New Delhi: The Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) on Sunday termed the 2022 Global Hunger Index report "irresponsible and mischievous" and urged the Union government to take action against its publishers for "defaming" India.

Kota (Raj): Three more students of a coaching institute in the Jawahar Nagar area here tested positive for hepatitis A, taking the number of those affected by the disease to 44.

Nagpur: In a setback to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Congress dominated the results of elections to the posts of Panchayat Samiti chairpersons and deputy chairpersons in Nagpur district of Maharashtra.

Ghaziabad (UP): Amid a series of pet dog attacks, the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation has banned the residents from keeping the ferocious Pitbull, Rottweiler and Dogo Argentino breeds as pets.

Mumbai: Maharashtra Navirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Sunday wrote to Deputy Chief Minister and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis not to field his party's candidate for the upcoming bypoll of the Andheri East Assembly constituency in reverence to late MLA Ramesh Latke, whose death has necessitated the election.

Mangaluru: The Mangaluru city police on Sunday clarified that certain preventive proceedings have been carried out on some individuals in the light of some provocative statements made by them ahead of the proposed siege' of the toll gate at Surathkal on October 18.

Muzaffarpur (Bihar): A college student in this north Bihar town alleged that objectionable remarks were made against her by a male teacher when she refused to take off her head-scarf (hijab) during an exam on Sunday.

Hassan: Nine people, including four children, were killed and 10 injured in a pile-up involving three vehicles here, police said.