Top news of the day: Former PM Manmohan Singh cremated with full state honours; Madras HC says women IPS officers team to probe Anna University sexual assault case, and more

Former PM Manmohan Singh cremated with full state honours; Madras HC says women IPS officers team to probe Anna University sexual assault case, and more in Top news of the day on December 28, 2024

Former prime minister Manmohan Singh was cremated with full state honours on Saturday (December 28, 2024) in the presence of top dignitaries from India and abroad. Singh’s funeral pyre was lit by his eldest daughter Upinder Singh at the Nigambodh Ghat amid the chanting of religious hymns.

The Madras High Court on Saturday (December 28, 2024) constituted an all-woman team of Indian Police Service (IPS) officers to investigate the Anna University sexual assault case and another case registered by the cybercrime police to probe the leak of the First Information Report (FIR) pertaining to the sexual assault.

The BJP is panicked with the announcement of ₹2,100 payment to women under ‘Mahila Samman Yojana’ and it is trying to stop the scheme fearing defeat in the upcoming polls, AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal said on Saturday, December 28, 2024. Speaking at a press conference, Mr. Kejriwal also rubbished an order by L-G for enquiry into the collection of details of women through registration under the scheme as “fake,” saying the monetary promise was a poll announcement.

A difference of opinion emerged between Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) founder S. Ramadoss and his son and party president Anbumani Ramadoss during the party’s general council meeting at Pattanur in Villupuram district on Saturday (December 28, 2024). When Mr. Ramadoss announced the name of P. Mukundan, his grandson, for the post of the party’s youth wing president, Mr. Anbumani objected to it, saying he had joined the party only four months ago.

The Supreme Court on Saturday (December 28, 2024) witnessed an unprecedented hearing on the issue of providing medical aid to Punjab farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who has been on fast-unto-death for over a month at Khanauri border seeking legal guarantee of minimum support price of crops among other demands.

The death toll in the LPG tanker accident on the Jaipur-Ajmer Highway rose to 20 with one more man succumbing to severe burn injuries at the SMS Hospital here on Saturday (December 28, 2024).

Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh on Saturday (December 28, 2024) strongly condemned the indiscriminate firing by militants in the Thamnapokpi and Sanasabi areas of Imphal East district in Manipur in which four persons were injured.