HK Dua, a distinguished journalist and a veteran of Indian public life who held the rare distinction of helming editorial operations at three of India's leading newspapers, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 88.

The opposition Congress on Tuesday took the lead in announcing its first list of 42 candidates for the upcoming assembly elections in Assam, with it comprising both sitting MLAs and former ministers, and also new faces, including sons of three prominent politicians.

Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy has refuted charges that the state government is hacking phones and asked why the government would do so when the legislators themselves have been responding to media questions.

Two leopard cubs were seen in a banana plantation in Padaguru village of Gundlupet taluk recently, with the owner identified as Shivakumar, a resident of the village.

A 35-year-old woman, a former software engineer, allegedly died by suicide following a family dispute at her residence in Bengaluru on Tuesday, NDTV reported.

A Dalit LL.B student in the third semester at Government Law College in Churu, Rajasthan, has filed a FIR under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, alleging caste-based abuse, threats, and discriminatory marking by two professors.

A 28-year-old woman is suspected to have hanged herself to death after strangulating her two young children, including a 10-month-old son, at the woman’s in-laws’ house Gollagudem village near Bibinagar on Monday night.

A 31-year-old loan recovery agent was allegedly murdered following an argument outside a hotel in Basaveshwaranagar, police said.