Indore: Authorities in Madhya Pradesh's Indore city have sent a group of 22 people including 11 children who begged in the city back to their native place in Rajasthan.

Mumbai: BJP MP and actress Kangana Ranaut sparked controversy on Mahatma Gandhi's Jayanti with an Instagram post that appeared to downplay the significance of Gandhi's legacy. In her post, Ranaut wrote, “देश के पिता नहीं, देश के तो लाल होते हैं। धन्य हैं भारत माँ के ये लाल,” praising former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri as a "son of Bharat Mata," while seemingly omitting Gandhi’s role as the Father of the Nation.

Deir Al-Balah (Gaza Strip): Israel's foreign minister said Wednesday that he was barring the United Nations secretary-general from entering Israel, accusing him of being biased against the country.

Patna: Political strategist-turned-activist Prashant Kishor on Wednesday announced the launch of his political outfit Jan Suraaj Party, a much-anticipated move by which he hopes to take the political landscape in Bihar by storm.

Beirut: Hezbollah announced on Wednesday that it had repelled an Israeli infantry force attempting to infiltrate the Lebanese town of Odaisseh at dawn, claiming to have inflicted casualties on the Israeli soldiers and forcing them to retreat. The clashes occurred amid rising tensions along the Lebanon-Israel border.

Sonbhadra (UP): A group of men allegedly assaulted and urinated upon a 22-year-old youth in eastern Uttar Pradesh's Sonbhadra, prompting a police probe into the matter.

Bengaluru: JD(S) leader and Union Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Wednesday questioned the MUDA's decision to take back 14 plots allotted to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's wife Parvathi B M, and said it amounts to "destruction of evidence".

Bengaluru: A 23-year-old passenger, who recently lost his job and failed to get employment thereafter, stabbed a city bus conductor after he was asked to move away from the door of the vehicle for safety reasons, police said on Wednesday.