Breaking News, October 16 | Highlights

Egyptian vultures spotted on sandy mid-island on the Yamuna river

Shutters of Maniyar Dam in Pathanamthitta opened 

Punjab: 2nd accused in Singhu border incident arrested by Amritsar Rural Police

Flood like situation in Ranni town of Pathanamthitta district in Kerala

Tolerance has a limit....don't test our patience: BKU Chief

NCB conducts raids at two places in Palghar district

Kerala State Disaster Management Authority is in touch with Naval Authorities

Chhattisgarh: Raigarh BJP MP Gomati Sai & local people sit on Dharna

Army Chief General MM Naravane visited Headquarters of Sri Lanka Navy

PM Modi should speak with Bangladesh PM to end cycle of violence: ISCKON VP

Everybody thinks Rahul Gandhi should become the party president: Ambika Soni

Kerala: Kanjirappally in Kottayam district inundated due to incessant rainfall

Sukesh Chandrasekhar case: ED issues summon to actress Jacqueline Fernandez

Accused Sarabjeet Singh sent to seven days police custody

Pampore Encounter: Two terrorists killed. Incriminating materials, including arms and ammunition, recovered. Search going on. Further details shall follow: J&K Police.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurates and lays the foundation stone of various development projects of Andaman and Nicobar Islands from the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Island. Union Territory Lt. Governor Admiral DK Joshi (Retired) is also present.

Kerala is expected to receive heavy to very heavy rainfall with isolated extremely heavy rainfall till the morning of October 17. Isolated heavy rainfall is expected on October 18 and a further reduction in rainfall from October 19: IMD Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

WATCH: Air display by the Suryakiran Aerobatic team at the Pune Air Force Station on the occasion of 50 years of victory in the 1971 India-Pakistan war. 

WATCH: National Security Guard celebrating 37th Raising Day at NSG campus, Manesar.

Income Tax Department carried out search and seizure operations on an importer and trader of laptops, mobile phones and peripheral parts. The search operations  spread across the NCR, Haryana and West Bengal revealed large scale under-invoicing of imports: CBDT Spokesperson said. 

J&K: Srinagar sees a gradual increase in tourist influx after COVID cases decline. We are seeing a surge in high-end tourists. Almost all the three and four stars hotels are sold out till December. Unfortunately, the lower-end market segment is not picking up: President Travel Agents Association of Kashmir.

Congress Working Committee meeting: I have always appreciated frankness. There is no need to speak to me through the media. So let us all have a free and honest discussion. But what should get communicated outside four walls of this room is the collective decision of CWC: Sonia Gandhi. 

Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram receives rainfall. IMD predicts rain or thundershowers for the city till October 20. 

Congress Interim President Sonia Gandhi chairs Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting at AICC office in Delhi.

25 people were detained after a clash between two groups of people following a road accident in Delhi's Dabri. Police have registered FIR on charges of rioting in the case, security heightened in Dabri area: Delhi Police. 

Chhattisgarh: Four CRPF personnel injured in an explosion caused after a box containing igniter set fell on the floor in a CRPF Special Train at Raipur railway station, says Raipur Police.

COVID-19: Total number of samples tested up to October 15 is 58,98,35,258 including 9,23,003 samples tested on Friday. 

One criminal was shot in retaliatory fire by police during an encounter in Delhi's Dwarka's Sector-23 last night. The criminal is admitted to a local hospital. He was absconding after committing the murder of the son of one police personnel: Delhi Police.

Kadamtala Battalion of Assam Rifles on 14 October, in an intelligence-based operation, apprehended an NSCN (K-NIKKI) member and recovered one 9 mm revolver from Cachar District in Assam.

Earthquake of magnitude 3.7 on the Richter Scale occurred at Churachandpur, Manipur at 0716 hours: National Center for Seismology (NCS).

Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting to be held at the party headquarters in New Delhi today. Upcoming Assembly elections, as well as organisational elections, will be discussed in the meeting, as per Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel.

India introduces draft resolution in United Nations General Assembly for granting observer status to International Solar Alliance: Ambassador of India to United Nations TS Tirumurti.

UN Security Council condemns in "the strongest term" the terrorist attack on Shia mosque in Afghanistan's Kandahar; underlines the need to hold accountable the perpetrators, organisers, financiers and sponsors of terrorism.