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Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Tuesday evening visited the house of slain Kashmiri Pandit Rahul Bhat here and offered condolences to his family, officials said.

The Allahabad High Court has directed the state government to transfer the probe into an alleged custodial death of one Anil Singh of Kannauj in 2020 to a special investigation team (SIT).

Police on Tuesday said they have registered a criminal offence against an auto-rickshaw driver for allegedly beating a stray dog to death in Ulhasnagar town of Thane district.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was reappointed to a second five-year term on Tuesday by the U.N. health agency’s member countries. No other candidate challenged Tedros for the post amid the ongoing difficulties of responding to the devastating coronavirus pandemic.

Eight people were killed and over 20 others injured in an accident involving a private bus and a truck on the Hubballi-Dharwad bypass road near here, during the early hours of Tuesday, police said. Expressing pain over the loss of lives, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each to the next of kin of those deceased and Rs 50,000 for the injured while Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has announced Rs 5 lakh each to the family of deceased.

Punjab Health Minister Vijay Singla was sacked from the Cabinet of the two-month old Bhagwant Mann government on Tuesday and arrested shortly afterwards on corruption charges.

Northwester with gusty wind and moderate to heavy rain battered Odisha in the early hours of Tuesday, the Met office said. The maximum temperature fell by around 2-5 degree Celsius at some places and was significantly below normal in many areas in wake of the squall, which also led to power cuts in several regions.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday approved the Rajasthan Electric Vehicle Policy (REVP).

At least seven people were killed and several others injured in two separate road accidents in Assam on Tuesday, officials said.

The Cyberabad police have prohibited flying of remote-controlled drones, para-gliders and remote-controlled micro-light aircraft around the Indian School of Business (ISB) in view of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the institute on Thursday.

The Karnataka High Court has directed the state government to constitute a permanent medical board to ensure transparency in recruitment to government jobs made through Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC).

A Kerala court on Tuesday sentenced to 10 years in jail the husband of Vismaya, an Ayurveda medical student who hanged herself in her marital home in June last year, for dowry death.

A 22-year-old man, accused in over half a dozen criminal cases, was found dead in Kardhani area of Jaipur, police said on Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as Sunny Soni, they said, adding that he might have been beaten to death by his rivals.

Common air pollutants, such as small particulate matter and ground-level ozone, are associated with more severe outcomes after COVID-19 infection, including admission to the intensive care unit (ICU), according to a study.

To chart the Congress' future course, its chief Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday formed three groups -- on political affairs for guidance on key issues, Task Force-2024 to implement the Udaipur 'Nav Sankalp' declaration and another to coordinate the October 2 'Bharat Jodo Yatra'.

The National Health Authority (NHA) under its flagship Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission scheme has launched a revamped Ayushman Bharat Health Account mobile application, according to a statement issued on Tuesday.

Over 400 people were penalised for flouting traffic norms across Noida and Greater Noida in a day, with the majority of violations being parking vehicles in no-parking zones and riding two-wheelers without helmets, officials said on Tuesday.

A 50-year-old woman was allegedly beaten to death by her son here on Tuesday following which the accused was detained, police said. According to the police, Shani (22) beat his mother Asha Devi with a wooden club following an argument, killing her on the spot. The woman had suffered severe injuries on the head and leg, they said.

Local train services on the harbour line in Mumbai were disrupted on Tuesday morning due to power issues, according to a Central Railway official. Following the disruption, a number of passengers, mostly office-goers, complained that trains on the harbour line, which provides connectivity to Navi Mumbai and western suburbs with south Mumbai, were running late by at least 15-20 minutes during the morning rush hour.

The minimum temperature in Delhi settled at 18.9 degrees Celsius on Tuesday, eight notches below normal, even as the weather office forecast a generally cloudy sky with light rain later in the day.

India's COVID-19 case tally rose by 1,675 to reach 4,31,40,068, while the number of active infections increased marginally to 14,841, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday.

The CBI has taken custody of four persons allegedly involved in the 1993 Bombay serial blasts, after they were apprehended held by Gujarat's Anti- Terrorist Squad on May 12 - nearly three decades after the March 12, 1993 terror outrage which left 257 died and over 700 others injured.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National general secretary Tarun Chugh and Telangana State In-charge Tarun Chugh on Monday said that the state BJP would go door-to-door and brief people on the welfare schemes of the party on the completion of eight years of PM Narendra Modi government.

Facebook parent Meta said it will start publicly providing more details about how advertisers target people with political ads just months ahead of the U.S. midterm elections.

BSF Meghalaya on Sunday apprehended one Bangladeshi national who entered Indian territory from the bordering area of East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya. He was trying to hide in the bushes when troops of 193 Bn BSF intercepted him, stated the BSF official release.

The Kedarnath yatra was suspended amid heavy rains on Monday with devotees en route to the shrine halted at various places between Gaurikund and Kedarnath, an official said. Conscious of the 2013 Kedarnath deluge tragedy, the Rudraprayag district administration appealed to pilgrims to stay put at their respective stations till the weather improves, he said.