Indian Sub-continent

Mumbai/Jalna, Apr 28 (PTI) Police have seized 89 swords and a dagger from an SUV in Maharashtra's Dhule district and arrested four people in this connection, an official said Thursday.

A police team intercepted the vehicle after chasing it on Wednesday near Songir Phata in Shirpur area while it was heading towards Dhule city, located over 300 km from Mumbai, he said.

During a search, the police found 89 swords and a dagger inside the SUV in which four persons were travelling, Dhule Superintendent of Police Pravinkumar Patil said.

Noida, Apr 28 (PTI) A scuffle broke out between police personnel and Vishwa Hindu Parishad-Bajrang Dal activists in Uttar Pradesh's Noida on Thursday, leading to a brief detention of some members of the right-wing organisations, officials said.

A policeman was injured in the scuffle that took place in the afternoon after the right-wing activists, including their office-bearers, reached the Sector 39 police station in connection with a rape case involving a minor girl and a boy, they said.

Lucknow, Apr 28 (PTI) BSP supremo Mayawati on Thursday trashed SP chief Akhilesh Yadav's remark suggesting that the BJP could make her the President, saying she would prefer becoming the country's prime minister someday to realise her goals for the downtrodden.

Reacting to the dig at her on Wednesday, Mayawati said she never aspired to be the President and the Samajwadi Party leader was dreaming about it only to clear his own path to become the Uttar Pradesh chief minister.

Agartala, Apr 29 (PTI) Noting that bilateral trade and connectivity are crucial for sustainable economic development of both India and Bangladesh, Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has urged IT companies in the neighbouring country to invest in his state.

Deb, during the first edition of 'Digital Bangladesh IT Summit-2022' on Thursday, also said here that he had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requesting him to introduce direct international flights to Dhaka, Chittagong, Singapore and Bangkok from state capital Agartala.

New Delhi, Apr 29 (PTI) IT company Wipro on Friday posted a 4 per cent rise in consolidated profit at Rs 3,092.5 crore in the fourth quarter ended March 2022.

The company had registered a profit of Rs 2,974.1 crore in the same period a year ago.

Kanpur: On Thursday afternoon, the joint squad of traffic police and anti-encroachment squad reached the Ramadevi intersection to remove the encroachment.

First of all, the illegal tempo stands operating on the Naubasta route from the intersection were removed.

After this, those who had occupied the pavement were chased away with sticks. It was reported that many shopkeepers had made permanent pucca platforms on the sidewalks.They were smashed with a bulldozer.

The Municipal Corporation may have taken the title of Open Defecation Free, but there is a lack of women facilitation (toilets) in a city with a woman mayor.

In the preparations for the cleanliness campaign and ODF, the Municipal Corporation built toilets in many places but did not pay attention to the problem of women's toilets.

There are toilets in the small streets of the markets but only for men. In the name of the women's facility, their number is only three.

NEW DELHI, Apr 28 (NNN-PTI) – India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 43,068,799 today, as 3,303 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the health ministry’s latest data.

This is the first day when the number of new cases breached the 3,000-mark, after lying low for the past several months.

Over 41 percent of the cases were reported from Delhi, with 4,832 active cases, which is the maximum number across the country.

Besides, 39 deaths across the country due to the pandemic since yesterday morning took the total death toll to 523,693.

Pulwama, 28 April 2022: Two Kashmiris were killed by Indian security forces in Pulwama district of the Indian Administered Kashmir on Thursday, Indian officials said.

Slained Kasmiris were identified as Aijaz Hafiz and Shahid Ayub.

Banda (UP), Apr 27 (PTI) A 35-year-old BJP leader on Wednesday here allegedly hanged herself due to a dispute with her husband, police said.

Shweta Singh Gaur, who was also a district panchayat member, was found hanging from the ceiling of her room in Indira Nagar locality, Superintendent of Police Abhinandan said.

Prima facie it seems Gaur had a dispute with her husband because of which she killed herself, he said.

Police are probing the matter and a post mortem report of the victim is awaited, he said.