Highlights: Mizoram minister Lalnuntluanga likely to visit violence-hit Manipur

Seven People's Liberation Army (PLA) aircraft, one anti-submarine helicopter (Ka-28) entered Taiwan's southwest air defence identification zone (ADIZ) on Friday, according to the Ministry of National Defense MND, reported Taiwan News.

Mizoram Law Minister TJ Lalnuntluanga is likely to visit violence-hit Manipur where hundreds of people from his state were stranded, officials said on Saturday.

Authorities of Manipur are investigating if the death of 18-20 people in the last few days was due to recent clashes between tribal and non-tribal groups, a government official said.

Delhi recorded 113 fresh coronavirus cases with a positivity rate of 8.21 per cent and three Covid-linked deaths on Saturday, according to data shared by the city government's health department.

Ukraine on Saturday hailed the return of 45 Azov battalion fighters captured during the battle for Mariupol while Russia said three of its pilots had been released by Kyiv, but neither side gave a full account of the apparent prisoner swap.

Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi's allegation of a two-finger test on minor girls in Chidambaram is false and the health department, upon verification, found no such test was done, State Health Minister Ma Subramanian said on Saturday.

The Vishva Hindu Parishad has issued a legal notice to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, accusing him of making defamatory remarks against the Bajrang Dal in his party's Karnataka poll manifesto and demanding a compensation of more than ₹100 crore.

A teenage girl was allegedly gang-raped in the Sehramau area of this Uttar Pradesh district, police said on Saturday. The accused were caught by villagers, who handed them over to the police, they added.

Pakistan has sought an Interpol red notice against a close friend of Bushra Bibi, the wife of former prime minister Imran Khan, to arrest and bring her back for trial on the charges of money laundering.

A Nigerian national was arrested from Delhi for allegedly duping a woman here of ₹81 lakh, Kerala police said on Saturday. The Cyber Cell wing of the Kerala police have apprehended the 26-year-old man who had cheated the woman hailing from Changanassery after befriending her through Facebook.

Sudan’s warring sides were beginning talks Saturday that aim to firm up a shaky cease-fire after three weeks of fierce fighting that has killed hundreds and pushed the African country to the brink of collapse, the United States and Saudi Arabia said.

Rouse Avenue Court on Saturday granted bail to Rajesh Joshi, Gautam Malhotra in a money laundering case.

The Special Cell of Delhi Police has arrested six people, including a woman, in two separate operations and recovered drugs worth over ₹85 crore in international market, officials said on Saturday.

Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar and his wife Dr Sudesh Dhankhar on Saturday represented India at the historic Coronation ceremony of King Charles at Westminster Abbey.

The political mercury has shot up in Madhya Pradesh after a former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Bhanwar Singh Shekhawat claimed that Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia supporters who joined the party have been openly looting the state.

FIR filed against Lalu Yadav's kin (brother-in-law) and others for land grabbing and threatening.

The Special Task Force of the Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested two members of a gang in Moradabad involved in the printing and smuggling of fake currency notes, officials said on Saturday.

NEET (UG)-2023 exam has been postponed for the candidates who were allotted the examination centres in Manipur. Their exams will be held at a later date.

Ukraine's air force claimed Saturday to have downed a Russian hypersonic missile over Kyiv using newly acquired American Patriot defense systems, the first known time the country has been able to intercept one of Moscow's most modern missiles.

Khalistan Commando chief Paramjit Singh Panjwar was gunned down in Lahore on Saturday.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday took stock of the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir's border districts of Rajouri and Poonch, where terrorists have killed 35 people, including 26 soldiers, in eight attacks since October 2021.

The Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud on Saturday said that recently a LGBTQ handbook has been launched and that the judiciary is working to launch a legal glossary on gender-inappropriate terms, ANI reported.

"If you read a judgment on 376, I am sure all of you have come across phrases that the "victim was ravished by the appellant" or phrases such as "she was a concubine" or in a bail order in an NDPS that "the negro was arrested with cocaine"... The glossary would not belittle our judiciary but in the times we are moving ahead we pay more attention to language as much as to the substance," CJI said.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday announced to give tax-free status to 'The Kerala Story' in the state, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi credited the movie for bringing out terror conspiracies and used it to attack the Congress during a rally in Karnataka.

Three workers were killed after a fire broke out at a godown of a ‘mandap’ (pendal) decorator, fire brigade officials said on Saturday.

The incident was reported at a godown in the Ubale Nagar area of Wagholi late on Friday when some LPG cylinders were also exploded, resulting in the loss of three lives.