Kolkata Horror: Doctors say Protests Will Continue, To Meet CM Mamata on Monday

A 22-year-old man has been arrested from the Dwarka area here for posting his photographs with illegal firearms on social media, police said on Saturday.

They said Akash was inspired by jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi and wanted to gain notoriety on social media by posting photos with firearms.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Dwarka) Ankit Singh said a dedicated police team has been formed to keep a close watch on active criminals through various social media platforms.

"The team stumbled upon a photo of one Akash posing with firearms on Instagram. His account was promptly followed and intelligence gathered to track him down," Singh said.

Acting on an input, Akash was caught from a spot near the Kair bus depot on Mitraon Kair Road on October 15, the officer said.

A country-made pistol and a live cartridge were seized from his possession and a case was registered under the Arms Act at the Jaffarpur Kalan police station.

Army on Saturday foiled an infiltration bid along the Line of Control in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.

Alert soldiers noticed suspicious movement near the LoC in the Kamalkote area of the Uri sector and challenged the intruders, they said.

The intruders opened firing which was retaliated by the Army jawans, officials said, adding one infiltrator was believed to have been killed.

The body of the slain ultra has not been recovered yet due to difficult terrain, they said.

The operation was in progress when the last reports were received. 

Resident doctors in Jaipur resumed their strike on Saturday night, accusing the state government of 'inaction' towards their demands, including workplace safety measures. The elective and emergency services have been suspended.

Jaipur Association of Resident Doctors president Dr Manohar Siyol said that the resident doctors at the SMS Hospital had given an ultimatum of 48-hours to the state government to fulfil their demands. It ended at 8 pm on Saturday.

He said that the state government in August had assured the doctors that they would fulfil their demands, including workplace safety measures. But no concrete action has been taken yet.

The parliamentary board of the Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP) met here on Saturday to discuss prospective candidates for the next month's Maharashtra assembly elections, sources said.

Besides Pawar, the party's Maharashtra president Jayant Patil, working president Supriya Sule and Harshvardhan Patil were among those present, they added.

Patil joined the NCP (SP) earlier this month after quitting the BJP.

The Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance of the Opposition which comprises the Congress, NCP (SP) and Shiv Sena (UBT) is yet to finalise its seat-sharing arrangement.

The state will go to polls on November 20.

Union Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Saturday asserted that he would become the Chief Minister of Karnataka once again before 2028.

He also predicted the fall of the Congress government due to dissatisfaction within the party.

"It is certain that this government won't last until 2028. I am confident that the people will give me another opportunity, and I will become Chief Minister again," the Minister for Steel and Heavy Industries told reporters here.

Kumaraswamy headed the coalition government twice as Chief Minister -- from February 2006 to October 2007 and from May 2018 to July 2019.

"The opportunity to become CM will come before 2028. I am not a fortune-teller, but I am saying this," he added.

The BJP on Saturday named former MLA Ashok Kumar Singh and greenhorn Vishal Prashant as its candidates for by-elections to Ramgarh and Tarari assembly segments of Bihar respectively.

Singh will be trying his luck from the seat he had won in 2015, but lost five years later to RJD's Sudhakar Singh, whose election to Lok Sabha from Buxar has necessitated bypoll in Ramgarh assembly segment.

Prashant, who had joined the party barely a few months ago, has been fielded from Tarari, represented a number of times by his father Sunil Kumar Pandey, a dreaded gangster-turned-politician.

The bypoll in Tarari has been necessitated by election of CPI(ML)'s Sudama Prasad to Lok Sabha from Arrah.

The candidature of Prashant is also being seen as a fresh snub to disgruntled NDA partner and former Union minister Pashupati Kumar Paras from the BJP which has thrown its weight behind his nephew Chirag Paswan, who now holds a cabinet berth.

Five accused arrested in connection with NCP leader Baba Siddique murder case the day before had demanded Rs 50 lakh for the job, but backed out later due to disagreement over payment and also considering the slain politician's clout, officials said.

The five accused, residents of various areas of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, had prima facie provided logistical support to the shooters and were paid Rs 5 lakh, a crime branch official said on Saturday.

