India

Kanpur: Leakage in the water supply line has led people to bemoan the drinking water crisis. The latest crisis has arisen around Kakadev while earlier leakage made the people residing around the Rawatpur area suffer for the water availability.

City's different localities are facing drinking water problem as supply remains closed owing to leakage in the waterline. Not only this but the road condition has also gone worse due to digging in Kakadeo and its adjoining areas. The water supply remained blocked on Saturday.

Indore, Jun 12 (PTI) A map of 'Akhand Bharat' (undivided India) installed by the Indore civic body on a busy road has created controversy, with the opposition Congress in Madhya Pradesh asking whether it was in line with India's foreign policy.

The mural-like installation at Footi Kothi Crossing was put up by the civic traffic department two years ago, an official said. It covers the entire subcontinent including Pakistan and Bangladesh, and shows topographical features but not the existing national boundaries.

Allahabad, June 12 (PTI) A man arrested under the stringent Uttar Pradesh anti-conversion ordinance for allegedly abducting and raping a woman and then seeking to convert her to his own religion for marrying her, has been granted bail by the Allahabad High Court.

Justice Rahul Chaturvedi granted bail to Mahoba resident Munna Khan after finding that the alleged victim was in a relationship with the accused, living in her neighbourhood, and observing that she was a wilful and active participant in all actions faced by her .

Bareilly (UP), Jun 13 (PTI) An 11-year-old girl was found dead in the district with police on Sunday suspecting that she was raped before being murdered.

Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rohit Singh Sajawan said that the girl, a student of class 6, had on Saturday around 8.00 am gone to the family's fields on a cycle to look after crops.

In the evening, her cycle and clothes were found around 800 metres from her house, he said.

NEW DELHI, June 12. /TASS/: Over the past day, doctors in India registered 84,332 new coronavirus cases, the total number of cases during the pandemic in the country reached 29,359,155. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Saturday, the number of deaths increased by 4,002 in 24 hours and reached 367,081.

NEW DELHI (AP) — Ram Babu moved from his village to the Indian capital New Delhi in 1980, to clean cars. Soon, he learned to drive and got a job as a tour bus driver. Decades later, he set up his own company, Madhubani Tours and Travels.

In March 2020, a stringent nationwide lockdown to fight the coronavirus pandemic froze economic activity overnight. Babu’s business collapsed, and he drove his family back to their village.

New Delhi, Jun 11 (PTI) The Supreme Court Friday said it would pass orders on June 15 on closure of proceedings in India against two Italian marines, accused of killing two fishermen off the Kerala coast in February 2012, and the disbursal of Rs 10 crore compensation to the heirs of the victims.

Kanpur: Regional Transport Office has taken a decision to make the city free of pollution. Older tempos and autos will no longer run in outer areas. 

It has been made clear that tempos and autos running in the city's outer areas will not run from July. This decision has taken place to control pollution.

As many as 1000 tempos and 100 autos that are 15 years old will turn into scraps if seized. 

Diesel propelled tempos and autos were banned years ago in city areas but these were running into the rural areas. These were licensed to run.

Chandigarh, Jun 12 (PTI) The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) formed an alliance on Saturday for the 2022 Punjab Assembly election.

Announcing the tie-up at a press conference, SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal described it as a new day in politics of Punjab .

"Today, is a historic day...a big turn in Punjab's politics, he said in the presence of BSP General Secretary Satish Chandra Mishra.

He said the SAD and the BSP will jointly fight the 2022 polls and other elections together.

New Delhi, Jun 12 (PTI) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday cautioned that the chances of the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic were quite real, while he asserted that his government was preparing on a "war-footing" to combat it.

Indications are coming from the UK on the fear of the third wave. Cases are rising there, despite 45 per cent of vaccination. So, we cannot afford to sit idle, he said.