A Gujarat court on Wednesday sentenced Patidar agitation spearhead Hardik Patel and two of his associates to two years in jail on charges of vandalising a BJP legislator's office in Mehsana district in 2015.

News came today that Hatidža Mehmedović, who survived the war in Bosnia and led the Association of the Mothers of Srebrenica, had died in a hospital in Sarajevo.

Six persons, including a political worker, were killed and several injured on Wednesday in sporadic incidents of violence as millions of voters queued up outside polling stations across Pakistan to elect a new government.

A person killed and another went missing when the duo washed away by a high wave while pulling a boat on the banks of Padukere near Malpe on Wednesday.

Two militants were killed on Wednesday in a gunfight with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag town.

Two youths, including a son of the Kateel temple  priest‘s Harinarayana Asranna, have been killed in a car accident near Tavarekere near Nelamangala.

The three arrests from Karnataka this week in the murder case of journalist Gauri Lankesh has brought the total number of arrested men to 10. While two people were arrested from Hubballi, another was arrested from Madikeri. Gauri Lankesh, 55, a vocal critic of hardline right-wing ideology, was shot dead outside her Bengaluru home in September last year.

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov has reiterated his "call to all in Gaza to step back from the brink", saying "those who seek to provoke Israelis and Palestinians to war must not succeed".