LIVE news updates: Rahul Gandhi says billion broken hearts tonight but, Team India played well

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi tweets on team India’s deafeat in the world cup.

“Though they’re a billion broken hearts tonight, Team India, you put up a great fight and are deserving of our love & respect.

Congratulations to New Zealand on their well earned win, that gives them a place in the World Cup final.”

10 Of 15 Legislators Split From Congress In Goa, Set To Join BJP, reports NDTV

AITUC Wednesday decided to hold a demonstration in the district headquarters of Tamil Nadu on July 16, protesting against what it termed as anti-labour and anti-people policies of the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre.

The decision was taken at a meeting of the state council of the AITUC here. The meeting was presided over by the AITUC state president and CPI MP K Subbarayan.

The demonstration would also be against the union budget which was 'against the common man and also labourers', AITUC sources said.

AITUC national secretary Vahida Nizam and its state general secretary T M Moorthy were among those who attended the meeting.

Supreme Court will tomorrow hear the Ayodhya land case. Chief Justice Rajan Gogoi led bench will hear the case.

Tarun Gauba, who was supervising probe against former Special Director Rakesh Asthana, repatriated to state cadre: says government

Twelve medical students were allegedly caught cheating during a semester examination here, an official said on Wednesday.

Second and third year MBBS students of the Muzaffarnagar medical college, Begrajpur, were caught using electronic devices by the flying squad team of the Meerut university at the Jain Kanya PG College, where 142 students had appeared for their semester examination on Tuesday.

The electronic devices were found hidden under the clothes and hair wigs during the frisking. One device was also found in the college washroom, Circle Officer Harish Bhadoria said.

The Rajasthan government announced a ₹1,000-crore farmer welfare fund, a ₹5,200-crore dedicated feeder to ensure regular supply to farmers and other schemes for green energy, irrigation and health sectors in the state budget presented on Wednesday.

The state government also announced 'Janta clinics' to provide healthcare facilities to people near doorsteps, a new policy for electric vehicles, a policy to fight climate change and tax relief of around ₹ 301 crore.

While presenting the budget for 2019-20, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said the farmers' fund would help promote ease of doing farming, zero-budget natural farming in 36 gram panchayats of Banswara, Tonk an

Peoples Democratic Party demanded on Wednesday the immediate release of hardline Hurriyat Conference spokesperson Ayaz Akbar on humanitarian grounds so that he could attend his wife who is suffering from a life-threatening disease.

"Akbar's wife is battling serious ailment and needs her husband by her side at present," PDP state secretary Noor Mohammad Sheikh said in a statement.

Sheikh said the entire family of Akbar was reeling under trying circumstances and had already appealed to Governor Satya Pal Malik to release the incarcerated separatist leader.

Akbar was arrested last year by the National Investigation Agency in connection with its probe into terror funding in the Kashmir Valley.

Karnataka Chief Minister HD kumaraswamy tweets, manhandling ministers and MLAs is very annoying and unbecoming of Mumbai Police. Such hasty Act by Maharashtra Government reinforces the suspicion on BJP of horse trading. This is a blackmark on the republic setup of our country

I have not accepted any resignation, I can't do it overnight like that. I have given them time on 17th. I'll go through the procedure and take a decision clarifies Karnataka Assembly Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar

A day after the state police booked rapper Yo Yo Honey Singh and producer Bhushan Kumar over lewd lyrics in the singer's new song, Punjab State Women Commission head Manisha Gulati on Wednesday demanded a censor board for songs too.

She urged the famous Punjabi singer Gurdas Mann to persuade singers and producers against vulgar songs.

"I strongly demand that a censor board must be constituted for the songs in line with the censor board for films," Gulati said.

Britain's Foreign Office says UK ambassador to the US has resigned after diplomatic cables criticizing Trump were leaked.

DMK MLAs on Wednesday walked out of the Assembly condemning the state government for being silent for 21 months after the President returned two bills passed by the House.

Speaking to reporters, party President M.K. Stalin said the Assembly had passed two legislations seeking exemption from the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for medical college admissions on February 1, 2017.

Stalin said the bills were sent for the President's assent but the central government in its letter dated September 22, 2017 to the state government said the bills were sent back by the President.

The Pakistan government has decided that media should not be allowed to promote the narrative of convicted or under-trial persons, in a move that aims to curtail the space given by the press to jailed politicians like Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari.

A Cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday directed the Pakistan Electronic Media Regula­tory Authority (Pemra) to fulfil its “responsibility” to discourage airing of such programmes by the electronic media.

Education Minister Shafqat Mehmood said Khan and members of his Cabinet unanimously decided that no convicted or under-trial prisoner should be given media coverage or allowed to give an interview, Dawn newspaper reported.

The NIA on Wednesday attached a Srinagar house belonging to Asiya Andrabi, chief of the Kashmiri women's separatist group 'Dukhtaran-e-Milat' (Daughters of Faith).

A NIA official said the house in Srinagar's Saura area had been attached under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

In Srinagar, Superintendent of Police Vikas Katharia, in his capacity as the chief investigator of the terror funding case, had obtained the approval of the Director General of Police in Jammu and Kashmir to attach the house.

Al Qaeda chief Ayman Al-Zawahiri has released a 14-minute video titled "Don't forget Kashmir" in which he asks 'mujahideen' in Kashmir to hit the Indian Army with "unrelenting blows".

