Highlights: GRAP team rolls back stage-III measure as AQI improves in Delhi

Four cases of Covid-19 sub-variant BF.7 have been detected in West Bengal on Wednesday. Three persons are members of the same family and all of them returned from the United States. Their sample were sent for genome sequencing on December 29, 2022. Read more

A 66-year-old panchayat leader of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) died in the Mothabari area of Bengal’s Malda district on Tuesday night after he and some villagers were allegedly assaulted for protesting against use of loudspeakers by some local youths, police said.

Congress announced that party president Mallikarjun Kharge will address the public in Bihar tomorrow.

Chhattisgarh Assembly on Wednesday passed a bill to prohibit gambling in the state. However, the bill does not include a lottery, but includes betting or wagering in person or on online platforms for financial gains.

Cricketer Rishabh Pant, who received injuries after his car collided with a road driver in Uttarakhand on 30th December, shifted to a private hospital in Mumbai from Dehradun

As the air quality jumped to ‘very poor’ from the ‘severe’ category, the commission for air quality management (CAQM) on Wednesday in the National Capital Region (NCR) and adjoining areas revoked all measures under Stage-III implemented under the ‘severe’ category of the graded response action plan (Grap). Read more

Several blasts were heard in Afghanistan's capital Kabul, ANI said quoting a regional news organisation. The Afghan news agency said Taliban is yet to comment on the explosion.

Kupwara Police arrested two persons involved in the smuggling of narcotic substances including 2 kg of heroin from Taad area in Karnah, Kupwara district, police official told ANI.

Nirbhaya's mother Asha Devi on Wednesday came in support of the family of the woman who died recently after being hit by a car and dragged for several kilometres in Delhi's Sultanpuri. 

Indian Shooter Prakashi Tomar joins Rahul Gandhi in Bharat Jodo Yatra.

Two policemen have been accused of molesting a woman in the Naubasta police station area here. An FIR has been registered against the accused.

The accused policemen have been identified as Head Constable Hariom and Head Constable Shushant.

Nine companies have already reached Rajouri and remaining will reach tonight. They will be conducting anti-terror operations south of Pir Panjal, according to senior CRPF official.

AAP replaces Gopal Italia with Isudan Gadhvi as the new Gujarat unit party president. On the other hand, Gopal Italia, the AAP's outgoing Gujarat chief, has been given a national role. Italia has also been made co-incharge for Maharashtra. Read more

The Supreme Court has stayed the Allahabad high court decision directing the state to proceed with municipal body elections without granting reservation to backward classes. the order came on separate appeals filed by UP government and state election commission against the Dec 27 HC order.

Directorate of Enforcement attaches assets worth ₹10.20 crores in connection with money laundering probe against Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray) leader Anil Parab & others.

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has constituted a three-member fact-finding committee to evaluate the results of the recently concluded Assembly elections in Gujarat. The committee will submit a report to the party president within two weeks.

Air India puts 30-day travel ban on passenger who peed on elderly woman in-flight. (ANI)

The bones and hair (where DNA couldn’t be extracted) were sent to Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) Hyderabad for 'DNA MITROCONDRIAL profiling'. The bones will now be sent for post-mortem examination to be conducted by a medical board in AIIMS, according to senior cop.

Air India's AI 143 from Delhi to Paris, makes an emergency landing at back the IGI Airport, Delhi, at 2:25 pm, owing to a "flap issue". Flight took off at 1:28 pm and full emergency was declared at 2:03 pm and landed safely. It had 210 passengers on board

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday launched three helipads in Ganga Sagar. Soon after, a journalist had to be airlifted in the chopper in which CM Banerjee arrived. The person suffered a cardiac arrest.

Bihar Police lathi-charge Bihar Staff Selection Commission (BSSC) aspirants who were protesting against the state govt over paper leak

Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai said on Wednesday that “not wearing a helmet” being the cause of death is “secondary” in the case of a female engineer getting mowed down by truck. “Basic reason was that she changed lane to avoid pothole, which is a road error. There should be the eradication of potholes, media & political posters and other distractions for eyesight,” he was quoted as saying by ANI.

Delhi on Wednesday recorded the winter season's coldest morning thus far as the mercury dropped to 4.4 degrees Celsius at the Capital's Safdarjung observatory - the representative weather station of the city. Read more.

Shyam Sharma, director of DDCA told ANI on Wednesday that cricketer Rishabh pant will be shifted to Mumbai today for further treatment. He is currently undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Dehradun, Uttarakhand after a car accident on December 30.

A female software engineer in Tamil Nadu has died after she was mowed down by a truck near Maduravoyal in Chennai on Tuesday, Poonamallee Police told ANI. The woman lost control of her two-wheeler when she hit a pothole on the road. Police said that following the incident, civic authorities have filled the potholes and repaired the damaged portions of the road.