Breaking News HIGHLIGHTS: 17 More Samples Test Negative For Nipah, Kerala Health Minister Informs
Breaking News HIGHLIGHTS Updates September 13, 2021: This blog brings to you the latest breaking news from across India and the world. Refresh the page to find the latest updates.
FIR registered under sections 304, 288, 34 of Indian Penal Code against the shopkeeper who was allegedly carrying out repair work in his shop: Delhi Police
Gujarat: Heavy rain disrupts normal life in Rajkot. In the last 24 hours, the city received 13 inches of rainfall. There's high rainfall warning for tomorrow also. 1400 people shifted to shelters&over 300 people were rescued. Water receding, no casualties: Commissioner Rajkot Municipal Corporation
"17 more people have tested negative for Nipah virus. Of these, 5 persons were tested at NIV Pune and the rest in a specially set up lab at Kozhikode Medical College. Samples of a total of 140 people have been found negative": Kerala Health Minister Veena George said.
PM Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University in Aligarh tomorrow. He will also visit exhibition models of Aligarh node of UP Defence Industrial Corridor and Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University: Prime Minister's Office informed.
"Within this week we should be able to get WHO Emergency Use Listing (EUL) for Covaxin... Hopefully, the vaccine should be given international recognition so that people travelling abroad have less difficulty": Dr NK Arora, Chairperson, COVID working group said, as reported by ANI.
'India is willing to stand by Afghan people': EAM S Jaishankar at UN high-level meeting on Afghanistan.
'India is willing to stand by Afghan people': EAM S Jaishankar at UN high-level meeting on Afghanistan.
Former PM Dr Manmohan Singh writes to Blossom Fernandes, wife of senior Congress leader Oscar Fernandes who passed away today.
COVID-19 curfew in Uttarakhand to continue from 6 am of September 14 to 6 am of September 21.
Wedding ceremonies allowed with 50 percent capacity of the hall/venue with permission from district administration; attendees with a certificate of full vaccination need not show COVID negative report. Those without a certificate will have to mandatorily show COVID negative report not older than 72 hours, ANI reported.
Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw travelled on Vande Bharat Express from Katra to Jammu.
Kerala reports 15,058 new COVID-19 cases, 28,439 recoveries, and 99 deaths in the last 24 hours.
Active cases 2,08,773
Total recoveries 41,58,504
Death toll 22,650
Test positivity rate is 16.39%.
91,885 samples tested during the last 24 hours.
Over 75 crore COVID-19 vaccines administered in India so far, says Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya.
Over 75 crore COVID-19 vaccines administered in India so far, says Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya.
Mumbai rape and murder case | Maharashtra Government announced a compensation of Rs 20 Lakhs for the next of the kin of the victim.
Enforcement Directorate summons West Bengal Law minister Moloy Ghatak on 14th September in an alleged coal smuggling case.
West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC candidate from Bhabanipur (by-poll), Mamata Banerjee made a sudden visit to seek blessings at Sola Ana Masjid of the constituency.
Sansad TV to be launched on September 15. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will take part in the event, ANI reported.
Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari writes a letter to the West Bengal Speaker regarding the disqualification of Biswajit Das as MLA after he joined TMC recently.
"As per Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems (CCTNS) we've not found out any offence that is registered against accused so far in Maharashtra. We're trying to find out if he has any criminal record in Uttar Pradesh": Mumbai Police Commissioner on Sakinaka rape-murder case, as quoted by ANI.
Building collapse in Delhi's Sabzi Mandi area: "Relief and rescue work is underway. Probe on to find out if any load-bearing wall inside the building was affected which lead to the collapse," Sanjay Goel, Commissioner, North Delhi Municipal Corporation said.
External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar met US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry in Delhi. "Continued our discussions on climate action and climate justice," EAM tweeted.
World Health Organisation (WHO) nod for Bharat Biotech's COVID-19 vaccine, Covaxin is expected this week, ANI credited sources as saying.
Tamil Nadu Assembly passes a Bill to scrap NEET; enables admissions to MBBS/BDS based on class 12th marks. AIADMK supported the Bill and BJP staged a walkout, ANI reported.
Senior Iranian lawmaker and the country’s former ambassador to Afghanistan, Fada Hossein Maleki has said that the head of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is present in Panjshir province and is involved in the formation of the Taliban cabinet in Kabul, reports UNI.
Maleki, who is a member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Iranian Parliament, suggested that the Iranian Foreign Ministry should negotiate with Pakistan, and that a meeting should be held between Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan to resolve the Afghan problem, the Tehran Times reported.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah has arrived in Gujarat for the oath-taking ceremony of Bhupendra Patel.
Indian shares fell on Monday, dragged by heavyweight Reliance Industries after the conglomerate delayed the launch of a low-cost smartphone it is developing with Google, with investors awaiting key inflation data due later in the day.
The blue-chip NSE Nifty 50 index was down 0.38% at 17,302.25 by 0450 GMT, while the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex slipped 0.43% to 58,055.41.
A hearing on the Pegasus snoop gate row is underway in the Supreme Court which was rescheduled earlier as the Centre sought more time to file a detailed affidavit on the petitioner's claim.
