Breaking News, July 23

ED arrested Arpita Mukherjee on Saturday after 21 crore rupees were recovered from her residence. This is the second arrest in the SSC scam case. 

Two persons have been arrested for alleged possession of three pistols and 14 cartridges in Shivaji Nagar area of suburban Mankhurd here, police said on Saturday.

Vehicular traffic resumed on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway after it was halted for several hours owing to bad weather and shooting stones in Ramban district on Saturday, officials said.

 Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday announced that the Delhi government will start "spoken English course" at 50 centres across the city.

The Uttarakhand High Court has sought a reply from the state and the central governments on a PIL saying marriages of girls under 18 years of age, permitted under the Muslim law, must be declared illegal. The PIL has been filed by the Youth Bar Association of India. Hearing the petition on Friday, a division bench of Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice R C Colby directed the Centre and the Uttarakhand government to file a reply in the matter.

Ladakh has reported 17 fresh cases of Coronavirus, thereby increasing the COVID-19 tally to 28,726, while 13 patients were cured and discharged a hospital, officials said. All positive cases were received in Leh.

A 22-year-old man was allegedly killed with his throat slit at his house in Prakash Nagar area here, police said on Saturday. The man was alone in his house when the incident happened, they said. A hunt has been launched to nab the unidentified accused, police said.

Rains lashed large parts of Rajasthan with Kota's Ladpura area recording the highest rainfall in the last 24 hours that ended at 8.30 am on Saturday at 130 mm, according to the meteorological department. During the same period, Jaipur tehsil received 100 mm of rainfall, Deoli 9 mm, Jhalawar and Bidasar 80 mm and Thanagazi 70 mm, the weather office said.

To promote Jharkhand as "a must visit destination", the state government has drawn up mega plans to woo investors to set up adequate infrastructure in the tourism sector, an official said. The state is all set to launch its ‘Tourism Policy 2021’ in New Delhi on Saturday.

Three children and a woman, part of a marriage party, were killed and 15 others got injured in a collision of two vehicles in Samba district, officials said on Saturday. The injured were taken to Samba district hospital.

The flood situation in Assam has improved although over 10,000 people remained affected in three districts, an official bulletin said. More than 10,000 people are suffering from the deluge in Cachar, Morigaon and Tamulpur districts, the bulletin issued by Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) said.

At least six houses were destroyed and 15 others suffered damages after an overhead water tank made of corrugated steel sheets burst in a settlement in Maharashtra's Thane city early on Saturday, officials said. A 75-year-old woman was seriously injured in the incident that occurred in Rupa Devi Pada, a hamlet situated on a hillock in Wagle Estate area, after which she was hospitalised, they said.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah is on a two-day Gujarat visit from Saturday, during which he is scheduled to launch a host of projects, including the "e-FIR" service and a CCTV-based command and control room for police in Gandhinagar, officials said. Shah will inaugurate this state-level control room for surveillance and traffic management at an event to be organised in the campus of National Forensic Sciences University in Gandhinagar on Saturday morning, they said.

Officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) interrogated West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee overnight in connection with the teacher recruitment scam case. The agency sleuths, who started the interrogation at the residence of the minister at 8 AM on Friday, are still continuing with the process.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tributes to freedom fighters Chandra Shekhar Azad and Bal Gangadhar Tilak on their birth anniversaries on Saturday, saying they epitomised courage and patriotism. "One of the everlasting legacies of Lokmanya Tilak is the large scale Ganesh Utsavs, which ignited a spirit of cultural consciousness among the people. During one of my Mumbai visits, I visited the Lokmanya Seva Sangh, which has a close association with Lokmanya Tilak," Modi tweeted, posting pictures of his visit.

The body of a 50-year-old man was found stuffed in a refrigerator at his house in northeast Delhi's Seelampur area on Friday, police said. According to the police, a caller informed them on Friday around 7.15 pm that her relative was not attending phone calls.

Two days after Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami washed their feet to welcome them to Uttarakhand, kanwariyas were showered with flower petals in Haridwar on Friday. On the orders of the chief minister, Haridwar District Magistrate Vinay Shankar Pandey and Senior Superintendent of Police Yogendra Rawat had flowers rained on the Shiva devotees from helicopters flying overhead.

The Allahabad High Court's Lucknow bench on Friday rejected the bail plea of gangster-turned politician Mukhtar Ansari in a case of alleged fraud in the registration of an ambulance used to ferry him to a Punjab court last year. During his jail time in Punjab, Ansari was on March 31 last year taken to the Mohali court from Ropar jail in an ambulance having its number registered in Barabanki.