Breaking news highlights: Delhi reports 959 fresh Covid cases, 9 deaths

Chhattisgarh on Tuesday reported 234 new Covid cases which pushed the caseload to 11,72,708. No fresh deaths were seen on Tuesday and the toll remained unchanged at 14,101. There are currently 1,577 active cases in the state. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a conference of the labour ministers of all states and Union Territories (UTs) on August 25 (Thursday). According to a statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), the conference is being convened in the spirit of cooperative federalism to discuss various significant labour-related issues.

Security forces arrested a "hybrid" militant and an overground worker of

Lashkar-e-Taiba in Sopore sub district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, news agency ANI reported. 

An ITBP jawan and his wife were killed when their car was collided with a truck in Sadar area here on Tuesday, reports PTI.

One more body was recovered in Gwad village of Tehri district on Tuesday, taking the death toll in Saturday's cloudbursts in Uttarakhand to seven, PTI reported.

Bharatiya Janata Party national president JP Nadda has censured the party’s former West Bengal unit president Dilip Ghosh for back-to-back comments against the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and alleging a nexus between a section of the federal agency’s officers and leaders of the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), BJP leaders aware of the development said.

Delhi on Tuesday registered 959 Covid cases and nine fatalities, taking the number of active cases to 4656, , the state health department said.

A fire broke out in the basement of Jyoti Nagar in Northeast Delhi at around 4pm on Tuesday, 3 fire vehicles reached the spot and doused the fire, two policemen were injured, and have been admitted to a hospital, ANI reported citing fire department. 

Tamil Nadu has reported 560 fresh Covid-19 cases and 670 recoveries in the last 24 hours, no deaths reported.

Telangana BJP MLA T Raja Singh, who was arrested for alleged derogatory remarks on Prophet Muhammad, has been sent to 14-day judicial custody. Singh will be lodged in Chanchalguda prison in Hyderabad.

Three officers have been terminated for the BrahMos missile misfiring incident on 9th March 2022.

India's Adani Enterprises said on Tuesday its media unit will indirectly buy a 29.18% stake in New Delhi Television Ltd and launch an open offer for another 26% stake in the media house.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested Amar Chand Gupta, Ram Lal Gupta, Raj Kumar Gupta -directors of Shree Bankey Behari Exports Ltd(SBBEL) and Sanjay Kansal, nephew & employee of Amar Chand Gupta in connection with the bank fraud case involving Rs605 Crore by Shree Bankey Behari Exports, ANI reported.

BJP State President and MP Bandi Sanjay was arrested after stopping his rally, it is unconstitutional. The questions we are asking about is his (KCR) corruption and 'Parivar Raj', he does not have an answer, so his (Bandi) visit was stopped: Union minister G Kishan Reddy. 

The right engine of Mumbai-bound IndiGo aircraft on Tuesday developed a snag at Goa Airport while proceeding to the runway, passengers disembarked with help of a Navy rescue team, said the airport director, as reported by PTI.

We were hearing that they will arrest Manish Sisodia within the next 10 days. But now I feel that they will arrest him in the next 2-3 days: Delhi CM and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal, in Bhavnagar.

A Delhi court on Tuesday granted interim bail to Poonam Jain, wife of Delhi minister Satyendar Jain, in a money laundering case. She was earlier granted interim bail in the case.

A suspicious object has been found near in near Punjab's Ferozepore police station. “The anti-sabotage team has been called. We are investigating further”: Mohit Dhawan, Inspector, Ferozepore told ANI.

The Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Navy on Tuesday successfully flight tested Vertical Launch Short Range Surface-to-Air Missile (VL-SRSAM) from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Chandpur off the coast of Odisha, reports ANI.

Telangana BJP MLA T Raja Singh has been suspended by party for his alleged derogatory comments against Prophet Muhammad.

All India Majlis-e-Itehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday amid the row over the arrest of its Telangana MLA T Raja Singh hours after he allegedly made derogatory comments against Prophet Mohammad and sparked protests in Hyderabad. Read more

Kamrup's CJM court has summonedDelhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia on September 29in connection with the defamation case filed by Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma.In a press conference in Delhi a few months ago, AAP leader andDelhi Deputy Chief Minister alleged that Assam government had given contracts to Himanta Biswa Sarma’s wife’s firms andson’s business partner to supply PPE kits above market rates during Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.

“I strongly condemn the illegal arrest of BJP Telangana state president Bandi Sanjay by the TRS govt. KCR is worried seeing the massive support that BJP is receiving from all corners of the state against his corrupt & family-centric regime”: BJP president JP Nadda. 

“We'll fight democratically and ensure that in the coming elections TRS & KCR will be wiped out”, Nadda added.

Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday reviewed the flood situation in Vidisha.