In the video released by Al Qaeda's media arm As Sahab, Zawahiri asks the mujahideen to "single-mindedly focus on inflicting unrelenting blows on the Indian Army and government, so as to bleed the Indian economy and make India suffer sustained losses in manpower and equipment".

In the video, an image of Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind's (AGH) slain leader Zakir Musa, who was killed on May 23, is displayed as Zawahiri speaks. AGH is an affiliate of Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda had eulogized Musa after he was killed.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi visited his former Lok Sabha constituency Amethi. The leader tweeted “I am very pleased after coming to Amethi, it feels like homecoming”

Karnataka Minister DK Shivakumar, Milind Deora and Congress leaders others detainedongress leaders who were detained, have been kept at Kalina University rest house, Mumbai. They were sitting outside Renaissance - Mumbai Convention Centre Hotel when they were detained by police.

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is in London to attend the 19th Commonwealth Foreign Affairs Ministers' Meeting, which is also being attended by his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi.

Jaishankar, who is likely to meet his British counterpart Jeremey Hunt among other foreign Ministers during the day-long conference, tweeted a photograph of him addressing the gathering with the message: "In London for the Commonwealth Foreign Affairs Ministers Meeting. Working together to build upon a secure, sustainable and prosperous future."

There are chances of Jaishankar and Qureshi exchanging pleasantries though no talks have been planned.

The death toll of a tribal massacre in Papua New Guinea's Hela Province (PNG) has increased to 23, media reported on Wednesday.

Local television station EMTV reported that in addition to the 16 people violently murdered on Monday, seven people including four men and three women were killed in related incidents on Sunday, reported Xinhua news agency.

While it is not yet clear what the exact circumstances were that led to the massacre, Hela Governor Philip Undialu told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Wednesday, the motive behind the killings could be in retaliation for an earlier incident in another village.

AAP legislator Prakash Jarwal alleged that an illegal liquor supplier fired three gunshots at him on Wednesday during the inaugural event of a water pipeline in Sangam Vihar in south Delhi. Police denied the claim.

Jarwal, who represents Deoli in the Delhi Assembly, said the incident occurred at 10 a.m. when Rajesh Sahashi fired three rounds at him and threatened him with dire consequences while he was inaugurating the pipeline on Sangam Vihar Bandh Road.

The police said they had not got any written complaint from the MLA

A 6-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered by a 25-year-old man neighbour in Adharpur area Fatehpur, UP.

Superintendent of Police Ramesh Kumar,says,"the body has been sent for postmortem, further investigation is being done."

A Delhi court on Tuesday acquitted AAP MLA Sarita Singh in a case of alleged misbehaviour with a police official in Rohtas Nagar in 2015.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal, while acquitting the AAP leader, told her to submit a bail bond of Rs 20,000.

In 2015, the AAP leader was booked by Delhi Police for misbehaviour with a police official.

The altercation occurred after Singh's driver allegedly hit the police official's motorbike while reversing his car.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) filed a supplementary charge sheet in a Delhi court Wednesday in an alleged money laundering case against RJD Chief Lalu Prasad's daughter Misa Bharti and others.

In the charge sheet, the probe agency named 35 new accused out of which around 15 are individuals and rest are companies.

Out of the 15 individuals, there are eight Chartered Accountants named as accused in the charge sheet which also mentioned the details of shares worth Rs 8,000 crore.

The charge sheet was filed before Special Judge Arun Bhardwaj by Special Public Prosecutor Atul Tripathi.

V Muraleedharan, MOS MEA in Lok Sabha: Ministry revoked the passport of Nirav Modi as per provisions of Section 10(3)(c) of The Passports Act,1967, on 23 Feb,2018.The Ministry has no means to verify the travels,if any,of Nirav Modi&passport used for such travels by him.(File pic)

"10 Million Twitter followers - thank you to each and every one of you!" Rahul Gandhi tweeted.

"I will celebrate the milestone in Amethi, where I will be meeting our Congress workers & supporters today," he said.

Enforcement Directorate has summoned Tollywood actor Rituparna Sengupta for questioning in connection with Rose Valley scam case

Ganga river flowing close to danger mark at 338.05 meter in Rishikesh, following heavy rainfall in the region

Rahul Gandhi arrives at Lucknow airport, ahead of his visit to Amethi.

Two persons were killed when a live bomb, which they picked up from a firing range to sell in scrap market, exploded in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra on Wednesday early morning, police said.

A SpiceJet technician was killed after the landing gear door of the aircraft he was working on got "accidentally" shut at the airport in Kolkata on Wednesday, a senior official said. The incident took place around 1.45 am.

National Investigation Agency attaches property of Kashmiri separatist leader Asiya Andrabi, in connection with a case registered against her.

Another batch of 5,273 pilgrims left Jammu on Wednesday to perform the ongoing Amarnath Yatra.

Since the Yatra started this year on July 1, over 1.2 lakh pilgrims had Darshan inside the holy Cave shrine situated 3,888 metres above the sea-level in Kashmir Himalayas.

A major mishap was averted in Kolkata, a massive crack was noticed by the engineers on the pier cap of Ultadanga flyover, which is a connecting route, for Kolkata airport and the city. Traffic movement was halted immediately and the flyover was closed.