Indian Sub-continent

Kanpur: A businessman from Kanpur was found dead following a police raid at a hotel in Gorakhpur.

As many six policemen have been suspended informs the SSP on Tuesday night.

The Gorakhpur police said that the 36-year-old Manish Kumar Gupta slipped during the routine police checking and injured himself. He was staying at the hotel with two friends from Gurugram in Haryana.

While deceased’s friend Hardeep Singh Chauhan, staying with him in the hotel, alleged that the police brutally thrashed him.

Chandigarh, Sep 28 (PTI) Navjot Singh Sidhu on Tuesday resigned as the chief of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee.

In a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Sidhu, however, said he will continue to serve the party.

Sidhu had taken over as the state party chief in July this year.

"The collapse of a man's character stems from the compromise corner, I can never compromise on Punjab's future and the agenda for the welfare of Punjab," he wrote in the letter.

New Delhi, Sep 27 (PTI) Don't treat young doctors as football in the game of power, the Supreme Court said on Monday, warning the Centre that it may pass strictures if it is not satisfied with justification for last minute changes to the NEET Super Speciality Examination 2021 syllabus.

Chennai, Sep 27 (PTI) A Tamil Nadu based manufacturing company has bagged a contract from global aerospace giant, Boeing, to supply critical aviation components and deliveries would begin early next year.

Officials of the two companies exchanged the contract in the presence of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin at the Secretariat here for manufacture and supply of components and parts for Boeing's products.

New Delhi, Sep 27 (PTI) Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday said the existing foreign trade policy (FTP) will be extended for six months till March 31 next year.

The government had earlier extended the FTP 2015-20 until September 30 this year due to the Covid-19 crisis. The FTP provides guidelines for enhancing exports to push economic growth and create jobs.

Islamabad, Sep 27 (PTI) Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said it is important to incentivise the Taliban so that the new rulers of Afghanistan fulfil the promises they made after they seized power in Kabul last month.

Kanpur: For the Kanpur Metro Project, three rakes of the coaches have reached here from the Savli Plant in Gujarat.

The rakes were taken to the polytechnic depot via Bypass and G.T. Road.

The UP Metro Rail Corporation officials will conduct the compiling process of the trains at Polytechnic Depot here.

Three different trailers brought the coaches through Jaipur and Agra and Etawah. After a five-day trip, the rakes eventually reached here.

The priority corridor connects IIT Kanpur to Motijheel that stretches along with a total of 9 stations.

New Delhi, Sep 27 (PTI) The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a united front of over 40 farmer unions protesting against three agriculture laws of the Centre, on Monday said its call for a "Bharat Bandh" received an "unprecedented and historic" response from more than 23 states and not a single untoward incident was reported from anywhere.

It, however, said Monday's events were "unfortunately marked by three farmer deaths", adding that more details are awaited.

New Delhi, Sep 27 (PTI) China has put in place new modular container-based accommodations for its troops in several high-altitude forward areas on its side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh in response to Indian deployment in the region, people familiar with the developments said on Monday.

The shelters were installed in locations near Tashigong, Manza, Hot Springs and Churup among others, in reflection of simmering tensions between the two sides in the region, they said.

Bhopal, Sep 27 (PTI) Congress Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh on Monday took part in the 'Bharat bandh' called by groups protesting against the Centre's farm laws and said these legislations take away the right to approach court for grievance redressal.

Talking to protesting farmers during the shutdown here, Singh said the right to move court was available even when Gandhiji was leading the Champaran movement against the British, but the three agri marketing laws passed by the Centre compelled a farmer to approach the sub divisional magistrate rather than the judiciary.