A Dalit man was allegedly beaten to death by a group of youths after a tiff over a poster with BR Ambedkar's photograph put up outside his house in Rajasthan's Hanumangarh district, police said on Wednesday.

Eminent film director Buddhadeb Dasgupta, who had been battling kidney ailments for quite some time, died at his residence here early on Thursday following a cardiac arrest, family members said. He was 77.

 India reported 94,052 new COVID-19 cases, taking the infection tally to 2,91,83,121, while the death toll climbed to 3,59,676 with 6,148 fatalities being recorded in a day, the highest since the outbreak of the pandemic, according to the Union Health Ministry's data updated on Thursday.

Amidst widespread protests from the employees and the locals the Lakshadweep administration has withdrawn its order to deploy government officials on fishing boats.

At least eight children and three adults were killed and seven other people injured after a single-storey house collapsed on another structure in Malwani area of Mumbai, a civic official said on Thursday.

Kochi: The 45-year-old Indian recently freed from death row in the UAE after an NRI businessman paid "blood money" arrived here on Wednesday and said his release was a "second life" for him.

Chandigarh: Two alleged gangsters involved in killing two policemen recently in Ludhiana, were gunned down by a Kolkata police team in a shootout there in the metropolis on Wednesday, a top Punjab police official said.

Kolkata: Popular Tollywood heroine and Trinamool Congress MP Nusrat Jahan on Wednesday claimed her marriage with businessman Nikhil Jain was not a legal marriage but a live-in relationship as their wedding in Turkey did not have recognition in Indian law.