They were identified as Nitin Gautam Sapre (32), Sambhaji Kisan Pardhi (44), Pradeep Dattu Thombre (37), Chetan Dilip Pardhi and Ram Fulchand Kanoujia (43). Sapre is from Dombivali, while Pardhi, Thombre and Pardhi (27) are from Ambernath in Thane district. Kanoujia is a resident of Panvel in Raigad, police said.

Jharkhand Assembly Elections | On getting candidature from Potka Assembly seat, Arjun Munda's wife Meera Munda says, "First of all I thank the election committee, the Prime Minister, the state president that they considered this ordinary worker worthy of this... I have been associated with the party for many years but now as a candidate, I have to go ahead and work. I am happy. I will try my best to fulfil my responsibilities."

The BJP wants to come to power in Delhi not to work for the people but to stop the AAP government's schemes like free electricity, education and healthcare, party supremo Arvind Kejriwal said on Saturday.

Addressing a party workers' meeting in Pitampura, Kejriwal warned them against infighting saying it could lead to AAP's defeat in the Delhi Assembly polls in February.

"Do not care for who is there (in the elections) because Kejriwal will be fighting on all these 70 seats. I will get your work done no matter who is elected as an MLA," he said.

Kejriwal said if the BJP comes to power, it will stop all the free schemes including those for electricity, water, bus ride for women, healthcare and education.

"My worry is not that AAP may not come to power. I am worried what will happen to the government schools if AAP does not win -- the rates of electricity and water will go up..." Kejriwal claimed.

He said works like road repair, old age pension, free medicines at hospitals, Farishtey scheme for free treatment of accident victims and free coaching for reserved category schemes were stopped when he was in jail.

Nagaland Police busted an inter-state gang involved in drugging and snatching vehicles by arresting eight people from four states, an official release said on Saturday.

The eight persons were arrested from Assam, Manipur West Bengal, and Nagaland, said the release issued by the Commissioner of Police, Dimapur.

Following the arrest, two stolen vehicles were also recovered, police said.

The CP Dimapur said that initially, a routine investigation into a missing person FIR lodged at East Police Station unravelled an organized network of criminal gangs operating in Nagaland, Assam, Manipur and West Bengal.

The BJP on Saturday fielded Navya Haridas from Kerala's Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency, where Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is contesting on a Congress ticket.

The party also named 24 candidates for assembly polls across eight states.

Former MP Sunil Soni will contest from the Raipur City South assembly in Chhattisgarh.

Besides the central state, the BJP named its nominees for the assembly bypolls being held in Assam, Bihar, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and West Bengal. 

President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday left for home after wrapping up her three-nation visit to Algeria, Mauritania and Malwai, establishing new benchmarks in India-Africa relations.

It was the first visit by an Indian Head of State to the three African nations.

Murmu finished her visit in Malawi, where she held a "productive" discussion with her Malawian counterpart Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera on ways to deepen bilateral cooperation in various fields, including agriculture, mining, tourism and energy.

"President Droupadi Murmu @rashtrapatibhvn emplanes for New Delhi after successfully concluding her 3 nation State visit to Algeria, Mauritania and Malawi, setting new milestones in India-Africa relationship," the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in a post on X.

East Delhi MP Harsh Malhotra on Saturday blamed the Aam Aadmi Party government for pollution in the Yamuna River, saying cleaning it has never been its priority.

Responding to the BJP's allegations, the AAP in a statement said, "The BJP is only indulging in dirty politics. The Aam Aadmi Party government is working at war level against pollution." "The BJP government is polluting the Yamuna by sending dirty water from Uttar Pradesh while their leaders are merely putting on a show in Delhi," AAP said.

Malhotra made the remark after visiting the river at Kalindi Kunj, accompanied by BJP spokesperson Anil Gupta and local councillor Brahm Singh.

Malhotra, referring to the thick white froth covering the Yamuna River said, "The Kejriwal government has only spread lies and illusions about cleaning the Yamuna. When the Lieutenant Governor initiated steps to clean the Yamuna, the Kejriwal government approached the Supreme Court to block them. Cleaning the river has always been a political issue for AAP, not a priority." He said that despite a decade of promises, pollution in the Yamuna has only worsened, posing serious health risks to people living near it.

Jailed radical preacher and Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh's father Tarsem Singh on Saturday questioned the police's claim of Amritpal's involvement in the murder of a Sikh activist and demanded a probe by a sitting judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

Tarsem Singh's statement came a day after Punjab Police chief Gaurav Yadav claimed that Sikh activist Gurpreet Singh Hari Nau was killed at the behest of Amritpal Singh, who is lodged in Dibrugarh jail in Assam under the stringent National Security Act.

