Mumbai: Indian businessman and former Chairman of Tata Sons is feared dead in a road accident in Palghar, unconfirmed media reports claimed on Sunday afternoon.

 India recorded over 1.64 lakh deaths due to suicides in 2021 an average of nearly 450 daily or 18 every hour, with the figures reaching highest for any calendar year so far, according to official data.

A report published in the New Indian Express has claimed that the CPM leader KK Shailaja was selected for the 64^th Magsaysay Award for her commitment and service towards ensuring accessible health system and effectively leading from the front to manage the Nipah and COVID-19 outbreaks in Kerala but the CPM scuttled the chance.

A day after Union Home Minister Amit Shah claimed that Communist parties would soon disappear from the world and that only BJP has a future in the country, the CPI(M) on Sunday hit back at the saffron party by saying it has been able to increase its numbers only by "buying MLAs, MPs of its political opponents".

Slogans of Rahul Gandhi Zindabad and Sonia Gandhi Zindabad reverberated through the air on Sunday as thousands of Congress supporters reached the Ramlila Maidan here to raise their voice against price rise and unemployment.

The National Commission for Scheduled Castes will summon the Jharkhand chief secretary and director general of police over the forcible eviction of 50 Dalit families in Palamu district by members of another community over a land dispute.

 The Congress on Sunday took a dig at the Centre on the issue of price rise, saying unemployment and inflation were "two brothers" of the Modi government.

BJP's Meghalaya in charge M Chuba Ao said the party will soon take a call on whether to continue its support to the NPP-led MDA government in the state or not, amid corruption charges against the Conrad K Sangma dispensation.