India

New Delhi, Apr 14 (PTI) A Kisan Morcha leader of the Delhi BJP was shot dead in Dwarka's Bindapur area on Friday evening, police said.

An incident of firing was reported from Bindapur in which Surendra Matiala (60) died, they said.

According to police, Matiala was sitting inside his office when two unidentified men entered with arms and opened fire at him.

Pilibhit (UP), Apr 14 (PTI) A BJP leader was among two persons allegedly arrested with illicit liquor worth Rs 10 lakh in the Barkheda police station area of this Uttar Pradesh district on Friday.

According to a statement issued by the Superintendent of Police (SP), a team from Barkheda Police Station, along with the joint team of the excise department recovered a large amount of illicit liquor from a vehicle and arrested two accused.

Hyderabad, Apr 14 (PTI) Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge Friday said it was because of his party that a person like him with a humble background could have a long political career and become an MLA and MP.

Kharge, who addressed a 'Jai Bharat Satyagraha Sabha' at Mancherial in Telangana Friday night, said he would not have been a lawmaker had Indira Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi not encouraged a "poor man" like him.

Kanpur: Residents find it very warm with clouds and hazy sun with 70% cloud cover.

A partly cloudy sky and no rainfall for the next couple of days are expected.

Furthermore, the minimum temperature in the city stays at around 23°C and the maximum temperature at 41°C.

The industrial city is likely to receive winds as fast as 16 kilometres per hour along with zero chances of precipitation and 20% humidity to the weather report.

NEW DELHI, April 13 (Reuters) - India's financial crime-fighting agency has opened an investigation into alleged violations of foreign exchange rules by the BBC, a source told Reuters on Thursday, months after tax officials searched the broadcaster's Mumbai and Delhi offices.

The tax raids in February had come close on the heels of the release of a BBC documentary about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership of the state of Gujarat during riots in 2002. At least 1,000 people were killed in the riots, most of them Muslims.

Kanpur:  A newly married man killed his mother before hanging himself to death allegedly due to a family dispute, police said on Thursday.

They said that 28-year-old Vivek Verma alias Nikhil running coaching classes was found hanging with a ceiling hook on Wednesday.

While 60- year old Rajkumari Verma was lying dead on the floor of their house at R K Nagar under the Nazirabad police station area.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Pramod Kumar told PTI the exact reason behind the suspected murder-suicide case was yet to be ascertained.

BENGALURU, April 12 (Reuters) - Elon Musk said on Wednesday that he did not know "what exactly happened" when Twitter took down content related to a documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this year, adding that some rules related to social media content were "quite strict" in India.

In January, India ordered the blocking of a BBC documentary which questioned Modi's leadership during the 2002 Gujarat riots, saying that even sharing of any clips via social media was barred.

Kanpur: Wednesday weather hints at very warm with hazy sun and the maximum temperature maintaining at 39° Celsius. It gives the feeling of hot weather to the residents of Kanpur's jajmau area.

The sun 🌞 gives discomfort to the students returning from school in the afternoon. As they started: We feel a bit more uneasiness under the sunny afternoon.

The traffic looks low during the afternoon hours as people are avoiding moving out. They point out that it was far better to stay in the covered space. The chilly weather is obstructing them. 

Washington, April 12 (PTI) Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday had a meeting with her counterpart from Saudi Arabia Mohammed Aljadaan during which they discussed the global debt crisis and strengthening of the multilateral development banks, an Indian initiative under its G-20 presidency.

"H.E. Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and I discussed the #G20 agenda, and the progress made," Aljadaan said in a tweet after the meeting held on the sidelines of the annual Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank here.

New Delhi, Apr 11 (PTI) RJD leader and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav Tuesday attacked the Centre after his questioning by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case, saying all this will continue till the 2024 Lok Sabha polls as the BJP-led government was "afraid" of the election.

He was questioned for about nine hours at ED's office here in the money laundering case linked to the alleged land-for-jobs scam.