News Flash: Ex-servicemen hold candle light vigil demanding implementation of OROP

Bengaluru, Aug 23: Get all the news updates here:

7.00 pm: Usain Bolt survives major scare against rival Justin Gatlin to win the World Championships final in Beijing

6.45 pm: Matter of great joy that missing boy Nishant has been rescued safe and sound. Now reunited with his parents & family members: MP CM tweets.

6.30 pm: Ex-servicemen hold candle light vigil demanding implementation of OROP in Delhi.

6.15 pm: 10-year-old boy Nishant who was missing from last 10 days found in forest area of Raisen (MP), reunites with family.

6.00 pm: AP Minister for Information & PR Palle Raghunatha Reddy promises health cards & insurance scheme for all working journalists in the state.

5.55 pm: VHP chief Pravin Togadia calls upon youths to support 'India Health Line', a network of doctors providing free medical care

5.50 pm: BJP-led NDA govt is ready to take up pending projects worth ₹8,000 crore initiated under JNNURM during UPA tenure: M Venkaiah Naidu.

5.35 pm: Smriti Irani claims that Gandhi family failed to deliver on their development promises to Amethi

5.30 pm: "We don't want to change reservation guidelines set by SC for SC/ST & OBC and more than 50% reservation can not be given as per the Supreme court guidelines", says Gujarat CM Anandiben Patel.

5.15 pm: 6 teams of NDRF have already got into ops in flood affected areas of Arunachal Pradesh & Meghalaya, says Jitendra Singh, MoS.

5:00 pm: High Commissioner of Pakistan to India is from a sovereign country, how can you stop him from meeting someone? Illiterate people in the Govt and other parties call them separatists: Ram Jethmalani

4:50 pm: It's a gross misunderstanding to call Hurriyat leaders as separatists, this shows ignorance: Ram Jethmalani

4:45 pm: 4 people died after consuming spurious liquor in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh.

4:42 pm: Government has changed name of scheme for electricity, it was on the name of Rajiv Gandhi: CM Nitish Kumar in Patna.

4:30 pm: People have a right to know that who's leading us, under whose leadership we should go ahead,now we've not been able to decide. The best person would be and could be Mr. RV Paswan, who is acceptable & respectable to all, who's able, senior & mature: Shatrughan Sinha

4:10 pm: I respect Nitish Kumar, he respects me as elder brother, there shouldn't be any politics on it: Shatrughan Sinha, BJP.

4:00 pm: Discussions on seat sharing will take place soon: Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan.

3:40 pm: J&K CM Mufti Mohammad Sayeed expressed disappointment over abrupt cancellation of bilateral meeting between NSAs of India and Pakistan.

3:10 pm: Delhi gets its first hydropwer plant.

2:50 pm: Need to break away from obsolete policies, says Jaitley

2:30 pm: Saudi women to vote for the first time.

2:15 pm: Sushma Swaraj leaves for Egypt, Germany.

2:00 pm: Trying to bring back Maggi by end of this year, says Nestle India

1:45 pm: Pakistan not to meet Hurriyat in India

1:30 pm: India wants to have good relations with its neighbours, says Home Minister Rajnath Singh.

1:15 pm: 12 year old girl gang raped by 6 boys in Madhubani district of Bihar.

1:00 pm: Robbers eye pricey onion, 700 kg stolen in Mumba.

12:30 pm: UP food regulator finds lead in Yippee noodles; expected to file case.

12:15 pm: SAS Geelani's supporters protest outside his residence against his detention, Police lathicharge on protesters.

SAS Geelani's supporters protest outside his residence against his detention, Police lathicharge on protesters pic.twitter.com/931cXxLxbW

— ANI (@ANI_news) August 23, 2015

12:00 pm: Hurriyat leader Bilal Lone who was under detention, released.

11:45 am: 4 Indians arrested in Sri Lanka's east for visa violations.

11:30 am: NDMC to construct 40 public toilets on PPP mode.

11:10 am: 3 people dead, 2 injured and 1 reportedly critical after a gas cylinder exploded in a house in Mahabubnagar district in Andhra Pradesh.

10:55 am: 3 killed, 8 missing in landslide in China.

10:45 am: Government planning more Doordarshan channels for North-East.

10:15 am: Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani put under house arrest. He was supposed to address a seminar today in Srinagar.

Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani put under house arrest. (In pic: Police outside his residence in Srinagar, J&K) pic.twitter.com/X5golOjXMs

— ANI (@ANI_news) August 23, 2015

10:00 am: A goods train derailed at Kathua railway station (J&K), Jammu-Pathankot Railway route affected. No casualty has been reported.

9:50 am: Law Commission to submit its report on death penalty next week.

9:30 am: BJP Minority leader Ilyas Khan Pathan and his son Asif shot dead yesterday late night in Rajkot, Gujarat at their residence.

9:15 am: Builder shot dead in wee hours of this morning in South Delhi, 5 people detained.

9:00 am: Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani expected to visit Amethi today.

8:45 am: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley expected to inaugurate 'Bandhan Bank' in Kolkata toda.

8:30 am: 7 died and 2 reportedly critical after a truck collided with an auto rickshaw in Arwal district of Bihar.

8:15 am: Three militants killed, one Army jawan injured in encounter in Kupwara district of Kashmir.

Encounter between security forces and militants underway in Handwara, J&K. 3 terrorists killed, 1 jawan injured. pic.twitter.com/epGNBe29wb

— ANI (@ANI_news) August 23, 2015

8:00 am: Polling for Bengaluru civic body ends with just 45% voter turnout, counting to begin on August 25.

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