Indian Sub-continent

Agartala, Feb 6 (PTI) Tripura's forestry department is embarking on a project to breed the endangered vulture specie in Khowai district through program for vulture conservation and artificial breeding'.

The decision was taken after it was noticed that Khowai had higher concentration of vulture population, said officials who added that vultures would be brought in from other states to help in the artificial breeding.

Mumbai, Feb 6 (PTI) Lata Mangeshkar, whose voice struck an instant chord of recognition with generations of South Asians and is considered one of India's greats, died in a Mumbai hospital on Sunday due to multiple organ failure. She was 92.

The singer, whose name was written into legend long years before she took her last breath in Mumbai's Breach Candy Hospital, had been in hospital since January 8 when she was diagnosed with Covid with mild symptoms. She was also diagnosed with pneumonia.

Kanpur: Political parties are following varied gimmicks to lure young voters in this episode of the UP assembly polls.

Reportedly there are registered more than 33 thousand young voters who will exercise their vote for the first time.

What requires to be focused upon is increasing the voting percentage on different seats here.

According to the information a target of 70 percent voting has been recommended. For it there proceeds awareness programmes. Even children are being motivated to inspire their parents to vote for.

Kanpur: The Sisamau assembly here is the Samajwadi Party stronghold.

A triangular election will be held for the  assembly seat.

The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress have laid siege to the seat.

This time, winning the seat for the Samajwadi Party will be challenging.

The assembly elections in the seat are very engaging, with BJP and Congress entering the fray.

The three-time Samajwadi Party MLA Irfan Solanki is encircled by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress ace candidates into the battle of ballots.

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir have arrested a young journalist on accusations of publishing “anti-national content,” police said, in a widening crackdown against media in the disputed region.

Fahad Shah, the editor of news portal Kashmir Walla, was summoned for questioning at a police station in southern Pulwama town on Friday and later arrested there, police said.

New Delhi, Feb 3 (PTI) The Supreme Court has set aside an order for detention of a Jabalpur man accused of procuring fake Remdesivir injections during the second wave of COVID-19.

A bench of justices D Y Chandrachud and Dinesh Maheshwari said the failure of the central and the Madhya Pradesh governments to communicate the rejection of the representation of the accused in a time bound manner vitiates the order of detention.

New Delhi, Feb 4 (PTI) A tribunal set up under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) on Friday directed Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) trustee Zakir Naik, who is absconding, to file a fresh vakalatnama through the Indian embassy in Malaysia after the verification of his signatures.

The tribunal was conducting proceedings to consider the Centre's decision to declare the IRF as an unlawful association.

A vakalatnama is the document empowering a lawyer to act for and on behalf of his client.

Lakhimpur Kheri (UP), Feb 5 (PTI) The son of a farmer killed in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident allegedly involving Union minister Ajay Mishra Teni's son says he has declined the offer of the SP and the Congress to contest in the assembly polls and instead has asked them to field him in the 2024 Parliamentary election against the minister himself.

Jagdeep Singh is the the eldest son of Nachhatar Singh, one of the eight people who were allegedly mowed down in the district during a farmer demonstration.

Srinagar, Feb 5 (PTI) An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 on the Richter scale hit Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, but there were no reports of any loss of life or damage to property, officials said.

The epicentre of the quake, which occurred at 9.45 am, was at the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border. Strong tremors were felt in Jammu and Kashmir, they said.

The officials said the quake hit at latitude 36.34 degrees north and longitude 71.05 degrees east at a depth of 181 km.

Jodhpur, Feb 3 (PTI) A man allegedly raped his four-year-old cousin here in a village in Jalore, police on Thursday said.

According to the police, the accused, Narayan Meghwal (25), had come to the victim's house in Leta Village with her father in the afternoon.

The incident took place around 3.00 pm, when the victim's father, who had just finished his lunch -- his wife out shopping - heard his daughter's screams and rushed inside the house for her help.