Scattered sheets of paper, with poems in Bengali professing love, were strewn on the tracks beside a mangled coach of the Coromandel Express as rescuers rummaged through belongings of the victims at the rail mishap site in Odisha's Balasore district, less than 48 hours after the train crash, billed as one of the worst in Indian railway history.

A seven-year-old girl drowned in the septic tank of an under construction building in Madhya Pradesh's Kargone city, police said on Monday.

The General Body of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, in its meeting held in Mahu, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, has unanimously elected esteemed Islamic scholar and thinker, Moulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani, as the 5th President of the board. This election follows the unfortunate demise of the former President, Moulana S. Mohd. Rabey Hasani Nadvi.

The Rajasthan Police has arrested two men accused of robbing a jeweller in Mumbai by posing as Delhi Crime Branch officers, and recovered diamond jewellery, gold biscuits and Rs 18 lakh from the vehicle they were travelling, officials said.

The first train on the section where the accident happened in Balasore started its journey at around 10.40 pm on Sunday, 51 hours after the horrific crash which killed 275 people, officials said.

Odisha Chief Secretary PK Jena said his government has no intention to hide the deaths in the Balasore train crash and the entire rescue operation was being conducted in full public view.

Khagaria/Bhagalpur: An under-construction bridge over the Ganga river collapsed in Bihar on Sunday, portions of which were deliberately destroyed in a planned fashion under expert advice as it had design flaws, claimed state government officials.

New Delhi: A meeting of opposition parties, which was scheduled to be held in Patna on June 12, has been postponed, sources said on Sunday.