Two persons were arrested here for allegedly gangraping a friend's wife after paying Rs 1,000 to the husband, police said on Monday.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday said he was "shocked" by a purported video posted on the 'X' account of the BJP's Assam unit that appeared to incite violence against a minority community, and called for a united resistance to what he described as "communal hatemongering".

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has received more than 18,600 applications for domicile certificates in the past one-and-a-half months, an unprecedented spike linked to the Election Commission's ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, officials said on Monday.

A first-year law student in Punjab's Tarn Taran district on Monday allegedly shot dead his fellow woman student in the head inside the classroom before turning the gun on himself and pulling the trigger, as horrified classmates watched.

Delhi saw 10 days of 'severe' air quality during the winter season (October-January) in 2025-26 as against 31 days in 2016-17, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said on Monday.

AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday lodged a complaint with the city police seeking criminal action against Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma over a now-deleted purported video shared on social media.

AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday slammed the BJP-led Centre and the RSS over the Sangh chief’s remarks seeking the conferment of the Bharat Ratna on Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar, saying the saffron party would even give the country’s highest civilian award to Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin, Nathuram Godse.

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Monday attacked the government for cutting capital expenditure in 2025-26 at a time 'when neither the public sector, private sector nor foreign investors are investing in India', while terming Union Budget 2026-27 a "forgettable budget".