Eight persons, including some students of a school in Pune's Pimpri Chinchwad, suffered injuries after their school bus overturned at 9 pm on Friday, a police official said. The bus had 32 occupants, most of them students of Jnana Prabhodini Navanagar Vidyalaya, and was returning from Raigad Fort when the incident took place near Gharoshiwadi off Raigad-Mangaon road, he said.
Congress Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh has said the release of the killers of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was "shameful".
The Supreme Court on Friday set free Nalini Sriharan and five other remaining convicts who are serving life term for about three decades in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, noting that its earlier order releasing another convict A G Perarivalan was equally applicable to them.
The Congress on Friday hit out at the Centre over a special court describing the arrest of Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut in a money laundering case as "illegal", and alleged the Enforcement Directorate is an instrument of "harassment, torture, oppression".
A special court in Mumbai, while granting bail to Raut in a money laundering case by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), had said his arrest was "illegal" and was an instance of "witch-hunt".
Raut stepped out of jail on Wednesday after his bail.
At a press conference at the AICC headquarters here, Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi read out the portions of the court order in which it had criticised the handling of the case.
"Startling, terrible, shocking, deplorable findings have come to light about the conduct of ED," Singhvi said.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday filed a charge sheet against 11 persons, including two arrested and nine absconding persons, in a case pertaining to recovery of live ammunition from a CPI (Maoist) camp at Rud village in the hilly and forested area of Jharkhand on September 1, 2017.
The case was initially registered at Garu Latehar police station in Jharkhand before the NIA took over the probe in 2021.
President Joe Biden told the COP27 conference Friday the "very life of the planet" is at stake in the climate crisis and gave an assurance the United States is on track to slash carbon emissions.
"The climate crisis is about human security, economic security, environmental security, national security and and the very life of the planet," he told an audience at the conference in Egypt.