A detailed audit of the 2025 Bihar Legislative Assembly elections has raised grave concerns about the integrity of India’s electoral process, alleging large-scale voter disenfranchisement, opaque administrative actions and post-poll data manipulation.

At least two people were killed and three sustained burn injuries after a massive fire broke out at a vacant plot used for storing scrap cardboard and cartons in outer Delhi's Pitampura village early Tuesday, police said.

India is looking at raising a "rocket-cum-missile" force in view of the evolving regional security situation as both China and Pakistan have similar units, Army Chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi said on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday met Emmanuel Bonne, the diplomatic advisor to French President Emmanuel Macron, who is expected to visit India soon.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday confirmed its earlier order granting interim bail to Uttar Pradesh MLA Abbas Ansari, son of late gangster Mukhtar Ansari, in a case under the state's Gangsters Act.

The Delhi Police has rounded up and arrested 854 people and registered 690 FIRs during a massive, 48-hour anti-organised crime crackdown under their Operation Gang-Bust 2026, carried out across six states ahead of the Republic Day celebrations, officials said.

Senior CPI(M) leader Aisha Potty on Tuesday joined the opposition Congress, ending her more than a decade-long association with the Left party.

An e-rickshaw driver walked into the district hospital here with a 1.5-foot-long snake in his pocket, which had allegedly bitten him, an official said on Tuesday.