Mathura: An Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha leader was arrested on Tuesday while allegedly going to recite Hanuman Chalisa at the Shahi Masjid Idgah adjacent to the Shri Krishna Janmabhoomi temple and 40 Hindutva activists taken into preventive custody, officials said.

New Delhi: Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday said the number of pending cases across various courts could touch the five crore mark in a couple of months.

Ahmedabad: Noted economist and former Union minister Yoginder K Alagh passed away here on Tuesday after prolonged illness, his family said.

Betul: An eight-year-old boy fell into a 400-feet deep borewell while playing on a field at a village in Madhya Pradesh's Betul district on Tuesday, police said.

New Delhi: The Pakistan blind cricket team has been denied visa to travel to India for the ongoing Blind Cricket World Cup.

Agar Malwa: In the last leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Madhya Pradesh, a group of people in a town in Agar Malwa district raised slogans hailing Prime Minister Narendra Modi after spotting Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who responded by giving flying kisses.

Mumbai: A special court here has sentenced a 25-year-old man to five years of rigorous imprisonment for kidnapping and forcibly trying to kiss a minor girl in Dharavi area of central Mumbai.

Pune: Amid a simmering border dispute between Maharashtra and Karnataka, activists of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena faction on Tuesday sprayed black and orange paints on at least three Karnataka state transport buses in Swargate area of Pune city.