Breaking: MoS V Muraleedharan to visit Sudan, South Sudan in October

Minister of state (MoS) external affairs and Parliamentary affairs V Muraleedharan will be visiting Sudan and South Sudan in an official capacity from October 20 – 22, reported ANI, Art Of Landscaping.

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav told reporters on Saturday that his party’s candidates will win both bypoll seats in Bihar, reported ANI. “People of Bihar will actually celebrate Vijayadashami by defeating NDA. Govt only gave poverty, unemployment, crime, corruption. Bihar didn’t get spl status, spl package. People are fed up with the govt. RJD candidates will win from both seats,” he said.

The election for All India Congress Committee (AICC) president will be held between August 21 and September 20 next year, the party said on Saturday. Election of CWC and other bodies date to be announced later during plenary session.

National Security Guard DG M A Ganapath said in an official statement on Saturday that “counter-terrorism commando force National Security Guard deployed at IAF Srinagar and Jammu stations to provide anti-drone cover to these vital installations”.

HDFC Bank posted an 18 percentage rise in consolidated net profit at ₹9,096 crore for quarter that ended September 30, the bank said in an official statement on Saturday.

Union home minister Amit Shah announced on Saturday that Andaman and and Nicobar Islands have been renamed Netaji Subash Chandra Bose island in honour of the late freedom fighter. “For years, efforts were made to diminish the image of many leaders. But now it’s the time to give them proper place in history. People who have sacrificed their lives should get place in the history. That’s why we renamed this island after Netaji,” Shah said.

Russia on Saturday topped 1,000 deaths over 24 hours for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, with the country’s jab drive at a standstill and no restrictions in place.

At least four people were hospitalised including one critically injured on Friday (local time), after having been shot in United States’ Mobile city in Alabama state at Ladd-Peebles Stadium, local media reported.

Mizoram on Saturday registered 932 new Covid-19 cases, 31 more than the previous day, with the tally rising to 1,11,651, a health department official said.

As heavy rain lashes Kerala, red alert in 5 districts; night journey banned in hilly areas.

Two persons were arrested for allegedly threatening to kill classical musician Ustad Rashid Khan, police said on Saturday.

Describing the Indian government’s response to the Covid-19 situation as “swift and substantial”, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said the country continued with labour reforms and privatisation despite the pandemic.

Elections for Congress president to be held in September 2022: Sources, reports news agency ANI.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a deadly suicide bombing on a Shiite mosque in southern Afghanistan that killed 47 people and wounded scores more.

A terrorist has been killed in encounter in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama.

We face many challenges but if we are united, focus on party’s interests alone, we will do well: Sonia Gandhi on upcoming assembly polls.

Govt’s only answer for economic recovery is selling off national assets, its single-point agenda is ‘sell, sell, sell’: Sonia Gandhi.

At CWC meeting, Sonia Gandhi says she is the full-time, hands-on president of Congress, reports ANI.

Every party member wants revival of Congress, but this requires unity and keeping party’s interests paramount: Sonia Gandhi at CWC meet.

A fire which broke out at a furniture godown in Kasheli locality of Bhiwandi, Thane on Friday has been doused after six hours of efforts by the fire department.

NASA is set on Saturday to launch a first-of-its kind mission, dubbed Lucy, to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, two large clusters of space rocks that scientists believe are remnants of primordial material that formed the solar system’s outer planets.

Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting to discuss the current political situation, upcoming Assembly polls, and organisational elections, underway at AICC office in Delhi.

India recorded 15,981 new cases of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the last 24 hours, which pushed the nationwide tally to 34,053,573, while the death toll climbed to 451,980 with 166 daily fatalities, according to the Union ministry of health and family welfare on Saturday.

Eleven students drowned and 10 others were rescued during a school outing for a river cleanup in Indonesia’s West Java Province, officials said Saturday.

VK Sasikala, the former interim general secretary of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), who has been lying low for the past few months, is set to visit former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s memorial in Chennai on Saturday.

Three people were killed and another seven were injured when a moderately strong earthquake and an aftershock hit Indonesia’s resort island of Bali early Saturday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday extended birthday greetings to Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and wished him long and healthy life in the service of the people.

An earthquake of magnitude 3.7 on the Richter scale hit Churachandpur in Manipur on Saturday morning.

NASA was set Saturday to launch a spacecraft called Lucy on a 12-year mission to explore for the first time a group of rocky bodies known as the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, gathering new insights into the solar system’s formation.

The Taliban has directed local officials to refrain from carrying out punishments in public unless Afghanistan’s “top court” issues the order for public execution.

At least 46 people were killed and another 41 injured after a fire broke out early Thursday in a run-down mixed commercial and residential building in the Taiwanese port city of Kaohsiung, officials said.

World Food Day is celebrated all over the world on October 16. It is an initiative by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations.

Sabarimala temple, the hill shrine of Lord Ayyappa, will open on Saturday at 5pm for ‘Thula masam’ poojas and on the next day a draw of lots would be held to select its next ‘melshanti’ (head priest), the Travancore Devaswom Board said on Thursday, reports news agency PTI.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Friday strongly condemned the ‘horrendous terrorist attack’ against the Imam Bargah-e-Fatima Mosque in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province and underlined the need to bring perpetrators of the attack to justice.

The Congress Working Committee (CWC), the party’s highest executive body, will meet on Saturday to give another try to fix the schedule for long-pending organisation elections — an exercise that will have to keep in mind upcoming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Goa, according to people aware of the matter.