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Delhi Police Special Cell on Tuesday busted Pak organised terror module as it arrested two Pakistan-trained terrorists. DCP Special Cell Pramod Kushwaha reportedly said that a total six people including two Pakistan-trained terrorists have been arrested.
News agency ANI quoted the official saying that explosives and firearms have been recovered in a multi-state operation.
Delhi Police says that the suspects were planning to carry out targeted killings and blasts across the country.
In a setback to the opposition Congress, which is making all efforts for a strong comeback after the drubbing in the Kerala Assembly polls, senior leader and KPCC former general secretary K P Anil Kumar on Tuesday quit the party and joined the ruling CPI (M), days after another leader P S Prashant resigned and went to the Marxist party fold.
He said he was ending his 43 year-long relationship with the Congress and would co-operate with the Marxist party now onward without any condition.
Trinamool Congress nominates Sushmita Dev to Rajya Sabha.
"Mamata Banerjee's vision to empower women and ensure their maximum participation in politics shall help our society to achieve much more!" tweets TMC.
Russia President Vladimir Putin to self-isolate over coronavirus cases in the inner circle, reports AFP
Bombs explode near BJP MP Arjun Singh's residence in Bengal, 24 hours after NIA takes over probe into similar incident a week ago: Police
On the occasion of Hindi Diwas, I urge all the countrymen to take a pledge to progressively use the official language Hindi along with their mother tongue in basic works.: Union Home Minister Amit Shah
A huge pandal has been built in three lakh square meters, in which there is a seating arrangement for approximately one lakh people. Also, in view of the heat, arrangements for AC and fans have also been made. The SPG has taken the entire pandal under its security cover. The whole city is covered with posters and banners. The BJP is not leaving any stone unturned to make the PM’s visit a success.
PM Modi will lay the foundation stone of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University in Aligarh today. 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
Enforcement Directorate has summoned West Bengal Law minister Moloy Ghatak on 14th September in an alleged coal smuggling case. However, ANI has reported that Ghatak will not appear before Enforcement Directorate in Delhi, citing it is not possible for him to travel in such a short period of time. He has requested to appear via video conferencing or to be examined in Kolkata
AAP leaders Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh offered special prayers at the Ram Janmabhoomi and Hanumangarhi temple in Ayodhya as they launched the party's campaign for the 2022 Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.
The two will also lead the Aam Aadmi Party's Tiranga Yatra Tuesday in Faizabad that will start from the 18th-century mausoleum of Nawab Shujauddaulah and end at Gandhi Park in the city.
Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh - the party's in-charge for Uttar Pradesh affairs offered their prayers amid the chantings of mantras. They also took a dip in the Saryu river and had lunch with sadhus.
A petition was filed before a court in Bihar's Muzaffarpur on Monday against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over his controversial "Abba Jaan" remark he made in one of his speeches, reports PTI.
The petition was filed before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Muzaffarpur, by Tamanna Hashmi, a local social activist who alleged that the Muslim community, to which he belongs, was insulted by the remarks of the BJP leader.
Yogi Adityanath had reportedly said on Sunday at an event in Kushinagar that it was only after his ascent to power in 2017 that the public distribution system became effective in Uttar Pradesh where ration meant for poor used to be eaten up by "those who say 'Abba Jaan' (a term used by Muslims to address their fathers)".
PM Narendra Modi is scheduled to address the General Debate of the High-Level Segment of 76th Session of UN General Assembly (UNGA) on September 25 in New York: Ministry of External Affairs
Madhya Pradesh | Indore district reported 17 new dengue cases in a day on Sunday. With this, the overall tally of dengue cases increased to 139 in the district: Indore Chief Medical Health Officer Dr BS Sethia
Background
Breaking News LIVE Updates September 14, 2021: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of a university named after Jat king Mahendra Pratap Singh in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh on Tuesday, according to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). PM Modi will address a gathering and then visit the exhibition models of the Aligarh node of the Uttar Pradesh defence industrial corridor and Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University. This will be the first of the many visits of PM Modi ahead of the 2022 assembly election in Uttar Pradesh.
According to the PMO, the university is being established by the Uttar Pradesh government in memory and honour of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh, who was a freedom fighter, educationist and social reformer. The university is being set up in a total area of over 92 acres at Lodha and Musepur Kareem Jarouli villages of Aligarh’s Kol tehsil. It will provide affiliation to 395 colleges of the Aligarh division.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will on Tuesday take out a “Tiranga Yatra” in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya. It will be led by Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh, both of whom arrived in the temple town on Monday, and paid obeisance to Lord Ram and Lord Hanuman.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday insisted that the Biden administration had prepared for worst-case scenarios in Afghanistan as irate lawmakers accused the White House of presiding over a historic disaster.
The famously even-tempered US diplomat is facing two days of grilling by congressional committees, the first opportunity by lawmakers to directly challenge President Joe Biden's administration over his end to the 20-year war that brought a swift victory to the Taliban.
Blinken told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that the Biden administration was "intensely focused" on the safety of Americans and had been "constantly assessing" the staying power of the Western-backed government.
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