Breaking News LIVE: Congress Delegation Led By Rahul Gandhi To Visit Lakhimpur Kheri On Wednesday
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Today evening, 3 terror incidents were reported from Srinagar & Bandipora, in which terrorists shot dead three civilians. Police have registered cases regarding these terror crime incidents. The respective areas have been cordoned and search in these areas is going on: J&K Police
5-member Congress delegation led by Rahul Gandhi to visit Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh tomorrow. 8 people including 4 farmers were killed in violence in the district on Sunday.
Unknown gunmen fired at a chemist at famous Chemist M L Bindro at Iqbal Park area of Srinagar, who succumbed on way to hospital on Wednesday.
Officials said that unknown gunmen fired at a famous chemist M L Bindro, 68 at his shop at around 7 pm near Iqbal Park, Srinagar. “Bindroo had multiple bullet injuries.
"He was brought dead to the hospital," said Dr Kanwaljeet Singh, Medical Superintendent SMHS hospital, Srinagar.
We were told that we were arrested under Section 151 of IPC, under which police can't detain us for more than 24 hours. Through media, we got to know that an FIR has been filed against us but the police are not sharing anything with us: Congress leader Deepender Singh Hooda
Mumbai's Esplanade Court has sent Abdul Qadir Sheikh, Shreyas Nair, Manish Darya, Avin Sahu to NCB custody till October 11 in cruise ship party case. All four accused were arrested earlier today.
We have evidence to prove that neither I nor my son was present at the spot. We are ready to face any investigating agency. Culprits, who have planned this incident won't be spared: MoS Home Ajay Mishra Teni on Lakhimpur Kheri violence
Congress Leader Bhupesh Baghel is on a sit in protest at the Lucknow airport after he was not permitted to leave the premises.
We don't trust that the BJP govt will bring culprit/s to justice. We appeal to farmers to throw this govt out of power. Videos & people at the spot indicated involvement of the son of MoS Home (Ajay Mishra Teni) along with others: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav told ANI
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with beneficiaries of the SVAMITVA scheme in Madhya Pradesh on October 6. PM will also distribute e-property cards to over 1.7 lakh beneficiaries: Prime Minister's Office
Prayagraj | Allahabad High Court has ordered the District Administration to remove all unauthorised constructions in Chandrashekhar Azad Park by October 8
Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav has targetted Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Lucknow which is a part pf government's initiative Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav. Yadav tweeted in Hindi and said, "UP is mourning over the killings of farmers, this is not the time for celebration."
After achieving 100% vaccination of eligible people with the first dose in August, Himachal Pradesh has achieved the distinction of inoculating half the population with the second dose against Covid-19.
National Health Mission state director Hemraj Bairwa said “Himachal Pradesh was the first in the country to have administered the vaccine to 100% of its population with the first dose. Now, the state has fully vaccinated half of its more than 55 lakh eligible population.”
Congress workers break barriers, raise slogans in Sitapur as party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra remains under detention.
Congress leader Deepender Singh Hooda claimed that he has been under detention for the last 24 hours in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur. "Today after 24 hours have passed, we are still in custody like criminals for the second day, and those who crushed the farmers are free. The land of Lakhimpur was turned red with the blood of farmers, but every drop of this blood will write the story of the coming revolution. Police Line Sitapur, from police custody," Hooda tweeted.
Congress names its candidates for by-elections in 3 assembly constituencies in Assam & one in Maharashtra Jowel Tudu, Bhaskar Dahal&Manoranjan Konwar will contest for Gossaigaon, Tamulpur&Thowra seats respectively in Assam Jitesh Antapurkar will contest for Deglur,Maharashtra
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra shared a video of herself from the detention centre which was addressed to the Prime Minister saying, " I got to know you are visiting Lucknow today on the occasion of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav. Have you seen this video? (shares viral video of farmers being trampled by a car). Please look at the video and answer me why is the Lakhimpur accused free and why political leaders are detained without any order. Please come to Lakhimpur and hear out the ordeal of the farmers who have been suffering for months."
Nepal | An aircraft of a domestic air carrier (Shree Airlines) slipped off the runway at Kathmandu Airport today; No reports of immediate damage. The airport remains operational: Kathmandu Airport authorities
"We’re now back and running at 100%," says WhatsApp after the longest global outage on Monday night
Facebook has blamed the major outage on router work, reported AFP.
Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram crashed for users worldwide on Monday in a global outage wherein millions were unable to use the Facebook-owned applications.
