The Congress Sunday launched a scathing attack on the Centre over the falling rupee and accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of "monumental mismanagement" of the economy and delivering blows to it.

Three motorcycle-borne miscreants Sunday looted Rs 2.10 lakh from an ATM staff of a bank in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, a police official said.

Union minister M J Akbar on Sunday rejected the allegations of sexual misconduct levelled against him by several women as "false and fabricated" and vowed legal action, while suggesting this was part of an "agenda" as the charges came a few months before a general election.

In a rare instance, the Supreme Court has come to the rescue of a man belonging to the Scheduled Caste category whose services were terminated twice by the Uttar Pradesh government owing to a dispute over his caste certificate.

As many as 175 police personnel including 142 Assistant Sub-Inspectors were promoted in Jammu, a police spokesperson said on Sunday.

Former judge K Ravinder Reddy, who quit after delivering the verdict in the Mecca Masjid blast case, has joined the Telangana Jana Samiti (TJS), part of the opposition alliance led by the Congress for the coming Assembly polls, weeks after expressing keenness to embrace the BJP.

Two men were beaten to death by a mob after they allegedly shot at a 12-year-old boy during a religious function at a temple in Saraiya village here, police said Sunday.

BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra Sunday took a dig at Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, saying he should get himself inducted in Pakistan's Cabinet as he repeatedly exudes his love for the country.