New Delhi: The central government has discharged Puja Khedkar, former probationary civil servant, from the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) with immediate effect, official sources said on Saturday.

A local ice cream parlour in Hyderabad found itself in trouble after being caught red-handed selling whiskey-infused ice cream. The Excise Department seized 11.5 kg of whiskey-infused ice cream from the store.

A Kerala district sessions court in Ernakulam has granted pre-arrest bail to Malayalam actor and CPI(M) legislator M Mukesh in a case of alleged rape. The court observed that the complainant had not initially mentioned forced sexual intercourse in her first statement and made this allegation only after the initial bail plea hearing.

A fake call centre running in Sector 63 here was busted and nine people, including six women were arrested, police said on Saturday.

Wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia were used by the Congress as "pawns" in their "conspiracy" to take control of the Wrestling Federation of India and attack the BJP, former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh said on Saturday.

In a shocking revelation, three women from Tenali, Guntur district, have been arrested for their involvement in a series of cyanide murders targeting vulnerable individuals over the past two years. The accused, identified as Munagappa Rajani (40), Mudiyala Venkateswari alias Bujji (32), and Gontu Ramanamma (60), have confessed to killing three people and attempting to kill three others for gold and money.

 A woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Kannauj was brutally thrashed and had her head shaved after she complained that her nephew harassed her. The incident took place on September 3, 2024, but the video surfaced recently, leading to the arrest of six people.

Seven people, including four children, were injured after the roof of a house collapsed due to heavy rains in Chholas village in Gautam Buddh Nagar district on Saturday, police said.