fans are rejoicing as their team secured a historic fifth Indian Premier League (IPL) championship. However, political nuances have crept into the celebration after K Annamalai, the Tamil Nadu BJP president, claimed that it was a "BJP karyakarta" (party worker) who played the winning shot for the MS Dhoni-led team. Annamalai was referring to the heroic performance of CSK all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja in the final over, which propelled the team to a thrilling five-wicket victory against the Gujarat Titans in the 16th edition of the IPL.

The country's top wrestlers, who were detained by Delhi Police and removed from their Jantar Mantar protest site, on Tuesday said they will throw their hard-earned medals into river Ganges and sit on a hunger strike "until death" at the India Gate.

The Karnataka government on Tuesday transferred Bengaluru city police commissioner C H Pratap Reddy and appointed Additional Director General of Police (Intelligence) B Dayananda in his place.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea challenging union health ministry rules which prohibit donor gametes to couples opting for children through surrogacy.

Hundreds of women from the Hmar, Kuki, Mizo and Zomi tribes staged a protest at Jantar Mantar here on Monday, demanding a "fair intervention" by the central government to put an end to the prevailing tensions in Manipur.

The Congress' lone Lok Sabha member from Maharashtra, Suresh alias Balu Dhanorkar, died early Tuesday at a private hospital in neighbouring Gurgaon where he was admitted following complications after a surgery to remove kidney stones, a party leader said. He was 47.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has shared a video of his overnight "yatra" with truck drivers and the conversations he had with them while travelling on the Delhi-Chandigarh Highway.

The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday conducted searches at various locations in Jharkhand linked to Congress MLA Pradeep Yadav and others as part of a money laundering investigation against them, official sources said.