A court here has sentenced a school teacher to more than three years in prison for slapping a Class 9 student for unfinished homework, an act that ruptured her left eardrum and caused hearing impairment.

BJP MLA Yumnam Khemchand Singh on Wednesday became the 13th Chief Minister of Manipur, nearly a year after the resignation of BJP leader N Biren Singh following months of ethnic violence between Meitei and Kuki communities in the state, leading to the imposition of President's Rule.

The entire Opposition will take a collective call on moving an impeachment motion against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, Congress leader K C Venugopal said on Wednesday, a day after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee called for such a move.

 A woman was arrested for allegedly using AI to morph photos of a former colleague and circulating them on social media as an act of revenge, Tamil Nadu Cyber Crime Wing officials said on Wednesday.

Noted sociologist and writer Andre Beteille died due to age-related illness at a hospital here on Tuesday night. He was 91.

The India-US trade deal will hurt the interests of Indian farmers, and the government wants to destroy the country's agriculture sector, Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge alleged on Wednesday.

Silver jewellery weighing nearly 120 kg and worth Rs 1 crore was stolen from a house in Ranchhod Nagar area of the city in the early hours of Wednesday, police said.

Suggesting cracks within the INDI Alliance in Tamil Nadu, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman questioned the Congress party's commitment to the DMK-led coalition, saying it was dilly-dallying on deciding whether to contest the upcoming assembly elections on its own or with DMK.