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Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday granted bail to actress Rhea Chakraborty, arrested over drug-related charges in actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case.
The HC, however, rejected the bail plea of her brother Showik Chakraborty, who is also an accused in the case.
The duo was arrested last month by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in connection with its drug probe related to the case of Rajput’s death.
Rajput, 34, was found hanging at his apartment in suburban Bandra on June 14 this year.
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday extended the time given to the SIT, constituted to probe the Hathras incident, to submit its report by 10 days.
“Yes…the time for submitting the report for the SIT has been extended by 10 days,” Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi told PTI.
When asked about the reasons for the extension, he said, “The reason is one. The probe is not completed.”
The SIT, constituted on September 30, was initially given seven days time ending on Wednesday to submit its report on the investigation of the alleged gang rape and killing of a 19-year-old Dalit woman in a village in Hathras district on September 14.
Abu Dhabi: Rajasthan Royals captain Steve Smith has been fined Rs 12 lakh for his side’s slow-over rate during their Indian Premier League match against Mumbai Indians here.
Rajasthan Royals suffered a 57-run loss to defending champions Mumbai Indians on Tuesday.
Given that this was his team’s first offence of the season, Smith was fined Rs 12 lakh under the IPL’s Code of Conduct relating to minimum over-rate offences.
“Rajasthan Royals captain Steven Smith has been fined after his team maintained a slow over-rate during their Dream11 Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 match against Mumbai Indians in Abu Dhabi on 6 October 2020,” the IPL said in a media statement.
“As it was his team’s first offence of the season under the IPL’s Code of Conduct relating to minimum over-rate offences, Mr. Smith was fined Rs 12 lakh,” it added.
The Australian had a forgettable match as he perished for just six while chasing a big target of 194.
Mumbai Indians rode on a sizzling unbeaten 79 off 44 balls by Suryakumar Yadav to post 193 for 4 and then bundled out Rajasthan Royals for 136 to register a comfortable win.
Earlier in the tournament, Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli and Delhi Capitals captain Shreyas Iyer were also fined Rs 12 lakh each for their respective team’s slow over-rate.
Abu Dhabi: Suryakumar Yadav smashed his highest score in the tournament as Mumbai Indians put up a clinical performance against a pedestrian Rajasthan Royals outfit for their third successive win in the Indian Premier League here on Tuesday.
Yadav hammered an unbeaten 79 off 47 balls to fire Mumbai Indians to an imposing 193 for four after Rohit Sharma opted to bat at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium.
In response, Royals were down and out at 12 for three before Jos Buttler gave them a glimmer of hope with a 44-ball 70.
However, he did not get support from the other batsmen, and the Royals ended up well short at 136 in 18.1 overs for a 57-run loss, their third in a row. The three changes that they made also did not work for them.
Mumbai’s pace trio was exceptional once again with Jasprit Bumrah being the pick of them, returning with figures of four for 20, the best of the tournament so far. Trent Boult struck twice in the powerplay while James Pattinson removed Buttler in the 14th over.
With another resounding win, Mumbai looks the team to beat alongside Delhi Capitals. It is still early days in the tournament but it seems they have already figured out their best eleven on the park.
Earlier, Mumbai suffered a mini middle-order collapse after a good start before late-hitting from Yadav and Hardik Pandya (30 not out off 19) enabled the defending champions to amass 51 runs in the last three overs.
It was remarkable how quickly Yadav overcame a blow on the helmet from Jofra Archer en route to his career-best score in the IPL.
He and Hardik shared 76 runs for the unbroken fifth-wicket stand.
Opting to bat, openers Rohit Sharma (35 off 23) and Quinton De Kock (23 off 15 balls) forged a quickfire 49-run stand.
Mumbai amassed 15 runs in the third over off Ankit Rajpoot, the highlight of it being Rohit launching one into the orbit over the bowler’s head.
Debutant pacer Karthik Tyagi (1/36) removed De Kock in his very first over to provide the much-needed breakthrough.
Yadav at the other end smashed Tyagi for three boundaries in ninth over. His innings comprised 11 fours and two sixes.
However, leggie Shreyas Gopal (2/28) struck twice in as many balls removing Rohit and Ishan Kishan (0) to leave Mumbai at 88 for three in the 10th over.
While Rohit gave a sitter to Rahul Tewatia at long-on, Sanju Samson took a running catch at extra-cover to send Kishan back.
Yadav kept playing his shots and scored successive boundaries off Gopal in the 12th over. It became 117 for four after Krunal Pandya fell cheaply.
Yadav, however, kept launching into the RR attack with great gusto and was particularly brutal on Tom Curran (0/33) in the 18th over that went for 19 runs.
