India

New Delhi, Nov 23 (PTI) The Delhi High Court Monday declined to entertain a plea seeking directions to the AAP government to immediately place the city under lockdown in view of the rising COVID-19 cases and air pollution levels, saying the petition was "half-baked" and "unnecessary".

A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan said the plea was filed without doing any homework and it ought to be dismissed with costs.

Lucknow, Nov 23 (PTI) Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra trust president Mahant Nritya Gopal Das, who is admitted to a hospital here, was put on oxygen support on Monday as he complained of difficulty in breathing, according to a health bulletin.

Das was admitted to the Medanta Hospital on November 9 for thromboembolism. The seer was taken to a hospital in Ayodhya after he complained of breathlessness, but doctors had referred him to the Lucknow hospital as his condition was "serious".

Kolkata, Nov 23 (PTI) One crore people have got jobs and unemployment has been reduced by 40 per cent under the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal since 2011, ruling Trinamool Congress MP Nusrat Jahan claimed on Monday.

Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters here, the MP said, more than 28,000 people have got loans of up to Rs 10 lakh to buy vehicles under 'Gathidhara', a self-employment programme of the state government.

Besides this, two lakh young men and women were provided assistance to get loans for buying motorbikes, she said.

Jammu, Nov 23 (PTI) A 45-year-old man, who was recently arrested for his alleged involvement in cross-border narcotic smuggling, died due to some "health problems" at a police station here on Monday, an official said.

Kuldeep Kumar, a resident of Akhnoor, was lodged in the lockup at R S Pura police station and complained of chest pain before losing his consciousness. He was rushed to the Government Medical College (GMC) hospital, where he was declared 'brought dead', according to the officer.

Mumbai, Nov 23 (PTI) Facing sedition charges, actress Kangana Ranaut and her sister Rangoli Chandel moved the Bombay High Court on Monday, seeking to quash an FIR filed against them by the city police for allegedly "trying to create hatred and communal tension" through their social media posts.

The FIR, under sedition and other charges, was registered pursuant to orders passed by the Bandra magistrate's court directing the Mumbai police to carry out an inquiry against Ranaut and her sister following a complaint lodged against them.

Mumbai, Nov 23 (PTI) Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday issued orders to initiate the process to set up a 200-MLD desalination project in Manori to mitigate the water cuts faced by Mumbai in May and June every year.

Speaking at a review meeting held at his official residence 'Varsha', the CM said that due to the delayed advent of rains, Mumbai faces 10 to 15 per cent water cuts in May and June, an official statement said.

New Delhi, Nov 23 (PTI) The new labour rules will create unemployment and promote new forms of "slavery", the Congress alleged on Monday, demanding the rollback of the 'Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (Central) Rules, 2020'.

The opposition party also claimed that the Modi government had brought the rules to benefit a few of its "crony capitalist friends".

Mumbai, Nov 24 (PTI) The Mumbai Police on Tuesday filed a charge sheet in a court here in the alleged TRP (Television Rating Points) rigging scam.

The charge sheet was submitted before a magistrate's court by the police's Crime Intelligence Unit (CIU), which is conducting a probe into the case, an official said.

The crime branch has so far arrested 12 persons, including Republic TV's distribution head and owners of two other channels, in connection with the case, he said.

NEW DELHI, Nov 23 (Bernama) — India will host the G20 summit for the first time in 2023 after Indonesia’s presidency of the group in 2022.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi participated in the 15th G20 meeting on Nov 21-22 convened by Saudi Arabia online due to the coronavirus pandemic.

“We thank Saudi Arabia for hosting a successful Riyadh Summit and its contribution to the G20 process. We look forward to our next meetings in Italy in 2021, Indonesia in 2022, India in 2023 and Brazil in 2024,” the G20 declaration said on Sunday.

Muzaffarnagar (UP), Nov 23 (PTI) A 21-year-old woman was allegedly raped and beaten up by three men in a sugarcane field in Shamli district, police said on Monday.

The woman was raped when she had gone to throw the cow dung on Sunday, according to a complaint lodged by her mother.

When the woman tried to resist their attempts to rape her, she was beaten up by the three men, the complainant said.

The accused threatened her with dire consequences if she told anyone about the incident, SHO of Jhinjhana police station Sarvesh Singh said.