The Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court has refused to recommend to the Centre setting up of additional special courts to try the National Investigation Agency's (NIA) cases in the state, an official said on Tuesday.

In an accident that occurred on Monday night, a collision between a Tipper Lorry and Car resulted in the injury of 6 individuals in the car at Kumble Arikkadi. 

 Colonel Bikumalla Santosh Babu, the commanding officer of the 16 Bihar regiment who led from the front against the brutal Chinese attack in Galwan Valley in June last year, was on Tuesday posthumously awarded Mahavir Chakra by President Ram Nath Kovind for displaying "exemplary courage" during the clash.

A local TMC leader, who was shot at by unidentified people, succumbed to his injuries at a state-run hospital in West Bengal's Siliguri on Tuesday, police said.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea challenging the change in land use of a plot where the new official residence of the vice president will come up as part of the ambitious Central Vista project in Lutyens' Delhi.

 Apparently upset over missing his school bus, a class 9 student committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree in Betul district of Madhya Pradesh, police said on Tuesday.

The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday morning opened one shutter of Mullaperiyar dam due to rising water levels in the reservoir following heavy rains there, the district administration here said.

India logged 7,579 new coronavirus infections, the lowest in 543 days, taking the country's total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,45,26,480, while the active cases were the lowest in 536 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday.