Four people were killed in a shooting in a town in the Mississippi Delta region after a high school football homecoming game there, Mississippi state Sen. Derrick Simmons told The Associated Press.

Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) will not contest the upcoming bypolls in Budgam and Nagrota Assembly seats, its chairman and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Saturday.

 A nine-year-old girl was killed after being run over by a Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) bus in the city on Saturday, police said.

Poll rights body Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) denied allegations on Saturday that it filed a false affidavit in the Supreme Court, clarifying that the document in question was never formally submitted but merely "tendered across the bar" in response to a query from the bench.

Labour Minister Santosh Lad has said that all companies must provide menstrual leave to women employees, and the state government will soon frame rules to ensure compliance. He clarified that once the government enacts the law, companies will be legally bound to implement it.

The US "values" its relationship with India, US Ambassador-designate Sergio Gor said on Saturday after holding talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi that focused on cooperation in areas of defence, trade and critical minerals.

BJP MP and former Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has accused the ruling Congress government in Karnataka of failing to function effectively due to its internal tussle over power-sharing, saying that the party high command’s indecision has left the state’s administration paralysed and the people in distress.

More than 100 representatives from civil society organisations, political parties, trade unions, women’s groups, and student unions gathered in Bengaluru on Friday to oppose the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) decision to conduct a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Karnataka.