Supreme Court Verdict On Arvind Kejriwal’s Plea Against ED Arrest on July 12

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) charge-sheeted two persons in the ISIS terror conspiracy case connected with the global terror network’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (Aurangabad), Maharashtra, linked module on Friday, ANI reported.

Mohammed Zoheb Khan, who was arrested by the probe agency in February this year following searches across multiple locations, has been charge-sheeted by NIA along with Libya-based Mohammed Shoeb Khan in the conspiracy to promote the ISIS anti-India agenda.

The Rashtra Sevika Samiti said Thursday a three-day meeting of its national executive and other representatives will begin in Nagpur on July 12.

The meeting, which will conclude on July 14, will discuss plans to organise programmes at various places to mark the 300th birth anniversary of Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar, the Samiti's all-India communication department head Sunila Sovani said in a statement.

"An extensive discussion will be held concerning the expansion and strengthening of the Samiti's work," she said.

Sovani added that the meeting will also deliberate on plans to mark the 100 years of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and a resolution will be brought on the topic 'Rashtra Sarvopari (nation is paramount)'.

The Rashtra Sevika Samiti is a nationalist women's organisation which parallels the RSS.

"The half-yearly meeting of the all-India executive and representatives of the Rashtriya Sevika Samiti will be held from July 12 to July 14 at Reshim Bagh, Smriti Mandir, Nagpur," Sovani said.

About 400 representatives from 35 'prants (provinces)' will participate in this meeting, she added.

Rashtra Sevika Samiti chief Shanta Kumari and its general secretary Seetha Gayatri Annadanam will be present at the meeting, Sovani added.

The Bihar government on Thursday asked district administrations to remain alert as water levels of several rivers were rising, following continuous rainfall in the last two-three days.

Disaster Management Department (DMD) Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) Pratyaya Amrit held a virtual review meeting with the officials concerned of almost all districts and enquired about the situation at various places in the state.

According to a statement issued by DMD, he instructed the officials to "remain alert and fully prepared to tackle the situation if the water level increases further".

Almost all rivers are maintaining a rising trend throughout their courses, inundating low-lying localities.

The half-yearly All India Executive and Representatives meet of the Rashtriya Sevika Samiti, the women's wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), will be held between July 12 and14 at Dr Hedgewar Smruti Mandir in Reshimbagh in Nagpur. A release by Rashtriya Sevika Samiti said 400 representatives from across India will take part in the meeting, which will discuss plans to mark Devi Ahilyabai Holkar tricentenary jayanti, expansion of Rashtriya Sevika Samiti and plans to mark centenary year of RSS. 

An inter-state gang involved in robbery, looting liquor shops and stealing vehicles was busted with the arrest of eight members in Jharkhand's East Singhbhum district, a senior police officer said on Thursday.

To crack the case, SSP Kishore Kaushal formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe and apprehend the perpetrators.

On Wednesday, Kaushal received intelligence that a gang was moving around various parts of the district, including Jamshedpur, in four-wheelers to execute their plans.

Accompanied by SP (City & Rural) Rishabha Garg, the SIT launched a vehicle-checking drive across the district during which they intercepted a Bolero near Salbani Mode and arrested four persons.

The Noida police on Thursday said they have seized property worth approximately Rs 2.5 crore belonging to individuals accused in multiple GST fraud cases.

The action was taken against Mayur alias Mani Nagpal and his wife Charu Nagpal, both residents of Greater Noida, in connection with the FIRs lodged last year, they said.

On March 6 this year, following a court order, police executed property seizure under Section 83 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), the police said in a statement.

"In line with the orders from the honourable court, the police seized property worth approximately Rs 2.5 crore belonging to accused Mayur alias Mani Nagpal, son of late Mahendra Nagpal, and Charu Nagpal, wife of Mayur alias Mani Nagpal, located at 167 Lotus Villa, Sector 01, Greater Noida," the police said.

