Cuba's government said late Wednesday that the 10 passengers on a boat that opened fire on its soldiers were armed Cubans living in the US who were trying to infiltrate the island and unleash terrorism.

A man allegedly slit the throats of his two-month pregnant wife and three daughters at their residence in outernorth area of the national capital, with police suspecting that his preference for a son could be behind the killings, officials said.

The NCERT on Wednesday apologised for "inappropriate content" after facing the Supreme Court's ire over a chapter talking about judicial corruption in a Class 8 textbook and said the book concerned will be rewritten in consultation with appropriate authorities.

 Describing Prime Minister Narendra Modi as "more than a friend”, his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday showered praises on the Indian leader and thanked him for standing by Israel's side after the dastardly attack of October 7, 2023.

Mallikarjuna Mutya, a self-proclaimed godman from Mahal Roja (Mahalaroja) village in Shahapur taluk of Yadgir district in North Karnataka, is in the news after he was accused of behaving inappropriately with a minor girl.

The Uttar Pradesh Congress on Wednesday staged a statewide protest demanding a fair and transparent inquiry into the FIR lodged against Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati and those who filed the complaint against him.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday vowed to continue her fight against the alleged omission of voters' names in the ongoing SIR, saying she apprehended a "conspiracy" to delete over 1.2 crore names from the final electoral rolls of the state citing logical discrepancies.