08:13 PM to hold meeting with full Council of Ministers today: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a meeting with full Council of Ministers on Tuesday.
During the meeting, progress of different flagship schemes and development initiatives taken by the government are expected to come up for discussion.
This would be the first meeting of the full council after the Bharatiya Janata Party’s massive victory in the Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand assembly elections. — ANI
00:15 Nigerians attacked in Noida, Sushma Swaraj seeks report from UP govt:
Hours after four Nigerian students sustained severe injuries after being attacked by a group of local residents in Greater Noida’s Pari Chowk area in Uttar Pradesh, External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday has asked for a report from the state government.
The incident took place around 6 pm today, when local residents raised slogans demanding that all Africans living in residential colonies in Greater Noida be asked to vacate their rented houses immediately.
The protests come after a Class 12 student in Greater Noida’s NSG Black Cats Enclave died of a suspected drug overdose and five Nigerian students living in the neighbourhood were booked – and later detained – in connection with the case. The students were later released for lack of evidence.
The 19-year-old victim Manish Khari had gone missing on Friday evening, locals who claimed to have seen the boy last with a group of Nigerians, raided their houses and accused them of cannibalism.
The police have registered a case for attempt to murder in Monay’s violence and have arrested five people.
Source: Rediff