Police on Friday briefly detained over 50 students and civil society members who gathered at Jantar Mantar for a pro-Palestine protest, police said.

A district court here on Friday sentenced a 72-year-old man to life imprisonment for killing a Dalit labourer.

West Bengal minister Jyotipriyo Mallick, who was arrested earlier in the day, has been hospitalised after being diagnosed with high blood sugar and renal issues, officials said on Friday.

He had earlier fainted when produced in court and complained of dizziness, nausea and weakness of the left arm.

Moments after allegedly gunning down four persons in a train near Mumbai, including a senior colleague, dismissed Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable Chetansinh Chaudhary called up his wife and said he had committed a "big mistake" and asked her if he should "shoot" himself, too, according to her statement which is part of the case's chargesheet.

The Allahabad High Court recently held that liking an "obscene" post on social media does not constitute an offence, however, sharing or reposting such content will attract penal consequences.

The court in its observations on Wednesday said sharing such a post would amount to "transmission" under Section 67 of the Information Technology (IT) Act and will be punishable.

The Left government in Kerala has sought the intervention of the Central government to reconsider a recent recommendation made by an NCERT panel to replace the term 'India' with 'Bharat' in school textbooks.

Prominent Muslim organisation Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind on Friday expressed concern over the expected participation of Narendra Modi in the consecration ceremony at the Ram temple in Ayodhya, saying that as the country's Prime Minister, he should abstain from attending such events.

Hours after arresting West Bengal minister Jyotipriya Mallick for his alleged involvement in the multi-crore ration scam, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday froze his bank accounts as well as those belonging to his wife and daughter, a senior officer said.

Mallick's mobile phones were also seized and sent for forensic examination, he added.