LIVE: 41 missing, rescue work on; Amarnath yatra to resume soon, says CRPF

Live news updates: Officials said 15,000 stranded Amarnath pilgrims were shifted to the lower base camp of Panjtarni and 25 injured people were rushed to hospitals

Live news updates: Union minister Nitin Gadkari has expressed confidence that green fuel will end the need for the use of petrol in vehicles in the country after five years. He made the statement in Maharashtra's Akola on Thursday, where he was conferred an honorary degree of Doctor of Science by Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth.

Rescue operation was resumed at the Amarnath cave shrine on Saturday where 16 people were killed and over 40 injured in a cloudburst Friday evening. Authorities have temporarily suspended the Yatra from both Baltal and Pahalgam base camps. Teams of NDRF, SDRF, BSF, CRPF, Army, police and ITBP resumed rescue operation with the first light on Saturday morning, officials said. 

Moscow has taken a page out of Washington's playbook to troll both the US and the UK by renaming the streets in front of their embassies in the Russian capital. The streets are now officially named for the two separatist regions of eastern Ukraine where fighting is now the fiercest. The US and Britain have not recognised the Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics, but Moscow officials said they will at least have to recognise the new addresses if they want to receive their mail.

10:58 PM

Sri Lanka Prez Gotabaya Rajapaksa to resign on July 13

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to resign on July 13, according to a local media report.

10:56 PM

Zelensky suspends Ukraine's ambassador to India

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday sacked Ukraine's ambassadors to Germany, India, Czech Republic, Norway and Hungary, a media report said.

Reportedly, these envoys have been suspended for being in contact with Russia.

 

10:18 PM

Amarnath tragedy: Evacuated 64 survivors, brought back 7 bodies, said IAF

Indian Air Force (IAF) on Saturday said it has deployed 4 Mi-17V5 & 4 Cheetal helicopters for rescue & relief efforts at the Amarnath shrine. Air assets continue to be on standby at all major air bases in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh areas, it added.

 

Cheetal helicopters delivered 3.5 tonnes of relief material & evacuated 45 survivors. Mi-17V5 helicopters delivered 9.5 tonnes of relief material & evacuated 64 survivors. They also brought back 7 mortal remains.

9:37 PM

Protestors set ablaze the private residence of Sri Lankan PM

8:41 PM

Met department issues red alert to 8 districts in Telangana

8:31 PM

Welfare schemes will go if my govt falls, warns AP CM Jagan

Warning that all freebie schemes being implemented by his government would be stalled if the YSR Congress lost power in the 2024 general election, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Saturday exhorted his party rank and file to alert the people on this.

Delivering the closing speech at the two-day plenary of YSRC here, the party chief alleged that the "yellow media" was already indicating that welfare schemes benefiting crores of people in the state would be stopped if his government fell.

8:02 PM

Govt moots norms of medical devices, e-pharmacies; penalties for mishaps during clinical trials in new bill

The government has proposed a new bill which for the first time seeks to regulate e-pharmacies and medical devices and provides for penalties including imprisonment for failing to pay compensation for injury or death during clinical trials for both drugs and medical devices.

Also, for the first time, regulations for conduct of clinical trials for new drugs and medical devices have been brought under the draft New Drugs, Medical Devices and Cosmetics Bill, 2022 which seeks to replace the existing Drugs and Cosmetics Act of 1940.

7:38 PM

Delhi reports 544 new cases today

6:35 PM

Maharashtra reports 2,760 fresh Covid-19 cases today

Maharashtra reported 2,760 fresh Covid-19 cases & 05 deaths on Saturday, according to health ministry data.

Active caseload at 18,672.

6:11 PM

Jagan Mohan Reddy elected lifetime president of YSRCP

6:10 PM

Willing to resign as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka: Ranil Wickremesinghe

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has told the party leaders that he is willing to resign as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka and make way for an all-party government to take over: PMO

5:19 PM

Amarnath tragedy: 41 missing as per J&K police

41 missing as per J&K police out of which some were rescued. Yatra may resume within a day or two, Kuldiep Singh, DG, CRPF told ANI

5:10 PM

Cong can even join hands with terrorists to be in power: BJP

The BJP on Saturday cited various past incidents to allege the Congress can join hands with even terrorists to be in power as it hit back at the opposition party for holding press conferences across the country to corner the government over the issue of terrorism.

BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra noted the reported remarks of the then Union minister Salman Khurshid that Congress president Sonia Gandhi was in tears on seeing the pictures of the Batla House encounter and the party's attack on the Gujarat government headed by then chief minister Narendra Modi over the police killing of suspected terrorist Ishrat Jahan.

4:58 PM

Chinese visa case: CBI conducts searches at Karti's Chennai residence

The CBI on Saturday conducted searches at the residence of Congress MP Karti Chidambaram in Chennai in connection with the Chinese visa case, officials said.

They said during searches on May 17 after filing of the FIR, a portion of Karti Chidambaram's home was sealed because keys of that portion were not available.

4:48 PM

ED arrests one Narender Kumar Gupta for laundering Rs 425 crore

Enforcement Directorate has arrested one Narender Kumar Gupta in a case of money laundering wherein around Rs 425 crore was remitted outside India using 19 dummy Indian entities. This is ED’s fourth arrest in this case.