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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Prashant Kishor working with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, “whoever he works for has nothing to do with our party”

He'll tell about it himself tomorrow at National Executive meeting.He joined our party last yr; he is associated with election strategy organization too&whomsoever he works for under it has nothing to do with our party said Nitish

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Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has requested the Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court, Krishna Murari to put in place a fast track trial mechanism for speedy trial of rape cases.

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At least 12 children have died in the past one week of suspected Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) and Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in Bihar's Muzaffarpur, while 15 are being treated at the city's two hospitals.

Five children died of suspected AES and JE over the past 24 hours, while 12 new patients were admitted, said a District Health official on Saturday.

Some 21 children were admitted at the Shri Krishna Memorial College Hospital (SKMCH) and 14 were admitted at Kejriwal Hospital on Friday.

"Of the 12 children who died in the past week, the death of two by AES has been confirmed," said District Civil Surgeon S.P.Singh. "We are investigating the reasons for the other deaths," he added.

Services on the Delhi Metro's Yellow Line were affected Saturday after a major power failure on a section of the corridor, officials said.

The power failure took place between 5.00 pm-5.30 pm, following which services were suspended immediately between Udyog Bhawan and Model Town metro station. However, services on part of the section were restored after some time and trains are currently being operated in two separate loops.

Yellow Line connects Samaypur Badli in Delhi to HUDA City Centre in Gurgaon.

Two siblings were charred to death when a hut caught fire in Jodhpur on Saturday, police said.

The incident took place at Chadi village under the Bojasar police station.

Sunil (6) and her sister Sushila (8) were inside the hut when the fire broke out.

Before they could come out, a burning portion of the thatched roof fell on them, police said.

The Indian Army on Saturday distanced itself from the controversy surrounding the dagger insignia on Indian cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni's gloves, saying it had nothing to do with it.

Dhoni's gloves sported the “Balidan badge” of the parachute regiment's special force during India's opening world cup match against South Africa in Southampton in England on May 5.

Talking to reporters after a passing-out parade at the Indian Military Academy, GOC-in-C (South-Western Command) Lt Gen Cherish Matheson said it was Dhoni's personal decision to wear the Army insignia on his gloves and the Army had nothing to do with it.

Former journalist at The Wire Hindi, Prashant Kanojia, was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police from his home in Delhi on Saturday afternoon. The arrest is apparently over social media posts he wrote about UP chief minister Adityanath.

It is unclear why or how the UP police have made this arrest, given that Kanojia is a resident of Delhi.

Police on Saturday arrested two more people for the murder of a toddler and confirmed one of the men booked earlier for the crime is an alleged sex offender who has targeted children in recent years.

The wife and brother of Zahid, one of the two main accused, were picked up this morning by the special investigation team formed to probe the killing of the two-and-a-half-year-old girl in Tappal township. "They were later arrested," a senior police official said. After the fresh arrests, the total number of people arrested in the case has gone to four.

Other than the 27-year-old Zahid, police arrested Aslam, 43, on Tuesday after the girl's decomposed body was found in a garbage dump around 200 metres from her home. The body was discovered on June 2, three days after she was reported missing.

West Bengal: Clash broke out between BJP workers and police in Gangarampur, South Dinajpur after police allegedly stopped the rally of BJP MP Dilip Ghosh in the area. One police sub inspector and two civic volunteers who were injured in the clash have been admitted to a nearby hospital.

A 20-day-old infant killed in Ahmedabad’s Meghaninagar area after 5 goons attacked infant and her family on June 6. Mother of the infant says, “Some goons entered our house and attacked us. We don't have any personal enmity with them." Police have arrested 3 out of the 5 accused.

Madhya Pradesh: Police detained two persons in connection with the rape and murder of a minor girl in Ujjain. Sachin Atulkar, SP, says,"SIT was formed for the investigation. The suspects are being interrogated. Further investigation is being done."

Minutes after the removal of Parvez Ahmad as chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Bank, state vigilance organisation sleuths on Saturday raided the financial institution's corporate headquarters, officials said.

The vigilance organisation was looking for records of nearly 1,200 appointments allegedly made at the behest of political masters of the previous PDP-BJP government in the state and during Ahmad's tenure, they said.

The sleuths raided the bank's corporate headquarters at M A Road soon after the state government dismissed Ahmad and appointed executive president RK Chibber as the bank's interim chairman, the officials said.

Spokesperson Navy: Goa Airport closed temporarily for a few hours in view of fire caused by a drop tank of MiG 29K which got detached whilst taking off. All efforts in hand to resume flights as soon as possible. MiG 29K fighter aircraft is safe.

Sunitha Devi, Scientist, Meteorological Department: Monsoon has set in over Kerala today and we are expecting that it might further advance in next 48 hours covering the remaining parts of Lakshadweep and Kerala as well as Tamil Nadu.

