An FIR was booked against actor-cum-social activist Prakash Raj on charges of making a statement on cow, at Hanumantha Nagar police station here on Wednesday.

A Buddhist monk was detained on Wednesday after minor children in Bodh Gaya in Bihar alleged he had sexually abused them, officials said.

A committee of secretaries, formed to deliberate and make recommendations for a separate law to deal with the incidents of lynching, has submitted its report to Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, officials said on Wednesday.

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The Centre has sanctioned Rs 730 crore for the Gujarat's Sardar Sarovar Dam project on the Narmada river for the current year and also committed soft loan of Rs 1,500 crore for the state's other irrigation projects, Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel said on Wednesday.

BJP state president BS Yeddyurappa made a serious allegation that “telephones of former chief minister Siddaramaiah, mine and other leaders are being tapped in the state and though I have raised the issue earlier, no action was taken”.

Ahead of his departure for Nepal to attend in the Fourth Bimstec Summit on Kathmandu on August 30-31, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that his participation in the event symbolises the priority India accords to deepening ties with India's extended neighbourhood in Southeast Asia.

While travelling, Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy noticed a girl selling flowers on the roadside and stopped his car to listen to her plight here on Wednesday.