Kolkata: A group of miscreants forced an elderly couple to chant Jai Shri Ram at Andal in Budrwan district of Wes Bengal. A video of the victim blind couple Abdul Basheer (67) and 61-year-old Bedan Bibi has gone viral on social media.

Patna: Dalit organisations across the country have called a 'Bharat bandh' on Monday to protest a recent Supreme Court ruling "diluting" the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. The Modi government on Monday filed a review petition on the Supreme Court judgment on the SC/ST Act. The protests left one dead in Madhya Pradesh's Morena, where a curfew was later imposed along with parts of Gwalior. Protests turned violent in Rajasthan's Barmer, with cars and property being damaged. Similar reports emerged from Meerut, where cars were reported to have been damaged.

New Delhi: The Centre remained a mute spectator as petrol prices jumped a four-year high of Rs 73.73 per litre in Delhi on Sunday and diesel rates climbed to an all-time high.

Patna: Jharkhand Police on Saturday confirmed that it had arrested three people and detained another six in connection with the CBSE papers leak case. Among those arrested is also an individual, who’s being identified as Satish Pandey.

Indore: At least ten people have died after after a four-storey building collapsed near the Sarvate bus stand in Indore, after 9.15 pm, on Saturday night.

Triple Talaq Bill is anti-women, anti-gender justice, anti-children, will destroy families, push Muslim husbands into jails and damage the Muslim society," said AIMPLB Women Wing President Asma Zehra.

NEW DELHI: The Indian government has sought extradition of Islamic preacher Zakir Naik from Malyasia.