A woman was lashed with a leather belt, punched and kicked by a group of men after being dragged out of her house in Punjab's Muktsar district for allegedly failing to repay Rs 23,000 she had borrowed from one of them, following which six persons were arrested, police said Saturday.

 The Centre Saturday sought separate reports from the West Bengal government on political violence in the state which has claimed 160 lives in the past four years, and on the ongoing doctors' strike, officials said.

Hong Kong's embattled leader on Saturday said a divisive bill that would allow extraditions to China would be "suspended" in a major climbdown from her government after a week of unprecedented protests.

A day after a man was arrested on sedition charges over his social media post on power cuts in Chhattisgarh, a journalist was Friday held for publishing a "false" news over electricity supply in Mahasamund district.

New Delhi: Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy met former Prime Minister and senior Congress leader Dr. Manmohan Singh at the Congress headquarters here in the national capital on Saturday.

Mangaluru: Mangalore University Vice Chancellor, Dr. P Subramanya Yadapadithaya, called on the students and young graduates to become a constructive contributor to the society. He was addressing the newly graduated Engineers of Bearys Institute of Technology (BIT) at its 7^th annual graduation day at the Mangala Auditorium of Mangalore University on Saturday, here in the city.

A 53-year-old man has been arrested and charged with sedition in Chhattisgarh for allegedly spreading rumours on social media over power cuts in the state, police said Friday.

Alleging that "jungle-raj" was prevailing in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav met Governor Ram Naik on Saturday over the poor law and order situation and asked him to "wake up" the Yogi Adityanath government as he used to do during the SP regime.