
A day after inauguration of Ganga Udbhav Yojana, Opposition leader in Bihar Assembly, Vijay Kumar Sinha said that the 'Gangajal' (holy water) was required by people when they die. Similarly, the end of the the Mahagathbandhan government was nearer and people would offer Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to drink Gangajal....

Nadav Lapid, IFFI's jury head, during the concluding ceremony of the festival, termed the movie 'The Kashmir Files' as 'vulgar' and 'inappropriate', and said that the spirit of the festival can surely accept a critical discussion as well, which is essential for art and life. ...

An email regarding a bomb being placed on a school campus in south Delhi was received on Monday. However, no bomb was found during the search operation by the police, said an official. ...

The authorities at Assam's Dibrugarh University on Monday rusticated at least 18 students for their alleged role in ragging a student who eventually jumped off a two-storey building of the varsity hostel "to save himself from mental and physical harassment"....

Hundreds of demonstrators and police have clashed in Shanghai as protests over Chinas stringent Covid restrictions continued for a third day and spread to several cities, in the biggest test for President Xi Jinping since he secured a historic third term in power....

An Indian national in Nigeria has been in the dock for allegedly committing a financial fraud to the tune of 816 million naira ($1.8 million). ...

The Crime Branch of Delhi Police has arrested a woman, along her son, for allegedly killing her husband, chopping off his body and dumping the parts in a drain and Ramlila ground in East Delhi's Pandav Nagar area....

After tension gripped Vizhinjam port area following the fishermen community's protest against the Adani Group restarting work on a $900 million transhipment port, the situation on Monday eased with police releasing four of the five people it took into custody. ...

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday attacked the BJP by saying that the "party claims to have done a lot of development, but during the election campaigns its leaders' campaign speeches are full of hatred which divide the society on the communal lines."...

The Pinarayi Vijayan-led Kerala government on Monday suffered a major blow when the Centre issued an official order asking all the revenue officials employed for land acquisition for the Silver Line (K-Rail) project to be absorbed in other projects....