Rajasthan BJP MLA Balmukund Acharya confronted a Muslim participant during a teachers’ felicitation programme in Jaipur after noticing that he did not join others in chanting “Vande Mataram” and “Bharat Mata ki Jai.”

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday exhorted the people of Bihar to make Congress leader Rahul Gandhi the prime minister after the next Lok Sabha polls.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are expected to hold a face-to-face meeting within the next two weeks, following direct intervention by U.S. President Donald Trump.

Veteran actor Achyut Potdar, who was highly respected and popular for his work in Marathi and Hindi film industry, died of age-related health problems on Monday. He was 91.

Bangladesh and Kazakhstan have replaced Pakistan and Oman for the men's Asia Cup hockey tournament to be held in Rajgir, Bihar from August 29 as per the schedule released on Tuesday.

The Karnataka High Court has dismissed a plea by a 52-year-old woman seeking to quash an FIR registered against her for allegedly sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy, holding that the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act is gender neutral. 

The INDIA opposition bloc has announced Justice (Retd.) B. Sudershan Reddy, former Supreme Court judge and Goa’s first Lokayukta, as its candidate for the Vice Presidential election scheduled on September 9. He will contest against NDA nominee and Maharashtra Governor CP Radhakrishnan.

The simmering rift within RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s family has widened further, with elder son and Hasanpur MLA Tej Pratap Yadav launching a sharp attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and his younger brother, Leader of the Opposition Tejashwi Yadav.