India was on Tuesday felicitated by the World Health Organisation for the elimination of trachoma as a public health problem, making it the third country in the region after Nepal and Myanmar to achieve this feat.

Congress leader Chaudhary Lal Singh lost the Basohli Assembly seat in Jammu and Kashmir by 16,034 votes to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Darshan Kumar, according to data from the Election Commission. Kumar secured 31,874 votes, while Singh, a former minister in the Jammu and Kashmir Cabinet, garnered 15,840 votes.

Around 50 senior doctors of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital here on Tuesday tendered their resignations in a mark of solidarity with medics who have been on fast-unto-death demanding justice for the deceased woman doctor, sources in the health facility said.

The ‘Fusion Fair,’ initially scheduled for October 8 by the Women’s Wing of the Hidayah Foundation, has been postponed to October 9.

The Allahabad High Court has observed that for an offence of dowry demand or in case of dowry death, it is sufficient to show that the victim woman and the accused man were "residing as husband and wife at the relevant point of time".

With the BJP racing ahead in Haryana as per the early trends, AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said the "biggest lesson" of the poll results is that one should never be "overconfident" in the elections.

NC Chief Farooque Abdullah on Tuesday announced Omar Abdullah as the new Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. The announcement came shortly after it became evident that their party along with its allies have secured the majority of the seats in the assembly elections.

The Congress secured significant victories in the Muslim-dominated Assembly constituencies of Nuh, Ferozepur Jhirka, and Punahana in Haryana. These regions had witnessed communal tensions last year in July.