A video has been circulating with the claim that Pakistan’s Punjab education minister, Rana Sikandar Hayat, sexually assaulted a woman and her partner after they participated in a recent protest in Lahore.

In Gujarat, where alcohol prohibition is in place, authorities have seized one bottle of Indian-Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) every four seconds in 2024, according to police data.

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has demanded that a sedition case be filed against Samajwadi Party MLA Abu Azmi for his remarks praising Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. Shinde called Azmi a "traitor" and stated that glorifying Aurangzeb was a "great sin."

In a time dominated by digital tools, Chhattisgarh’s Finance Minister O.P. Choudhary made an unconventional move by presenting the state budget in a fully handwritten format. This marks the first instance in the state’s history where a budget document, spanning 100 pages, was manually penned by the minister himself.

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday stayed for four weeks a special court's order directing FIR against former Sebi chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch and five other officials for alleged stock market fraud and regulatory violations, noting it was passed mechanically.

Turkiye has strongly condemned Israel’s decision to block humanitarian aid into Gaza, calling it a violation of the ceasefire deal and international law. The Turkish Foreign Ministry, in a statement on Monday, described the move as a deliberate act of collective punishment against Palestinians and a blatant breach of international law, according to Xinhua news agency.

The Trinamool Congress on Tuesday dismissed the Election Commission's clarifications on duplicate voter ID numbers as a "cover-up" and cited the poll panel's own guidelines to assert that two cards cannot have identical numbers

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday stayed the suspension of several Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) students who were penalised for protesting on campus without prior permission.