India

New Delhi, Oct 17 (PTI) Petrol and diesel price on Sunday was hiked again by 35 paise a litre and the auto fuels now cost a third more than the rate at which ATF is sold to airlines.

The fourth straight day of 35 paise per litre hike sent petrol and diesel rates to record highs across the country.

The price of petrol in Delhi rose to its highest-ever level of Rs 105.84 a litre and Rs 111.77 per litre in Mumbai, according to a price notification of state-owned fuel retailers.

Kanpur: The Delhi-Howrah Up line has now become operational since Friday night, while the track on the down line could be restored at early morning on Saturday.

Giving this information, the Chief Public Relations Officer, NCR, Shivam Sharma told that following the derailment  trains were diverted and delayed.

However, restoration work of about several hours, the track going towards New Delhi was opened at 12.15 a.m. and the line towards Howrah was opened for normal traffic at 6.30 a.m. on Saturday.

New Delhi, Oct 16 (PTI) Days after some sections within the Congress questioned the absence of an elected party chief, Sonia Gandhi on Saturday asserted that she is a full-time, hands-on party president and leaders need not speak to her through the media.

Without naming anyone, Gandhi, in a message to the G23, said at the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting that while every member wants the party's revival, it can happen only with unity, self-control, discipline and by keeping the party's interests paramount

MUMBAI (India), Oct 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Police investigating the killing of a Sikh man at the site of an ongoing farmers’ protest in New Delhi said on Saturday they had arrested a suspect from a Sikh warrior sect, after the mutilated body was found strung up on a police barricade.

The 35-year-old victim was beaten to death on Friday by a group of men who had accused him of desecrating Sikh holy texts, according to media reports. One of the man’s hands was hacked off, the reports said.

MUMBAI, Oct 16 (Reuters) - A powerful right-wing Hindu group linked to India's ruling party has called for curbs on streaming platforms and cryptocurrencies, saying regulation was essential.

"There is a need to regularise these things for the larger good of the society," said Mohan Bhagwat, head of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the ideological parent of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party.

Kanpur: It is on Saturday the sixth accused cop in the death case of the Kanpur realtor was arrested from the Gorakhpur cantonment area.

He was carrying an award of Rs 1lakh on his head.

The policeman named Vijay Yadav was held at the time he was planning to surrender at the court of DIG Range Gorakhpur.

Thus all the accused have been arrested.

Chennai, Oct 15 (PTI): Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi and Chief Minister M K Stalin on Friday paid tributes to A P J Abdul Kalam, former President, on his 90th birth anniversary.

Paying floral tributes to a portrait of Kalam in the Raj Bhavan here, the Governor called upon the students and youth to rejuvenate their strategies by following Kalam's mantra of Dream your aim to make it true. He urged the younger generation to carry forward the former President's mission by inculcating noble thoughts, values, patriotism and the desire to aim high.

Udhagamandalam (Tamil Nadu), Oct 15 (PTI): Finally, the elusive man-eating tiger has been trapped in Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu after being twice hit by tranquilizer darts in the last 14 hours, forest officials said on Friday.

The tiger had been a menace to villagers in Gudalur and Masinagudi after it killed four people, the most recent being a 85-year-old man, and also over 20 head of cattle and goats, said the officials who were trying to trap it since September 25.

Bhadohi (UP), Oct 15 (PTI) Two girls were allegedly raped in separate incidents and the accused persons have been arrested in both cases on Friday here, police said.

Both cases have been registered under sections of the Indian Penal Code and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, police said.

In the first incident, Superintendent of Police Anil Kumar said a 7-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 24-year-old man on Thursday and a case was registered against him at Gopiganj police station.

Hyderabad, Oct 15 (PTI) AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi attacked RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat's Vijayadashmi rally speech, claiming that it was full of lies and half truths.

Owaisi, who put out a series of tweets Friday night, criticised Bhagwat over the latter's comments on population policy, abrogation of Article 370 and others.