New Delhi: Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena has given in-principle approval to the city government's proposal to send primary teachers of state-run schools to Finland for training, officials said on Saturday.

Azamgarh (UP): Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav Saturday said the country should run according to Constitution and not through bulldozers while terming the killing of a prime witness in the 2005 murder of then BSP MLA Raju Pal a "failure" of the BJP government on the law and order front.

Mau (UP): A two-storey house in Mau district belonging to the sons of jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari was demolished as the map of the building was not approved by the authorities, police said here.

Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Saturday reassured his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar that all migrant workers are safe in the State and he asserted that swift action would be taken against rumour-mongers spreading panic.

Moscow: Andrey Botikov, one of the scientists who helped to create the Russian COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V, was strangled to death with a belt at his apartment here and police have arrested a suspect in connection with the murder, according to a Russian media report on Saturday.

Chitradurga (KTK): Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday dismissed the Congress demand for his resignation following the recovery of Rs 8.23 crore cash from BJP MLA Madal Virupakshappa's son Prashanth Kumar M V, saying that the opposition party is left with no other job.

Ranchi: A bird flu outbreak has been reported in Jharkhand's capital Ranchi barely a week after the disease in Bokaro district led to the culling of 4,000 chickens and ducks.

Jammu: Kashmiri Pandit government employees demanding relocation outside the Kashmir Valley in the wake of targeted killings by terrorists, suspended their 310 days long strike, saying they were "surrendering" as authorities had "stopped" their salaries.