A BJP leader has been booked for sexually harassing his daughter-in-law at Jansath town of the district, police said.

The BJP's divisional general secretary Mahesh Chand Sharma denied the charge and said he had been falsely implicated in the case due to a property dispute between his son and daughter-in-law.

The Assam Public Works (APW), the original petitioner in the Supreme Court which led to the updation of the National Register of Citizens six years ago, called the final NRC a "flawed document" as its prayer for re-verification of draft NRC was rejected by the apex court.

A dead bird on the runway of the city's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj international airport on Saturday forced an AirAsia India flight to do a go-around and an IndiGo aircraft to discontinue the approach, an MIAL spokesperson said.

Mangaluru: Former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday visited Pachenady village in the city which has been under the garbage after the local dump yard slumped it into the village, causing distress and property loss to various families.

E-tickets bought through IRCTC will get costlier as the Indian Railways has decided to restore service charges from September 1, according to an order.

The All Assam Students' Union (AASU) said it is not happy with the exclusion figure in the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) which was released on Saturday, and will appeal against it in the Supreme Court.

A 40-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death on suspicion of practising sorcery in Odisha's Malkangiri district, police said on Saturday.

Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma says the National Register of Citizens or NRC - the list intended to identify legal residents and weed out illegal immigrants from the northeastern state - cannot be viewed as a "red letter" for the Assamese society. The senior BJP leader indicated that he had little faith the list would really help get rid of foreigners.