New Delhi: A base kitchen in Kochi was closed and fined Rs 1 lakh following an inspection conducted by a three-member committee comprising officers from the railways and the IRCTC, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Wednesday.

Jabalpur: The Madhya Pradesh High Court has upheld the life imprisonment of former chemistry professor Mamta Pathak, who had argued her case using scientific knowledge, for murdering her doctor husband by electrocution in Chhatarpur district in 2021.

Chennai: Former Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai is not expected to contest the 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, according to sources in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Instead, he is likely to be given a national-level role in the party, as part of an upcoming organisational reshuffle, reported India Today.

New Delhi: Claims being made by a Kerala-based cleric about the case of Nimisha Priya, an Indian on death row in Yemen, are incorrect and any speculation on this sensitive matter should be avoided, government sources said on Wednesday.

New Delhi: Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan on Wednesday questioned why India's retaliatory action post-Pahalgam attack was named "Operation Sindoor", when women were widowed in the incident and actually "lost their sindoor".

Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara on Wednesday said that the state government will decide if there is a need to replace senior IPS officer Pronab Mohanty, who is the SIT chief, set up to probe the allegations of "mass burials" in Dharmasthala, considering law and rules.

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday urged the Centre to waive loans for the flood and landslide victims from her parliamentary constituency of Wayanad, and lamented the "lack" of central assistance in helping the affected people rebuild their lives.

 Congress MP Praniti Shinde on Wednesday stood by her remarks on Operation Sindoor and said she would not apologise to the BJP’s "trolls and andhbhakts", a day after the saffron party’s workers staged a protest against her in Solapur.