The Gorakhpur police on Wednesday arrested Rahim Khan, the prime accused in the murder of NEET aspirant Deepak Gupta, after an encounter in which he was injured.

Khan was admitted to a hospital for treatment, while a pistol and a motorcycle were recovered from him.

Gupta, a medical aspirant, was allegedly killed by cattle smugglers in Gorakhpur on Monday. Rahim Khan had been named as one of the accused in the case.

Gorakhpur SSP Raj Karan Nayyar said four accused have been arrested so far, while two others are still absconding.

Setting the target to procure 172 lakh metric tonnes of paddy at the rate of Rs 2,389 per quintal, Punjab Food, Civil Supplies Minister Lal Chand Kataruchak on Wednesday formally commenced the procurement from Bhogpur Dana Mandi in Jalandhar district.

Reviewing the procurement arrangements, the minister said the government is determined to ensure smooth and hassle-free procurement for all stakeholders.

Despite the challenges posed by floods, he said arrangements had been made across the state to ensure that farmers face no implications in selling crops, said Kataruchak.

The Kolkata Police on Wednesday unearthed a fake international call centre racket and arrested ten persons, including the prime accused, officials said.

The police recovered more than Rs 10 lakh in cash, several mobile phones, and two cars from the accused, and launched an investigation into the racket as well as its operations.

The police also arrested the main accused, Javed Khan, during raids on the gang’s dens following the complaints.

The Regional Meteorological Centre on Wednesday issued an orange alert for heavy rain in several districts of West Bengal over the next few days.

According to the met department, thunderstorms are likely across South Bengal, including Kolkata, from Wednesday to Friday. Along with this, heavy rain accompanied by thunderstorms is likely in East Burdwan, West Burdwan, Bankura, Birbhum, Murshidabad, and Purulia districts. Accordingly, an orange alert has been issued for these districts.

On Saturday, there is a possibility of scattered thunderstorms in all districts of South Bengal.

The Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) is in the process of identifying land on the city’s outskirts to house up to 500 aggressive, rabid, or suspected rabid dogs, in compliance with a Supreme Court directive issued on August 22.

The court had ordered that such animals must be kept in dedicated facilities rather than being released back onto the streets.

It also directed civic bodies to earmark a single designated feeding point in every ward for strays, where food can be provided under regulated conditions.

While the new facility is still being planned, GCC has released updates on its broader stray dog control and rabies-prevention initiatives.

Telangana’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday seized Rs 2 crore cash during the raids on the premises of an official of the electricity department.

Sleuths of the anti-graft agency have been conducting searches at the premises of Ambedkar, Assistant Divisional Engineer (ADE) and his relatives since Tuesday morning.

Ambedkar, who works as the ADE in the Manikonda area in Hyderabad, allegedly amassed huge wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income.

Fifteen teams of ACB officials were conducting searches at multiple locations in the city.

Tension gripped Gorakhpur on Tuesday after a 19-year-old NEET aspirant was allegedly killed by cattle smugglers, triggering angry protests by locals who blocked the road.

The victim’s family demanded justice for the young man.

“He should be hanged,” a relative said, demanding strict action not only against the smugglers but also against any negligent police personnel.

Senior officials, including the District Magistrate, DIG, and SSP, rushed to the scene and are currently investigating the incident.

Andhra Pradesh government is installing automatic sirens at village secretariats to protect citizens from lightning and floods, a top official said on Tuesday.

A pilot project in one village has already shown excellent results, with sirens operating through ISRO satellite support even without mobile signals, Secretary, Real Time Governance (RTGS), Katamneni Bhaskar, said.

Each system costs around Rs 2 lakh. Statewide implementation would cost about Rs 340 crore, but in the first phase, vulnerable villages will be prioritised at a cost of Rs 10–15 crore, he said, asking the district Collectors to monitor and support this initiative.

Railway service was disrupted in Sealdah South section of Eastern Railway after a massive fire broke out at Santoshpur station on Tuesday morning. About a dozen shops at the railway station were engulfed in the fire. Four fire engines reached the spot to douse the fire. After two hours, the fire was finally extinguished and train services resumed after that.

According to Eastern Railway officials, the blaze erupted around 7.21 A.M. which halted operations on the busy Sealdah-Budge Budge line. The fire gutted a dozen shops before it was brought under control. Train services resumed around 9.30 A.M. after the situation was normalised.

The Tapkeshwar Mahadev Temple in Uttarakhand's Dehradun has suffered extensive damage after the Tamsa River, swollen by torrential rains and a cloudburst in Sahastradhara, inundated the temple premises.

Several feet of sand and debris entered the temple complex, submerging the Shivling and leaving deep cracks in the walls.