He was ably supported by Hardik, who produced a timely cameo.
Bengaluru: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday raided the residence and offices of KPCC President and senior Congress leader DK Shivakumar here in the city.
The raids by India’s premier investigation agency is being widely condemned in the wake of the ongoing Enforcement Directorate’s investigation.
A team of CBI officials has reportedly raided DKShi’s Bengaluru residence in Sadashivanagar in the early hours of Monday.
At 6 AM on Monday, the CBI Officials raided several places connected to D K Shivakumar including his residence in Sadashivanagar, Kanakapura.
The Enforcement Directorate had been investigating D K Shivakumar concerning alleged illegal property earlier. Following the ED probe, now the CBI raids have added to the woes of D K Shivakumar.
In the meantime, sources have revealed that CBI has also raided the residence of MP Suresh, brother of DK Shivakumar.
Noida (UP): The Gautam Buddh Nagar police on Sunday apologized to Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and said it has ordered an inquiry into a policeman holding the Congress leader by her kurta during a ruckus at the DND flyover on Saturday.
Priyanka along with other Congress leaders including her brother Rahul Gandhi was on their way to Hathras on Saturday afternoon to meet the family of a woman who died after an alleged gangrape, when the incident occurred at the Delhi-UP border.
There were scuffles involving Congress workers and the Gautam Buddh Nagar (Noida) police during which she was manhandled.
In the melee, a helmet-wearing policeman had held the 48-year-old Congress general secretary by her kurta at the DND toll plaza while a crowd surrounded them.
“Noida Police profoundly regrets the incident with Priyanka Gandhi while handling an unruly crowd at the DND. We also apologize to Priyanka Gandhi” a statement from the District police stated.
“The Deputy Commissioner of Police (Headquarters) has taken suo moto cognizance of the incident and ordered an inquiry to be conducted by a senior lady officer. We, at Noida Police, are committed to ensuring the safety and dignity of women, the statement added.
The police added that punitive action would be ensured after the probe into the matter.
Pictures and videos of the incident also surfaced on social media, drawing criticism for the state government and the police.
Mulki: At least 12 passengers sustained injuries when two government buses collided on National Highway 66 near Canara Bank here at Haleyangadi. The incident took place at 5:30 am on Monday.
According to the reports, the incident took place when a KSRTC bus rammed into another KSRTC bus that had left from Mangaluru bus depot.
One of the buses went off the road and fell into a gorge beside the road. Information about the injured victims are yet to be ascertained.
Both the buses had sustained damages as an impact of the accident. Surathkal Traffic Police reached the spot and carried initial investigations into the matter.
New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 caseload went past 66 lakh, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 55,86,703 pushing the recovery rate to 84.34 percent, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday.
The total coronavirus cases mounted to 66,23,815 with 74,442 people testing positive for the infection in a day, while the death toll climbed to 1,02,685 with the virus claiming 903 lives in a span of 24 hours, the data updated at 8 am showed.
There are 9,34,427 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which comprises 14.11 percent of the total caseload, the data stated.
The COVID-19 case fatality was recorded at 1.55 percent.
India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23 and 40 lakh on September 5 . It went past 50 lakh on September 16 and crossed 60 lakh on September 28.
According to the ICMR, a cumulative total of 7,99,82,394 samples have been tested up to October 4 with 9,89,860 samples being tested on Sunday.
Kolkata: A local BJP leader in West Bengal was shot dead on Sunday by two bike-borne assailants near Titagarh in North 24 Parganas district, police said.
The duo opened fire at Manish Sukla, a local councillor, on B T Road in the evening, following which he was taken to a private hospital, where he was declared brought dead, they said.
The BJP leadership blamed the Trinamool Congress for the incident, but the ruling party has rubbished the accusation.
“It is shameful that the TMC has now started politics of annihilation of political opponents. We don’t have any faith in local police as this happened in front of the police station. We want a CBI inquiry,” BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya said.
BJP MP Arjun Singh also held the TMC responsible for Shukla’s “killing” and claimed that shots were fired at him from a carbine.
Shukla, who switched over to the saffron party last year, was considered to be close to Singh.
Senior TMC leader Nirmal Ghosh said the incident was a result of infighting within the BJP and allegations against his party were baseless.
A huge police contingent was rushed to the spot after Shukla was gunned down around 9.30 pm.
“We have started an investigation and will look at all possible angles,” a senior police officer said.
The BJP has called a 12-hour bandh in Barrackpore area on Monday in protest against the incident.
Meanwhile, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar expressed concern over the law and order situation in the state and summoned the Additional Chief Secretary, Home, and the DGP on Monday morning.