New Delhi: Political scientists Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar on Monday wrote to NCERT objecting to new textbooks carrying their names even after they had disassociated themselves from the revisions and said they will be forced to take legal recourse if these books with their names are not withdrawn immediately.

Bengaluru: By-election to one seat of Karnataka Legislative Council, that was vacated by former Chief Minister and now Member of Parliament Jagadish Shettar, will be held on July 12, poll officials said on Tuesday.

Chitradurga (Karnataka): Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara on Tuesday said there was no need to hand over the Renukaswamy murder case to the CBI as the police were doing a good job in their investigation without succumbing to any pressure. Parameshwara met the parents and wife of Renukaswamy, who was tortured and murdered in Bengaluru on June eight.

Mehsana (Guj): A case has been registered against four persons for allegedly cheating a homoeopath in Gujarat’s Mehsana who paid Rs 16.32 lakh to get admission to a medical course in Uttar Pradesh but received a fake degree instead.

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: A 23-year-old woman died on Monday after she pressed the accelerator while her car was in reverse gear and it plunged into a valley in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar in Maharashtra, a police official said.

Security agencies on Tuesday jointly conducted a thorough investigation at Jaipur airport after it received a bomb threat.

Major Simrat Rajdeep Singh, a doctor from the Indian Army posted at the Western Command Hospital, Chandimandir, performed a life-saving act aboard a flight from Goa to Chandigarh recently, resuscitating a 27-year-old critically ill passenger and requesting an emergency landing in Mumbai.

The BJP in Kerala on Tuesday continued to mock the Congress party's decision to field Priyanka Gandhi in Wayanad, which was vacated by Rahul Gandhi, and said the grand old party may consider her husband Robert Vadra in the upcoming by-poll in Palakkad assembly segment.