New Delhi: The government on Tuesday announced a Rs 200 per cylinder cut in prices of domestic cooking gas as it looked to counter the cheaper LPG promise of the Congress in upcoming assembly elections in states like Madhya Pradesh.

Calling Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal "corrupt number one", Rajasthan BJP MLA Kailash Meghwal on Monday said he will ask Prime Minister Narendra Modi to remove him from the Council of Ministers.

A distressing incident has unfolded in Uttar Pradesh, where a bus conductor, Mohit Yadav, reportedly took his own life after facing suspension for allowing two passengers to briefly disembark and offer prayers. The incident has sparked outrage among contract workers in Bareilly, who have registered their protest against the tragic demise of the bus conductor.

The Centre told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that the union territory status of Jammu and Kashmir is not a "permanent thing" and that it will make an elaborate statement on the vexatious political issue in the court on August 31.

Three labourers suffered burn injuries when a gas pipeline in north Delhi's Burari got damaged while digging the ground for the Safe City Project, police said on Tuesday.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday ordered the suspension of teachers and the vice-principal of a government school in northwest Delhi over their alleged failure to report to police the sexual assault of two boys by their classmates.

A female leopard and two cubs died after they came in contact with live wires laid to poach wild boars in Maharashtra's Gondia district, an official said on Tuesday. Four persons have been arrested in connection with the death of the big cats.

The one-day session of the Manipur Assembly was adjourned sine die within an hour of commencement after Congress MLAs created a ruckus demanding that the session be extended to five days.