The Election Commission of India has justified its ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar saying it adds to the purity of the election by "weeding out ineligible persons" from the electoral rolls.

Tension flared in Kodapur village in Ganganagar here after a statue of Dr B R Ambedkar was allegedly uprooted and thrown into a canal, police said on Monday.

Indian nurse Nimisha Priya, who was sentenced to death in Yemen for the murder of a Yemeni national, is reportedly set to be released following sustained interventions by Indian and Yemeni interlocutors. However, there has been no official confirmation yet from the Government of India, her family, or the Yemeni authorities.

A private school located in east Bengaluru was evacuated on Tuesday following a bomb threat, with students being sent home as a precautionary measure.

Advocate Manjunath N, representing Sujatha Bhat in the Dharmasthala missing persons case, has urged the government to immediately establish a public helpline for victims and their families to file complaints directly with the Special Investigation Team (SIT).

A truck driver from Madhya Pradesh was arrested for allegedly raping a girl in Odisha's Malkangiri district, police said on Tuesday.

Police have registered a non-cognisable case against a 22-year-old IT professional who falsely claimed that she was raped by a man posing as a 'delivery agent' at her apartment in Pune, officials said on Tuesday.

Hundreds of people waited outside the historic Darbar Hall here to pay homage to former Chief Minister and veteran CPI(M) leader V S Achuthanandan on Tuesday, a day after he breathed his last at the age of 101.