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• Sep 26, 2022 12:07 AM IST

  West Bengal reports 374 new Covid cases, 1 more death

  West Bengal on Sunday recorded 374 new Covid cases on Sunday which took the tally to 21,13,246, a health department bulletin said. The death toll rose to 21,496 as one more person succumbed to Covid, the bulletin added.

• Sep 26, 2022 12:05 AM IST

  Ashok Gehlot loyalists resign amid tussle over next Rajasthan CM

  A group of Congress MLAs loyal to chief minister Ashok Gehlot submitted their resignations to Assembly speaker CP Joshi late Sunday ahead of a crucial legislature party meeting that is scheduled to take place to pick his likely successor. Read more

• Sep 25, 2022 11:17 PM IST

  Things will be sorted out soon: KC Venugopal on Rajasthan Cong crisis

  #RajasthanCongressCrisis | Neither did I talk to CM Ashok Gehlot today, nor did he call me, things will be sorted out soon: Congress leader KC Venugopal pic.twitter.com/uDIGbA55jc

  — ANI (@ANI) September 25, 2022

  Amid the ongoing Rajasthan Congress crisis, Congress KC Venugopal said on Sunday that things will be sorted out soon. 

• Sep 25, 2022 10:28 PM IST

  Rajasthan Congress MLAs reach speaker's residence to resign ahead of CLP meeting

  Congress MLAs loyal to chief minister Ashok Gehlot headed to the assembly Speaker CP Joshi's residence to submit their resignation ahead of a legislature party (CLP) meeting which was likely to pick his successor. Read more

• Sep 25, 2022 10:15 PM IST

  ‘MLAs are angry at Gehlot’s decision, we were not consulted,' says Rajasthan MLA Pratap Singh

  Rajasthan MLA Pratap Singh Khachariyawas said all the MLAs are angry CM Gehlot's decision & are resigning. He said MLA's should have been consulted before taking the decision of resignation of CM, according to ANI reports.

• Sep 25, 2022 09:50 PM IST

  Mukul Rohatgi declines govt's offer to become Attorney General for India

  Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi has reportedly declined an offer from the Narendra Modi-led central government to return as India's attorney general. Read more

• Sep 25, 2022 09:07 PM IST

  Congress leaders Kharge, Ajay Maken and Pilot arrive Gehlot's residence ahead of CLP meeting

  Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge, Ajay Maken, and Sachin Pilot arrive at the residence of CM Ashok Gehlot ahead of the CLP meeting, according to news agency ANI reports.

• Sep 25, 2022 08:42 PM IST

  Congress leader Pilot leaves for Rajasthan CM Gehlot's residence for CLP meeting

  Congress leader Sachin Pilot leaves for Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's residence for Congress Legislature Party meeting(CLP) where the issue of a probable leadership change in the state will take place.

• Sep 25, 2022 07:30 PM IST

  ‘Held talks, will meet Sonia Gandhi again,' says Nitish after he and Lalu meet her in Delhi

  Bihar CM Nitish Kumar says he and RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav held talks with Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi. According to agencies' reports, they said they have to unite together and work for country's progress, and they will meet Sonia once again after their party's president elections.

• Sep 25, 2022 06:57 PM IST

  Uttarakhand CM Dhami chairs high-level meeting on law and order situation of state

  Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami chairs a high-level meeting at Dehradun Secretariat regarding law and order and security in the state. According to news agency ANI reports, top police officers including Chief Secretary and DGP of the state are present in the meeting.

• Sep 25, 2022 06:15 PM IST

  Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and RJD Lalu Yadav arrive to meet Sonia Gandhi at her residence in Delhi

  Rasthriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar arrives at the residence of Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi.

• Sep 25, 2022 05:44 PM IST

  Uttarakhand | Mortals remains of Ankita Bhandari being taken to NIT ghat from mortuary in Srinagar for last rites

  Uttarakhand | Mortals remains of Ankita Bhandari being taken to NIT ghat from mortuary in Srinagar, Pauri Garwhal for the last rites. https://t.co/MgfPjMU9dA pic.twitter.com/RWbaH4GqOd

  — ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) September 25, 2022

  Mortals remains of Ankita Bhandari being taken to NIT ghat from mortuary in Srinagar, Pauri Garwhal for the last rites.

• Sep 25, 2022 05:34 PM IST

  Flood warning issued in Delhi as Yamuna level nears ‘danger’ mark

  The Delhi flood control room issued a warning on Sunday stating that the Yamuna river's water level could rise to ‘danger level’ at the Old Railway Bridge in the national capital in the next few hours. Read more

• Sep 25, 2022 05:08 PM IST

  Uttarakhand teen's father arrives at mortuary to take body for final rites, massive protests broke out 

  Uttarakhand: Massive protest erupts outside mortuary in Srinagar, Pauri Garwhal dist, where Ankita Bhandari's father arrived to take her body for last rites
  
  She was allegedly murdered in Rishikesh by now expelled BJP leader Vinod Arya's son Pulkit Arya who was arrested yesterday pic.twitter.com/kqyopLrI6l

  — ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) September 25, 2022

  The father of Uttarakhand's teen who was murdered in Rishikesh arrived at mortuary in Srinagar in Pauri Garwhal district to take her body for last rites and a situation of massive protest by the locals was created at mortuary.