 A 27-year-old man was shot dead in northwest Delhi, police on Thursday said.

The victim has been identified as Kashif, they said, adding that the reason behind the incident was not known.

"We received a call at 9.45 pm regarding a man receiving bullet injuries in the Adarsh Nagar area. A team was sent to the spot and the injured was rushed to a nearby hospital," a senior police officer said.

Police said the victim was declared dead by the doctors.

 A SpiceJet staff member was arrested Thursday after she allegedly slapped a Central Industrial Security Force officer during an argument over security screening, police said while the airline called it a "serious case of sexual harassment." A CCTV video clip shows the CISF officer speaking to the woman. Suddenly, she moves two steps towards him and then delivers a slap on his face.

A woman constable then takes her aside.

While the police have registered a case of assault against Anuradha Rani on the basis of a complaint by Assistant Sub Inspector Giriraj Prasad, the airline too has approached the local police and said it is taking “immediate legal action”.

The SpiceJet statement claimed that their employee was subject to inappropriate language and the CISF officer even asked her to “come and meet him after his duty hours at his home”.

Police initially said Rani worked as a food supervisor, however, the airline described her as a female security staff member.

"The woman has been arrested and her statement is being taken. The woman has also lodged a complaint. We are verifying the facts following which appropriate action will be taken," DCP Kavendra Singh said.

Maharashtra minister Sudhir Mungantiwar told the legislative assembly on Thursday that the 'wagh nakh' or tiger claw-shaped weapon being brought to the state from London was used by Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.

He also rejected the claim that the government spent several crore rupees to bring this weapon from Victoria and Albert Museum in London to Maharashtra, and said the travel expenses and signing of the agreement cost Rs 14.08 lakh.

His remarks come days after a historian claimed the wagh nakh used by the founder of the Maratha empire to kill Bijapur Sultanate's general Afzal Khan in 1659 was in Satara itself.

Mungantiwar informed the House the wagh nakh will be brought from London for a period of three years and kept on display at a museum in Satara in the state from July 19.

The wagh nakh will be given a rousing welcome in Satara on July 19, the minister informed.

Jammu and Kashmir's chief justice, Justice N Kotiswar Singh, and Madras High Court judge, Justice R Mahadevan, have been recommended by the Collegium for appointment as judges in the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court is slated to pronounce verdict on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s plea against his arrest on Friday, July 12.

“I am happy to join duty at the Washim District Collectorate and am looking forward to working here,” she said. Regarding the allegations, she added, “I am not authorized to speak on the issue. Government rules don’t allow me to speak on this,” as quoted by PTI.

IAS officer Puja Khedkar took on her new position as assistant collector at the Washim District Collectorate 

The Sri Lankan Navy on Thursday arrested 13 Indian fishermen and seized their trawlers for allegedly poaching in its territorial waters, taking the number of Indian nationals apprehended this year by the island nation in such incidents to 252, an official statement said.

The fishermen were arrested, and their three trawlers were seized north of the Delft Island, Jaffna, the Sri Lanka Navy said in a press release.

The Sri Lanka Navy and Coast Guard conducted the special operation leading to the apprehension of the 13 Indian fishermen, it said.

Those apprehended were brought to the Kankesanthurai Harbour and will be handed to the Mailadi Fisheries Inspector for further legal proceedings.

Maharashtra PWD Minister Dada Bhuse on Thursday said cracks that had developed on the Nagpur-Mumbai Samruddhi Expressway near Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar have been repaired.

Talking to reporters, Bhuse said instructions have been given to officials to find out if there are more cracks along the 600 kilometre route of the expressway currently operational.

Incidentally, a video went viral during the day of a crater on the expressway in Sahapur in neighbouring Thane district. Traffic on the stretch between Shere Bere and Shendrun villages was affected for several hours due to this development.