The police claimed to have solved the murder case with the arrest of three members of the gang led by Arshdeep Singh Dalla, a designated terrorist and alleged mastermind in this case.

Gurpreet Singh Hari Nau alias Bhodi was shot dead on October 9 while returning home from the village gurdwara on his motorcycle.

Two personnel of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) were killed and two policemen injured on Saturday when Naxalites carried out an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district, police said. The incident occurred around 12 noon near Kodliyar village in Abujhmaad area when joint teams of security personnel were out on an anti-Naxal operation, a police official said.

A Star Air flight from Lucknow to Kishangarh received a bomb threat on Saturday afternoon, leading to heightened security measures at Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport (CCSI). According to a statement from the CCSI Airport spokesperson, the threat was received at 1:52 pm. The Airport's Bomb Threat Assessment Committee immediately convened to assess the situation and implement necessary security protocols, it said.

Fissures surfaced among INDIA bloc partners ahead of the Jharkhand assembly elections as the RJD on Saturday expressed disappointment over the announcement of JMM and Congress contesting 70 of 81 seats in the state.The RJD said the decision on seat sharing by the two INDIA bloc constituents was "unilateral".

Six flights against which bomb threats were made via social media made scheduled landing at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport on Saturday, a police official said.These threats came from a single X account and were categorised as "hoax" and "non specific" after thorough checks, the official added.

Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud on Saturday said all forms of derogatory language, particularly against women, have no place in courts, noting that insensitive words can perpetuate stereotypes and may disproportionately affect women and marginalised communities.The CJI referred to complaints from women judicial officers about the use of derogatory language by some members of the administrative establishment towards women.

Police detained Union Minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar who staged a protest with Group 1 services aspirants at Ashok Nagar X roads in Chikkadpalli in Hyderabad.

 "We want to inform you that our health workers and doctors have returned to work. Few of us are here on hunger strike for 10 demands... We will attend the meeting (with CM Mamata Banerjee) on Monday at 5 pm," protesting doctors demanding justice for Abhaya said. 

“CS and HS met us and we had a telephonic conversation with the CM. She invited us to Nabanna for a meeting on Monday at 5 p.m. CM is requesting us to get back to work as the health infrastructure is going down. We want to tell the CM to fulfill our demands and then we will get back to work. We hope that the CM understands our demands and she will fulfill them after the meeting,” said protesting junior doctors demanding justice for Abhaya.

“After talking to CM Mamata today we understand that she cannot fulfill our demands yet,” said protesting doctors in Kolkata demanding justice for Abhaya.

"We don't know why state govt is accusing us. CM is saying repeatedly that we are the reason the health services are suffering," said doctors protesting in Kolkata demanding justice for Abhaya.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday renewed his membership with the BJP, reaffirming his commitment as an "active member" and saying he is "enlightened by the spirit of 'Nation First'".

The aim of the campaign is to broaden the membership base of the Bharatiya Janata Party and to promote its core principles among the public.

Adityanath renewed his membership under the BJP's 'Sakriya Sadasyata Abhiyan'. UP BJP chief Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary was also present on the occasion.

Disappointed over offer of Jharkhand assembly seats, decision by JMM, Congress unilateral: RJD''s Manoj Kumar Jha in Ranchi

Congress leader Manish Tewari has favoured the regulation of Indian intelligence agencies through parliamentary oversight, remarks that come in the backdrop of the recent allegations emanating from the US and Canada.

The Lok Sabha MP from Chandigarh has already submitted a private bill in this regard and also called for a National Intelligence Tribunal to investigate complaints against these agencies.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police went public this week with allegations that Indian diplomats were targeting Sikh separatists in Canada by sharing information about them with their government back home.

West Bengal Chief Secretary Manoj Pant and Home Secretary Nandini Chakraborty on Saturday visited the protest site where junior doctors are observing fast-unto-death over demands for justice for the deceased medic at a state-run hospital and workplace security.So far, six fasting doctors have been hospitalised after their health condition deteriorated.

