Sagar: The dead body of a 20-year-old youth was found at a well near Gopala Gowda Nagar sports ground.

North Kashmir's Kupwara town shut in protest on Friday after the body of a brutally murdered minor boy was found on Thursday. Authorities closed educational institutions in the town and suspended mobile Internet services as a precautionary measure after a complete shutdown.

At least 58 inmates of the women's jail in Byculla were rushed to the hospital on Friday morning due to suspected food poisoning, officials said.

A majority of the women complained of severe abdominal pain, vomiting and dehydration and were rushed to the government-run Sir J.J. Hospital here.

Belthangady: The uprooting of a mammoth tree, which fell on the main road near Belthangady market on Friday, let to disruptions to vehicular movement.

Hauled up second time by the government on its failure to check the spread of fake and provocative content on its platform amid growing lynching episodes, the Facebook-owned platform on Friday said it is launching a test to limit message forwarding to five chats that will apply to its users in India.

The Shiv Sena decided to boycott parliamentary work on Friday. The party MPs did not sign the attendance register also. Speaking to ANI, Shiv Sena MP Anandrao Adsul confirmed that the party will not take part in Parliament work today. "We are boycotting parliamentary work today and we have not even signed our attendance," Adsul said.

Mangaluru: A protest was staged seeking fixation of the salary and re-appointment of the Karnataka One employees in front of the Mangaluru One center on Friday.

Former NDA ally and a prime mover of the no-confidence motion against the BJP-led ruling alliance, The Telugu Desam Party, on Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of "deceiving" the people of Andhra Pradesh by not giving it the promised special category status, saying it was fighting a war between "morality and majority."