Cracks have appeared within a year on the expressway, which was built at a cost of Rs 55,000 crore, due to corruption, Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole told reporters on the Vidhan Bhavan premises.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's key aide Manish Kumar Verma, who was given a key organisational position on Thursday within two days of joining the JD(U), said his party will strongly push for the fulfilment of its demand that the Centre grant special status or a special package to the state.

Citing the JD(U)'s good show in the Lok Sabha polls, he said the party believes the next assembly polls should be held under Kumar's leadership and added that there has been no other view on the issue so far.

He, though, told PTI that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will take a call on the matter near the polls, which are scheduled for next year end.

An official said the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has sought a report on the matter from the Pune collector.

 The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday said it has arrested the director of an insolvent automotive equipment manufacturing company as part of a money laundering probe linked to an alleged Rs 25,000-crore bank loan fraud case.

Arvind Dham, the promoter and one of the directors of the Amtek Group, was taken into custody on Tuesday (July 9), it said in a statement.

A special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Delhi sent him to seven days Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody after he was produced before it on Wednesday.

The money laundering case against the company and its directors stems from a CBI FIR that was registered on written complaints from the IDBI Bank and the Bank of Maharashtra, the ED said.

Some areas of Rajkot in Gujarat were declared as cholera-affected after two cases were detected, an official said on Thursday.

Cholera is an acute diarrhoeal infection caused by ingestion of food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. It can cause severe diarrhoea, dehydration and prove fatal if untreated.

The notification declaring an area in a 2-kilometre radius as cholera-affected was issued on July 5 by Collector Prabhav Joshi under the Epidemic Diseases Act, he said.

"It will in force for a period of two months. The localities include Lohanagar, where two cholera cases were detected, railway crossing and Gondal road. Food items made from ice have been banned under the notification till September 4," he said.

A preliminary probe has revealed the disease may have started due to contaminated water which was brought from outside, said Rajkot Municipal Corporation medical officer of health Jayesh Vakani.

"Some people living in Lohanagar are into selling fish. They bring fish from the outskirts and store it in a small pit in their house before selling it after some days. Contamination in that water might have led to two cases of cholera. As per the rule, an area is declared as cholera affected if even one case is registered," said Vakani, who has been appointed as cholera control officer by the collector.

The situation is under control with 25 teams being deployed to carry out surveys and find suspected cases, Vakani said, adding that 1,500 residents of these areas are being monitored apart from regular checking of water and food.

CBI has arrested Rakesh Ranjan, the main kingpin in Bihar NEET paper leak case. He has been arrested from Patna, Bihar. CBI has got 10 days custody of Ranjan from the court. The searches at his locations connected to him in Patna and Kolkata have resulted in recovery of incriminating documents

Congress leader Nikhil Madan to join BJP 

Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri says, "...the Chief Economist of the State Bank of India (SBI) has brought out a report which indicates that in the last 10 years - the 10 years of the Modi Government - a total of 12.5 crore jobs were created. Whenever you come up with a figure like this, the immediate questions that arises and this report covers it - what happened in the previous 10 years, the years of Congress-led UPA Government? It's 2.9 crore. So, from 2.9 crore jobs created between 2004 and 2014, you have now moved to 12.5 crore jobs in 2014-2024...In the post-2014 period, we have moved to the position of the 5th largest economy in the world... We are on the way to becoming the 3rd largest economy...Over the 10-year period, you have moved 250 million out of multi-dimensional poverty... For us to have created 12.5 crore jobs in formal sector and in addition the number of people who are on the Udyam Registration portal of MSME, a total of 20 crore people are there... The economic is currently growing at anything within 7.5% and 8% plus. If you sustain this growth, you are moving from a 3.9 trillion dollar economy to a 5 trillion dollar economy in the next 2-3 years and then from there to 7.5 and 10 trillion dollar economy. Per capita income will grow many times. You are looking at at least the same number of jobs, if not more..."

Manipur CM N Biren Singh interacts with the beneficiaries of various government schemes.

