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The body of one of the two missing victims of the Brahmaputra boat capsize in Assam's Jorhat district was found on Saturday 100 km downstream, while the search was on for the other person, an official said.

. The Andhra Pradesh government is placing an indent to buy 6,53,144 laptops for distributing them free of cost to students above Class IX in the 2021-22 academic year.

. People should raise their voice against the BJP government’s move to sell the prime assets of the country, Opposition Leader in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge said on Saturday.

. Tension prevailed in the coastal town of Karkala in Karnataka's Udupi district after activists from a Hindu group barged into a church at the time of prayers, alleging religious conversions.

. Vijay Rupani may have been a soft-spoken chief minister, but political observers feel that it may have also contributed to his image of being a ‘weak’ CM, who allowed bureaucrats to overrule the political leadership in taking key decisions. Some observers also point to the way he handled the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic and economic and social distress that followed it, even suggesting that it may have contributed to his downfall. (PTI)

. Senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday alleged that there has been "increased interference" of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra government in the state police department.

. Sunrisers Hyderabad opener Jonny Bairstow and Punjab Kings batsman Dawid Malan have pulled out of the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL) due to personal reasons.

. The officials of food safety department in Tamil Nadu conducted raids across the state on eateries specifically non-vegetarian restaurants and hotels and wayside eateries on Friday and Saturday.

. A 25-year-old man was allegedly stabbed to death by two persons over a petty dispute at a village in Kalyan taluka of Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Saturday. The Thane district rural police have arrested brothers Sandeep and Deepak Damle for allegedly stabbing Anil Dudhale at Mharal village on Friday evening, the station house officer of the Kalyan taluka police station said. ( PTI )

. Four police personnel have been suspended for allegedly trying to shield a cow-slaughter accused here, an official said Saturday.

Superintendent of Police Rajesh Kumar Singh said the action against the four policemen -- sub-inspectors Shami Ashraf and Aneesh Kumar Singh, head constable Manoj Kumar and constable Rajesh Tiwari -- followed a complaint by villagers and a probe a circle officer. ( PTI )

. More than 72 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses have been provided to states and union territories so far, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday.

The doses were provided through the government of India (free of cost channel) and through the direct state procurement category, it added.

The ministry said over 5.75 crore (5,75,43,795) balance and unutilised Covid-19 vaccine doses are still available with the states and UTs to be administered. ( PTI )

. Visva-Bharati University authorities have notified two expelled students that the rustication orders issued against them on August 23 was not being implemented now in adherence to the recent order of Calcutta High Court.

Three expelled postgraduate students - Somnath Sow, Falguni Pan and Rupa Chakraborty - had sent separate emails to the proctor on September 9 urging him to allow them to attend classes immediately as directed by the high court. ( PTI )

. Puducherry Lt Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan, Chief Minister N Rangasamy, Ministers and legislators were among those who paid floral tributes to revolutionary Tamil poet Subramania Bharathi on his 100th memorial day here on Saturday. Talking to reporters after paying homage to the poet's statue here, the Lt Governor said the territorial administration would soon unveil a special scheme to take the message of the poet to the younger generation. ( PTI )

. A major fire broke out at a godown in South Kolkata's Taratolla area on Saturday morning, officials said. Twenty fire tenders were pressed into service to douse the flames, first spotted around 10 am, they said. There was no immediate report of casualty or anyone being trapped inside the storage facility, the fire brigade officials said. The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained and will be found out once it is brought under control, they added. ( PTI )

. A man was killed and his friend critically injured when their motorbike got hit by a speeding vehicle on the Delhi-Haridwar National Highway here, police said on Saturday.

Police said the incident took place on Friday evening near Nawala village here when the two men -- Vipul Kumar and Rahul -- were travelling on their bike to Haridwar from Ghaziabad.

Vipul died on the spot while Rahul has been admitted to hospital with critical injuries, they said. ( PTI )

. Eight people were killed by an explosion and fire Saturday caused by a leak from a liquefied gas cylinder in an apartment building in northeastern China, a state news agency reported.

Five others were hospitalised with injuries after the predawn fire in the coastal city of Dalian, the Xinhua News Agency said. It said the cause was under investigation.

. Earthquake of magnitude 4.5 occurred today around 8:50 am at 137 km North of Diglipur in Andaman and Nicobar: National Center for Seismology

. If Novak Djokovic does complete the first calendar-year Grand Slam for a man since 1969 — and he is headed to the USOpen final, just one victory away — he, and everyone else, will remember one particularly pivotal, and epic, game along the way.

It came at the conclusion of the third set of what eventually became a 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 victory over Tokyo Olympics gold medalist Alexander Zverev in the semifinals at Flushing Meadows on Friday night, making Djokovic 27-0 in major championships this season. ( AP )

. Twitch is suing two users in US federal court, accusing them of orchestrating 'hate raids' spewing abuse at video game play streamers who are not white or straight.

The Amazon-owned platform is seeking unspecified cash damages from the pair, identified in the lawsuit as a Netherlands resident behind the account CruzzControl and a Vienna resident with a CreatineOverdose account.

In about August of this year, CruzzControl and CreatineOverdose "began coordinating attacks on Twitch's streamers by raiding their channels and spamming those communities with hate," Twitch said in the lawsuit filed Thursday in San Francisco. ( AFP )

. An earthquake of magnitude 4.6 hit 31 km WSW of Joshimath, Uttarakhand at 05:58 amtoday, according toNational Center for Seismology.

. Thunderstorm with light to moderate intensity rain and winds with speed of 20-40 Km/h would occur over and adjoining areas of few places of Delhi, NCR (Loni Dehat, Hindon AF Station, Ghaziabad, Indirapuram, Chhapraula) during next 2 hours (issued at 03:55 IST): IMD (ANI)

. Two of six Palestinian inmates who escaped from a high security prison in Israel this week in one of the most spectacular breakouts in the country's history were captured Friday, Israeli police said.

"Police in the northern zone captured two escaped prisoners a short while ago... in the city of Nazareth," they said in a statement. (AFP)

News Highlights: AAP elects new 34-member executive body

One more fatality takes death toll due to viral fever and dengue to 58 in Firozabad (PTI)

Hurricane Larry hits Newfoundland (NYT)

AAP elects new 34-member executive body (PTI)

Russia uses new hardware at big military drills (Reuters)

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