Breaking News, December 10 | HIGHLIGHTS

The cash seizure in the income-tax department's searches against an Odisha-based distillery company has become the "highest-ever" such haul in a single action conducted by any probe agency in the country and gone past Rs 300 crore, official sources said on Sunday.

Activists of the BJP on Sunday staged protests at district headquarters across Jharkhand demanding the arrest of Congress MP Dheeraj Sahu over the seizure of a huge amount of cash allegedly linked to the lawmaker. More than Rs 300 crore in cash has been seized during ongoing raids conducted by the Income Tax Department on premises linked with Odisha-based Boudh Distillery Private Limited.

Outgoing Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Sunday congratulated Vishnu Deo Sai on being elected as the leader of the BJP’s legislative party in the state.

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Sunday said that Bharat is charting its course to reclaim its glory as 'Viswaguru' (world leader) and it is going to be the third largest economy by the end of this decade.

Sai was declared as the BJP's CM face today.

A couple from Kerala allegedly killed their 11-year-old daughter and later died by suicide at a resort in Karnataka's Kodagu area, police said on Sunday.

TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu on Sunday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking him to declare the destruction caused by cyclone Michaung as a 'national disaster'. Citing widespread damages by the cyclone in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, Naidu requested Modi to recognise its impact.

Claiming that the Centre owed Rs 1.15 lakh crore to West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said the BJP-led NDA government should either release the funds or vacate office.

Vishnu Deo Sai will be the next Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, BJP sources said.

A man allegedly killed a puppy brutally in Madhya Pradesh's Guna district following which Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan termed it as an "act of barbarism" and assured strict action against the culprit.

A 40-year-old man was killed and seven other passengers injured after a private bus hit a trailer truck on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway in Maharashtra's Raigad district in the wee hours of Sunday, a police official said.

A Nigerian woman has been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle heroin worth Rs 2 crore from Mumbai to Delhi, an official of the Customs' Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) said on Sunday.

A 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped by the 19-year-old owner of a shop in the City area of this Uttar Pradesh district, police said on Sunday.

A biker was burnt alive on a highway in Mancherial district on Saturday after his two-wheeler collided with a lorry, police said.

A man accused of raping a woman was arrested in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, police said.

The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Saturday initiated action against nine people for allegedly misusing social media platforms to spread rumours and hateful content, officials said.