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DH Evening Brief | Three more bodies recovered from collapsed J&K tunnel; Cong not 'Big Daddy', respects regional parties, says Rahul GandhiHere are the top stories this evening.
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Three more bodies recovered from collapsed J&K tunnel, search on for six others

Three more bodies were recovered from the debris of an under-construction tunnel on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway that collapsed recently, raising the death toll to four, officials said on Saturday.

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Congress not 'Big Daddy', respects regional parties; will take them along in fight against BJP: Rahul Gandhi

Backtracking from his stand in Udaipur, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said his party respects regional outfits and does not want to be "the Big Daddy" while asserting that the fight against the BJP will be a "group effort".

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Viral video shows mentally-challenged MP man repeatedly slapped before he died, asked if his name was Mohammed

The family members of a mentally-challenged person, whose body was found in Madhya Pradesh's Neemuch district days after he went missing, complained to the police saying that a video has come to light in which the victim can be seen being slapped repeatedly by a man, who is asking him to reveal his identity, an official said on Saturday.

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Assam: IAF deploys Chinook helicopters to support rescue operations

As the flood situation worsened in various parts of Assam, the Indian Air Force (IAF) on May 20 deployed Chinook heavy-lift helicopters to deploy NDRF personnel in the flood-affected areas of Haflong. The choppers also helped in evacuating the people stranded in the area.

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Monkeypox cases confirmed in 12 countries, another 50 cases suspected

More than 80 cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in at least 12 countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced.

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In Xi Jinping's big year, political price of China's pandemic policy climbs

Protests bubbling in big cities, dismal economic indicators and rampant discontent online -- China's zero-Covid policy is morphing from a propaganda victory to a political liability for President Xi Jinping.

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RSS has built a structure that has penetrated into the masses, says Rahul Gandhi

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said the BJP and the RSS believe that India is a 'geography' and play the polarisation game, while the grand-old party believes in equality.

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Active case count hits zero, Manipur turns Covid-free

Manipur became a coronavirus-free state with three active Covid-19 patients recovering from the disease, a health department official said.

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DU professor arrested over post on 'Shivling' at Gyanvapi Mosque

Associate professor of Delhi University's Hindu College Ratan Lal was arrested on Friday night for his objectionable social media post referring to claims about a 'Shivling' found inside Varanasi's Gyanvapi mosque complex, police said.

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CBI launches search operation in multiple cities in NSE co-location scam case

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) launched a coordinated search operation at over 10 locations in multiple cities on Saturday in connection with the NSE co-location scam case, officials said.

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War, weather and wheat

The two back-to-back policy decisions by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government of late took everyone by surprise. The first one was, of course, the unscheduled move by the Reserve Bank of India to make loans costlier and the second one was the restriction imposed by the government on the export of wheat.

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