News highlights: ‘Bihar Sharif's violene well-planned; WhatsApp group of 457 people active before festival,’ says Jitendra, ADG, Headquarters

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‘Ram Navami violence of Bihar Sharif well-planned; WhatsApp group of 457 people was very active before festival,’ says Jitendra Singh, ADG, Headquarters

Joupi Battalion of Assam Rifles recovers contraband Drugs

Delhi records 699 fresh Covid-19 cases, 4 deaths; positivity rate stands at 21.15 per cent

Chhatrapati Sivaji’s statue allegedly vandalised by unknown miscreants in Kanyakumari

In an unfortunate accident at sea on 8th April, Mohit Hull Artificer 4, aged 23 years, succumbed to injuries onboard INS Brahmaputra during operations at sea. A board of Inquiry is being ordered to investigate the cause of death of the Indian Navy sailor

Adani Power Limited announces commissioning of its first 800 MW ultra-super-critical thermal power generation unit at Godda, Jharkhand

Bomman and Belli express pleasure over meeting PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi reaches Sacred Heart Cathedral Catholic Church in Delhi

Nirmala Sitharaman in US, to attend 2023, to attend Spring Meetings of World Bank Group and IMF & other G20 meetings

Noting that the numbers of tiger census are encouraging, Modi congratulates stakeholders & environment lovers

9% share of electricity likely to be contributed from India’s nuclear sources by the year 2047

Thousands of devotees take part in Rath yatra at Thiruparankundram Muruga temple in Madurai

IIT Bombay student's death: Mumbai Police arrest his batchmate

The Mumbai Police's Special Investigation Team (SIT) has arrested a batchmate of IIT Bombay student Darshan Solanki in connection with the alleged abetment of his suicide, an official said on Sunday.

The accused, identified as Arman Khatri, and Solanki stayed on the same floor of a hostel of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and both were batchmates, he said.

In a purported suicide note recovered by the SIT on March 3, Solanki had mentioned that "Arman has killed me", the official said.

Solanki, who hailed from Ahmedabad in Gujarat and was a first-year student of the B Tech (Chemical) course, allegedly committed suicide by jumping off the seventh floor of a hostel building located on the IITB campus in suburban Powai on February 12 this year.

Humanity's future is possible only when our environment is safe and our biodiversity prospers. India is promoting the same idea through its G20 presidency: PM Modi

Wildlife conservation not one nation's responsibility but a worldwide issue. It requires a global alliance. In 2019, I had talked about an alliance against poaching and hunting on global tiger day: PM Modi

There were no cheetahs for 75 years as they had gone extinct. In a great new beginning, a few weeks ago, first four cheetahs were born on Indian soil: PM Modi

India added 2,200 sq km forest and tree cover by 2021 as against 2019. In all the efforts of wildlife conservation, I was benefitted by my experience being the CM of Gujarat. We had worked on lions. That's when I learned that to save an animal, we cannot be restricted to one geography. We must cultivate a relationship between man and animal: PM Modi

With only 2.4% of the world's land area, India contributes 8% of the known global diversity: PM Modi

India's Russian oil imports now double of Iraq

India's imports of crude oil from Russia touched a new high of 1.64 million barrels per day in March and is now double of the purchases from Iraq - the nation's traditional top oil supplier. But the purchases appear to have plateaued as growth has slowed.

Russia continued to be the single largest supplier of crude oil, which is converted into petrol and diesel at refineries, for a sixth straight month by supplying more than one-third of all oil India imported, according to energy cargo tracker Vortexa.

Refiners continue to snap up plentiful Russian cargo available at a discount to other grades.

Couple killed in road accident in UP

A lawyer and his wife were killed when a truck rammed into their car in Deoband area here, police said on Sunday.

The accident took place on Saturday night when Manoj Singhal (50) and his wife Anju (47) were on their way to Muzaffarnagar from Budhana, they said.

The bodies have been sent for postmortem.

The truck driver is absconding.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a "safari" at Bandipur Tiger Reserve in Karnataka.

Amul row: Bruhat Bengaluru Hotels Association to use only Nandini milk

PM Modi enroute to Bandipur and Mudumalai Tiger reserve, to mark 50 years of Project Tiger

Madhya Pradesh to take steps to ban 'objectionable web series': CM Chouhan