Updates: Delhi sees 699 fresh Covid cases, 4 deaths; positivity rate at 21.15%

Two Wisconsin police officers were killed while exchanging gunfire with a driver on Saturday, Fox News reported.

According to the Wisconsin Department of Justice, a Chetek Police officer conducted a traffic stop just before 3:40 p.m. local time in the village of Cameron, Wisconsin.

During the traffic stop, gunfire was exchanged, striking the Chetek Police officer and a Cameron Police officer. Both officers were pronounced dead at the scene, reported ANI. 

Delhi reports 699 fresh COVID cases and 4 deaths in the last 24 hours. Positivity rate stands at 21.15%. 

An avalanche in the French Alps killed four people Sunday, France's interior minister said, calling the death toll a provisional count.

The avalanche rolled down the Armancette glacier in Contamines-Montjoie, in the Haute-Savoie region, some 30 kilometers (almost 20 miles) southwest of Chamonix, reported AP. 

An unidentified gunman fired shots at a fast food chain restaurant with a sea view in Karachi and injured the manager, ARY News reported on Sunday.

The man who opened fire was apparently drunk, according to the police officials, and he also misbehaved with the restaurant staff.

The administration of the hotel immediately called police helpline 15, however, the man later fled the scene even before the arrival of the police, reported ARY News. (ANI) 

Adani group's corporate brand custodian and head of corporate affairs Aman Kumar Singh, who is facing a corruption charge in Chhattisgarh, has resigned from the board of NDTV Ltd due to other preoccupations.

In a stock exchange filing, New Delhi Television Ltd last week said, “Aman Kumar Singh has tendered his resignation from the position of non-executive director of the company, with effect from close of business hours on April 1, 2023, due to his preoccupation with other engagements”, reported PTI. 

The Mumbai Police's Special Investigation Team (SIT) has arrested a batchmate of IIT Bombay student Darshan Solanki in connection with the alleged abetment of his suicide, an official said on Sunday, reported PTI. 

Days ahead of the Karnataka Assembly polls, the Congress on Sunday appointed B N Chandrappa as working president of its state unit.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has appointed Chandrappa as working president in the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee, a party statement said, reported PTI. 

Israeli warplanes and artillery struck targets in Syria following rare rocket fire from the northeastern neighbor, as Jewish-Muslim tensions reached a peak Sunday at a volatile Jerusalem shrine with simultaneous religious rituals.

The tiger popular in India was 3,167 in 2022, revealed the latest tiger census data released by Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Sunday. According to the data, the tiger population stood at 1,411 in 2006, 1,706 in 2010, 2,226 in 2014, 2,967 in 2018 and 3,167 in 2022.

Two Indian-origin candidates are lined up to go head-to-head for the post of Leicester Mayor in the local elections coming up in the UK early next month.

Conservative Party councillor Sanjay Modhwadia will compete with Rita Patel, a former Labour councillor who announced her bid recently in order to scrap the role.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Delhi Minister of Health, Urban Development and Water, Saurabh Bhardwaj, on Sunday said that the election for the post of Mayor of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) will be held on April 26.

Bhardwaj, who is a nominated member of MCD, while speaking to ANI, said, "It is necessary to conduct the election in April. Incumbent Delhi Mayor Shelly Oberoi has set April 26 as the date for this," Delhi government minister and AAP leader Saurabh Bhardwaj said.

The Haryana government will spend nearly ₹77 crore in the current financial year for the development of 20 identified backward blocks in eight districts during the first phase of the Swaranjayanti Khand Utthan Yojana (SKUY).

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin has written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, opposing the non-inclusion of Tamil in the computer test for recruitment to the CRPF, saying the notification mandating only the use of English and Hindi was 'discriminatory' and ‘unilateral’, PTI reported.

The Congress has to be at the centre of any coalition that would take on the BJP in the 2024 general elections and all Opposition parties should be more mindful of sensitivities as well as be circumspect in criticising each other's ideologies in order to build a strong alliance, Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal said on Sunday.

A 21-year-old man and his cousin sister were allegedly tied to a tree and beaten up by villagers in Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa district on the suspicion of having an illicit relationship, PTI reported citing police on Sunday.

The incident took place on April 3 in Bamanda village under Piplod police station limits and came to light when a video of it surfaced on Thursday, following which the police registered a case, an official said.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday reached here on a day-long visit to Ayodhya to pay obeisance to Lord Ram at the Ram temple.

Thousands of his supporters called ‘Shiv Sainiks’ accompanied him.

The Delhi High Court will on Monday hear a plea by JNU student Sharjeel Imam seeking bail in connection with a 2020 riots case involving allegations of sedition, PTI reported.

The case, which assails a January 24, 2022 order by the trial court dismissing Imam’s bail application in the matter, is listed for hearing before a bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Talwant Singh.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will embark on a six-day visit to Uganda and Mozambique beginning Monday to explore ways to expand India's ties with the two countries.

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), announcing the visit, said on Sunday that Jaishankar's first destination would be Uganda.

A 50-year-old man and his 11-year-old daughter were killed after Russian forces struck a residential building in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia early on Sunday, Reuters reported citing the authorities.

Ukraine's State Emergency service also reported that a 46-year-old woman, who it described as the wife and mother of the victims, was pulled from the wreckage.

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader and former MLA Inder Iqbal Singh Atwal will join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in New Delhi on Sunday, said sources.

His induction will be held at the party's national headquarters in the presence of senior BJP leaders, sources informed.

A 17-metre-long (56-foot-long) sperm whale died after washing up on a beach in Bali, a conservation official said Sunday, making it the third whale that beached itself on the Indonesian island in just a little over a week, reported AFP.

A Sikh Jatha comprising 1052 pilgrims under the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) will leave from Amritsar for Gurdwara Panja Sahib in Pakistan on Sunday to celebrate Baisakhi.

A major infiltration bid foiled by Indian Army in Poonch Sector (J&K). On the intervening night of 8-9 Apr, alert troops of Indian Army detected some suspicious movement of a group of individuals. The individuals were challenged by Indian Army troops on own side of LoC, close to the fence. On being intercepted, in the ensuing operations, one dead body has been seen & the other intruders ran into the forest area. Cordon of the area has been established and search operation is in progress: PRO Defence Jammu

An emergency meeting of Pakistan's federal cabinet has been called today to make a decision on whether funds should be released to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for conducting the elections in Punjab, reported ANI citing the Dawn.

India on Sunday witnessed a slight dip in the daily Covid-19 cases as compared to the day before with 5,357 new infections.