25 members of council of ministers of the state take oath as ministers, in the presence of Governor ESL Narasimhan and CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, in Amaravati.

Haryana: 3 people, including 2 children, at AND Convent School died after a fire broke out there and a cloth godown located below it in Dabua Colony of Faridabad, today. Police say, "Fire dept is here, situation now under control, we'll ascertain the cause of fire."

Enforcement Directorate has summoned former ICICI bank MD and CEO Chanda Kochhar to appear before it on Monday in connection with Videocon loan case. Earlier Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar were questioned for 5 consecutive days from 13 to 17 May in Delhi.

Prayagraj: Husband and wife were murdered by unidentified persons under Soraon police station limits last night. Police says, "The murderers broke into the house and killed them while they sleeping at the terrace. Investigation will be done."

Naxals torched a bus in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, after asking the passengers to alight, police said on Saturday.

The incident occurred late on Friday evening between Kutru and Farsegarh villages when the private passenger bus was on its way to Bedre from Bijapur town, a senior police official said.

Around a dozen Maoists, some of them armed, stopped the bus belonging to Jai Bhawani Travels, and set it ablaze after allowing passengers to get off, he said.

None of the passengers or crew was harmed in the incident. However, the bus was completely damaged in the incident, the official added.

Security forces have rushed to the spot and combing operations to apprehend the Naxals involved in the incident were underway, he said.

US President Donald Trump has left people astonished with his knowledge of space and the universe and has become a laughing stock yet again after he claimed that the moon is a part of Mars.

In a tweet on Friday, he said: "For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon - We did that 50 years ago. They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars (of which the Moon is a part), Defence and Science."

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has publicly taken to task the parliamentary select committee on the Easter Sunday jihadi attacks, saying he was opposed to top officials testifying on national security matters before the media.

Sirisena's outburst is set to trigger another conflict between him the executive and parliament the legislature, analysts said.

Sirisena on Friday called for an emergency Cabinet meeting and said he stand opposed to the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) probing the attacks summoning intelligence officers and disclosing intelligence information to the media.

With Indians across all paths of life coming together and showing their support for former India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni after the International Cricket Council (ICC) asked him to remove the "Balidaan Badge" from his wicket keeping gloves, the Committee of Administrators (CoA) running Indian cricket had sent in a request to the ICC asking the game's parent body to allow Dhoni to have the logo on his gloves. But the request has been rejected.

Sources in the know of developments said that the ICC has made it clear that it is not possible to approve the gloves with the ‘Balidaan Badge'.

The ICC has told the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) that the regulations for ICC events do not permit any individual message and that the logo also breaches the regulations in relation to what is permitted on wicket keeping gloves.

Anoop Kaushik, General Secretary, Aligarh Bar Association: We stand with the family of 2.5-year-old girl who was murdered in Tappal and no advocate will appear in Court for the accused. Advocate from outside will not be allowed to fight the case. We will fight for the child.

After a delay of a week, monsoon hit the Kerala coast on Saturday, marking the official commencement of the four-month rainfall season in the country.

"Monsoon has made an onset over Kerala today (June 8)," said India Meteorological Department's Director General-designate Mrutyunjay Mohapatra. Several parts of Kerala have started receiving a good amount of rainfall.

The news will augur well for the country as large parts have been witnessing agriculture distress and water levels in reservoirs in west and south India have dipped to low levels.

Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Saturday visited five government schools to take stock of the ongoing construction activities there, officials said.

Sisodia, who is also the state education minister, had earlier visited several other schools in different parts of the national capital.

"Today I visited 5 Govt schools in Inderpuri, Naraina, Delhi Cantt, Rajokri & Ghitorni where 334 new classrooms are being constructed. Confident that we'll wrap these up on time," he posted on Twitter.

Rajiv Kumar, Vice-Chairman of the NITI Aayog: We have invited her (WB CM) with all due respect and I am still hoping very much that she will accept my personal invitation and attend the governing council meeting on 15th and give us ideas as to how to improve NITI Aayog further.

The fifth victim of a gas cylinder blast in Jammu and Kashmir's Uri died on Saturday in a hospital in New Delhi, officials said.

Four members of a family, including a woman and her three daughters, had died earlier after a cooking gas cylinder exploded in their house in Uri border town of Baramulla district on May 27.

Authorities had shifted the fifth victim of the family, a six-year old boy, to All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi for specialized treatment on Thursday.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi in Kalpetta, Wayanad: Even though I belong to the Congress party our doors will be open for every single citizen of Wayanad, regardless of their age, regardless of where they come from, regardless of what ideology they come from.

At the national level we're fighting poison. Mr Narendra Modi uses poison, I'm using a strong word but Mr Narendra Modi uses poison of hatred to divide this country. He uses anger and hatred to divide the people of this country. He uses lies to win election.