While officials confirmed that no loss of life has been reported so far, the scale of destruction is being described as severe. The water level, which rose sharply in the early hours, has now begun to recede.

The Delhi Police have taken into custody the BMW driver, identified as Gaganpreet, who fatally hit the motorcycle of a senior Finance Ministry official, leaving him dead and his wife critically injured, officials confirmed on Monday.

The victim, Navjot Singh, a Deputy Secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs under the Ministry of Finance, lost his life in the incident. His wife, Sandeep Kaur, who was riding pillion, sustained severe injuries.

Police said the accident took place on Sunday near the Delhi Cantt metro station, as the couple was returning home from Bangla Sahib Gurudwara. A case has been registered under the relevant sections of law.

Search operations continued on Monday for three persons washed away in two drains in Hyderabad following heavy rains on Sunday evening.

Personnel of Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (HYDRAA), Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC), and police were searching for two men washed away in Afzal Sagar nala in Habeeb Nagar in the heart of the city.

Arjun (26) and his relative Ramu (25) were washed away in the floodwater in the nala.

Similarly, rescue workers continued to search for a 24-year-old youth who fell into a nala in Vinobha Nagar in the Musheerabad area of Secunderabad.

A quick-thinking driver helped save all 75 passengers travelling in a BMTC bus, which was gutted by fire within minutes of the blaze being noticed.

The bus attached to the government-run Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) was gutted by fire on Monday morning. But thanks to the quick action of the driver, all 75 passengers escaped unhurt.

Smoke and flames started emanating from the moving bus, and within minutes, the fire engulfed the entire vehicle, destroying it.

According to police, the bus bearing registration number KA 57 F 4568 was travelling from Majestic to the Kadugodi locality in Bengaluru. The incident occurred near the HAL Entrance early in the morning.

In a major blow to the Maoist insurgency, three Maoists, including top leader Sahadev Soren alias Pravesh, who carried a bounty of Rs one crore, were killed during a joint operation by police and security forces in Jharkhand's Hazaribagh district on Monday.

The encounter took place around 6 a.m. in the Panitiri jungle under Girhor police station limits, close to the Bokaro-Giridih border. Security forces recovered the bodies of Soren and two other Maoists following the exchange of fire.

According to officials, a joint team of CoBRA commandos and police from Giridih and Hazaribagh confronted the CPI (Maoist) group led by Soren

 A technical glitch caused a temporary suspension of the Mumbai Monorail service early Monday morning in the Wadala area, leaving several passengers stranded mid-journey, who were evacuated safely.

The incident occurred between the Antophill Bus Depot and GTBN Monorail Station, around 07.16 a.m., according to an official update from the BMC.

The affected monorail was carrying passengers at the time. Out of these, 17 passengers were stranded on the halted coach but were safely evacuated by 7.45 a.m. Authorities confirmed that no injuries were reported during the incident.

BMC later issued an update on the Monorail stoppage issue.

The police in Jammu and Kashmir's Jammu district said on Saturday that it has recovered a drone from a village near the Line of Control (LoC) in Akhnoor sector, officials said.

Officials added that the drone was recovered from a field in Fattu Kotli village of Akhnoor by the police.

"Investigation has been started to trace the origin of the drone whether it was sent from across the LoC or had been some drone used locally for filming marriage function, etc," officials said.

Drones have been used in the past by terror handlers sitting across the border in Pakistan to send payloads of arms/ammunition/cash and drugs to sustain terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir.

The Met office has forecast light to moderate rain in south Bengal districts including Kolkata in the next few days. At the same time, heavy rain will occur in north Bengal districts from Sunday onwards. According to a met department official, a low pressure area has formed over the Bay of Bengal which, however, will not have a direct impact on the weather in West Bengal.

"The low pressure area has formed in the west-central and northwest Bay of Bengal. It is located near the coast of north Andhra Pradesh and south Odisha. On the other hand, the monsoon axis has also now increased its distance from West Bengal. As a result, the amount of thunderstorms in South Bengal is much less. However, light to moderate rain will occur in south Bengal districts from Sunday onwards," said the official.

Two people, including a woman, were killed in an accident on Saturday morning after a canter vehicle rammed into the auto at the busy Sumanahalli Junction Road in Bengaluru.

The passengers travelling in the car have sustained major injuries.

The incident was reported from Kamakshipalya Traffic Police Station. It occurred after the driver of the canter vehicle lost control and collided with an auto and a car. A female passenger travelling in the auto, along with the male driver, was killed on the spot.

Bulldozer operations have started at the homes of the accused in a high-profile ‘love jihad’ and sexual exploitation case in Bhopal. The move targets the residences of Sahil and Saad (often referred to as Shamsuddin alias Saad) amid heavy police deployment.

