India

Chitradurga (KTK), Aug 3 (PTI) Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday got initiated into the Lingayat sect by the seer of Muruga Mutt in this district headquarters town in central Karnataka in the presence of various party leaders.

After a conversation with Lingayat seers of various mutts, the seer of Muruga Mutt, Shivamurthy Muruga Sharana initiated Gandhi into Lingayat sect.

New Delhi, Aug 3 (PTI) The Congress and the Shiv Sena on Wednesday tried to raise the issue of alleged misuse of central investigating agencies by the government in the Rajya Sabha but Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu disallowed them from doing so.

Leader of the Opposition and senior Congress leader M Mallikarjun Kharge and his colleague Deepender Singh Hooda, Shiv Sena's Priyanka Chaturvedi and AAP's Sanjay Singh and Raghav Chadha gave notices under rule 267 but they were not admitted.

Kanpur: As many as 55 sheeps were killed in a village of Dehat district. Fear of stray dogs is spread throughout the village.

According to the information, stray dogs entered the sheep's shed and killed 55 sheep.

The sheep rearing farmer has informed the district administration about this incident. The victim shepherd is in shock after the death of his 55 sheep.

Reportedly there prevails terror of stray dogs in Jugrajpur village of Shivli Kotwali area of ​​Kanpur Dehat.

NEW DELHI, Aug 2 (NNN-PTI) – India recorded its sixth monkeypox case, which is the second case in the national capital, late yesterday, a health department official in Delhi confirmed, today.

The patient is said to be a Nigerian national, with no recent travel history. He was admitted to a government-run hospital for treatment of the viral infection.

According to a report by The Hindu newspaper, the patient is in his thirties and has been living in Delhi for around one year.

New Delhi, Aug 1 (PTI) India's biggest ever auction of telecom spectrum received a record Rs 1.5 lakh crore of bids, with Mukesh Ambani's Jio cornering nearly half of all the airwaves sold with a Rs 88,078 crore bid.

Richest Indian Gautam Adani's group, whose entry in the auction was billed by some as another flashpoint in the rivalry with Ambani, paid Rs 212 crore for 400 MHz, or less than 1 per cent of all spectrum sold, in a band that is not used for offering public telephony services.

New Delhi, Aug 2 (PTI) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday raided a dozen locations including the head office of the Congress party-owned National Herald newspaper here as part of an ongoing money laundering probe, officials said.

They said the searches are being carried out under the criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to "gather additional evidences with regard to the trail of funds".

Kanpur: A Class V student died of electrocution in Gajner's Seruva village here on Monday.

He was staying at his maternal home. The relatives who reached the information took the dead body to Tajpur Pali village of Narwal.

Aryan (13) son of Sushil resident of Tajpur Pali village of Narwal area in Kanpur Nagar lived in the house of Nana Bhola Paswan in Seruva village.

He was a student of class V in the primary school of the village.

According to family members, Aryan did not go to school on Monday.

KOCHI, India, Aug 1 (Reuters) - India confirmed its first monkeypox death on Monday, a young man in the southern state of Kerala, in what is only the fourth known fatality from the disease in the current outbreak.

Last week, Spain reported two monkeypox-related deaths and Brazil its first. The death in India is also the first in Asia. The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a global health emergency on July 23.

Hyderabad, July 29 (PTI) Former IPS officer T Krishna Prasad is in talks with the BJP top brass and is likely to join the saffron party soon, sources said on Friday.

The 1987-batch IPS officer retired in DGP rank in 2020 is currently running an NGO, which aims to bring cheers to the marginal sections of the society.

If everything goes as per plan Prasad is likely to join the party in August.

Gonda (UP), Jul 29 (PTI) A man here was booked for allegedly raping a middle-aged woman on the pretext of marriage, police said on Friday

The woman in her complaint alleged that the accused had been raping her for the last three years with a promise of marriage and threatened to kill her when she pressurised him for marriage, Station House Officer (Nawabganj) Tej Pratap Singh said.