Live Breaking News July 5
Twitter is buzzing with breaking news and news alerts from India and rest of the world. Here is the live coverage of all breaking alerts and latest updates from the micro-blogging site on one page:
Breaking Highlights, Top Alerts of July 5
02:02 pm: States and UTs have been asked to direct District Administrations to identify vulnerable areas and conduct community outreach programmes for creating awareness and building confidence: MHA (ANI)
02:01 pm: Centre has asked the states & UTs to take measures to prevent incidents of mob lynching fueled by rumours of child lifting circulating on social media. Ministry of Home Affairs has urged them to keep a watch for early detection of such rumours and initiate effective measures: MHA (ANI)
01:01 pm: Supreme Court orders auction of 3 Unitech properties in Agra, Varanasi and Sriperumbudur (ANI)
12:48 pm: Syrian govt and its Russian ally pound rebel-held areas of the southern province of Daraa with the heaviest air strikes yet (reports AFP)
12:21 pm: I propose to increase the rate of tax on petrol from the present 30% to 32% and diesel from 19% to 21%, so petrol price will be increased by Rs.1.14/ltr and diesel by Rs 1.12/ltr: Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy while presenting the budget (ANI)
12:13 pm: Supreme Court seeks response from Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, accused in 1984 Sikh riot case, on a plea by SIT challenging his anticipatory bail. Court says it is high time that Sikh riot cases are tried at the earliest (PTI)
12:04 pm: To facilitate farmers to avail new loans, action will be taken by the govt to issue clearance certificate by waiving the arrears form the defaulting account. For this purpose, Rs 6500 crore is earmarked in 2018-19 budget: Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy while presenting the budget (ANI)
11:43 am: NGT issues notice to Tamil Nadu govt, state pollution control board on plea filed by Vedanta Ltd against order to close Sterlite copper plant. Tribunal asks state govt and pollution control board to file reply in the matter by July 18 (PTI)
11:41 am: At Jio, we are determined to take India in top 5 in broadband connectivity: Mukesh Ambani
11:39 am: Starting August 15, our Jio phone 2 will be available at an introductory price of 2,999 Rs.: Mukesh Ambani
11:35 am: Starting July 21, people can exchange their existing feature phones for a new Jio phone, for Rs 501: Mukesh Ambani
11:32 am: Jio was introduced to transform India, to make every Indian a 'Digital Indian': Mukesh Ambani
11:29 am: YouTube, WhatsApp and Facebook will be available commercially to all Jio users from August 15 this year: Mukesh Ambani
11:20 am: Supreme Court issues notice to the Union of India after hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking a direction to the Central Govt to give benefits to orphans (ANI)
11:19 am: Reliance paid Rs 42,553 crores in Goods and Services Tax: Mukesh Ambani at Reliance Industries 41st annual general meeting (ANI)
11:17 am: Our net profits grew by 20.6% to Rs 36,075 Crores. The company's consumer business, Jio and retail represents about 13% of consolidated EBITDA (Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization): Mukesh Ambani at Reliance Industries 41st annual general meeting (ANI) Read More
10:37 am: Nine school children critically injured in head-on collision between a school van and a truck in Shamli district's Kirana, Uttar Pradesh
10:33 am: Nine tourists from Gujarat's Ahmedabad go missing in Gunji near Nepal border
10:29 am: Two-year-old mowed down by private school bus in Gurugram's Bhondsi; driver on the run
10:26 am: There is nothing for Shashi Tharoor to celebrate. He is not in Tihar jail, he can sit with Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, they are also bail-wallas: Subramanian Swamy on Shashi Tharoor getting anticipatory bail in Sunanda Pushkar death case (reports ANI)
10:07 am: Sunanda Pushkar death case: Delhi court grants anticipatory bail to Congress leader Shashi Tharoor (ANI)
09:25 am: Opposition parties call for shutdown across Jharkhand against state government's Land Acquisition Bill (ANI)
09:24 am: Heavy rainfall lashes Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh (ANI)
09:18 am: Sensex opens 33.15 points higher at 35,678.55; Nifty at 10776.85
08:31 am: Heavy rain continues to lash Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar. Amarnath Yatra is currently halted along both Baltal and Pahalgam routes due to heavy rainfall in the region (ANI)
08:25 am: Uttarakhand CM to review development work in 57 assembly constituencies across Dehradun, Haridwar, Udhamsingh Nagar, Chamoli/Rudraprayag, Nainital, Pithoragarh/Champawat, Almora/Bageshwar, Pauri Garhwal & Uttarkashi/Tehri districts from July 7-26 (ANI)
08:03 am: Mumbai-Goa highway blocked since two hours following landslide
07:35 am: Sri Lankan Navy detains 12 fishermen from Rameshwaram along with two boats, while they were fishing at Delft Island (ANI)
07:11 am: India is engaged in talks and hope that at some point Maldives will take economic decision, say sources on Maldives work visa issue (ANI)
06:12 am: Statue of Liberty base climber is escorted down by police after roughly 4-hour standoff (reports The Associated Press)
06:09 am: An earthquake of magnitude 5.2 struck Andaman Islands at 2:05 am (ANI)
