Breaking News, October 12

A speeding truck crushed a 58-year-old motorbike-borne man to death in Maharashtra's Nagpur city, police said on Wednesday. The accident took place on Mankapur Ring Road on Tuesday and the truck driver was arrested on charges of rash driving and causing death by negligence, they said.

Hyderabad city police on Wednesday said they have busted a Chinese investment fraud of Rs 903 crore with the arrest of 10 people, including a Chinese national.

Police on Wednesday arrested three persons, two of them lawyers, for allegedly sending two forged letters to the Madhya Pradesh High Court using the name of a woman constable who had filed a sexual harassment case in Jabalpur against her senior, an official said. The HC has ordered a probe into the letters which talk about the accused in the sexual harassment case, an inspector, paying a bribe of Rs 25 lakh to seek bail, he said.

Congress presidential candidate Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday accused the BJP of weakening the country's autonomous authorities and said he is contesting the poll to his party's top post to save the Constitution and democracy.

The Punjab Vigilance Bureau on Wednesday said it has arrested an executive officer, currently posted in Amritsar, for amassing huge wealth allegedly by misusing his official position. The bureau found 10 different properties purchased by EO Girish Verma in his name, his wife and son's name.

Two persons were killed in separate incidents of lightning strike at a village in Thane district of Maharashtra, police said on Wednesday.

The flood situation in Assam worsened on Wednesday as 69,750 people are reeling under the impact of incessant rain that lashed several districts and neighboring Arunachal Pradesh, officials said.

The CBI has registered a case against unidentified officials of Delhi government's forest department and an official of Bank of Baroda in connection with a Rs 223 crore fixed deposit scam, the central agency said Wednesday.

Mumbai on Wednesday reported 194 new coronavirus cases, a jump from 129 a day ago, taking the overall tally to 11,51,776, while the death of one more patient due to the infection pushed up the toll to 19,737, the city civic body said. The metropolis has reported more than 100 coronavirus cases for the sixth day in a row. On Tuesday, Mumbai had logged 129 COVID-19 cases, but zero death.

A 25-year-old auto-rickshaw driver was arrested in south Delhi's Saket area for allegedly molesting a school student, police said on Wednesday. The accused, Shahrukh usually drove in Ambedkar Nagar, Sangam Vihar and Chirag Delhi area, they said.

Four people travelling in two cars with more than Rs 3 crore unaccounted cash were detained in Rajasthan's Sirohi district on Wednesday, police said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Moscow is ready to resume gas supplies to Europe via a link of Germany-bound Nord Stream 2 pipeline under the Baltic Sea.

The Haryana government has ordered to completely halt the production of cough syrups at Sonipat-based company Maiden Pharmaceuticals Limited. The development comes after the company was recently flagged by the World Health Organisation (WHO), in wake of the deaths of 66 children in The Gambia. 

MiG 29K fighter aircraft crashed over the sea off the Goa coast on Wednesday. According to the details, the MiG 29K fighter aircraft came down while it was on a routine sortie. The aircraft developed a technical malfunction while returning to base.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday quashed two separate FIRs registered against poet Kumar Vishwas and BJP leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga. The court said the continuation of the criminal case against Bagga will amount to ‘an abuse of the process of law’.

Aadhaar holders who were issued the unique ID more than 10 years back but have not updated their details since then are being urged to update identification and residence proof documents, UIDAI said. In a statement, UIDAI- the government agency that issues Aadhaar numbers- said the updation can be done online as well as at Aadhaar centres.

Party veteran leader and presidential candidate Mallikarjun Kharge has dismissed rumours suggesting interim president Sonia Gandhi's support for him.

Kharge said his name was not suggested by Sonia Gandhi. 

Army assault dog Zoom that hit headlines for bravely fighting terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag, is critical and getting treatment under close observation of medical team at Army Veterinary Hospital in Srinagar.

Motorcycles have been inducted for the first time for the Delhi government's bus lane enforcement, with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal saying they will be able to pass on narrow roads, something that was impossible for the Innova cars. Kejriwal on Tuesday flagged off 66 enforcement vehicles, including 36 motorcycles and 30 Innova cars.

India is talking to different countries to make Rupay acceptable in their nations, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Tuesday.

“Not just that, the UPI (Unified Payments Interface), the BHIM app, and NCPI (the National Payments Corporation of India) are all now being worked in such a way that their systems in their respective country, however, robust or otherwise can talk to our system and the inter-operability itself will give strength for Indians expertise in those countries,” she said.

 As many as six people died in rain-related incidents in Uttar Pradesh, a statement on Tuesday read. More than 1,300 villages across 18 districts have been affected by floods, it further said. While three people died due to excessive rain, one each was killed due to lightning strike, snakebite and drowning, a report by the Relief Commissioner's office said.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday sought to make light of Union Home Minister Amit Shah's visit to Sitab Diara, the village where Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan was born, on his 120th birth anniversary, as he said that the BJP leader did not have the age or experience to comment on the socialist icon's legacy.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will visit Ayodhya on Wednesday, the third time in 20 days, to unveil the statue of Hindu philosopher and social reformer Ramanujacharya at Radha Soami Temple Golaghat.

Cricketer Shikhar Dhawan to make his Bollywood debut with leading actors Huma Qureshi, Sonakshi Sinha's 'Double XL'. In past too, several cricketers tried their hands at acting but hardly anyone of them turned into an established actor.

The Anti-Terrorism Squad of Maharashtra Police has arrested an alleged member of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) from Jalna in the state, an official said. It took the number of PFI members arrested by the ATS so far to 22.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen at US Treasury, in Washington DC, on Wednesday. The leaders discussed the current global Macroeconomic situation among other issues of mutual interest, said Ministry of Finance