A private school run by a Christian management in Palluruthy here was compelled to declare a two-day holiday on Monday following an escalation of a dispute with the parents of an eighth-standard student over her wearing a hijab.

Two unidentified terrorists were killed as Army troops foiled an infiltration bid along the Line of Control (LoC) in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials here said on Tuesday.

A 40-year-old man was injured when stones were hurled at a train between Kannur South and Thalassery stations here, railway police said on Tuesday.

A shocking video from Ayodhya’s Deen Dayal Upadhyay Park has sparked outrage after municipal enforcement officials were seen forcing a group of vendors to perform headstands and sit-ups in the scorching sun as punishment for selling puja items outside the Ram Temple.

The Haryana government has sent State DGP Shatrujeet Kapur on leave amid opposition's attack on the BJP dispensation over IPS officer Y Puran Kumar's alleged suicide, and demand by Kumar's family for action against the officers accused of harassing him.

A murder that took place around 8 am, an attack on a President award-winning teacher, and a theft in a temple are among several crimes to have rocked Bhubaneswar on a single day on Monday.

Candidates were yet to be announced by both the ruling NDA and the opposition INDIA bloc in poll-bound Bihar on Monday, even as just four days remain for filing nominations for the first phase, and the process beginning for the second leg.

The alleged gang rape of a second-year medical student in West Bengal's Durgapur has sparked massive outrage, snowballing into a major political storm, with the survivor's father likening Bengal to "Aurangzeb's rule" and Governor C V Ananda Bose calling for a "second renaissance" to make the state safer for women.