Congress leader P Chidambaram has slammed the "increasing practice" of the government using Hindi words in the titles of the bills and said the change is an "affront" to the non-Hindi-speaking people.

Members of the Karnataka Drivers' Union on Tuesday staged a protest condemning the recent change in pick-up locations at Kempegowda International Airport here.

Barely hours ahead of the publication of the draft electoral rolls of West Bengal, where assembly elections are due early next year, the Election Commission on Tuesday morning released the names of deleted voters on its website.

 Dr Haroon Hussain, leading physician at KMC Hospital Mangaluru, and academician, highlighted the growing importance of geriatric medicine in India as the country steadily moves towards an ageing population. He was speaking as a faculty member at GSICON 2025, the national annual conference of the Geriatric Society of India, held in Agra from December 12 to 14.

A 23-year-old woman was found dead in her house in Delhi's Prem Nagar area, with police suspecting it to be a case of suicide, an official said on Tuesday.

Worms were found in the midday meal served to students at the government school in Hale Ningapur village of Koppal taluk. A video of the contaminated food has been circulating on social media.

Bengaluru experienced its coldest December night in eight years, with the minimum temperature dropping to 13.3 degrees Celsius on December 13, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

Intensifying action against drug peddling, Mangaluru City police arrested 25 people and registered 12 cases under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act between November 30 and December 13. During the operation, police seized 685.6 grams of MDMA and 1.5 kg of Ganja, The Times of India reported.