top afternoon Digest: Fourth Accused Arrested in Hyderabad Gang-rape Case; CM Himanta Sarma Refutes PPE Scandal

Telangana Police on Sunday arrested the fourth accused in the Hyderabad gang rape case.

 The accused, a minor, was picked up from the Hyderabad in connection with the rape of a teenage girl in Hyderabad's Jubilee Hills area last week. The fifth accused in the case is still absconding. Totally, four persons, including three juveniles, have been taken into custody so far in the case. Two juveniles were earlier apprehended on Saturday, while the 18-year-old man was arrested on June 3. MORE  After the Assam government refuted allegations by a section of the media that Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sharma's family was involved in 'malpractices in the supply of PPE kits', the CM said 'it was not corruption, but humanity'. As India battled the Covid pandemic in 2020, then Assam health minister Himanta Sarma gave contracts to companies of his wife and son's business partners to supply PPE kits above market rates,” AAP leader Manish Sisodia had alleged on Saturday citing media reports.

 Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday expressed concern about the targeted killings of Hindus and Kashmiri Pundits in the Kashmir Valley. Kashmiri Pundits were fleeing the Valley, Thackeray, who also heads the Shiv Sena, said in a statement here. Kashmiri Pundits were shown the dream of `ghar vapasi (resettlement in the Valley), but they are being targeted and killed. The exodus of Pundits is shocking, he said. The chief minister assured the Pundit community that  Maharashtra is firmly behind them. MORE

Parts of Delhi sizzled under a heat wave sending the mercury soaring to 47 degrees Celsius on Saturday with no immediate relief in sight. At the Safdarjung Observatory, Delhi's base station, the maximum temperature settled at 43.9 degrees as against 42.9 degrees Celsius on Friday and 42 degrees Celsius on Thursday. The maximum temperature jumped to 47.1 degrees at Mungeshpur, making it the hottest place in the city. MORE

A small private plane mistakenly flew into restricted airspace over President Joe Biden's beach house Saturday, prompting his security detail to move him and the first lady briefly to a secure location, the White House said. "The President and the First Lady are safe and there was not an attack, a White House official said of the incident in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, which is about 200 km (120 miles) east of Washington. Biden and First Lady Jill Biden later returned to their residence, the official said.

 Former Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh took a dig at Congress and congratulated the party leaders who joined the BJP and called the move a tip of the iceberg. Former ministers Raj Kumar Verka, Balbir Singh Sidhu, Sunder Sham Arora and Gurpreet Singh Kangar from the Grand Old Party as well as former MLA Kewal Dhillon joined the BJP. My best wishes to Balbir S. Sadhu, Gurpreet SKangar, Dr Raj Kumar Verka, Sunder Sham Arora and Kewal Singh Dhillon for taking a step in the right direction and joining BJP today. This is just the tip of the iceberg, Amarinder Singh said in a tweet.

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