"Leaders, volunteers from Ladakh will go on indefinite fast in Delhi if top govt leaders don't meet them," said Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks at the Kautilya Economic Conclave in New Delhi. The third edition of the event, themed 'The Indian Era', is being organised by the Department of Economic Affairs and the Institute of Economic Growth from October 4 to October 6.
PM Modi to speak at Kautilya Economic Conclave soon.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will travel to Pakistan to attend a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation this month. The announcement was made by external affairs ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal Friday.
Addressing a gathering of tens of thousands of supporters at a mosque in Tehran, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed to defeat the country's "enemies" in his Friday sermon, backing Palestinians and Lebanese movements against Israel.
The Supreme Court formed an independent special investigation team to conduct probe into allegations of use of animal fat in making Tirupati laddus. The special investigation team (SIT) will comprise two officials each from the CBI and the Andhra Pradesh Police besides a senior FSSAI official. Observing that it will not allow the court to be used as a "political battleground", a bench of Justices B R Gavai and K V Viswanathan passed the order on a batch of pleas, including those seeking a court-monitored probe into the matter.
Ten people were killed and three suffered severe injuries in a fatal collision on the Prayagraj-Varanasi highway in Mirzapur district between Thursday night and Friday morning. A speeding truck rear-ended a tractor trolley carrying laborers. The accident took place around 1 AM on Friday on GT Road near Kacchwa when the laborers were returning to their homes in Varanasi after completing roofing work in Bhadohi. Mirzapur Superintendent of Police Abhinandan stated that all the deceased were reportedly from villages within the jurisdiction of Mirzamurad police station in Varanasi.
A government school teacher, his wife and two daughters were allegedly shot dead at their rented accommodation on Thursday, over a month after the family lodged an FIR against a man saying he would be responsible if something untoward happened to them, police said. Superintendent of Police of Amethi Anoop Kumar Singh said it is not yet clear if the deaths are related to the case. According to police, the deceased were identified as Sunil (35), his wife Poonam (32), Drishti (6) and his one-year-old daughter. Sunil was a native of Rae Bareli and was posted in a government school in Amethi's Panhauna. During the initial investigation, police found that Poonam had lodged an FIR against Chandan Verma in Rae Bareli on August 18 under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, and for eve-teasing, the SP said.
Former Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot's ex-OSD Lokesh Sharma on Thursday stated he has handed over evidence to Delhi Police's crime branch in support of his claim that Gehlot provided him call recordings of Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat to circulate to media during the political crisis of 2020. On Thursday, Sharma reached the crime branch office in New Delhi and gave them a pen drive, laptop and phone for investigation. Delhi Police questioned Sharma on Wednesday last week in connection with a phone-tapping case lodged on a complaint by Shekhawat.
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