He represents the worst sentiments of this country. He represents anger, he represents hatred, he represents insecurity and he represents lies.

One person, claimed to be a drug peddler, was allegedly beaten to death by members of an anti- drug trafficking body in Manipur's Imphal East district, following which a mob ransacked the organisation's office and the residence of its president, police said on Saturday.

A journalist was also assaulted when he, along with other scribes, went to cover the mob violence. Members of the Anti-Drug Joint Committee had picked up Mohammad Helim from his house on late on Thursday night claiming that he was a drug peddler, police said. They allegedly assaulted him during 'interrogation' leading to his death, the police said.

The Special Task Force of Kolkata Police has seized fake Indian currency notes (FICN) with a total face value of ₹4.38 lakh and arrested a person, an officer said on Saturday.

Based on prior information, the officers intercepted the accused, Ishab Ali, 31, from the Sealdah area.

Three Pakistani army officers and one soldier were killed after a roadside bomb targeting a military vehicle exploded in the troubled North Waziristan tribal district bordering Afghanistan.

The IED, targeting the military vehicle, was planted at a roadside on Friday in Kharkamar area in the district, the Army said in a statement.

"Three officers and a soldier were killed while four soldiers were injured," the statement from the army's media wing the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi arrives at MPs Facilitation Centre, at Wayanad Collectorate Office for a meeting with delegations. He began his three-day visit to the state, yesterday.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday wrote a letter to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi offering dialogue to reconcilable problems.

In a letter to Modi congratulating him on his second term as the Prime Minister, Khan wrote that Pakistan desires the resolution of all problems, including that of the disputed Kashmir region, the Geo TV reported.

He further added that talks between the two nations were the only solution to help both countries' people overcome poverty and that it was important to work together for regional development.

Pakistan, Khan wrote, wished for peace in the South Asian region and that, alongside stability, were required for the states as well as the region to move forward, the report said.

Gujarat: Indian Coast Guard has detained an Indonesian vessel with Iranian crew off the coast of Dwarka. Some suspected substance was observed on the vessel, investigation is still underway. The vessel claims to be on its way to Kuwait.

A massive fire broke out at a chemical godown in Kolkata this morning. As many as 20 fire tenders have been rushed to the spot to fight the flames, said reports. The godown where the fire broke out is near the Jagannath Ghat area of West Bengal's capital.

The fire fighting operations are still underway. There are no reports of casualties or injuries so far.

A Bangladeshi immigrant, who allegedly heaped praise on the Islamic State group and Osama bin Laden, has been charged on Friday after he was accused of plotting a grenade attack on the bustling tourist-clogged Times Square in the US, authorities said.

Ashiqul Alam, 22, was arrested on Thursday after arranging through an undercover agent to buy a pair of semiautomatic pistols with obliterated serial numbers and surveilled the popular Manhattan district to identify the best place for the attack, the the Justice Department said in a statement.

Alam who underwent an eye surgery to improve his vision was nervous about his eyeglasses falling off his face during the terror strike and creating an embarrassing debacle," according to federal charging documents. The Bangladeshi immigrant from Queens zeroed in on attacking New York City.

A massive operation continued for the third day on Saturday to rescue a two-year-old boy who fell into a 150-foot deep abandoned borewell in a village in Punjab's Sangrur district, officials said.

A movement in his body was noticed at 5 a.m., almost 40 hours after the incident.

A parallel tunnel is being dig to reach the child, Fatehveer Singh, who is turning two on June 10, believed to be stuck at a depth of 110 feet in the borewell that has a nine-inch diameter, they said.

The parallel tunnel still needs digging of 45-50 feet and it is going manually as mechanical digging may lead to caving in of a large nearby portion, said a rescuer.

One Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) militant was killed on Saturday in a gunfight with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district, police said.

According to police sources, the slain militant has been identified as Iqbal Ahmad of Anantnag's Dooru area. The gunfight took place in Nowgam village of Verinag area.

"The militant's body has been recovered. Search operation is still going on in the area," the sources added.

The Indian Consulate in Dubai is in the process of completing formalities related to forensics and other documentation required to repatriate the bodies of the 12 Indians who were among the 17 killed in a horrific road accident here when a bus coming from Oman entered a restricted lane and rammed into a low-clearance sign.

Nine persons were also seriously injured when the driver of the bus, carrying mostly Eid vacationers and coming from Oman's capital Muscat to Dubai, wrongly entered a road not designated for buses towards Al Rashidiya metro station on Thursday evening.

Eleven clearance certificates have been issued by forensics, while one forensic report is pending from the authorities, Vipul, India's Consul General in Dubai, tweeted late Friday.

BSF jawans at International Border are reeling under heat wave conditions as temperature has increased in the area. A jawan says, "people in the country are sleeping with an assurance that we are at the border. So, whatever may be the weather condition we are always on alert."