JJ Colony in Bawana remains inundated after barrage of Munak canal of North Delhi broke and water entered the nearby residential areas

President of Janata Dal (United) Nitish Kumar appoints Manish Kumar Verma as the National General Secretary of the party

Union Health Minister JP Nadda and MoS Health Anupriya Patel chair an event on World Population Day, organised in Delhi.

The authorities in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur district have directed ten private schools to refund about Rs 65 crore charged extra as tuition fees from more than 81,000 students over seven academic sessions, an official said on Thursday. The schools had hiked tuition fees in violation of the law, said Jabalpur District Education Officer (DEO) Ghanshyam Soni.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday said action will be taken and responsibilities will be fixed in connection with an alleged illegal money transfer scam involving a state-run Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation, once the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case submits its report. He also rejected the opposition's demand for his resignation in connection with the scam.

Ahead of Budget Session, PM Modi held a meeting With top economists at NITI Aayog on Thursday.

The main accused in Mumbai hit-and-run, Mihir Shah, has confessed consumption of alcohol. 

A mentally challenged man was apprehended along the Line of Control (LoC) by army personnel in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district on Thursday, officials said. He was held around 11 am from the Phagwari area and handed over to police in Malikpura for further action, they said. 

The Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) have announced alliance. They will jointly contest the upcoming Haryana Polls, said Abhay Chautala.
 

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will host his counterparts from the BIMSTEC member countries at a two-day retreat beginning Thursday in the national capital. The retreat will present an opportunity for the foreign ministers to discuss avenues to deepen cooperation across various sectors including in the fields of security, connectivity and trade, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said. Myanmar's Deputy Prime Minister U Than Swe has already arrived in Delhi to attend the retreat.

Amid tight security arrangements, more than 4,800 pilgrims left Jammu city in the early hours of Thursday for the twin base camps in Kashmir to join the annual Amarnath Yatra, officials said. The 14th batch of 4,885 pilgrims left in 191 vehicles for twin base camps of Baltal and Palagam at 3.06 am and were escorted by CRPF security, they said.

Two workers at a factory in Maharashtra's Thane district were killed when a heavy boiler being lifted with the help of a crane fell on them, police said on Thursday. The incident took place on Wednesday evening at the dyeing unit located in Saravli MIDC (Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation) in Bhiwandi town, an official from Kongaon police station said.

A 3.5-km stretch of the Coastal Road's north-bound carriageway here was opened for vehicular traffic at 7 am on Thursday, which will help in reducing the travel time to suburbs from south Mumbai, civic officials said. The stretch extends from Haji Ali to Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan Road in Worli. It is part of the nearly 12-km-long Mumbai Coastal Road Project. It will help motorists avoid traffic snarls which they had been facing between Haji Ali and the Bandra-Worli Sea Link, an official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.

Puri's Jagannath temple has formed a three-member panel to probe the falling of Lord Balabhadra idol on some servitors while it was being taken from the chariot to Gundicha temple as part of the Rath Yatra festival, an official said. The committee has expressed concern over the incident during the 'Pahandi' ritual on Tuesday night and also held a detailed discussion on the incident, said V V Yadav, chief administrator of Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) in Puri.

A 28-year-old gym owner was stabbed to death by a group of men in northeast Delhi's Bhajanpura area, police said on Thursday. The victim, Sumit Chaudhary alias Prem, also ran a tour and travel business and was attacked outside his house in Gamri Extension late on Wednesday night, they said.

A key meeting to review the security conditions in Jammu and Kashmir will take place on Thursday.

The Lokayukta are conducting searches in nine Karnataka districts on Thursday.

The Supreme Court will on Thursday hear a batch of petitions seeking cancellation of the May NEET 2024 examnation.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to land in India after concluding his two-day visit to Russia and Austria, where he held bilateral talks with both countries' leaders to strengthen ties with India.