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A woman travelling on a scooter with two children in Pune was punched in the face by an elderly man in a car who was allegedly angry because he wasn't given space to overtake. The woman's hair was pulled and she was punched twice with such force that her nose began bleeding extensively. Posting a video narrating her ordeal, Jerlyn D'Silva, a digital content creator, claimed she was on the Pashan-Baner Link Road on a scooter with her children and a man in a car had been speeding behind them for nearly 2 km. She said she stuck to the left of the road, not wanting to come in the car's way, but the man overtook her and stopped in front of her scooter. A case has been registered against the man, who has been identified as Swapnil Kekre. "He got out of the car very furiously. He punched me twice and pulled my hair. I had two kids, he didn't care about them. How safe is this city? Why are people behaving like maniacs? I had two kids with me, kuch bhi ho sakta tha ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday congratulated Ursula von der Leyen on being re-elected as the President of the European Commission and said he looked forward to working together to strengthen the India-EU strategic partnership for global good. The Ministry of External Affairs said this in a statement. Prime Minister Modi earlier in the day posted on X: "Congratulations, @vonderleyen, on your re-election as the President of the European Commission. Look forward to working together to strengthen the India-EU Strategic Partnership for global good." Congratulations, @vonderleyen , on your re-election as the President of the European Commission. Look forward to working together to strengthen the ??-?? Strategic Partnership for global good. — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) July 19, 2024 (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.) from NDTV News-India-news https://ift.tt/zctyhqF via IFTTT

A leopard was caught on CCTV cameras roaming around a shopping mall in Maharashtra's Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, sending the forest authorities into a tizzy, officials said. The CCTV footage, which went viral today, shows the feline wandering outside the main gate of Prozone Mall in the CIDCO N1 area of the city in the early hours of Wednesday, prompting forest officials to launch a search operation. However, the animal has not been traced so far, they said. The forest officials believe this is the same leopard that was spotted in the residential areas of Ulka Nagari and Shambhunagar on July 15. The forest department has installed cages to capture the big cat. "But the leopard has now been spotted around 5 km from where it was seen earlier. It shows that it crossed the Jalna Road area that passes through the heart of the city. On Wednesday, the animal was captured on the CCTV camera roaming around at the entry gate of the Prozone Mall," Deputy Conservator of Forest Dada...

Police on Wednesday claimed to have cracked the killing of former Bihar minister Mukesh Sahni's father, with the arrest of the prime accused after he "confessed" his involvement in the crime. Earlier in the day, police had detained four persons, including the prime accused, for questioning in connection with its probe into the murder of Jitan Sahni, father of Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) chief Mukesh Sahni. The accused, identified as Qazim Ansari (40), a resident of Supaul Bazar locality where the former minister's ancestral home is also located, has confessed his involvement in the crime. During interrogation, Qazim Ansari told police that he had borrowed a sum of Rs 1.5 lakh from Mukesh Sahni's father against a piece of land he owned. The accused was unable to take back the piece of land back because of his "inability to pay", it said. "Ansari further revealed that on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday, he along with his associates e...

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday met Mauritius' top political leaders, including Opposition leader Arvin Boolell, and discussed with them ways to deepen India's special and enduring partnership with the island nation. S Jaishankar arrived in Mauritius on Tuesday on a two-day visit, one of the first countries he was visiting in his current term as External Affairs Minister. "It underscores the strength and depth of our bilateral ties. It is also an opportunity to underline India's unwavering commitment to its special and enduring partnership with Mauritius," S Jaishankar said on Tuesday. S Jaishankar discussed with Arvin Boolell the Mauritius-India relationship and its significance for the prosperity and well-being of the Indian Ocean region. "Welcome his support for the continuous strengthening of our ties," S Jaishankar posted on X. Pleased to meet the Leader of Opposition Dr. Arvin Boolell. Discussed the ?? ?? relationship an...

The Union Government has written a letter to States and Union Territories and asked them to ensure that members of the queer community (LGBTQ+) get equal rights in prison and there is no discrimination in access to goods and services, especially with reference to prison visitation rights. The letter written by Director (Prison Reforms) reads that it has been the constant endeavour of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to reach out to all States and Union Territories and share contemporary guidelines and best practices on varied aspects of efficient prison administration and management. It has come to the notice of this ministry that members of the queer community (LGBTQ+) are often discriminated against because of their gender identity or sexual orientation and often face violence and disrespect. With the objective of ensuring that there is no discrimination in access to goods and services to the queer community, which are available to the public at large, especially with reference t...

A Punjab bill that seeks to replace the state Governor with the Chief Minister as the Chancellor of state-run universities has been returned by the President without assent, official sources said. Punjab Universities Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2023, and three other bills were passed by the Punjab Assembly in the two-day session in June last year but the governor had called the session "patently illegal." Later in November last year, the Supreme Court held that the June 19-20 session was constitutionally valid and directed the Punjab governor to decide on the Bills passed by the legislative assembly session. The Punjab Universities Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2023 was for replacing the Governor with the Chief Minister as the Chancellor of state-run universities. However, Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit reserved this bill along with two others -- the Sikh Gurdwaras (Amendment) Bill, 2023 and the Punjab Police (Amendment) Bill, 2023 -- for the consideration of the President in acco...