The accused, Farhan, Sahil, Saad, and others, stand charged in a case involving alleged sexual assault, blackmail, and forced religious conversion of Hindu students at a private engineering college. Victims claim that some accused posed as Hindus, recorded obscene videos, and used them for extortion. The episode has drawn considerable public and legal scrutiny.

SDM Ravish Srivastava said, “We had received complaints regarding three individuals. The actions against two of them are now being processed by our team. The work is almost complete.”

The death toll in the tragic incident in Karnataka's Hassan district, where a goods-laden truck ran over people participating in the Ganesh Visarjan procession, has risen to nine.

Twenty people injured in the incident on Friday are being treated at various hospitals.

Among the injured, three have been shifted to the ICU. Authorities have opened a new ward for the injured, who are being monitored every 30 minutes.

South IGP M.B. Boralingaiah stated that the negligence of the truck driver led to the tragedy.

 In a remarkable display of intelligence-driven coordination and operational excellence, the Border Security Force (BSF) and the Punjab Police have conducted a joint operation and recovered a big haul of arms and ammunition, comprising 16 pistols, and arrested two smugglers, the border guarding force said on Friday.

The recovery comes just hours after one of the largest seizures of pistols in recent times, in which two smugglers were apprehended and a huge cache of arms, comprising 27 pistols and ammunition, was seized. Both seizures were reported in the Fazilka sector.

The latest one was carried out by the BSF intelligence wing in close collaboration with the Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) of Fazilka in Theh Kalandar village. The tactically executed operation culminated with the seizure of 16 pistols, 38 magazines, 1,847 rounds and 01 motorcycle, alongside the apprehension of two smugglers.

A trooper of the Border Security Force (BSF) was injured in an accidental firing in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district.

Officials said on Friday that the BSF man was posted in an artillery battalion of the force in the district, and the incident happened on Thursday.

The trooper, identified as Sandeep Kumar, sustained an injury in his palm at the artillery battalion in the Nowgam area due to accidental firing.

“He was rushed to a hospital in Baramulla, where his condition is stated to be stable,” the officials said.

In a historic moment that would change the future of horticulture in Kashmir for better, the railways on Friday successfully delivered the first ever consignment of apples at the Jammu railway station from the Valley.

In a historic movement that brought cheer to the faces of apple growers and traders, a consignment of apples loaded at the Budgam railway station in Kashmir was delivered at Jammu railway station within six hours.

The entire apple industry was in the throes of devastation for the last two weeks, as dozens of loaded trucks of fruit parked alongside the Srinagar-Jammu national highway had started rotting because of the continued blockade of the highway.

 At least four people were killed and three others went missing after a massive landslide struck Upper Rimbi in Yangthang Constituency of West Sikkim at midnight, officials said on Friday.

According to Geyzing Superintendent of Police Tshering Sherpa, three of the victims died on the spot when the landslide swept away several houses.

The deceased have been identified as Bhim Prasad Limboo (53), his sister Anita Limboo (46), his son-in-law Bimal Rai (50), and his seven-year-old granddaughter Anjal Rai.

Two women were pulled out alive in a daring overnight rescue operation carried out jointly by the police, Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) jawans, State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) personnel, and local villagers.

In a focused operation against illegal immigration, the South West District Police in Delhi detained four Bangladeshi nationals, three women and one man, who had been living illegally in India since 2017.

The arrests were made in the Kapashera area of the national capital, and the deportation process has been initiated with the help of the Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO), New Delhi.

In an official press release issued on Friday, the South West District Police stated:

“The team of Operations Cell, South West District has done commendable work by tracing/detaining four illegal Bangladeshi migrants... Fresh deportation process was initiated with the help of FRRO, Delhi, after completing all codal formalities.”

 A court in Hisar conducted a video conference hearing of Jyoti Malhotra, a YouTuber from Haryana, facing serious charges of espionage, accused of sharing sensitive military information with Pakistani intelligence operatives.

The accused was not physically present in court, with the proceedings held via video conferencing. The court has scheduled the next hearing for September 16, when Jyoti Malhotra will be produced in person.

The Manipur government has requested the United Naga Council (UNC), the apex body of the Naga community in the state, to withdraw the indefinite “Trade Embargo” along the National Highways in Naga-inhabited areas, officials said on Thursday.

The UNC and other Naga organisations enforced the Trade Embargo in all Naga people inhabited areas since midnight of September 8 in protest against the fencing along the India-Myanmar international border and the scrapping of the Free Movement Regime (FMR).

The Special Vigilance Unit (SVU) of Bihar on Thursday conducted raids at three places linked to an officer in the state's Education Department in connection with a disproportionate assets case.

