India

KANPUR: Tuesday remained partially cloudy and partly sunny throughout the day. Rains did not occur in spite of the patches of the clouds splattered over the blue sky.

In the early morning, there were showers but it did not continue a little longer in Jajmau area.

Though the residents remained quite optimistic of the downpours the situation appeared to be not conducive for the required amount of rains in this part of the business City.

Bengaluru, Aug 4 (PTI) Former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday said he has tested positive for COVID-19 and has been admitted to the hospital on the advice of doctors.

The Manipal hospital, where the 71-year-old leader of opposition in the state assembly is undergoing treatment, said he is "doing well" and is "stable currently".

"I have been tested positive for #Covid19 & also been admitted to the hospital on the advice of doctors as a precaution.

New Delhi, Aug 4 (PTI) The Aam Aadmi Party has decided to restructure its Delhi unit at assembly, district, ward, polling station and booth level, senior party leader and minister Gopal Rai said on Tuesday.

The restructuring exercise is being undertaken with an eye on the 2022 municipal polls in the city.

Rai, who is also the AAP's Delhi convener, said the restructuring will start from Wednesday and will continue till August 20.

Ballia (UP), Aug 4 (PTI) A married woman was allegedly raped in a village in Sukhpura area here, police said on Tuesday.

The incident took place on the night of August 2 when the woman, aged around 27 years, was asleep and one R Singh (25) entered her house and raped her, SHO Sukhpura Virendra Yadav said.

The FIR was registered on Monday, he said, adding that the woman has undergone a medial examination and police is probing the matter.

No arrests have been made so far, he said.

Pune, Aug 4 (PTI) A 53-year-old man was arrested for allegedly raping and robbing a woman of valuables worth over Rs 1 lakh in Maharashtra's Pune city, police said on Tuesday.

The police on Monday nabbed Dashrath Bansode and booked him under sections 376 (rape) and 379 (theft) of the Indian Penal Code, an official from Mundhawa police station said.

The incident took place on Sunday evening, when the 45-year-old victim was waiting at a bus stop near Fatima Nagar on Pune-Solapur Highway, he said.

Patna, Aug 4 (PTI) In a serious twist in the actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death case, the Bihar government on Tuesday decided to recommend a CBI inquiry into the sensational death by suicide case of the Bollywood star on a request from his father, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said.

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — For almost a century, no outsider was allowed to buy land and property in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

That changed Aug. 5 last year when India’s Hindu nationalist government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi stripped the Himalayan state’s semi-autonomous powers and downgraded it to a federally governed territory. It also annulled the long-held hereditary special rights its natives had over the disputed region’s land ownership and jobs.

NEW DELHI, Aug 3 (NNN-UNI) – India’s health ministry announced today that the country’s COVID-19 cases have surpassed 1.8 million, reaching 1,803,695.

As many as 52,972 fresh cases were added to the tally, in the past 24 hours, according to latest data released by the ministry.

Meanwhile, 771 deaths took place during the past 24 hours, taking the total deaths to 38,135.

A total of 1,186,203 people have been cured and discharged across the country so far, while 579,357 active cases are being treated in hospitals.

New Delhi, Aug 2 (PTI) The National Green Tribunal has directed UP Jal Nigam to expeditiously complete the work of sewer connectivity to households at Narora town in Bulandshahr district to ensure that no untreated water is discharged into the Ganga.

The green panel slammed the Jal Nigam over non-functional sewage treatment plant at Narora and discharge of untreated sewage in a pond adjacent to the river.

New Delhi, Aug 2 (PTI) MSME Minister Nitin Gadkari has approved an employment generation programme proposed by Khadi and Village Industries Commission to make India self-reliant in agarbatti production.

The programme named 'Khadi Agarbatti Aatmanirbhar Mission' aims at creating employment for unemployed and migrant workers in different parts of the country while increasing domestic agarbatti production substantially, the MSME Ministry said.