A case was registered against six Telugu film actors, including Rana Daggubati, Prakash Raj, Vijay Deverkonda and 19 social media influencers, for allegedly promoting betting apps, police said on Thursday.

Social media giant 'X' (formerly Twitter), owned by US billionaire Elon Musk, has filed a lawsuit in the Karnataka High Court against Government of India, challenging what it called unlawful content regulation and arbitrary censorship.

In a massive operation against Left Wing Extremism, security forces killed 18 Naxalites in an encounter in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district on Thursday, an official said.

Indian researcher Badar Khan Suri, a post-doctoral fellow at Georgetown University, has been arrested by US immigration officers and faces deportation over allegations of spreading Hamas propaganda and having ties to a suspected terrorist. According to reports, he was taken into custody outside his home in Virginia by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents on Monday night.

A fire broke out in a house in Chengala on Wednesday night, leading to extensive damage and gutting the kitchen. The fire accident is reported to have occurred due to a short circuit.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who received a jersey signed by Argentine football star Lionel Messi, described him as an "artist with the ball."

The Allahabad High Court has ruled that grabbing the breasts of an 11-year-old girl, breaking her pyjama string, and attempting to drag her beneath a culvert constitute aggravated sexual assault but do not amount to rape or an attempt to rape.