New Delhi: The CBI conducted searches at 91 locations across the country on Thursday in connection with its investigation against several state medical councils and foreign medical graduates who were allowed to practise in India without qualifying a mandatory test, officials said.

Bodh Gaya: Police on Thursday said it has tracked down a Chinese woman, the reports of whose presence at the Buddhist pilgrim town of Bodh Gaya in Bihar's Gaya district, on a day the Dalai Lama commenced his three-day public discourses, had triggered security concerns.

Kochi: Organisers of the popular Cochin Carnival, a highly spirited annual gala fete being organised in this port city on the occasion of every new year, on Wednesday agreed to recreate the face of 'Papanji', a giant effigy of an old man, after the BJP alleged that it has resemblance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's face.

New Delhi: Double world champion Indian opener Gautam Gambhir believes that if the national selection committee believes in looking beyond seniors like Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul, then "so be it".

Belagavi: The Karnataka Cabinet on Thursday decided to do away with the 3A and 3B category of the Other Backward Caste and replace them with the newly introduced 2C and 2D categories.

New Delhi: As security was beefed up in Bodh Gaya in Bihar following a threat to Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama allegedly from a Chinese woman, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday called it "a security issue" and refused to comment further on it.

Khandwa: A 10-year-old Muslim boy was allegedly forced to chant "Jai Shri Ram" and beaten in Pandhana area of Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa district, police said on Thursday.

Kolkata: West Bengal minister Subrata Saha on Thursday died of cardiac arrest in Murshidabad district, his family said.