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A large fire that raged through a Nebraska chemical plant was extinguished by Tuesday morning and nearby residents who were initially evacuated were allowed to return to their homes, authorities said.

Three people who had allegedly supplied the gun to the accused who shot a man watching the movie KGF-2 in a cinema at Shiggavi town in the district have been arrested from Bihar, police said on Tuesday.

Kerala High Court allows lesbian couple Adhila Nassrin and Fathima Noora to live together on a habeas corpus plea filed by Adhila.

A suspected drug addict has been arrested after he allegedly attempted to steal a brass lamp-holder from a dargah in south Delhi's Mehrauli, police said on Tuesday.

A day after Delhi minister Satyendar Jain was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate, former Union minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday said the Prevention of Money Laundering Act under sections of which he has been taken into custody was a "weapon that often serves not legal but political ends".

National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate for questioning in connection with a money laundering case linked to alleged financial irregularities in the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association.

The police have arrested the chief of Chhattisgarhiya Kranti Sena (CKS), an organisation for domiciles of the state, for allegedly making derogatory comments about monks of the Jain community during a recent event in Balod district, an official said on Tuesday.

Terrorists on Tuesday shot dead a Kashmiri Pandit teacher in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. Rajni Bala (36) of Samba in Jammu region sustained injuries when terrorists fired at her in Gopalpora area of Kulgam where she was posted as a teacher, they said.

Around 32 per cent polling was recorded by 11 am in the by-election to Brajrajnagar assembly segment in Odisha’s Jharsuguda district, where voting is being held amid tight security and in adherence to Covid norms, officials said on Tuesday. The polling, being conducted through EVMs, began at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm.

Former Congress leader Hardik Patel will join the BJP on June 2 in the presence of Gujarat party president C R Paatil, a state party spokesperson said on Tuesday. After Patidar quota agitation leader Patel recently resigned from the Congress, there were speculations that he may join the ruling BJP. He had praised the BJP's decision-making capacity and style of functioning, while severely criticising the Congress leadership.

A fuel tanker overturned near the runway at the airport in Nepal's tourist city of Pokhara on Tuesday, obstructing flight operations, according to a media report.

The "black ink and the deadly attack" cannot suppress the voices of farmers and labourers, Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait has said after ink was thrown on him in Bengaluru.

Nepal Army on Tuesday said it has recovered the last body from the wreckage site of the Tara Air plane that crashed in Nepal's mountainous Mustang district on Sunday with 22 people on board, including four Indians, minutes after taking off from the tourist city of Pokhara.

A Tamil Nadu-based journalist and a woman doctor from Maharashtra were killed and 13 people injured when their vehicle fell into a deep gorge while on way to Gangotri, an official said.

A six-year-old girl was found dead and her mother lying unconscious in a hotel room here in Maharashtra, with police suspecting that the woman and her husband had entered into a "suicide pact", an official said on Tuesday.

With the addition of 51 new COVID-19 cases, the infection tally in Maharashtra's Thane district has risen to 7,09,992, an official said on Tuesday. These new cases were reported on Monday, he said.

A fire broke out in a private factory in Noida early Tuesday but no individual was hurt in the incident, officials said. The fire broke out in the factory manufacturing plastic-related products in the city's Sector 7 area, the officials said.

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday and discussed several issues related to the state.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Secretary Arun Kumar Mehta on Monday held a high-level meeting of civil and police administration to take stock of arrangements made for the upcoming Amarnath Yatra.