Highlights: Delhi reports 865 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours; active cases at 4,279

A Delhi-bound flight in which Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin was scheduled to travel on Thursday was cancelled due to a technical snag, airport sources said.

The Chief Minister was scheduled to leave for Delhi to invite President Draupadi Murmu on Friday for a hospital inauguration here, reported PTI. 

Delhi on Thursday reported 865 new Covid cases, taking the tally of active cases to 4,279.

The Biden administration announced on Thursday plans to open migration centers in Guatemala and Colombia for asylum seekers heading to the U.S.-Mexico border — a bid to slow what’s expected to be a surge of migrants as pandemic-era immigration restrictions end. (AP)

A court here on Thursday extended till May 12 the judicial custody of former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia in a corruption case related to the alleged excise scam.

Special Judge M K Nagpal also directed the CBI to supply an e-copy of supplementary charge sheet, filed by the agency on April 25, to Sisodia, reported PTI. 

A criminal, Vivek Kumar alias Batohi, who had an award of ₹50,000 against him killed in an encounter between police personnel and criminals in Begusarai. Other two accomplices arrested, and their weapons seized, ANI reported citing police. 

Tech Mahindra on Thursday reported a 27 per cent decline in its consolidated net profit for the March quarter at ₹1,179.8 crore. Detailed report here

IT major Wipro on Thursday reported a marginal year-on-year decline of 0.4 per cent in net profit to ₹3,074.5 crore for the fourth quarter ended March 2023 and announced a share buyback of up to ₹12,000 crore.

Akali stalwart Parkash Singh Badal was cremated with full state honours at his ancestral village in Punjab's Muktsar district on Thursday with thousands of mourners and leaders across the political spectrum paying their last respects to the five-time chief minister. (PTI) 

Three days of custody of TMC leader Anubrata Mondal's daughter Sukanya Mondal has been granted to ED in a cattle smuggling case by the Rouse Avenue Court, reported ANI. 

Internet suspended in Kaliyaganj Community Development Block covering PS Kaliyaganj under Raiganj Police District in Uttar Dinajpur till 0800 hours of April 30, following violence over alleged rape and murder of a girl, reported ANI. 

A military object found in a Polish forest was probably not fired from abroad and most likely belonged to the Polish army, private broadcaster RMF FM reported on Thursday.

RMF, which did not identify its sources, said authorities believed the object could be part of an air-to-surface missile, measuring several metres, which was stuck in the ground.

The defence and justice ministries did not identify what had been had found near the city of Bydgoszcz, beyond describing it as a "military object". They also did not say how long it had been there. (Reuters)

India was among the top requesting countries to remove content from Twitter last year, the popular microblogging platform said in a blog post. On Tuesday, Twitter shared data on its health and safety efforts and said it received approximately 53,000 legal requests to remove content from governments across the globe from January 1 to June 30, 2022.

Chinese Defence Minister General Li Shangfu arrives in Delhi to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Defence Ministers' Meeting on 28th April.

A 33-year-old man, who happens to be the nephew of a panchayat-level BJP leader, was allegedly shot dead by the police at Kaliaganj in West Bengal’s Uttar Dinajpur district early on Thursday triggering fresh tension in the area.

Locals alleged that police went to the village to conduct raids after an irate mob attacked policemen and set ablaze barracks inside the Kaliaganj police station on Tuesday.

“Around 2:00 am police came to the village looking for me. I was not at home as I had gone to attend a marriage ceremony. They were taking away my father and son-in-law. The women in the family protested. When my nephew Mrityunjay Barman questioned them, he was shot dead,” Bishnu Barman, a local BJP leader, told media persons.

Objecting to the release of Anand Mohan Singh from Bihar's Saharsa jail, the widow of slain District Magistrate G Krishnaiah who was murdered by the gangster-turned-politician, on Thursday appealed to President Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene and ask Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to send him to jail. Read more

Calcutta HC orders NIA probe into Ram Navami clashes

India and UK signed an agreement to collaborate on science and innovation, following a meeting between Union Minister for Science and Technology Dr Jitendra Singh and UK Science Minister George Freeman in London yesterday. (ANI)

Fire breaks out in the attic of the new OPD block of the Indira Gandhi Medical College & Hospital in Shimla, no casualty reported. (ANI)

Bangladesh Army Chief General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed, who is on a three-day visit to India, lays a wreath at the National War Memorial in Delhi.

India logged 9,355 fresh Covid-19 cases, recording a marginal dip as compared to yesterday. Read more

Today, Shri @RahulGandhi will visit Karnataka to attend a public meeting in Mangalore & engage in an interaction session with the fisherfolk community in Udupi, said Congress in a tweet.

Jammu-Srinagar national highway is blocked at Ramban in Udhampur as traffic movement is restricted due to bad weather in the region. (ANI)

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has written to the manufacturer of health drink Bournvita, Mondelez India International, asking to conduct a review and withdraw ‘misleading’ advertisements and packaging labels. Read more

Badrinath Dham opens for darshan with Vedic chants, tunes of Army band. The portals of one of Uttarakhand's Char Dham opened amid chants of Vedic shlokas (hymns). The temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu was decorated with 15 quintals of flowers. Read more

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will chair the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Defence Ministers Meeting on April 28 in New Delhi.

Defence Ministers of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan will participate in the meeting. India has invited Belarus and Iran, currently observers in SCO, to participate in the SCO Defence Ministers' Meeting.