The 51.38 km Bhairabi-Sairang new railway line project connecting Aizawl in Mizoram with the rest of the country is at an advanced completion stage, an official statement said on Saturday.Around 17.38 km of the new line was completed and commissioned in July this year with train services operational from August, according to the statement issued by Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) on Saturday.

A bus carrying 45 students fell into a gorge in Haryana's Panchkula district injuring two children and the driver on Saturday, police said. The bus fell into the gorge near Tikkar Tal in Morni after the driver lost control over the vehicle. The bus driver and two students got injured while the condition of the rest of the students was alright, they said.

Former Odisha MLA Utkal Keshari Parida died at a hospital in Bhubaneswar on Saturday following a brief illness, his family said.He was 65.Parida was elected to the assembly from the Kendrapada constituency as a candidate of the Odisha Gana Parishad (OGP) in 2004. He had defeated BJP's Bed Prakash Agarwal.

Seventeen Indian fishermen arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy for allegedly poaching in the island nation's waters have been repatriated, according to the Indian mission here. Fishermen from both countries are arrested frequently for inadvertently trespassing into each other's waters.

More than 20 flights of various Indian airlines have received bomb threats since Saturday morning, according to sources.Flights of Air India, IndiGo, Akasa Air, Vistara, SpiceJet, Star Air and Alliance Air have received the threats, the sources said.Among them are IndiGo's flights from Delhi and Mumbai to Istanbul, and Jodhpur to Delhi as well as Vistara's flight from Udaipur to Mumbai.

Upon landing, the aircraft was isolated, and all customers were safely disembarked. Ensuring the safety and security of our customers and crew remains paramount in all facets of our operations. We worked closely with the relevant authorities, and standard operating procedures were followed.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has finally seized the original documents related to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's wife, Parvathamma.  
Both the documents with and without whiteout have been acquired by the ED.  

After yesterday's ED questioning, the original documents without whiteout were handed over by the officials.

ED searches going on in 5 locations. Searches in connection with alleged money laundering complainant alleged that Satyanarayana and others attempted to grab land allotted to him by the govt for constructing an old age home, orphanage and houses for the elderly, using forged documents.

Delhi's air quality has deteriorated to the 'poor' category due to changing weather conditions and the pollution level is expected to worsen after Diwali, Environment Minister Gopal Rai said on Saturday.Rai told PTI Videos that the Delhi government is doing everything it can to control dust pollution and needs the cooperation of residents.

5 Indigo Airlines Receive Bomb Threat, Two Still Mid Air

The Directorate of Enforcement continued raids at the MUDA office for the second consecutive day on Saturday in connection with the alleged corruption in the allotment of 14 sites to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's wife Parvathi in Mysuru.The officials barred outsiders from entering the Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) premises.

The fast-unto-death by agitating junior doctors in West Bengal entered the 15th day on Saturday over demands for justice for the deceased post-graduate trainee of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital and workplace security.So far, six fasting doctors have been hospitalised after their health condition deteriorated.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday restarted the Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) project works here.

The works at Rayapudi village in the capital region were restarted after a hiatus of five years, following the erstwhile YSRCP government abandoning Naidu's 'dream project'.

 Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday met her Mexican counterpart Rogelio Ramirez de la O and discussed areas of mutual interest and boosting economic ties between India and Mexico.During the meeting in Mexico City, Sitharaman congratulated Ramirez de la O for being appointed as Secretary of Finance and Public Credit for a second consecutive term, and also commended the strong performance of the Mexican economy in the last six years following prudent fiscal policies.

A five-year-old girl was raped by three boys living as tenants in her house in Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Saturday. All three accused have been detained.The incident took place on Wednesday evening in the Kotwali police station area.Superintendent of Police (SP) Vikrant Vir said the five-year-old girl was raped by the three boys on the roof of her house.

Just-retired Indian gymnastics star Dipa Karmakar believes most of the current generation of gymnasts lack passion and urged them to embrace the sport with fervour to excel on the global stage.Dipa, who blazed a trail by becoming the first Indian woman gymnast to compete at the Olympics and finish a historic fourth in 2016 Rio Games, retired earlier this month, ending a career in which she inspired awe for routinely performing the highly-difficult Produnova vault.

Preparations for the second edition of the Tawang International Marathon are in full swing, a defence official said.The high-altitude marathon, dubbed the 'Queen of High-Altitude Runs', is being jointly organised by the Indian Army and the Arunachal Pradesh government on October 24, defence spokesperson Lt Col Mahendra Rawat said.

