Police have questioned a friend of Lalit Mohan Jha, a key accused in the Parliament security breach incident, for hours in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, an officer said.

 Security arrangements in the West Bengal assembly will be beefed up, Speaker Biman Banerjee said.

The swearing-in ceremony of Rajasthan chief minister-designate Bhajan Lal Sharma will take place in Jaipur on Friday.

Faridabad: A group of men allegedly poured flammable liquid on cow vigilante Bittu Bajrangi's brother and set him on fire here, police said on Thursday. He has sustained 54 per cent burn injuries and is currently being treated at a private hospital, they said.

New Delhi: Lalit Mohan Jha, a key accused in the Parliament security breach incident, was arrested on Thursday evening, police sources said.

Sambalpur (Odisha): The health condition of the newborn girl, who was rescued from an abandoned borewell in Odisha's Sambalpur district on Tuesday night, is stable but she suffers from internal bleeding, doctors said on Thursday.

New Delhi: Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy on Thursday called out ''fake news items'', which claimed he endorsed automated trading applications and warned the public not to fall for such fraudulent claims.

Aligarh: A woman in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, Ishrat Nigar who was 'mistakenly shot’ by a police sub-inspector inside a local police station on December 8, died on Thursday in a hospital. The incident occurred on December 8 at Kotwali police station when Ishrat Nigar went to the station for passport verification.