Chandigarh: One girl was killed and another seriously injured after they were run over allegedly by a police inspector in a village in Punjab's Jalandhar district on Monday, officials said, adding the accused has been arrested.

Lucknow: The BJP backed SP rebel candidate Nitin Agarwal was elected deputy speaker of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly on Monday, defeating Narendra Verma, the official candidate of Akhilesh Yadav's party, by 244 votes.

Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and four others accused in a 19-year-old murder case were sentenced to life imprisonment. Ram Rahim has been lodged in jail in Haryana's Rohtak since his 2017 conviction for the rape of two followers, and is also serving a life-term for another murder

Backing the protesting farmers on their demand for the dismissal of Union minister Ajay Mishra, Meghalaya Governor Satya Pal Malik said he should have resigned immediately after the Lakhimpur Kheri violence and does not deserve the post in any case.

Love knows no bounds, not even nature's fury. Sailing along in a large cooking vessel through the flooded streets, a health worker couple from the district beat all odds to exchange their wedding vows on Monday here, keen not to miss the special occasion to usher in a new chapter in their life.

The Samyukt Kisan Morcha's six-hour 'rail roko' protest on Monday over the Lakhimpur violence affected 150 locations in the Northern Railway zone and hindered the running of 60 trains, said its chief public relation officer (CPRO).

A Delhi court has imposed a fine on the police for the undue harassment of the accused in a February 2020 riots case, noting that repeated directions to the police commissioner and other senior officers seeking their personal intervention in these matters had fallen on deaf ears.

 In an incident reported from Uttar Pradesh's Shahjahanpur, a lawyer was reportedly shot dead at a court complex on Monday.