Increasing surveillance can be crucial and help in the early detection and treatment of the Chandipura virus that has so far claimed the lives of six children and affected about 12 in Gujarat, said doctors on Tuesday. According to Gujarat Health Minister Rushikesh Patel, the virus is suspected to have caused the death of six children in the past five days, while the number of cases has risen to 12 -- from Gujarat (9), Rajasthan (2) and Madhya Pradesh (1). All patients received treatment in Gujarat, said Patel, adding that all 12 samples have been sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune for verification. What is the Chandipura virus? Chandipura virus is a type of arbovirus that is a member of the vesicular virus genus of the Rhabdoviridae family. It is transmitted primarily through phlebotomine sandflies and sometimes through ticks and mosquitoes. Children are more prone to getting infected with this virus, health experts said. "Chandipura virus is an emerging ...

Eight people died in rain-related incidents in Uttar Pradesh in the last two days, the state relief commissioner's office said on Monday. Among the victims, five drowned in Agra, Kanpur, Bahraich, Chitrakoot and Ghazipur. One in each area -- Hathras, Ghazipur and Shravasti -- died due to boat capsizing, snake bite and other rain-related incidents, it said. These deaths were reported in the past 24 hours till 6 pm Monday. The report said that 17 districts of the state are affected by the rains. These districts include - Lakhimpur Kheri, Balrampur, Kushinagar, Shahjahanpur, Ballia, Siddharth Nagar, Barabanki, Sitapur, Gorakhpur, Bareilly, Hardoi, Ayodhya, Bahraich, Budaun, Farrukhabad, Deoria and Unnao, it said. The rivers flowing above the danger mark are Rapti River in Gorakhpur and Bansi, Kuono River in Gonda, Ghaghra River in Ballia and Ramganga in Shahjahanpur, it added. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicate...

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has decided to conduct a retest for over 1000 candidates of CUET UG on July 19. The NTA had on July 7 released the provisional answer key of Common University Entrance Test (CUET)-UG 2024 and announced that it will conduct a retest for CUET UG candidates between July 15 and 19 if any grievance raised by students about the conduct of the exam is found to be correct. While the agency notified the retest schedule on Sunday, it remained silent on the declaration of the result which has already been delayed by over two weeks with the final answer key not yet notified. The delay in CUET-UG results comes amid a raging row over alleged irregularities in competitive exams, including NEET and NET. According to NTA sources, the distribution of question papers in language not opted by the candidates is one of the reasons for the retest and the 1000-odd candidates are spread across six states. "Some of the grievances include time loss due to distribution ...

The BJP on Sunday attacked former chief minister Ashok Gehlot after an audio clip of a conversation purportedly between him and his ex-OSD surfaced online, with Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat accusing Mr Gehlot of resorting to illegal phone tapping to save his government. Mr Gehlot's then officer on special duty (OSD) Lokesh Sharma had played the call recording between him and Mr Gehlot at a presser in April, claiming that the clips of alleged telephone conversation between Mr Shekhawat and some Congress leaders on "toppling" the state's Congress government in 2020 was given to him in a pen drive by the former CM. Sharma is an accused in a case related to the illegal phone tapping registered by Mr Shekhawat in Delhi. The call recording purportedly between Mr Gehlot and Sharma recently surfaced on social media. Reacting to this, Mr Shekhawat said, "The former chief minister had resorted to phone tapping in order to save his government. He recorded the...

A 32-year-old man in Telangana's Khammam district was arrested for allegedly killing his wife and two daughters and passing off their deaths as a road accident, the police said on Sunday. The accused, a physiotherapist at a Hyderabad hospital, was having an affair with a nurse, the police said, adding that he resorted to the murders to continue his relationship with his colleague. He had earlier had a quarrel with his wife over the matter, the police added. On May 28, the accused took his wife and two children in a car in Raghunadhapalem mandal in the district and initially killed his 26-year-old wife with a high-dose anesthesia drug, according to the police. Later, he allegedly smothered his four- and two-and-a-half-year-old daughters to death, a senior police official said. As part of the man's plan to make the murders look like a road accident, he lay his wife's body on the rear seat of the car, put his children in the front, and rammed the vehicle into a tree, the ...

Maoist leader Arnab Dam, who topped the PhD admission test at West Bengal's Burdwan University, will likely be enrolled soon after the state government intervened to address certain administrative issues that thwarted his admission. Mr Dam, an accused in cases of multiple attacks and killings, was being shifted from the correctional home in Hooghly district to Bardhaman and security will be provided for his visit to the university campus in the town, said Akhil Giri, Correctional Administration Minister. “We have decided to shift him from the Hooghly to the Burdwan Correctional Home,” the minister said. Mr Dam is serving a life sentence for his role in the 2010 attack on an Eastern Frontier Rifles camp in Jhargram district's Sildah. Trinamool Congress leader Kunal Ghosh supported Mr Dam's demand to be allowed to be enrolled for PhD in the university while clarifying his trial as per law in criminal cases should continue. “We are against the politics of killing. We are ...