A fire broke out at a house in Kullursandhai, Virudhunagar district, which is in the southern part of Tamil Nadu, officials said. Fire and rescue personnel rushed to the spot and brought the blaze under control. No casualties have been reported in the incident.
The Supreme Court is set to hear today a remission plea filed by life convict Ravindra Pal alias Dara Singh, who is serving a life sentence for the 1999 murder of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two minor sons in Odisha. In July, the court had directed the Odisha government to decide on Singh’s remission plea within a month.
A 60-year-old man was found dead under mysterious circumstances at his residence in Rohini Sector 3, with police suspecting a robbery. Household items were found scattered inside the house, police said. A female relative of the victim and two of her associates have been detained in connection with the case. The victim's body has been sent for post-mortem examination, while police are examining CCTV footage and further investigation is underway. (PTI)
Three men aged between 22 and 25 drowned in Sanjay Lake near Kotla Gaon in east Delhi’s Pandav Nagar area on Tuesday evening, police said. A PCR call was received around 7.30 pm, following which a police team reached the spot and rescued the men from the water. They were found unresponsive and taken to Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital, where medico-legal formalities are underway, police said.
Security was tightened around BJP offices in Jammu and Kashmir ahead of planned protests by the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) over the statehood issue. While the BJP has announced a ‘Secretariat Gherao’ on Wednesday to focus on the concerns over recruitment and employment, the National Conference has planned a counter-protest. The party said on Tuesday that it would peacefully gherao BJP offices in Srinagar and Jammu, seeking accountability for commitments made by the Union government in Parliament and before the Supreme Court on Jammu and Kashmir.
