Former world number one Angelique Kerber is pregnant and will skip the U.S. Open, which starts in New York on Monday, the three-time Grand Slam winner from Germany said.
Advocate Karuna Sagar who has taken up the case of suspended BJP MLA Raja Singh claimed, "he received two threatening calls from unknown numbers". Singh was granted bail yesterday in connection with his alleged comments that hurt religious sentiments. (ANI)
A fire broke out in a factory in the Patparganj area. Five fire tenders are engaged in dousing operations. Right now there is no information about someone being trapped: Delhi Fire Service. (ANI)
ED has recovered AK-47 from the premises of middleman Prem Prakash: Sources
Raids are under way at multiple locations in Ranchi (Jharkhand) in an ongoing investigation in connection with illegal mining and extortion. (ANI)
Telangana Police carried out a flag march in Hyderabad, as protest erupts in the city against suspended BJP leader T Raja Singh. (ANI)
Subal Bhowmik is being relieved from his duties of State President of Tripura Pradesh Trinamool Congress with immediate effect: AITC
Srinagar Police conducting searches at residences of Adv Miyan Qayoom, Adv Manzoor Dar and Adv Muzzaffar Mohd in connection with further investigation of the murder of Adv Babar Qadri (in 2020): ADGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar (ANI)
The New Zealand government said on Wednesday it had signed a indigenous collaboration arrangement with Canada to improve outcomes for indigenous peoples and enhance relationships between indigenous people in the two countries.
It added the purpose of the arrangement is to promote and facilitate the economic, social, cultural and environmental advancements of indigenous peoples through relationship development, improved knowledge sharing and stronger collaboration.
"This underpins a shared objective of creating and sustaining better outcomes for Indigenous peoples," said Minister for Maori Development Willie Jackson in a statement. - Reuters.
The dugong, a gentle marine mammal that has frequented China's southern waters for hundreds of years, has become functionally extinct in the country, a new study said on Wednesday.
Research by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences said fishing, ship strikes and human-caused habitat loss have seen the number of dugongs in Chinese waters decrease rapidly from the 1970s onwards.
With no evidence of their presence in China since 2008, the research shows that "this is the first functional extinction of a large mammal in China's coastal waters," the report said. - Reuters.