mortal remains of Sepoy Yash Deshmukh - who was killed in action during a terrorist attack in Jammu & Kashmir's Srinagar on 26 November- brought to his native village Pimpal Bhairao in Jalgaon district. Deshmukh was 21-year-old.

The COVID-19 tally of Andaman and Nicobar Islands rose to 4,689 as seven more persons tested positive for the infection, a health official said on
Saturday. Four new cases were detected during contact tracing, while three have travel history, he said. Seventeen more people have been cured of the disease.

The archipelago now has 120 active coronavirus cases, while 4,508 people have recovered from the disease and 61 patients have succumbed to the infection till date.

Breaking | Uttar Pradesh Governor promulgates UP Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance 2020: ANI

At least 18 people, including four security personnel, have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the state''s tally to 3,806. Ten cases were reported from Aizawl district and four cases each were reported from Serchhip and Lawngtlai districts.

Three Border Security Force (BSF) jawans and an Assam Rifles jawan were among the newly infected people. He said that five patients have developed symptoms of COVID-19 while the remaining 13 patients were asymptomatic.

China's State Councilor and Defence Minister Wei Fenghe to visit Nepal on 29th November: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nepal