Kochi: No crackers shall be burst in religious places at odd times as there are no commandments in any of the holy books that mandate the bursting of crackers to please God, the Kerala High Court said on Friday.

While talking to the media in New Delhi after participating in the road show organized in Ahmedabad, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said that under the Uttarakhand Global Investor Summit, road shows were held in London, Birmingham, Delhi, Dubai and Abu Dhabi along with Chennai, Bangalore and Ahmedabad . Meetings have been held with various investor groups. In which many agreements have been signed with investors in the fields of tourism, health, education, pharma, agriculture, agri, energy, logistics, infrastructure and hospitality etc. Investors are very attracted towards investing in Uttarakhand. Recently, after the meeting held with more than 50 industrial groups in Ahmedabad, agreements on investment of about Rs. 24 thousand crores have been singed. In the coming days, a dialogue and road show with investors is to be organized in Mumbai also.

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate claimed Friday it has recorded a statement of a 'cash courier' who alleged that the promoters of the Mahadev betting app have paid Rs 508 crore to Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel till now, and that it is a "subject matter of investigation".

Varanasi (UP): Security has been stepped up at IIT-BHU and a police officer has been shifted to the police lines for dereliction of duty, a day after a student was allegedly molested and stripped near her hostel, triggering a protest by hundreds of students.

Former Indian all-rounder Irfan Pathan has called upon the world leaders to intensify their attempts at stopping the Israel-Hamas war, stressing on need for the leaders to focus on the fact that children, aged less than 10 years, are being killed in Gaza every day.

Delhi's air quality plummeted to the "severe plus" category on Friday morning, a stage at which all emergency measures, including a ban on polluting trucks, commercial four-wheelers, and all types of construction, are mandated to be initiated and enforced in the National Capital Region.

Five persons were injured after a fire broke out and led to a blast at a pharmaceutical company in Maharashtra's Raigad district on Friday, police said.

A court in Thane district of Maharashtra has allowed the pre-arrest bail of a man from whose possession the forest department had seized parrots.