A fake call centre allegedly cheating people by offering bogus insurance policies and false promises of bonuses in exchange for payments was busted in Noida on Tuesday, leading to the arrest of 13 persons, police said.

The Assam unit of the Congress on Tuesday staged a protest against the Election Commission and the BJP government over alleged irregularities found in the draft electoral rolls, published after a Special Revision (SR) of the voter lists.

 Two women employees of the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in Maharashtra's Latur district were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly abetting the suicide of a 12-year-old girl student.

Senior Congress leader from Akola in Maharashtra, Hidayat Patel, was seriously injured as unidentified persons attacked him with sharp weapons soon after he offered namaz at a mosque in Akot taluka of the district, police said.

A specially abled girl was allegedly gangraped in Odisha’s Rayagada district, police said on Tuesday.

 Four men were arrested for allegedly stealing gold jewellery, silver articles and cash worth Rs 1.03 crore from a house here, police said on Tuesday.

Renowned artist and senior art educator Syed Asif Ali passed away following a cardiac arrest in Mangaluru on Monday, January 5, 2026. Ali collapsed while on duty at Mahalasa College of Visual Art, Alake, where he had been serving for nearly three decades. He was 54.

The driver of Mrinal Hebbalkar, son of Karnataka Minister of Women and Child Welfare Lakshmi Hebbalkar, was reportedly stabbed by miscreants at four parts of the body, in an incident reported from the city.