Earthquake tremors were felt in the Kashmir Valley for the second consecutive day on Saturday. Not much information about the earthquake has been revealed yet. An earthquake struck Baramulla district of North Kashmir at around 9:06 pm yesterday. Its magnitude on the Richter scale was 4.0. Earthquake tremors were felt in many parts of Kashmir including Srinagar. Its epicenter was at a depth of 10 kilometers from the ground in Baramulla. However, there was no news of any damage. Other major news of the day… Drugs worth about Rs 6 crore seized in Assam, 5 arrested Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma had said on Saturday that the police have seized drugs worth Rs 6 crore in two operations. 5 people have been arrested. In the post, Sarma said- Special Task Force in Guwahati raided a hotel in Paltan Bazar on Friday night. 416 grams of heroin was seized from here, which is estimated to be worth Rs 2.75 crore. 4 people were arrested from here. Apart from this, 532.46 grams of heroin worth more than Rs 3.5 crore was recovered from Nagaon. Its value is around Rs 3.5 crore. One youth has been arrested. YSRCP leader beats Dalit government official in Andhra Pradesh, Deputy CM said – will not spare the culprit Andhra Pradesh Deputy CM Pawan Kalyan said on Saturday that the leaders who attacked the Dalit government official will not be spared. Pawan had reached the hospital to meet the officer. Talking to the media, he said – YSRCP leader Sudarshan Reddy attacked the Mandal Parishad Development Officer in Annamayya district. After refusing to give the key of a room in the officer’s office, he was locked in a room and beaten and abused with casteist slurs. The leader also threatened to kill him. He claimed that Sudarshan Reddy has attacked officials earlier as well. Protest against ropeway project continues in Vaishno Devi, hunger strike for the release of protesters The bandh against the proposed ropeway project in Shri Mata Vaishno Devi continued for the fourth day on Saturday. The protesters are on a hunger strike for the release of 18 people detained by the police in Katra. The Jammu Chamber of Commerce and Industries has also extended its support to the protesters. The Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Sangharsh Samiti had announced a shutdown of all business activities in the area beginning December 25. The committee extended the shutdown for 72 hours on the night of December 27. Delhi Assembly Elections – NCP releases first list of 11 candidates The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Saturday released its first list of 11 candidates for the Delhi Assembly elections. The party has fielded Mulayam Singh against Delhi Congress chief Devendra Yadav from Badli. Ratan Tyagi has been fielded from Burari, Khalid ur Rehman from Chandni Chowk, Mohammad Haroon from Balli Maran and Imran Saifi from Okhla. At the same time, Narendra Tanwar from Chhatarpur, Namaha from Laxmi Nagar, Jagdish Bhagat from Gokulpuri, Khem Chand from Mangolpuri, Rajesh Lohia from Seemapuri and Qamar Ahmed from Sangam Vihar will contest the elections. The Delhi Assembly elections are to be held in February next year. Aam Aadmi Party has fielded candidates on all 70 seats. Congress has so far declared candidates for 47 seats. At the same time, not even a single list of BJP has come. Anna University rape case, Women’s Commission formed investigation committee The National Women’s Commission has formed a committee to investigate the rape case in Chennai’s Anna University. On the other hand, Governor RN Ravi also reached the university on Saturday to get information about the incident. A second year engineering student was raped on 23 December in the university. The police have arrested the accused, but have made the identity of the victim public. Read full news… Bangladeshi citizen arrested in Kolkata, was living with fake Aadhaar and PAN card Police have arrested a Bangladeshi citizen from Park Street area of ??Kolkata. This person was living in a rented house in Khidarpur area of ??the city since 2023. A police officer said that the arrested Bangladeshi citizen had also got a fake Aadhaar card and PAN card made with the address of North 24 Parganas. Fire breaks out in JNU’s girls’ hostel, no casualties reported A fire broke out in the Godavari hostel of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Friday. Fire department officials said that there were no casualties in the incident. The JNU Students’ Union (JNUSU) shared a video in which smoke and flames were seen rising from an electrical panel board. According to the Delhi Fire Service (DFS), the fire broke out in an air-conditioning unit. The DFS official said, “We received the call at 10:18 pm. It was a minor fire, which broke out in electrical equipment. A fire tender was immediately rushed to the spot, and it took 15 minutes to douse the fire.” Earthquake tremors in Jammu and Kashmir, intensity 4.0 Earthquake tremors were felt in Baramulla district of North Kashmir at around 9:06 pm on Friday night. Its intensity was 4.0 on the Richter scale. Tremors of the earthquake were felt in many parts of Kashmir including Srinagar. Its epicenter was at a depth of 10 kilometers in the ground in Baramulla, North Kashmir. However, there was no loss of life due to the earthquake.
