India

Hyderabad, Sep 25 (PTI) In a suspected case of honour killing, a 28-year old man was allegedly abducted and murdered for marrying a woman belonging to a different caste, police said on Friday.

Nine people suspected to be involved in the case are in custody.

According to police, relatives of Avanthi Reddy 'forcibly' took her and her husband Hemanth, who got married against the wishes of her family about three months ago, on Thursday in a car.

Muzaffarnagar, Sep 25 (PTI) A priest and his brother were booked for allegedly stealing Rs 1.25 lakh cash and other valuables from a temple in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district, police said on Friday.

The priest, Sompal, of the Yogmaya temple at Miranpur town in the district and his brother Rampal are absconding after the incident that took place on Wednesday evening, they said.

The incharge of the temple managing committee, Anurag Sharma, lodged a complaint against the duo on Thursday.

Mumbai, Sep 25 (PTI) Former Bihar police chief Gupteshwar Pandey would speak like some BJP leader in connection with actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death case and that suspicion has proved to be true, Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh has said.

Pandey has been in line of fire of non-BJP parties in Maharashtra after he sought a CBI probe in Rajput's death and then opted for voluntary retirement amid speculation of his electoral foray in Bihar where assembly polls will be held in October-November.

Pune, Sep 25 (PTI) Till March, Navnath Gore was a lecturer in a college in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, but the COVID-19-induced lockdown took away his contract job and reduced him to a farm labourer.

Gore (32), a resident of Nigdi, a small village in Jat tehsil of Sangli district, received the Sahitya Akademi's Yuva Puraskar for young writers in 2018, but that is hardly a consolation for a man who has fallen on hard times due to the outbreak of coronavirus.

Medininagar (Jharkhand), Sep 25 (PTI) Security forces on Friday defused four landmines allegedly planted by Naxalites on a road in Jharkhand's Palamu district, police said.

The Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), weighing 12- 15 kg each, were laid on a road near Mansuria village in Manatu police station area, Superintendent of Police, Sanjeev Kumar, said.

"The landmines were laid to inflict casualties on the security forces. Investigation is on to find out which Naxalite outfit was behind it," the officer told PTI.

Kanpur: Following a raid on two hospitals here on Wednesday, the CMO has taken strict action of sealing procedures. The manager of one hospital has been arrested while the process of action on another hospital was also undertaken.

Both the hospitals had been running without a proper license. One hospital was based in Panki while another was situated at Kalyanpur. According to the news reports, the hospitals were sealed and the manager of one hospital was arrested.

Srinagar, 24 Sep 2020: An unidentified Kashmiri was killed on Thursday by Indian security forces in Pulwama district of the Indian Administered Kashmir, Indian officials said.

Kanpur: Thursday's weather is neither hot nor humid nor dry. A thick cloud cover envelops the sky. The air quality is fair but said to be unhealthy for sensitive groups.

It rained amply in the morning that keeps the temperature down at 30°Celsius at 3 p.m. The weather experts tell that the real feel of the hourly temperature stays at 35 degrees Celsius at the time.

Ahmedabad, Sep 23 (PTI) The Gujarat government has opposed Congress leader Hardik Patel's application filed in a sessions court here seeking temporary suspension of his bail condition that restricts him from leaving the state.

Patel, who is the working president of the Gujarat Congress unit, was arrested in January this year for failing to appear before the trial court in a 2015 sedition case.

New Delhi, Sep 24 (PTI) India's COVID-19 caseload raced past 57 lakh, while over 46 lakh people have recovered from the disease pushing the national recovery rate to 81.55 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday.

The total coronavirus cases mounted to 57,32,518 with 86,508 people testing positive in a day while the death toll climbed to 91,149 with 1,129 people succumbing to the disease in a span of 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed.

The total recoveries surged to 46,74,987 in the country so far.