Patna Pirates overcame a sluggish start to record a comfortable 43-37 victory over UP Yoddha in the Pro Kabaddi League here on Sunday.

The Congress Sunday launched a scathing attack on the Centre over the falling rupee and accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of "monumental mismanagement" of the economy and delivering blows to it.

An incident where an aged person attempted to rape a six-year-old girl was reported from Mudigere police station limits on Saturday evening. Now, the police have been searching for the accused who is absconding after the incident came to light.

A school principal was hacked to death Sunday by a six member gang in front of 20 students, for whom he was holding a special class, police said.

Kannada Development Authority chairman Prof S.G. Siddaramaiah said that anybody could get doctorate degree for a thousand rupees from a foreign university.

They have extremely low weight for their height; the only country with a higher prevalence of child wasting is war-torn South Sudan.

Three motorcycle-borne miscreants Sunday looted Rs 2.10 lakh from an ATM staff of a bank in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, a police official said.

Union minister M J Akbar on Sunday rejected the allegations of sexual misconduct levelled against him by several women as "false and fabricated" and vowed legal action, while suggesting this was part of an "agenda" as the charges came a few months before a general election.