 An elderly woman and her son were found dead in their house near Irinjalakuda in this district, police said on Saturday.The decayed bodies of Marathi (71) and her son Sujeesh (45) were found in the locked house by Irinjalakuda police on Friday midnight.

A Dubai-Jaipur Air India flight made an emergency landing at the airport here in the early hours of Saturday due to a bomb threat, which later turned out to be a hoax, officials said.After authorities were alerted about the bomb threat, an emergency was declared at the Jaipur airport. The flight with 189 passengers onboard landed safely at the airport at 1.20 am, an official said.

NCP leader and former minister Baba Siddique's bodyguard has been suspended by the Mumbai Police for alleged "inaction" during the fatal shooting that claimed the politician's life.

An internal inquiry is underway against the bodyguard, Shyam Sonavane, who is accused of neither returning fire nor attempting to protect Siddique during the attack.

 An Air India Express flight IX-196 flying from Dubai to Jaipur, with 189 passengers onboard, received a bomb threat via an email.

The plane landed at the Jaipur International Airport at 1:20 am. 

Jaipur Airport Police SHO Sandeep Baseras said a thorough check was conducted by the security forces and, nothing suspicious was found. 

In the past few days, nearly 40 flights operated by the Indian carriers have received bomb threats which later turned out to be hoaxes.

 Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday expressed grief over the killing of a non-local labourer whose body was found in Shopian district and said such attacks must be condemned in the strongest possible terms.The body of the labourer, who was identified as Ashok Chauhan, was found in a field in the Wachi area of Zainapora in the south Kashmir district on Friday.

 The Chief Electoral Officer of Maharashtra has sent notices to various social media platforms, asking them to take down a total of 1,752 posts that contained fake news and were meant to create confusion among voters.More than 300 of these posts were deleted after they were flagged by the poll body, an official release said here on Friday.

The Crime Branch of Odisha Police on Friday informed the judicial commission headed by Justice C R Dash that the polygraph tests of all five police personnel in connection with the alleged torture of an army officer and sexual assault of his fiancee in custody has been completed.

The Odisha Police on Friday arrested a man on the charge of “sexually exploiting” his minor daughter in Rourkela city.The accused has been booked under sections of the BNS and the POCSO Act.He was sent to jail after his bail was rejected by a court, they said.

Former Mumbai mayor Datta Dalvi was allegedly assaulted by a street vendor in Vikhroli area earlier this week.While a video of the incident went viral, the Shiv Sena (UBT) leader who was the city mayor from 2005 to 2007 said it took place on the station road in Kannamwar Nagar a couple of days ago.

BRS working president K T Rama Rao on Friday alleged a scam in the Musi river rejuvenation, claiming that Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy-led Congress government in Telangana enhanced the project cost to Rs 1.50 lakh crore from Rs 16,000 crore planned by the previous BRS government.

A suburban train derailed on Friday at Kalyan station in Thane district, some 60 kilometres from here, while entering a platform, though there was no report of anyone getting injured, an official said.The Titwala-CSMT train derailed on platform number 2 at around 9:00pm, leading to disruptions on the mainline, he said.

 The Uttar Pradesh Police on Friday continued its crackdown over communal violence in Maharajganj here as it held 26 more suspected rioters, taking the total number of arrests to 87, according to officials.Tight security arrangements were in place for Friday prayers at all mosques across the district, the officials said.

The Yamuna in Delhi was seen covered with a thick layer of white froth on Friday, with experts saying this poses health hazards for people, especially as the festive season approaches.Videos circulating on social media show vast sections of the river frothing, resembling clouds over the water, which gradually dissipated later in the day.

 Three people were killed and 24 sustained injuries after a bus fell into a drain while trying to avoid hitting a cyclist here on Friday evening, police said.The bus, which had 53 people on board, was on its way to Siddharthnagar from Balrampur. They said The incident occurred in the Dhebaruwa area of Siddharthnagar district.

A London-bound Vistara flight from Delhi was diverted to Frankfurt on Friday following a bomb threat. In a statement early Saturday morning, an airline spokesperson said the flight landed safely at the Frankfurt airport and mandatory checks are being conducted. The flight will continue to its destination once cleared by the security agencies.