A day after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi announced five poll guarantees for Kerala, CPI(M) and BJP leaders on Sunday criticised the promises, with some leaders claiming they would not be implemented.

A 45-year-old man allegedly killed his two children before committing suicide at a rented house in the Gandhinagar area here on Sunday, officials said.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday greeted people on the occasion of International Women's Day and said society cannot progress if women do not live with dignity and security.

In a special operation conducted across the district, officers from various police stations inspected vehicles and filed cases against owners of vehicles that have defective and illegal number plates.

A 27-year-old woman, identified as Kavya, is said to have consumed pesticide after an argument with her husband over serving sambar that was three days old and died in hospital.

In a first for the government hospitals in the state, an artificial intelligence-based smart cochlear implant has been implanted in the ear of a three-year-old girl at the Rajasthan University of Health Sciences here.

Expressing concern over rising pollution levels, the Congress on Sunday demanded an urgent review and upgradation of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards, 2009, and asserted that they must be enforced as well as monitored more effectively everywhere.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's sit-in against alleged arbitrary deletions in the post-SIR voter list entered the third day on Sunday, with the TMC supremo accusing the BJP of "misusing the Vanish Commission to erase legitimate voters from electoral rolls".