LIVE: After Haridwar, UP, BJP MLA writes to Maha CM Yadav for rule to display shopkeeper’s name

A five-member team of senior railway officials investigating the derailment of Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express has blamed improper fastening of the rail track for the accident, reported PTI citing sources. One member of the panel disagreed with the opinion, while a Railway spokesperson said the findings were premature.

 

“The fastening of rail track was not proper due to which fastening was working ineffectively,” the report, written in Hindi, said.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said that they would be creating a record by planting over 36 crore saplings across the state.

Addressing a mega plantation campaign, he reiterated Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaign of calling all countrymen to plant one tree in the name of Mother (ek ped maa ke naam) on World Environment Day on June 5.

He said that the environmentalists are worried that global warming will create a new crisis for the world. This crisis has been created by human selfishness, so the responsibility of controlling it should also be on humans.

“The total population of UP is 25 crore, we are going to break the record by planting 36.50 crore saplings. In such a situation, three trees are going to be planted in the name of every mother power in UP within a day today. About 12 crore saplings have been planted since morning. We have to plant trees, save them and preserve the environment,” Adityanath said.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) said it has been keeping a watch on the security situation in Bangladesh, the venue of the women’s T20 World Cup later this October.

The Bangladesh Police imposed curfew and military forces patrolled Dhaka on Saturday after violence escalated in the capital and elsewhere over protests by students, demanding reforms of the quota system for government jobs.

We have independent security monitoring across the world. So, yes, we are keeping a watch on it (the situation in Bangladesh), an ICC Board member told PTI on conditions of anonymity.

Australia are the most successful team in the women’s T20 World Cup winning the tournament a record six times in 2010, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2020 and 2023.

The newly elected BJP government has renamed Biju Patnaik Sports Award as Odisha Rajya Krida Samman’. Odisha Sports and Youth Services Department on Friday issued guidelines for the Rajya Krida Samman’ which will be awarded in eight categories annually, subject to availability of suitable candidates. The cash rewards remain unchanged, PTI reported.

Highlighting India-US relations and increasing cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region, US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti said that the US’s trust in India has resulted in the approval of selling their most exquisite jet engine technology to India, which America has not even sold to some of its closest allies.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Saturday claimed that after 1857, the British systematically made efforts to diminish the faith that countrymen had in their traditions and ancestors.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders and workers organised a protest near BJP office on DDU Marg over the alleged cutting of 1100 trees in Delhi’s southern ridge area.

A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA from Indore-2 assembly constituency in Madhya Pradesh, Ramesh Mendola has written a letter to Chief Minister Mohan Yadav requesting to make rules to display shopkeeper’s name in front of every shop in the state. Ealier, administration in Haridwar and Uttar Pradesh has issued directions to shopkeepers on Kanwar yatra route to display the names of their owners.

At least 10 kanwariyas were injured when their truck overturned near a village here on Saturday morning, police said, PTI reported.

A woman was killed and three others were injured after a portion of a balcony of a four-storey residential building located on Grant Road in south Mumbai came crashing down on Saturday, officials said.

In its surprising order, the Uttarakhand High Court has asked police to provide security to an interfaith live-in couple if they register their relationship within 48 hours under the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), which is yet to be implemented in the state.

Imprisoned head of Waris Punjab De and Khadoor Sahib Lok Sabha MP Amritpal Singh, who is currently lodged in a prison in Assam’s Dibrugarh district under the National Security Act, challenged his detention under the NSA in the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday.

Five army jawans were injured after a truck rammed into their vehicle near Suchi village in Punjab’s Jalandhar district on Saturday, police said, PTI has reported.

A tempo driver was burnt alive as his vehicle laden with chickens caught fire after hitting a truck on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway in the early hours of Saturday, police said.