The Congress on Saturday alleged that the savings of Life Insurance Corporation's 30 crore policyholders were “systematically misused” to benefit the Adani Group and demanded that Parliament's Public Accounts Committee investigate how LIC was “forced” to make investments in the conglomerate.

The days following Diwali have once again brought a sharp decline in Delhi-NCR's air quality, with hospitals reporting a noticeable surge in respiratory and pregnancy-related complications.

The police on Saturday detained one person in connection with the alleged suicide of a 28-year-old woman doctor in Maharashtra's Satara district, an official said.

The body of a 35-year-old man who died in the recent boat tragedy off Mozambique coast was brought to his native place in this district on Saturday, relatives said.

A speeding car ran over pedestrians, killing five people and leaving two injured, police here said on Saturday.

Two sisters died due to LPG leakage from the gas geyser on Saturday morning, police said.

Asserting that democracy is an "alien" concept for Pakistan, India has called upon Islamabad to end grave human rights violations in territories under its illegal occupation, where the population is in "open revolt" against military occupation, repression, brutality and exploitation.

An Indian national working as a staff nurse at a Singapore premium hospital was sentenced to a year and two months’ jail, and two strokes of the cane after he pleaded guilty to a molestation charge.