Modi meets President, briefs him on foreign visits
New Delhi, June 11: Back from China after attending the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday met President Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan here and briefed him on the meet as well as his recent Southeast Asia visits.
"Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on President Kovind and briefed him on his recent visits to Southeast Asia and to the SCO summit in China," the Rashtrapati Bhavan said in a tweet.
India, which participated in the Chinese-led SCO on Sunday for the first time after being inducted into the grouping last year, again said "no" to China's Belt and Road project as the rest of the member states endorsed Beijing's initiative in the joint declaration.
Earlier, on a five-day three-nation tour of Southeast Asia starting May 29, Modi visited Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.
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MP: Man dives into dam water for reel shooting, missing
Guna (MP), Nov 17: A 20-year-old man went missing when he jumped into the water in a dam for the shooting of a social media reel in Madhya Pradesh's Guna district on Sunday, police said.
The incident occurred around 5 pm at Gopisagar Dam in Ruthiyai area, some 20 km from the district headquarters, an official said.
Dharnawada police station in-charge Prabhat Katare said Deepesh Lodha handed over his mobile phone to his friend Raj to shoot a reel as he dived into the water near the sluice gate of the reservoir, he said.
Lodha also told his friend that he knew swimming, the police official said.
However, the young man started drowning, prompting his friend to seek the help of the people in the vicinity, the official said.
After being alerted, police informed the State Disaster Emergency Response Force (SDERF), which launched a search to trace Lodha, the official said.
Phool Singh Banjara, a farmer, said his children alerted him that someone was in trouble in the dam. By the time he reached, Lodha was drowning and soon went missing, he said.
