India

Rohtang (HP), Oct 3 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated the strategically important all-weather Atal Tunnel, which reduces the distance between Manali and Leh by 46 km and the travel time by four to five hours, at Rohtang in Himachal Pradesh.

Atal Tunnel, built by the Border Roads Organisation, is the longest highway tunnel in the world.

Kanpur: The KMC looks determined to remove encroachments along the road extending from the Jarib Chowki road to Vijaynagar road in the city area. It has now awakened from its deep slumber.

Like the city's another roads, the above-mentioned roads are also not completely protected from unpleasant encroachments.

The vehicle body makers find enough empty space to carry on their vocation on pretty wide roads.

Even the broad footpaths have not been left. Repairing and washing of vehicles like buses and trucks go on the whole long day.

NEW DELHI (AP) — India crossed 100,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, putting the country’s toll at nearly 10% of the global fatalities and behind only the United States and Brazil.

The Health Ministry reported another 1,069 fatalities in the past 24 hours, driving the death toll to 100,842. It also raised the country’s confirmed caseload to more than 6.4 million with 79,476 new infections.

SRINAGAR (Kashmir), Oct 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Indian army accused Pakistan of killing three soldiers and wounding four in shelling along the highly militarized frontier dividing disputed Kashmir between the two nuclear-armed rivals.

Indian army spokesman Col Rajesh Kalia said two soldiers died and four were wounded when Pakistani soldiers fired mortar rounds and other weapons in the northwestern Nowgam sector along the Line of Control in Kupwara district.

New Delhi, Oct 1 (PTI) India on Thursday said it desires to have normal neighbourly relations with Pakistan in an atmosphere free of terror, hostility and violence and the onus is on Islamabad to create such an environment.

External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said India's efforts to step up engagement with the countries of the region are reflection of its 'Neighbourhood First policy'.

Kanpur: Bookies are now reduced to rural areas owing to fear of the police. Their location thus remains free from a police raid. By maintaining their setting in villages they feel secured and find hassle-free benefit, as reports indicate.

With the start of the IPL T20, the bookies thought to confine themselves to remote pastoral sites but active police keep eye on their black business.

The police team began a search operation in the hotels. List of vicious bookies is prepared. An order to catch bookies from the nearby village locations has already been issued.

Jabalpur (MP), Oct 1 (PTI)Two men were arrested on Thursday for allegedly raping and killing a two-year-old girl in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur district, the police said.

The incident had taken place last month near Shahpura village, 45 km from here.

Sonu Thakur alias Sonu Gond (21) and Shubham Mallah (20) were arrested for kidnapping, raping and killing the girl, said district superintendent of police S Bahuguna.

Nagpur, Oct 1 (PTI) Congress leader and Maharashtra minister Nitin Raut on Thursday demanded dismissal of the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh over the alleged gang-rape and death of a Dalit woman in Hathras.

Talking to PTI here, Raut, who is also chairperson of the AlCC SC department, said atrocities against Dalits and women have increased "considerably" ever since the BJP came to power in Uttar Pradesh in 2017.

He condemned the detention of Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra by the UP police.

Ghaziabad, Oct 1 (PTI) Amid the widespread outrage over the alleged gang-rape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit woman in Hathras and her forcible cremation subsequently, scores of Ghaziabad lawyers on Thursday demanded imposition of President Rule in Uttar Pradesh.

Chandigarh, Oct 2 (PTI) In a slight change in his programme, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will now hold tractor rallies in Punjab and Haryana from October 4-6 to protest against the contentious new farm laws.

Earlier, Gandhi was scheduled to hold tractor rallies from October 3-5, the party had said. However, the rest of his itinerary will remain the same.