Shimla: The Shimla Municipal Commissioner on Saturday ordered demolition of the top three unauthorised storeys of the Sanjauli mosque and gave two months time to the Waqf Board to execute its orders.

Chennai: A Madurai-bound Air India flight which departed from here on Saturday returned to the city due to a technical issue, authorities said.

Ullal: The dead body of a 44-year-old man, identified to be Prasad, a resident of Kujumagadde in Kolya under Someshwara Town Municipality, who had gone missing from his house since Friday afternoon, was found on Saturday near his house in a well that was unused and also dried up.

Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has stayed a single judge order, directing app-based cab aggregator Ola to pay a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to a woman who alleged sexual harassment by an Ola driver in 2019.

A Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) district functionary, Vetri Vendhan (43), was arrested by the Tiruvallur town police for allegedly poisoning and killing 16 stray dogs after they attacked his pigeons and hens.

Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati, the mahant of Dasna Devi Temple and a controversial Hindu seer, has been detained by the police in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, following a First Information Report (FIR) filed against him for allegedly delivering a blasphemous speech against Prophet Muhammad. The FIR was registered on Thursday, based on a complaint by a police officer from the Sihani Gate police station.

A special court in Pune has summoned Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to appear before it on October 23 in a criminal defamation case filed by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar’s grandnephew, Satyaki Savarkar.

The District Police has deployed 1,239 of its personnel and tightened the security for ‘Yuva Dasara’, a major attraction during the Mysuru Dasara celebration each year. The event will begin on Sunday, October 6, at a venue on the outskirts of Mysuru city and is expected to attract youth in large numbers.