A 39-year-old physiotherapist allegedly strangled her mother to death and surrendered at a police station with the corpse packed in a suitcase, police said on Tuesday.

In a tragic incident near Yeshwantpur, Bengaluru, a dispute over auto fare took a deadly turn on Sunday night, resulting in the death of a man and grievous injuries to another. The altercation allegedly occurred when an auto rickshaw driver stabbed the passengers after they refused to pay a higher fare than the initially agreed upon amount.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday hit out at "dynastic" political parties for promoting "nepotism and corruption" in recruitment to government jobs, and said while such parties "looted" youth with their "rate cards" for various posts, his government is working to "safeguard" their bright future.

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a stunning allegation claimed that the micro-blogging platform had faced government pressure and threats of shutdown during farmer's protest, a statement that evoked a sharp rebuttal from Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar who termed it an "outright lie".

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Monday kickstarted her party's campaign for the year-end Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh with a rally in Jabalpur where she accused the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government of being mired in corruption and failing to provide jobs.

Jack Dorsey, former CEO of Twitter, has claimed that the Indian government exerted pressure and threatened to shut down Twitter and raid houses of their employees, if they did not comply with their demand of restricting accounts that were critical of the central government during the farmers protest.

A 38-year-old man was allegedly shot dead in his taxi by another man over some personal enmity in south west Delhi's Dwarka, police said on Tuesday.

Farmers blocking the national highway in Pipli in Haryana's Kurukshetra district over the demand for MSP for sunflower seeds will hold a meeting on Tuesday to mull their future course of action after two rounds of talks with the district administration failed to yield any outcome.