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6:11 PM

MP assembly polls: Samajwadi Party releases list of nine candidates

The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Sunday declared a list of nine candidates for the assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh scheduled on November 17. SP leader Yash Bhartiya said the names of six candidates on the list were announced earlier while three new names were added to it. "The nine candidates include former MLA Meera Deepak Yadav who is fielded from the Niwari assembly constituency," said Bhartiya.

5:19 PM

Delhi CM Kejriwal felicitates kabaddi star Pawan Sehrawat, announces Rs 1 cr reward

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday felicitated Pawan Sehrawat, who was part of the gold medal-winning kabaddi team at the recently-concluded Asian Games. He also announced that the Delhi government will grant him a reward of Rs 1 crore. During the event, Kejriwal mentioned that the city government is creating a policy that other states will want to emulate.

3:39 PM

Former chief election commissioner MS Gill dies aged 86

Former chief election commissioner Manohar Singh Gill died at a south Delhi hospital on Sunday after a brief illness, according to people close to him. He was 86. Gill will be cremated in New Delhi on Monday, they said. A former bureaucrat, Gill served under Parkash Singh Badal as a young officer when the Shiromani Akali Dal patriarch was the Punjab chief minister.

3:19 PM

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviy rejects India's low rank in Global Hunger Index

Rejecting India's low rank in Global Hunger Index-2023, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Sunday said parameters that are currently being followed for evaluation are not based on conditions specific to the country. Interacting with students at IIT-Guwahati, he refuted reports of large-scale malnutrition in India.

2:33 PM

SpiceJet to operate its second flight to Tel Aviv under 'Operation Ajay'

"A group of 120 Israeli nationals, among others, will be travelling from Delhi to Tel Aviv on the SpiceJet flight. SpiceJet's first evacuation flight from Israel, carrying 320 Indian passengers, touched down in Delhi at 8.10 am today," the airline said in a statement.

2:24 PM

Air India Express flight from Dubai makes emergency landing at Karachi airport

A Dubai-Amritsar flight made an emergency landing at Karachi airport on Saturday after an onboard guest had a sudden medical complication during the journey. According to an Air India Express spokesperson, the crew opted to divert the flight to Karachi as it was the closest location to provide the guest with immediate medical assistance.

1:43 PM

No support for terrorism, terror activities in India: LS Speaker Om Birla

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Sunday said he has conveyed to his counterparts from G20 nations that India does not support terrorism or terror activities in any form.

1:13 PM

Water runs out at UN shelters in Gaza; medics fear for patients as Israeli ground offensive looms

Water has run out at UN shelters across Gaza as thousands packed into the courtyard of the besieged territory's largest hospital as a refuge of last resort from a looming Israeli ground offensive and overwhelmed doctors struggled to care for patients they fear will die once generators run out of fuel. Israel has cut off the flow of food, medicine, water and electricity to Gaza, pounded neighbourhoods with airstrikes and told the estimated 1 million residents of the north to flee south ahead of Israel's planned attack.

12:15 PM

UP CM Adityanath inaugurates development projects worth Rs 233 crore in Gorakhpur

At the foundation stone laying and inauguration ceremony of 303 development projects, the UP chief minister said urban development is the need of the hour, and it will play an important role in making India an economic superpower

11:55 AM

Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan flags-in first ever ship into Vizhinjam port

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday flagged-in the first ever ship at the Rs 7,700 crore deep-water international Vizhinjam port. Zhen Hua 15 -- which began its journey from China at the end of August, was scheduled to dock at Vizhinjam on October 4, but its journey got delayed due to bad weather conditions along its route.

11:01 AM

Earthquake of magnitude 3.1 strikes Faridabad in Haryana at 4.08 pm

Earthquake of magnitude 3.1 strikes Faridabad in Haryana at 4.08 pm: National Centre for Seismology

10:51 AM

PM Modi urges Amitabh Bachchan to visit Rann Utsav, Statue of Unity

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged Amitabh Bachchan to visit the upcoming Rann Utsav and Statue of Unity in Gujarat. Bachchan on Sunday shared a photograph on X from the prime minister's recent visit to the Adi Kailash peak, an abode of Lord Shiva, and Parvati Kund in Jolingkong, Uttarakhand, and lamented that the "tragedy is that I shall never be able to visit it in person".

10:26 AM

Chandrasekhar Rao releases BRS's election manifesto, launches campaign for Telangana assembly polls

Raising social security pension amounts, increasing financial assistance given under the 'Rythu Bandhu' investment support scheme for farmers and providing LPG cylinders at Rs 400 each are some of the promises made by the ruling BRS for the upcoming assembly elections in Telangana. 

10:01 AM

Farmers in Karnataka incurred loss of Rs 30,000 cr due to drought: CM Siddaramaiah

According to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, there is a crop loss of 42 lakh hectares and 216 out of 236 taluks of the state have been declared drought-hit. "There is crop loss of 42 lakh hectares in the state. The farmers have incurred a loss of Rs 30,000 this year. As per the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) norms, we have sought Rs 4,860 crore from the Union government and the Central team has visited the drought-hit areas," Siddaramaiah said addressing people during the inauguration of historic Mysuru Dasara festival.

9:22 AM

IndianOil to invest Rs 1,660 cr in JV with NPTC to set up power plants

Indian Oil Corporation, the nation's biggest oil firm, will invest Rs 1,660.15 crore as equity in a newly set up joint venture with energy major NTPC Ltd for setting up renewable power plants.

In June, IOC and NTPC had formed a 50:50 joint venture company, IndianOil NTPC Green Energy Pvt Ltd, to set up renewable energy projects to meet round-the-clock power requirements of refineries of the oil company.