The raids were conducted against Virendra Kumar Sinha, Regional Deputy Director of Education (RDDE), Tirhut division.

He has been accused of amassing assets worth Rs 3.80 crore, disproportionate to his known sources of income.

According to sources, the SVU team arrested Sinha in Patna and is interrogating him.

Cyberabad Police have formed five special teams to nab two domestic servants who allegedly murdered a 50-year-old woman at a flat in an apartment building at Kukatpally and decamped with cash and gold ornaments.

Renu Agarwal was found in a pool of blood when her husband, Rakesh Agarwal and son reached home in the evening after their phone calls went unanswered.

According to police, the assailants tied the hands and legs of the woman and stabbed her indiscriminately with a knife and scissors.

Rakesh, who is in the steel business, and his son had left for the shop at Fatehnagar in the morning, and Renu was alone in the flat at Swan Lake Condominium.

As water from most of the marooned villages in Punjab has started receding and the communities impacted by catastrophic floods are provided with relief material to support daily living, what they need now is long-term rehabilitation, besides medical care to prevent health issues.

Field reports indicate a notable spike in the transmission of water and vector-borne diseases, such as typhoid, cholera, and malaria, among others.

Also, there is a rise in snakebite cases. Carcasses of hundreds of animals, including buffalo and hens, are now piled up in the village's farms, posing outbreaks of disease and economic damage.

Numerous non-profit organisations have been advocating good hygienic practices and safe food preparation techniques by educating communities, largely rural, not to use flood water to wash dishes, brush teeth or wash and prepare food.

As a major relief to apple growers, Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday announced the introduction of a parcel train from Budgam in Kashmir to Adarsh Nagar railway station in Delhi.

The Railway Minister said on X, “Empowering Kashmir’s apple growers. With the Jammu-Srinagar line operational, the Kashmir valley has better connectivity. Railways is introducing a daily time-tabled parcel train from Badgam in Kashmir Valley to Adarsh Nagar station in Delhi starting 13th September 2025. Loading of 2 parcel vans carrying apples from Badgam to Delhi is beginning today.”

The apple growers of the Valley had been facing serious problems with the looming danger of losing this year’s apple crop because of the unavailability of transport for the produce to be carried to markets outside the union territory.

Tension has gripped Patna’s Munnachak locality after Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Rajkumar Rai alias Allah Rai was gunned down by two bike-borne assailants.

The incident happened under the jurisdiction of Chitragupt Nagar police station late Wednesday night. The deceased sustained six gunshot injuries and succumbed at the Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH).

Confirming the development, Parichay Kumar, SP (East Range) of Patna, said the deceased was associated with politics and also involved in land-related business.

He added that two suspects were captured on CCTV cameras, and six spent bullets were recovered from the spot.

Two people were killed and 20 others injured after a bus carrying 22 passengers overturned near Chamba in Uttarakhand on Wednesday, police said.

The accident occurred around 10.10 a.m. when the bus, travelling from Ghuttu-Ghansali to Haridwar, lost control on a sharp curve about 12 km before Chamba. The vehicle struck a crash barrier before toppling over, according to police officials.

Authorities confirmed that all passengers were trapped inside the bus following the accident.

Rescue teams reached the site immediately after receiving the alert and pulled the passengers out, and sent the injured to nearby hospitals.

After the weeklong blockade due to landslides, the strategic Jammu-Srinagar national highway was partially reopened for traffic on Wednesday.

Authorities are giving priority to trucks carrying essential supplies, and top priority is being given to those trucks carrying perishable items like vegetables, poultry, sheep, etc.

Movement of stranded vehicles was allowed on the highway from Udhampur towards Srinagar, and to start with, passenger vehicles were the first to move.

Over 4,500 trucks carrying fruit had been stuck on the highway due to the blockade, and these vehicles had remained parked alongside the highway in the Valley between Qazigund in Kulgam and the Pulwama district.

Radha Soami Satsang Beas chief Gurinder Singh Dhillon on Wednesday actively spearheaded relief efforts for families devastated by the ongoing floods in Punjab. The Dera has remained unwavering in its commitment to supporting those affected, mobilising resources and volunteers across the state.

Gurinder Singh Dhillon visited Satsang Bhawan-3 in Rahmatpur, Jalandhar on Wednesday, where large-scale packing of essential relief supplies was underway. Personally inspecting the operations, he interacted with administrative officials to assess the specific needs of flood-hit regions and ensure timely and effective aid distribution.

Thousands of devotees gathered in Rahmatpur throughout the day to catch a glimpse of the Dera head. While 'sevadars' managed crowd control and internal logistics, local police authorities maintained tight security and managed traffic with precision.