Heavy rain with gale lashed Vijayawada city on Wednesday morning and a number of trees uprooted and many roads were inundated after severe cyclonic storm Montha crossed Andhra Pradesh coast near Narasapur in West Godavari district, south of Kakinada overnight, IMD said on Wednesday.

A gas cylinder exploded inside a hardware shop in Rajasthan's Jhunjhunu on Wednesday, killing the shop owner who was sleeping inside when the blast occurred, police said.

A Delhi motor accident claims tribunal has awarded Rs 28.77 lakh as compensation to the family of a person who died in a 2022 BMW car accident.

The father of Mohammed Rizvi alias Raja, the young man jailed after a video surfaced of him using abusive language against Prime Minister Narendra Modi during Rahul Gandhi’s Voter Adhikar Yatra in August, says the family has been left devastated financially, socially, and emotionally.

Lawyers for Brazilian former President Jair Bolsonaro filed an appeal to reduce his prison sentence for attempting a coup after his 2022 electoral defeat.

Police in Maharashtra's Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar on Tuesday busted a fake call centre and detained 116 people, including a juvenile, allegedly involved in stealing the data of US citizens and duping them, an official said.

The Aam Aadmi Party termed the Delhi BJP government's cloud seeding experiment on Tuesday a "big fraud" and said it might attempt to steal the credit of (Hindu rain god) Lord Indra if actual rain happens.

Severe Cyclonic storm Montha on Tuesday crossed the coast off Andhra Pradesh, causing disruptions in the southern state, while the impact was also felt in neighbouring Odisha, where normal life was affected in 15 districts.