However, according to the Live Law, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta has said the court that the centre does not want to file an affidavit in Pegasus row.
Delhi Government urges Supreme Court to list its petition early, challenging the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which enhances the power of Delhi Lieutenant Governor over the elected government.
Supreme Court says it will look into the matter as senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi mentioned the matter for an early hearing.
This is a fight against injustice. This is a fight for justice, for the people of West Bengal. I would like to tell the people of Bhabanipur that they've received a big opportunity, they should come forward and make history: Priyanka Tibrewal, BJP candidate for Bhabanipur bypolls
No death due to COVID-19 was recorded in Delhi on Sunday, while 22 fresh cases were reported with a positivity rate of 0.04 per cent, according to data shared by the city health department. Only one fatality due to Covid has been reported this month on September 7
Bhupendra Patel is my old family friend. I congratulated him. We will be happy to see him take oath as CM. He has also asked for my guidance whenever needed: Gujarat Deputy CM Nitin Patel
Karnataka | Eight persons were killed in a road accident after a jeep hit a lorry coming from the opposite direction near Maranayakanahalli, Chintamani area, yesterday: Chikkaballapur Police
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday projected light intensity rain/drizzle in parts of Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh while in Odisha, for which the weather department issued a red alert on Sunday, the depression over northwest Bay of Bengal will cross north Odisha coast by early morning body, the IMD said.
“Light intensity rain/drizzle would occur over and adjoining areas of isolated places of north Delhi, Garhmukteshwar, Khekra, Baghpat, Narwana, Kaithal, Rohtak, Kharkhonda during the next two hours,” the IMD said in a 4am bulletin.
The Goa government has extended the state-level Covid-19 “curfew” by another week up to September 20 and mandated five day quarantine for persons travelling to the state from Kerala.
In an order issued by the two district magistrates under Section 144 of the CrPC, “all students and employees coming from Kerala should be subjected to institutional quarantine of five days.”
Other visitors from Kerala will have to mandatorily produce a negative RT-PCR test certificate and undergo home quarantine for five days, as per the order.
“The arrangement for quarantine of students will be done by the administrators/principals of the educational institutions. For the employees, it shall be done by the respective offices/ companies/firms,” the order reads.
The Bharatiya Janata Paty's Priyanka Tibrewal will file her nomination papers for the by-election to the Bhabanipur seat today. A lawyer, Tebriwal has been fielded against West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee, who has already filed her nomination papers.
Tibrewal kickstarted her campaign on Sunday by painting the BJP’s symbol of lotus on a wall in Bhabanipur. "I will file my nomination tomorrow. The people of West Bengal have the right to live. This right is being taken away from them by the Trinamool Congress led by Mamata Banerjee," she said on Sunday. "I am fighting for the people of Bengal," Tibrewal also said.
We will be fighting the upcoming Assembly elections under the leadership of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. She is working hard to ensure that we win. Later on, she may announce the CM's face: Former Union Minister & Congress leader Salman Khurshid on Congress' CM face in UP polls
First-term MLA Bhupendra Patel will be the new chief minister of Gujarat. Patel (59) was unanimously elected BJP legislative party leader here on Sunday. He will be sworn in as the chief minister at 2.20 pm on Monday, BJP sources said. The BJP has said the decision regarding the new Gujarat cabinet will be taken later.
New Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel will take oath today in a ceremony expected to be attended by Home Minister Amit Shah and chief ministers of four BJP-led states. The Ghatlodia MLA will replace Vijay Rupani, who had resigned from his post on Saturday.
Background
Breaking News HIGHLIGHTS Updates September 13, 2021: Border forces and armed police units deployed in the counter-terrorism grid have been directed by the central security establishment to prepare and administer a new training module on the Taliban and its modus operandi to the troops in view of the “emerging" scenario following the Islamic militia taking over Afghanistan, says PTI.
Stating that the fall of Kabul to the Taliban last month may have a “serious bearing" on the security situation in India, the ground forces and their intelligence setup have been asked to update both their strategy, tactics and combat syllabus on the new “geo-political situation in central and south Asia and its grave security implication on India’s borders and the hinterland."
The directive issued by the security establishment a few days back also envisages a scenario where infiltration from across the border from Pakistan on India’s west and illegal entry of terrorist operatives from open fronts in the east may increase including that by foreign terrorist fighters.
Bhupendra Patel has been elected as the new leader of BJP Legislative Party, Union Minister, and BJP leader Narendra Singh Tomar announced after Bharatiya Janata Party’s Legislative Party meeting on Sunday.
Talking about his successor, Vijay Rupani who resigned from the top post on Saturday, said: "Bhupendra Patel is capable. We believe BJP will win the upcoming elections in the state under his leadership", ANI reported.
Bhupendra Patel's swearing-in ceremony will take place on Monday at 2:20 pm, Governor Acharya Devvrat informed in a tweet.
"No one else will take the oath with him as the name of Deputy Chief Minister is not decided yet," said Bhupendra Patel, as quoted by ANI.
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