India

Srinagar, Sep 12 (PTI) Four members of a nomad family, including three minors, were killed when a cloudburst occurred in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Sunday.

The cloudburst occurred in the upper belt of Dangiwacha at Hamam Marcoot in Sopore area of the north Kashmir district on Saturday night, the officials said.

Police and State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) teams rushed to the spot and four bodies have been recovered, they said.

Chandigarh, Sep 11 (PTI) The Haryana government on Saturday ordered a judicial probe into last month's clash between farmers and police and sent the IAS officer who is at the centre of a row over his remarks on leave. Following this, farmers called off their sit-in outside the Karnal district headquarters.

Haryana Additional Chief Secretary Devender Singh said the probe will be conducted by a retired judge and will be completed within a month. Former SDM Ayush Sinha will remain on leave during the time, he said.

Kanpur: As mobile rings at intervals, he only takes the call but expresses his extreme inability to fulfil the client's request. He is a cardboard stockist running his business in the city of Allahabad (Prayagraj).

Being a regular visitor to the tannery town of Jajmau, he stays in this particular area for days or weeks or months. So, regular calls from his trusted and tested clients remain a chronic discomfort for him. To be precise, he does not irritate, he replies to them in a very polite way like a gentleman.

NEW DELHI, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- The farmers protesting outside the main government office in the northern Indian state of Haryana Saturday called off their strike after the local government accepted most of their demands, officials said.

The farmers were on protest outside the mini-secretariat (government building housing major offices) in Karnal district.

Senior official from the Haryana government Devender Singh and farmer leader Gurnam Singh Charuni held a joint press conference.

New Delhi, Sep 10 (PTI) A magistrate would not be the competent authority for extension of time to complete investigation in cases under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, the Supreme Court has said.

A bench headed by Justice U U Lalit said the only competent authority to consider such request would be the Special Courts set up under National Investigation Agency Act.

Kollam, Sep 10 (PTI) Kerala police on Friday submitted the charge sheet in the Vismaya case in which an Ayurveda medical student was found dead in her husband's house under mysterious circumstances after she had complained of dowry harassment.

Kollam Rural SP KB Ravi, who arrived at the local court to submit the charge sheet, told the media that the case had shocked the conscience of the state.

Kanpur: The Reserve Bank of India has extended curbs on People's Co-operative Bank Limited, Kanpur, for three months from September 11 to December 10, this year.The bank has been under restrictions since June 10, 2020, through the directives issued under Section 35A of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (AACS), said the news.

Lucknow, Sep 10 (PTI) The AIMIM on Friday offered to field gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Anasri in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, hours after the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) denied ticket to him.

Earlier in the day, BSP supremo Mayawati said her party will make efforts to not field 'bahubali' (strongmen) or mafia candidates in the upcoming polls and announced that Ansari, who is lodged in a jail in Banda, will not be given a ticket from Mau again.

Mumbai, Sep 10 (PTI) A 34-year-old woman was raped and brutally assaulted inside a stationary tempo in suburban Sakinaka and her condition was said to be serious, police said on Friday.

Mohan Chouhan (45), the accused, was arrested within a few hours of the incident, said an official.

The police control room received a call in the early hours of Friday that a man was thrashing a woman on Khairani Road, he said.

New Delhi, Sep 10 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi is slated to launch Sansad TV, a new channel formed by merging the Lok Sabha TV and Rajya Sabha TV, on September 15, sources said on Friday.

According to them, veteran Congress leader Karan Singh, economist Bibek Debroy, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant, and advocate Hemant Batra will host different shows on this new channel.