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As heavy rains lashed several parts of Kerala, the India Meteorological Department on Saturday issued an orange alert in three northern districts of the state for the day. The IMD issued an orange alert in Kozhikode, Kannur and Kasaragod and a yellow alert in nine other districts of the state for the day. The weather department also predicted thunderstorms with moderate rainfall and gusty winds at one or two places in Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha, Kottayam, Idukki, and Ernakulam districts for the day. It further issued an orange alert in Malappuram, Kozhikode, Kannur and Kasaragod districts of the state from June 14 to June 16. An orange alert means very heavy rain of 11 cm to 20 cm and a yellow alert means heavy rainfall between 6 cm and 11 cm. The IMD said that Kerala will receive fairly widespread rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms, lightning and gusty winds during the next five days due to the influence of the cyclonic circulation over north Gujarat and another over west centr...

A wedding in Uttar Pradesh's Ballia was called off, and four people, including the groom, were arrested after an argument broke out over who would sit in front of a desert cooler, the police said on Saturday. The incident took place on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday, they said. According to the police, an argument broke out among the wedding guests over the seating arrangement in front of a desert cooler during the ceremony. Questioning the behaviour of the groom's relatives, the bride refused to marry him, Station House Officer (SHO) Pankaj Jaiswal said. A case was registered under Section 126 (wrongful restraint) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Mr Jaiswal said. The groom, Hukum Chand Jaiswal, his relative Pankaj, the bride's father, Nand Ji Gupta, and her brother Rajesh Gupta were arrested in the case. (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://if...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched and laid the foundation stone of various projects worth more than Rs 29,400 crores in Mumbai on Saturday. PM Modi was felicitated by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Deputy Chief Ministers Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar at the NESCO Exhibition Centre, Goregaon in Mumbai. This was Narendra Modi's first visit to Mumbai after taking oath as Prime Minister for the third consecutive term on June 9, following the National Democratic Alliance (NDA)'s victory in the Lok Sabha polls. The Prime Minister laid the foundation stone for tunnel work at the Goregaon Mulund Link Road (GMLR) Project, worth over Rs 6,300 crore. The GMLR envisages road connectivity from the Western Express Highway at Goregaon to the Eastern Express Highway at Mulund. The total length of the GMLR is approximately 6.65 kilometres and will provide direct connectivity for the Western suburbs to the new proposed airport at Navi Mumbai and the Pune-Mumbai Expressway. Prime Minis...

With the two-party system taking deep roots in Himachal Pradesh, and the Congress and the BJP coming to power alternately, the presence of Independents has been declining and, in a first, the assembly has no Independent MLAs in the state assembly. With victory in two out of three assembly by-elections, the strength of Congress has increased to 40. This is also the first time that a man and his wife - Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu and his wife Kamlesh Thakur - would sit in the House. Kamlesh Thakur's win from the Dehra assembly seat has taken the number of women legislators in the state to two. In the 2022 assembly elections, three Independents - Hoshiyar Singh (Dehra), Ashish Sharma (Hamirpur). and KL Thakur (Nalagarh) - were elected but they resigned after voting for BJP candidate Harsh Mahajan in the Rajya Sabha election on February 27. The Independent MLAs resigned on March 22 and joined the BJP the next day. Their resignation was accepted by Speaker Kuldeep Singh Pat...

In a worrying sign for the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi in Maharashtra, which was riding high after winning 30 of 48 Lok Sabha seats in the state, at least seven Congress MLAs cross-voted for candidates from the ruling Mahayuti alliance in the Legislative Council polls on Friday, sources said.  The polls, which are generally a straightforward affair, were seen as the semi-finals ahead of the Maharashtra Assembly elections - expected to be held around November - because 12 candidates were vying for 11 seats.  The opposition alliance had forced the election by fielding one more candidate than it had the numbers to elect, possibly hoping to benefit from cross-voting by MLAs from the ruling coalition, but seems to have ended up losing votes instead. The Maharashtra Assembly has a strength of 288 MLAs but currently has 274 sitting legislators. This meant that each MLC candidate needed 23 first-preference votes to win. The Mahayuti - part of the larger NDA alliance - which consi...

Delhi Lt Governor V K Saxena on Thursday chaired a meeting of the DDMA and directed agencies to urgently carry out the work of desilting of drains and removal of encroachment along the drains, Raj Niwas officials said. Mr Saxena directed the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), which is coordinating with various construction agencies for the removal of debris and construction material from the Yamuna floodplains, to ensure that there is no obstruction in the flow of the Yamuna due to the construction of bridges and other activities in the floodplains. The LG also directed that permanent and temporary pumps should be installed at the vulnerable spots and monitored round the clock from the control room. He said silt deposit in all 22 major drains should be assessed on urgent basis and all road culverts be cleaned urgently. He chaired a meeting of Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) to review the flood control preparedness of all concerned agencies in the National Capital in the w...

केंद्र ने नीट यूजी मामले में सुप्रीम कोर्ट में हलफनामा दाखिल किया. कहा कि आईआईटी मद्रास द्वारा किए गए डेटा विश्लेषण में कोई असामान्यता या कोई सामूहिक गड़बड़ी नहीं दिखाई गई केंद्र ने उठाए गए मुद्दों पर विचार करने के लिए 7 सदस्यीय विशेषज्ञ पैनल का प्रस्ताव रखा है ताकि भविष्य में इस तरह की कोई लीक न हो. काउंसलिंग प्रक्रिया जुलाई के तीसरे सप्ताह से शुरू होकर चार राउंड में आयोजित की जाएगी यदि किसी उम्मीदवार के बारे में यह पाया जाता है कि वह किसी गड़बड़ी से लाभ उठाया है तो ऐसे व्यक्ति की काउंसलिंग प्रक्रिया के दौरान या उसके बाद भी किसी भी स्तर पर रद्द कर दी जाएगी. सरकार ने कहा कि गड़बड़ी में शामिल लोगों की पड़ताल डाटा एनालिसिस के जरिए करने के लिए मद्रास आईआईटी से गुजारिश की गई है.  जिनको ज्यादा नंबर आए हैं उनका डाटा विश्लेषण बताता है कि बड़ी अनियमितता नहीं हुई है. क्योंकि ग्राफ ऊपर उठने के साथ ही जल्दी ही नीचे गिर जाता है. यानी घंटी के आकार का ग्राफ है. केंद्र सरकार ने कहा है कि जांच के साथ ही एहतियातन नीट काउंसिलिंग भी जुलाई के तीसरे हफ्ते में कराने का निर्णय लिया गया है. काउंसलिंग च...