Breaking News HIGHLIGHTS: U.S. Ambassador For Global Women’s Issues Will Visit India From Aug 1 To 8
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U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues Dr. Geeta Rao Gupta will visit Gujarat, Mumbai, and Bengaluru, India from August 1-8. While in Gujarat from August 1-4, Ambassador Rao Gupta will lead the US delegation to the G20 Alliance for the Empowerment and Progression of Women’s Economic Representation (G20 EMPOWER) Conference and the G20 Ministerial Conference on Women’s Empowerment hosted by the Government of India, ANI reported.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) today raided 31 locations across Punjab and Haryana to unravel and unearth the full contours of the conspiracy behind the March 19 attack on the High Commission of India in London and bring to book the various attackers and assailants. The raids led to the seizure of digital data containing information related to the accused persons involved in the attack on the High Commission and other incriminating documents and evidence. The districts where these searches took place today include Moga, Barnala, Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Tarn Taran, Ludhiana, Gurdaspur, SBS Nagar, Amritsar, Mukhtsar, Sangrur, Patiala, Mohali in Punjab and Sirsa in Haryana, ANI reported.
Congress names Vijay Wadettiwar as Maharashtra leader of the opposition. Congress leaders met Maharashtra Legislative Assembly speaker Rahul Narwekar and gave letter, ANI reported.
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge has sought time from President Droupadi Murmu on behalf of the opposition to discuss the Manipur issue, news agency PTI reported citing sources.
National Investigation Agency conducted raids at nine locations in Jammu and Kashmir in the NGOs terror funding case of Jammu and Kashmir, as reported by the news agency ANI.
France to evacuate nationals from Niger 'very soon,' the embassy said, as reported by AFP.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday reached Pune airport. PM Modi was received by Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde, Deputy CMs Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar.
PM Modi will be conferred with Lokmanya Tilak National Award today. He will also flag off metro trains and inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of various development projects.
Sleuths of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and counterintelligence Kashmir (CIK) of J&K Police raided multiple locations separately on Tuesday in the Valley.
The CIK raids are being conducted at 11 locations in the districts of Bandipora, Srinagar, Shopian, Anantnag, Awantipora, and Pulwama, as reported by IANS. These raids are part of the investigation of a terror recruitment case (FIR No. 06/2023 registered recently in Police Station CIK (Jaish-e-Mohammad -- JeM -- Module being handled from across the border) being investigated by CID CIK.
CIK sleuths carried out searches simultaneously at these locations to maintain surprise.
A 64-year-old Indian woman on board a cruise ship has gone missing as the ship sailed through the Strait of Singapore from Penang, the northern island state of Peninsular Malaysia. The incident was reported on Monday with Reeta Sahani and her husband Jakesh Sahani on their way back to Singapore from Penang aboard the Spectrum of the Seas. Monday was also the last day of the couple’s four-day cruise, reports said, as reported by PTI.
Jakesh, 70, woke up to find his wife missing from their room, according to a report by The Straits Times on Tuesday. The retiree tried to locate his wife on the sprawling cruise ship but in vain. He later informed the ship’s crew, who told him the ship’s overboard detection systems had been alerted that something had fallen from the vessel into the Singapore Strait.
It is a 113-km long and 19-km wide busy shipping route between the Strait of Malacca and the South China Sea with Singapore on the north of the channel.
Sixteen workers were killed and three injured as a crane fell on a bridge slab during construction of the third phase of Samruddhi Expressway in Maharashtra’s Thane district on Tuesday, an official said. “Three to five persons are still feared trapped and efforts are on to rescue them,” an NDRF official said. The injured have been shifted to nearby hospital, he added, as quoted by PTI.
It was a special-purpose mobile gantry crane used in bridge construction and to install precast box girders in highway construction projects.
Two history sheeter shot dead by police at around 3.30 am today after they attacked police officials with a sickle at Guduvanchery on the outskirts of Chennai, Tambaram Police said, as reported by ANI.
Background
Breaking News HIGHLIGHTS: Hello and welcome to Breaking News Live Blog, follow this space for all the breaking news and latest updates from India and around the world. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Tuesday visit Maharashtra's Pune where he will flag off metro trains marking inauguration of completed sections of Pune Metro. The Centre will on Tuesday introduce in the Lok Sabha the bill to replace services ordinance in Delhi. The bill will be tabled by Union home minister Amit Shah. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear bail plea of some of the convicts of 2002 Godhara train burning case.
PM Modi To Visit Pune
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Tuesday visit Pune where he will flag off metro trains and inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of various development projects. He will perform Darshan and Pooja at Dagdusheth Mandir and will be conferred Lokmanya Tilak National Award. He will inaugurate the Waste to Energy Plant under Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation, handover more than 1280 houses constructed under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana by PCMC.
Bill To Replace Services Ordinance In Delhi To Be Introduced In Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha is expected to witness a stormy session on Tuesday as the Centre is ready with its bill to replace the services ordinace in Delhi. The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, 2023 seeks to replace an ordinance that mandated the creation of an authority for transfers and postings of senior officers in the Delhi government. As per the revised list of business for Tuesday, the bill will be introduced by Union home minister Amit Shah while his deputy Nityanand Rai will make a statement on the reasons for bringing an "immediate legislation" by promulgating the ordinance.
SC To Hear Bail Pleas Of 2002 Godhara Train Burning Case Convicts
The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear the bail pleas of some of the convicts against whom specific allegations were made in the 2002 Godhra train burning case, which plunged Gujarat into a communal conflagration, as per a PTI report. The pleas will be heard by a benchcomprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra. “We have distributed the cases in four categories. In one group is where death penalties were commuted (into life imprisonment) by the high court. The other is of the convicts who have a specific part to play. We have said non-bail (in the second category). The third one is of the people who had peripheral presence and were part of the mob,” the bench said.
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