Imphal: The Manipur government Wednesday approved the venue for the flagging off of the proposed January 14 Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra albeit "with limited number of participants."

Mumbai: In a significant development in the ongoing power struggle within the Shiv Sena party in Maharashtra, Speaker Rahul Narwekar declared Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's faction as the "real Shiv Sena." He further ruled that the MLAs of Shinde's camp cannot be disqualified, handing a decisive victory to Shinde in the factional dispute.

Bhagalpur (Bihar): A 23-year-old woman, her husband and their little daughter were killed allegedly by her father and brother in Bihar's Bhagalpur district, as her family was against their marriage, the police said on Wednesday.

New Delhi: The Congress party has officially announced its decision to abstain from the grand inauguration ceremony of the Ayodhya Ram Temple, characterizing it as a "political project" orchestrated by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its ideological mentor Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). The party's leadership, including Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi, and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who received invitations, have declined to attend the event.

Champat Rai, the general secretary of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, has stated in an interview with Amar Ujala that there is no rush to complete the construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday arrested the main accused in the Kerala professor hand-chopping case of 2010, officials said.

A 52-year-old man fielding in a local cricket match here died after being hit on his head by a ball from another match underway on the same ground, police said on Wednesday.

The Congress on Wednesday claimed that the Manipur government has declined to give its nod for the venue where the party's 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra' is scheduled to begin on January 14.