Opposition MLAs in Kerala disrupted Assembly proceedings for a second day on Tuesday, demanding the resignation of state Devaswom minister over alleged irregularities linked to the gold-clad copper plates at the Sabarimala Lord Ayyappa temple.

The Congress on Tuesday condemned the killing of a Dalit man in Raebareli as murder of humanity and the Constitution, and said it poses a serious question mark on collective morality as violence cannot be a hallmark of any civilised society.

Advocate Rakesh Kishore, who hurled a shoe at Chief Justice of India (CJI) B.R. Gavai during a Supreme Court hearing on Monday, has said he feels “no remorse” for his actions and claimed that “God provoked” him to do it, The New Indian Express reported.

 Hours after an advocate hurled a shoe at Chief Justice of India (CJI) B.R. Gavai inside the Supreme Court, senior Congress leader and Karnataka MLC B.K. Hariprasad issued a strong statement, linking the act to what he described as the “Godse ideology” and the divisive politics propagated by the RSS.

In a strong retort against Pakistan in the UN Security Council, India on Monday said its neighbour as a country that “bombs its own people” and conducts “systematic genocide”.

The Congress on Tuesday said much was made of the need of the SIR exercise to remove non-citizens from the electoral roll but the Election Commission has not had the integrity or the courage to enlighten the country on how many such non-citizens in Bihar were removed from the voter list.

A man has approached the Sitapur district magistrate with an unusual complaint – claiming he can’t sleep at night out of fear as his wife “turns into a nagin".

Senior advocate and BJP leader Pitabash Panda was shot dead by unidentified men near his residence in Odisha's Berhampur on Monday night, police said.