While it is normal for websites and apps to suffer outages, one on a global scale lasting for several hours is rare to see. Users, in different parts of the world, reported being unable to access the applications.
Congress supporters continue to protest outside PAC guest house in Sitapur where party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is detained.
India Meteorological Department (IMD) says that conditions are favourable for the monsoon to start withdrawing from some parts of northwest India on Wednesday, marking its second-most delayed withdrawal in the last 41 years. In 2019, monsoon withdrawal was the most delayed, commencing only on October 9.
A cyclonic circulation is lying over coastal Tamil Nadu and adjoining southwest Bay of Bengal. A trough in easterlies is running from this cyclonic circulation to Lakshadweep area across the interior Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Another cyclonic circulation is lying over southeast Arabian Sea. It is likely to persist during the next 2-3 days.
Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot has written to Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal, urging him to start procurement of paddy on the support price in the state at the earliest.
According to a statement, Gehlot said 2.62 lakh metric tonnes of paddy is estimated to be produced during 2021-22 in Hanumangarh and Sri Ganganagar districts and in such a situation, a target of procuring 50,000 metric tonnes of paddy on the support price should be fixed.
He wrote that the Union government has set a target of doubling the income of farmers by 2022 and the purchase of agricultural commodities at support price has a direct impact on their income.
Gehlot said if the procurement is not started early, then these farmers will not be able to get the proper price for their produce like last year and they will have to suffer financial losses.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate — New Urban India: Transforming Urban Landscape and a conference and exhibition on the subject — at the Indira Gandhi Pratishthan in Lucknow Uttar Pradesh on October 5.
Prime Minister Modi will hand over digital keys to 75,000 beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana in 75 districts of Lucknow's Urban Conclave and will also talk to six beneficiaries.
He will also inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for 75 projects worth 4,737 crores, flag off 75 electric buses in 10 smart cities of UP and release a table book of 75 successful projects.
The entire visit is part of 'Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ programme.
Services of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are coming back online after several hours of disruption that impacted millions of people worldwide.
While the users of the three social media platforms remained clueless as they repeatedly received error messages for most part of the day, the stocks of Silicon Valley firm Facebook dropped by nearly five per cent as a result.
To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we're sorry. We've been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. Thank you for bearing with us, Facebook, which owns photo sharing app Instagram and messaging platform WhatsApp, said on Twitter.
Mike Schroepfer, chief technology officer of Facebook, said on Twitter: Sincere apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now. We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible.
Facebook services are coming back online now (It) may take some time to get to 100 per cent. To every small and large business, family, and individual who depends on us, I'm sorry, Schroepfer said in another tweet.
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Breaking News LIVE, October 5, 2021: Hello and welcome to ABP News LIVE Breaking News Blog! Today Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate Azadi@75 – New Urban India: Transforming Urban Landscape Conference-cum-Expo in Indira Gandhi Pratishthan, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
On Tuesday in IPL 2021, Rajasthan Royals will take on Mumbai Indians as the race to the IPL Playoffs heat up with only one spot up for grab.
Meanwhile, all eyes will also be on Lakhimpur Kheri as the opposition parties are trying to gain ground with the incident happening almost close to the UP Assembly Elections 2022.
On Sunday, a car, which allegedly had Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Mishra's son, mowed down farmers protesting the Centre's newly introduced agrarian laws at Lakhimpur Kheri. Violence ensued after this horrific incident which left 8 dead including 4 farmers.
On Monday, the Yogi government announced Rs 45 Lakh ex gratia and a government job for the kin of the deceased in the incident.
The announcement was made in a joint press conference by BKU’s Rakesh Tikait and UP Additional DG, Law and Order, Prashant Kumar. It is understood that the demands of farmers have been met with FIRs being lodged under relevant sections, also including Ashish Mishra's name. A judicial probe has also been promised in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence.
Meanwhile, in order to control the situation, the UP police have imposed Section 144 of the CrPC and not allowed politicians to be near ground zero.
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has been detained at Sitapur guesthouse, Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel and Punjab CM Charanjit Channi were not allowed to land in Lucknow, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav hasn’t been allowed to move out of his Lucknow home, BSP and TMC leaders have also been stopped.
Besides the political upheaval, much commotion is around the arrest of Aryan Khan, Bollywood star Shar Rukh Khan's son, who has been sent to extended NCB's custody till Thursday.
Aryan, Munmun Dhamecha, and Arbaz Merchant were arrested by the NCB on Sunday and were sent to one-day custody. The three accused were produced before the court on Monday, which sent them to further custody till Thursday.
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