Breaking news highlights: Active Covid cases in Tamil Nadu breach 5,000-mark

The Jharkhand Congress on Tuesday passed a resolution to make Jharkhand Congress passes resolution to make Rahul Gandhi party president. Earlier, Congress units from Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Tamil Nadu and Bihar units passed resolutions that Gandhi should again become the party president.

The active Covid cases in Tamil Nadu have breached the 5,000-mark, the state health department told news agency PTI on Tuesday.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday denounced pro-Russian separatists' plans for referendums in Ukraine, saying any vote for annexation would be legally meaningless, reported AFP.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah today reviewed the implementation of the Bru agreement with Tripura CM Manik Saha in Delhi.

Delhi reports 81 fresh Covid-19 cases, 68 recoveries, and one death in the last 24 hours.

Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday summoned the party’s legislators for a late evening meeting before he travels to Delhi tomorrow morning.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has denied any plans to contest the Lok Sabha polls from Uttar Pradesh.

The IMD has predicted light rain in the national capital over the next five days.

EOW has summoned actor Jacqueline Fernandez's designer Leepakshi for questioning in the Sukesh Chandrashekhar 200 cr scam case tomorrow.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi unlikely to contest party's presidential polls as he will not return from amidst Bharat Jodo Yatra to Delhi, says Congress sources, reported ANI.

BJP national president JP Nadda along with CM Bhupendra Patel holds a roadshow in Morbi.

MoS MEA V Muraleedharan to pay an official maiden visit to the Republic of Djibouti on 21-22 Sept.

Special NIA court has given additional 90 days to NIA to file chargesheet in Amravati murder case over Nupur Sharma's comments on Prophet Muhammad. NIA was supposed to file the chargesheet today but asked for an extension of time, which was allowed by the special NIA Court in Mumbai today.

Closing bell: Sensex up by 578 points to close at 59,719; Nifty up by 194 points.

Delhi CM and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal greeted with ‘Modi-Modi’ chants in Vadodara, Gujarat…later ‘Kejriwal-Kejriwal’ chants also heard.

Protests in Rajasthan by BJP amid spread of Lumpy Skin disease in cattle.

Around a quarter of a million people queued round the clock to view the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II as it lay in state, the UK government said Tuesday, a day after her elaborate state funeral.

Uganda declares first Ebola death since 2019: news agency AFP reports citing the county's Health Ministry.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday asked BJP mayors to plan a holistic development of cities, and said the elected representatives should not think just in terms of winning polls as cities cannot be developed with an election-centric approach. 
“The elected representatives should not think just in term of winning elections. You cannot develop your city with an election-centric approach,” PM Modi said.

Hungary's foreign minister said on Tuesday the European Union should not consider new sanctions against Russia as that would only deepen the energy supply crisis and hurt Europe.

"The EU should ... stop mentioning an 8th package of sanctions, should stop flagging measures that would only further deepen the energy supply crisis," Peter Szijjarto said in his statement.

Prominent Tamil actress Pauline Jessica, popularly known as Divya, committed suicide in her rented flat in Chennai's Virugambakkam Mallika Avenue on September 18.

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Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath expresses grief over the loss of lives due to an incident of a wall collapse in Noida Sector 21. He has directed senior officials to reach the spot immediately and continue rescue operations on war footing.

In a tragic incident, four people died while nine were rescued after a boundary wall of a residential township in Sector 21, Noida collapsed on Tuesday morning.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address a conference of BJP Mayors across the country via video conferencing shortly.

The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested North Bengal University Vice-Chancellor Subires Bhattacharyya in connection with an assistant teachers' recruitment scam in West Bengal in 2016, reports news agency ANI.