• Sep 25, 2022 04:52 PM IST

  20,000 policemen deployed in southern TN districts, says TN south zone IG amid petrol bomb attacks

  Tamil Nadu state's south zone Inspector General Asra Garg on Sunday said, 20,000 police personnel have been deployed in the southern districts of the state and night patrolling has been intensified amid the on-going petrol bomb attacks. He further said arrests have been done from Dindigal district and security has been tightened at important places, according to news agency ANI.

• Sep 25, 2022 04:01 PM IST

  President Murmu on three-day visit to Karnataka from Monday, first state to visit after assuming office

  President Droupadi Murmu on three-day visit to Karnataka from Monday, her first to any state after assuming office, reports PTI

• Sep 25, 2022 03:54 PM IST

  Uttarakhand CM Dhami says SIT team will investigate every angle of receptionist's murder, reports ANI

  Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Saturday said that a Special Investigation Team has been formed to investigate the receptionist murder case. According to the news agency ANI reports, Dhami said that government has taken a resolution to punish the culprits and the team is ready examine every angle in it.

   

• Sep 25, 2022 03:18 PM IST

  Congress MP Shashi Tharoor to file party's president post nomination on Sep 30, reports ANI

  Senior Congress leader & MP Shashi Tharoor to file nomination for the post of party President on Sept 30, sources confirmed according to news agency ANI. Tharoor will at least need 50 delegates as proposers for his candidature.

• Sep 25, 2022 03:11 PM IST

  Nitish, Pawar and other top leaders attend ex-Dy PM Devi Lal's 109th birth anniversary event in Fatehabad

  NCP chief Sharad Pawar, JD(U) leader & Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, RJD leader & Bihar Dy CM Tejashwi Yadav, SAD's SS Badal & CPIM's S.Yechury attend the event to mark 109th birth anniversary celebrations of India's ex- Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal in Fatehabad in Haryana, on invitation of Indian National Lok Dal's OP Chautala

• Sep 25, 2022 02:32 PM IST

  Over 20 Bangladeshi nationals running illegal businesses in Goa arrested: Goa CM Sawant

  Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Sunday said over 20 Bangladeshi nationals running illegal businessses in parts of Goa arrested. All of these individuals, he claimed, had not provided any documentation to support their right to remain in India and would soon depart for Bangladesh. Sawant added that the state's home minister is looking into it and that searches for further such individuals are ongoing.

• Sep 25, 2022 01:57 PM IST

  Punjab CM thanks PM Modi over renaming of Mohali-Chandigarh airport

  Haryana's Civil Aviation Minister Dushyant Chautala & I mutually sent a letter to Aviation Ministry to name Mohali-Chandigarh airport after Shaheed Bhagat Singh before his birthday on Sept 28. PM Modi, on 'Mann Ki Baat', declared the renaming, I thank him: Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann

• Sep 25, 2022 01:03 PM IST

  Uttarakhand teen murder: Huge crowd of protestors demand justice

  A huge crowd of protestors demand justice, blocking the Badrinath-Rishikesh highway in front of the mortuary near the base hospital where Uttarakhand teen victim's body was taken to.

• Sep 25, 2022 11:36 AM IST

  INLD to hold a rally in Fatehabad to mark the birth anniversary of Devi Lal

  INLD to hold a rally in Fatehabad to mark the birth anniversary of Devi Lal. Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and others are expected to attend the rally.

• Sep 25, 2022 11:06 AM IST

  PM Modi addresses 93rd episode of Mann Ki Baat

  PM Narendra Modi is addressing the nation on his monthly radio programme Mann Ki Baat. This is the 93rd episode of the show, the first edition of which was broadcast on October 3, 2014.

• Sep 25, 2022 10:17 AM IST

  Punjab governor summons assembly session at 11am on September 27

  Punjab governor summons assembly session at 11am on September 27 after Bhagwant Mann govt blinks, gives details.

• Sep 25, 2022 10:07 AM IST

  PM Modi pays homage to Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay on birth anniversary

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid homage to Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay on his birth anniversary and called him an "exceptional thinker".

• Sep 25, 2022 08:57 AM IST

  India reports 4,777 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours

  India reports 4,777 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours; active caseload at 43,994.

• Sep 25, 2022 08:47 AM IST

  Former Kerala minister Aryadan Muhammed passes away

  Former Kerala minister & senior Congress leader Aryadan Muhammed passes away at the age of 87 years. He was undergoing treatment in a private hospital in Kozhikode.

• Sep 25, 2022 08:35 AM IST

  Kejriwal, Mann to meet sanitation, contractual workers & youth in Gujarat today

  Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann will meet sanitation workers as well as contractual and outsourced employees of the Gujarat government in Ahmedabad on Sunday.

• Sep 25, 2022 07:26 AM IST

  Crucial Congress meet at Gehlot's house today

  The Congress has called a crucial meeting of its legislative party in Rajasthan at chief minister Ashok Gehlot's residence on Sunday evening. Read more

• Sep 25, 2022 06:22 AM IST

  EAM S Jaishankar on Russia-Ukraine war

   External affairs minister S Jaishankar while addressing the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) said that India is on the side of peace in the Ukraine conflict and will remain there.