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Kanpur: Colonelganj police raided the Khalasi Line area's Café and Bar here on Wednesday. The police arrested as many as six people for allowing hookah in cafes.

Offline Café located at Khalasi Line and Friends Café in Kohna area were raided by Colonelganj ACP.

Both the cafes are located in the posh area of the city areas.

ACP Tripurari Pandey said, "After registering a case against the accused, a Challan will be issued against them."

The campaign against hookah will continue on Thursday as well., he further added.

Mumbai, May 12 (PTI) Benchmark indices continued their downtrend for the fifth session on the trot on Thursday, with the Sensex tumbling nearly 817 points in early trade, tracking weak global trends and selling in index majors Reliance Industries and HDFC Bank.

Unabated selling by foreign institutional investors also weighed on the sentiment.

NEW DELHI, May 11 (NNN-PTI) – India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 43,110,586 today, with 2,897 new cases registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry’s latest data.

Of the new cases, 1,118 were reported in Delhi. Presently there are 5,471 active cases in the national capital.

Besides, 54 deaths across the country, due to the pandemic recorded since yesterday morning took the total death toll to 524,157.

Currently there are 19,494 active COVID-19 cases registered in the country, an increase of 143 in the past 24 hours.

Thane, May 11 (PTI) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has moved an application in a court at Bhiwandi in Maharashtra's Thane district, seeking permanent exemption from appearance in a defamation case filed against him.

Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) J V Paliwal on Tuesday directed the complainant, local RSS activist Rajesh Kunte, to respond to the application and posted the matter for further hearing on May 18.

Jaipur, May 10 (PTI) Former Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot on Tuesday hit out at the Centre over the fall in the Indian rupee against the US dollar, saying it has ruined the country's economy.

"The tenure of the Centre on the economic issues of the country is full of failures. The biggest fall recorded in rupee against dollar is proof that the central government has ruined the country's economy," Pilot tweeted.

New Delhi, May 10 (PTI) Delhi BJP chief Adesh Gupta on Tuesday demanded New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) to change the names of half a dozen streets bearing monikers of Mughal emperors and rechristen them after Maharshi Valmiki, Guru Gobind Singh, General Bipin Rawat, and Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.

Lucknow, May 10 (PTI) High Commissioner of Bangladesh to India Muhammad Imran met Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath at his official residence here on Tuesday and discussed ways and means to further strengthen the relations between the two countries and especially promote trade with Uttar Pradesh, an official release said.

Adityanath said India and Bangladesh have strong relations of history, language, culture, and there are wide possibilities of investment and employment in the Uttar Pradesh, it said.

Dehradun, May 11 (PTI) With a rush of pilgrims for the Char Dham Yatra, the daily limit imposed on the number of people visiting each of the shrines -- Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri and Yamunotri -- in Uttarakhand has been increased by 1,000 for the first 45 days of the yatra season.

An earlier government order in this regard had been partially modified, increasing the limit to 16,000 for Badrinath, 13,000 for Kedarnath, 80,000 for Gangotri and 5,000 for Yamunotri, officials said on Wednesday.

Shajapur, May 11 (PTI) Madhya Pradesh School Education Minister Inder Singh Parmar's daughter-in-law allegedly committed suicide at her residence in Shajapur district, an official said.

Savita Parmar (22), the wife of Devraj Parmar, took the extreme step by hanging herself around 9 pm on Tuesday at her home in Pochaner village, Avantipur Badodia police station in-charge Pradeep Vaskale said on Wednesday.

The reason behind the extreme step was not clear, he said.

Guwahati, May 11 (PTI) TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday asserted that he will do "everything possible" to oust the corrupt BJP government from power in Assam.

Addressing Trinamool Congress workers for the first time in Assam at a programme here, the MP set a target of winning 10 Lok Sabha seats in the state out of 14 in 2024.

"Wherever the TMC has entered, it has fought till the last. We will fight to evict the BJP in two years... I won't budge until we win in this state.