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Mumbai Police receive threat call to blow up McDonald’s in Dadar

Mumbai Police Control room received a threat call, in which the caller informed that there would be a blast in McDonald’s located in Dadar area of Mumbai. The caller said that he was travelling in a bus when he heard two people talking about blowing up McDonald’s. After the call, a complete investigation was done but the police did not find any suspicious object. Police are further investigating this matter, said police.

Search operation launched after suspicious movement near IB in J-K’s Kathua

Security forces have launched a massive search operation after picking up movement of three suspicious persons, believed to be terrorists, near the International Border in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Sunday.

Air India Express flight from Bengaluru to Kochi makes emergency landing

An Air India Express flight from Bengaluru to Kochi made an emergency landing at Bengaluru after a fire was noticed in one of the engines, the Bangalore International Airport Limited said on Sunday. All the passengers and crew were evacuated and no one was injured, Air India Express said in a statement. The crew members alerted the Air Traffic Controller and a full scale emergency was declared.

Horse injured, vehicles damaged as billboard collapses in Pune due to strong winds

A horse was injured and a few vehicles were damaged after a hoarding collapsed due to strong winds in Maharashtra’s Pune city, police said. The billboard crashed to the ground between 5 pm and 6 pm on Saturday outside a wedding hall near Kavdi Pat toll booth on the Pune-Solapur Highway, an official said. The incident comes days after a giant illegal billboard in Mumbai’s Ghatkopar area collapsed on a petrol pump due to gusty winds and unseasonal rains, killing 16 persons and injuring 75.

Arrest warrant against JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna

A special court for MPs and MLAs here has issued an arrest warrant against JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna in the sexual assault case. The court issued the warrant in connection with the sexual assault case registered against Prajwal on Saturday in which his father and Holenarasipura MLA HD Revanna is also an accused. Revanna, son of former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda, is on bail after spending seven days in jail after four-day police custody for allegedly kidnapping a woman.

Fire breaks out in building in West Bengal's Bardhaman, fire tenders at spot

A fire broke out in a building in Bardhaman, West Bengal, on Sunday morning. Several fire tenders have been rushed to the spot.

9 killed, 17 injured as bus catches fire in Haryana

Nine people, including five women and a 12-year-old girl, were burnt alive and 17 injured when a moving tourist bus caught fire near Dhulawat village in Haryana's Nuh district in the early hours of Saturday, police said. The incident took place around 2 am on the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway, they said.

The bus was carrying around 60 people, all residents of Punjab's Hoshiarpur and Ludhiana, who were returning from pilgrim towns of Mathura and Vrindavan. All of them are relatives, the police said.

Fire breaks out at south Delhi's restaurant, no one injured

A fire broke out at a restaurant in south Delhi's Greater Kailash area and no one was injured in the incident, officials said on Saturday evening. A call regarding the fire was received at 10.10 pm and five fire tenders were pressed into service, a Delhi Fire Service (DFS) official said. He added that the blaze has been doused.

Ex-MP Avtar Singh Bhadana joins Cong, to campaign for party's Faridabad, Gurugram LS candidates

Former MP Avtar Singh Bhadana on Saturday joined the Congress in the presence of AICC in-charge Dipak Babaria at the party headquarters here. Babaria welcomed Bhadana into the party fold and said the organisation would benefit from his joining. "He has expressed his desire to campaign extensively in favour of the Congress candidates in Faridabad and Gurugram Lok Sabha area. I request you to please extend him all cooperation," Babaria said in his letter to Congress candidates Mahender Partap Singh (Faridabad) and Raj Babbar (Gurugram).

INDIA bloc to win LS polls, BJP will not even cross 200 seats: Mamata

West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Saturday claimed that the INDIA bloc will come to power in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and BJP will "not cross the 200 mark" in the polls. She accused Congress and CPI(M) of having entered into a nexus with BJP in the state to discredit the state government and asked the electorate not to vote for any non-TMC parties which will benefit the saffron camp.

IMD issues warning of heavy rain in many districts of Tamil Nadu

IMD has issued a warning of heavy rain in the southern districts of the state like Kanyakumari, Tenkasi and Thoothukudi. District Fire and Rescue Officer Satyakumar said that people should avoid going into water bodies and taking selfies when it rains. Apart from this, students and youth should not go to flood prone forest areas and should also not go near power lines.