Justice Gita Mittal was sworn in as the Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Saturday. Before being sworn in as the Chief Justice, the court's Registrar General read out the warrant of Mittal's appointment.

As many as 15 persons injured in a collision between a private bus and a KSRTC bus near Kolya Adka in Someshwara Adka on NH 66 this morning.

A UN human rights committee has heard there were credible reports that China is holding a million ethnic Uighurs in "counter-extremism centres".

A man was lynched in Bijopur Friday evening by a group villagers on the suspicion of being a thief, the police said. So far two arrests have been made and a case of murder has been registered against several people, said Station House Officer (SHO), Chapar, Subhash Rathore Saturday.

A Japanese government helicopter has crashed in the mountains of Gunma. All nine crew members on board have been confirmed dead, police said on Saturday.

A CBI team along with officials from the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) on Saturday conducted a search at a shelter home in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district where 34 minor girls were raped, police said.

A major portion of an under-construction flyover in Basti district of Uttar Pradesh collapsed on Saturday, police said. One person was injured.