Highlights: ED arrests ex-Delhi deputy CM Manish Sisodia in excise policy case

The Gauhati High Court on Thursday directed the Centre to pay compensation of ₹20 lakh each to the families of five youths killed by the Army in Assam's Tinsukia district in 1994 during an anti-insurgency operation, PTI reported.

A train rammed into a public bus in Nigeria's commercial hub of Lagos on Thursday, killing six people and injuring dozens of others, as the bus driver tried to beat the train signal, emergency services and the state governor said, reports Reuters.

The Commission for Air Quality Management on Thursday rolled back preventive and restrictive actions under Stage I of the Graded Response Action Plan, which have been in force since October 5 last year, amid a forecast of continuous improvement in Delhi's air quality in the coming days. Read more

Australian PM Anthony Albanese arrives in New Delhi after concluding his visit to Ahmedabad & Mumbai. He will receive a ceremonial reception at Rashtrapati Bhawan tomorrow, to be followed by a bilateral meeting with PM Modi. He will also visit Rajghat during his visit. (ANI)

The European Union's top diplomat said Thursday that the Russian strikes in Ukraine, which caused the disconnection of the Zaporizhzhia atomic power plant from the grid, was a "serious breach" of nuclear safety, reported AFP.

A temple priest was allegedly bludgeoned to death in the Dehat Kotwali area in Banda, police said on Thursday, reported PTI.

Shatrughan Tiwari (60), who was a priest in the Ramjanaki temple of Mahokhar village, was sleeping in his house in Mahokhar village when unidentified persons attacked him with a sharp-edged weapon Wednesday night, Station House Officer of Dehat Kotwali police station Mithlesh Kumar said.

Ukraine's power grid operator says Europe's largest nuclear power plant has been reconnected to the grid, reported Reuters.

The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant was forced to rely on diesel-powered generators for much of Thursday after Ukrainian authorities said Russian missile attacks damaged power lines.

The Central government has decided to provide ‘Y+’ category security to Rashtriya Lok Janta Dal (RLJD) chief Upendra Kushwaha, who parted ways with Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) and formed his new party recently.

ED arrests former Delhi deputy CM Manish Sisodia in excise policy case.

Two radar systems for the first collaboration between the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on an earth-observing mission have arrived in Bengaluru ahead of the 2024 launch of the mission. Read more

North Korea's launch of a short-range ballistic missile toward the Yellow Sea, located between China and the Korean Peninsula, does not pose an immediate threat to the United States or its allies, the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said on Thursday, reported Reuters.

The Delhi traffic police issued more than 8,550 challans for violation of traffic rules during Shab-e-Barat and Holi this year, according to the official data. Read more

Reliance Consumer Products (RCPL), the fast-moving consumer goods arm and subsidiary of Reliance Retail Ventures (RRVL), on Thursday announced the launch of the iconic brand, Campa, made for a new-age India. Read more

Crediting Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the Bharatiya Janata Party's big win in the recent assembly polls in Tripura, Chief Minister Manik Saha on Thursday said “Tripura's future under PM's vision is bright”, reports ANI.

In the 60-member Tripura assembly, the BJP won 32 seats. Tipra Motha Party came second by winning 13 seats while the Communist Party of India (Marxist) got 11 seats, Congress three and the Indigenous People's Front of Tripura (IPFT) bagged one seat.

Ram Chandra Poudel of Nepali Congress was on Thursday elected as the third president of Nepal, reported PTI.

Poudel, a common candidate of eight-party alliance that included Nepali Congress and the CPN (Maoist Center), received the vote of 214 lawmakers of parliament and 352 provincial assembly members.

CM Arvind Kejriwal congratulated the two ministers and said: "Saurabh Bhardwaj and Atishi have been sworn in as ministers by LG. The way Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain were doing good work for Delhi, I hope they (Bharadwaj and Atishi) will also walk the footmarks left by them and do good work for the capital."

North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile toward the Yellow Sea on Thursday, South Korea's military said, reports Reuters.

The missile was fired at about 6:20 p.m. (0920 GMT) from around Nampo, North Korea, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.

A Delhi government official said Atishi will be given education, PWD, power, and tourism departments, while Saurabh will get health, urban development, water, and industries.

AAP MLAs Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj take oath as Delhi ministers

Malaysia on Thursday arrested former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin over multiple corruption allegations, the country's anti-graft agency said.

Owners of more than 1,100 vehicles, including cars and two-wheelers, landed in the police net over violation of various road safety norms across Noida and Greater Noida on Holi, police officials said on Thursday, reports PTI.

Kyiv said Russian shelling killed three people on Thursday in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, as Moscow unleashed a massive missile strike on the war-torn country, reported AFP.

Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 36 people in an overnight attack on a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a local official, the head of a civil society group and a survivor said on Thursday, reported Reuters.

An Indonesian court on Thursday jailed two football match officials for negligence over one of the worst stadium disasters in the sport's history, reported AFP.

The crush in October at a venue in the East Java city of Malang killed 135 people after police fired tear gas into packed stands when supporters invaded the pitch.