Breaking: Bihar minister Kartikeya Singh accused in kidnapping case resigns from his post

Bihar minister Kartikeya Singh, who was moved from the ministry of law to be the sugarcane industry minister of the state this morning, has resigned from his post. The chief minister has accepted his resignation & further sent it to the Governor, news agency ANI reports. 

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday thanked his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for expressing concerns over the human and material losses caused by the country's worst flood in years, saying his country will overcome the adverse effects of the natural calamity.

Delhi on Wednesday reported 377 new Covid cases and two deaths, while the positivity rate stood at 2.58 per cent, according to data shared by the health department.

Bollywood actor Jacqueline Fernandez had consciously chosen to overlook conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar's criminal past and continued to indulge in financial transactions with him, the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is investigating a ₹200 crore money laundering case, said in its supplementary charge sheet.

An unidentified militant was killed in an encounter with security forces in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, reports PTI. 

The apex child rights body NCPCR has sought an inquiry report from the Karnataka police into the sexual assault allegations against a head pontiff of an influential mutt in Karnataka’s Chitradurga district.

The funeral of the Soviet Union's last leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday in Moscow aged 91, will take place on Saturday, the Interfax news agency reported, citing Gorbachev's daughter.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the 2-day Science Conclave at Science City, Ahmedabad. It is a conclave of all the Science & Technology (S&T) Ministers from States and Union Territories (UTs).

Prime Minister Narendra Modi expresses "condolences to Sonia Gandhi Ji on the passing away of her mother, Mrs Paola Maino. May her soul rest in peace. In this hour of grief, my thoughts are with the entire family."

India's economy grew 13.5 per cent in the April-June quarter from a year ago, reports ANI. 

Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s mother Paola Maino passed away at her home in Italy on Saturday, Jairam Ramesh said. 

A special court extended the judicial custody of former WB minister Partha Chatterjee and Arpita Mukherjee till 14 September in connection with the SSC scam case, ANI reported. 

Police registered a case on Wednesday after pages of a Sikh religious book were found scattered near the old civil hospital building here. Some sweepers found pages of 'Gutka Sahib' scattered under a tree near the hospital, police said.

Delhi L-G VK Saxena will take legal action against AAP leaders, including Saurabh Bhardwaj, Atishi, Durgesh Pathak and Jasmine Shah among others, for “highly defamatory” and “false allegations” of corruption by them, said the L-G House officials.

The civic body here on Wednesday bulldozed shops mostly selling campaign material on the road outside the Samajwadi Party office.

Suspended BJP leader Seema Patra, who was arrested on Wednesday on charges of torturing and starving her domestic help, was sent to 14-day police remand till September 12 by a local court, public prosecutor Pradeep Chaurasia said.

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The chairperson of apex child rights body NCPCR will travel to Dumka in Jharkhand on September 4 to meet the family of a class 12 student who died after being set afire by a man apparently after she spurned his advances, reports PTI.

Delhi's Patiala House Court summons actor Jacqueline Fernandez, directing her to appear in court on Sept 26. The actor has been involved in a ₹200cr extortion case with conman Sukesh in which the court took cognizance of the supplementary charge sheet that has been filed in the case recently, ANI report said.

A PTI report said, the officials stated about 17-year-old girl from Jharkhand's Chatra district, who suffered serious burns in an acid attack, has been airlifted to AIIMS, New Delhi for better treatment.

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao is received by his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar at Patna airport. Nitish Kumar welcomed the TRS chief who has reportedly planned the visit to give financial assistance to the families of Indian soldiers killed in clashes with Chinese troops in Galwan Valley in 2020.

School students in a village in Dumka tied their teachers to a tree and allegedly beat them up for providing fewer marks due to which they flunked their exams. A teacher recalled, “Students called us on the pretext of holding a meeting and said their results were spoiled. It happened because their practical marks were not included in results.”

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) search is underway at the residence of a businessman, in Bolpur, Birbhum. He is believed to be a close aide of TMC Birbhum district president Anubrata Mondal. CBI searches are underway at four places in the state, in Bolpur & Kolkata in connection with cattle smuggling case.

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) informed that India and France held talks on United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and other multilateral issues on August 30 in Paris. ​ The ministry added that "both sides had an in-depth exchange of views on various thematic & country-specific issues on the agenda of the UN Security Council."

Indigenously developed India's first Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccine (qHPV) against cervical cancer will be launched by Serum Institute of India (SII) and Department of Biotechnology (DBT) tomorrow, September 1 according to official sources. 

A man identidied as Bablu, accused of slitting the throat of a woman after she turned down his proposal, in Bangarda village in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh was found dead in a backwater, said Punasa SDM.