A woman committed suicide by hanging herself at home in Holebeedi of Maddur town, after poisoning her three children, on Thursday evening.

A new study suggested that pandemic-related stressors have physically aged brains of adolescents', according to a study.

Two boys allegedly raped their 13-year-old classmate inside the classroom of their civic-run school in Matunga area of Mumbai, after which the police registered a case against them, an official said on Friday.

A Dalit youth in Bevahalli village of Mulbagal taluk committed suicide on Wednesday by hanging himself after he was tied to a tree and thrashed for apparently a negligible reason.

The Assam government has received approval from the Centre for re-construction of road network damaged in Dima Hasao district in this year's flood and landslides, and for conversion of wooden bridges to concrete ones, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said.

A special MP-MLA court here has directed the police to arrest former Union minister Swami Chinmayanand Saraswati and produce him before it on December 9 after he failed to appear despite a Supreme Court order.

A court here is likely to hear on Friday a plea seeking worship of 'Shivling' in the Gyanvapi mosque complex, Assistant District Government Counsel Sulabh Prakash said.

Siddaramaiah, former chief minister and Opposition leader in the Karnataka Assembly, has been admitted to hospital to undergo a minor surgery.