An Assistant Sub-Inspector who had gone to arrest a wanted criminal was brutally done to death by a group of criminals and their supporters in Chhindwara district of Madhya Pradesh, police said on Wednesday.

A woman, in her 30s, broke down and lashed out at her lawyer husband after he handed over her coins worth ₹24,600 as monthly maintenance in a divorce case.

A Gujarat court on Wednesday sentenced Patidar agitation spearhead Hardik Patel and two of his associates to two years in jail on charges of vandalising a BJP legislator's office in Mehsana district in 2015.

Two militants were killed on Wednesday in a gunfight with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag town.

Two youths, including a son of the Kateel temple  priest‘s Harinarayana Asranna, have been killed in a car accident near Tavarekere near Nelamangala.

The three arrests from Karnataka this week in the murder case of journalist Gauri Lankesh has brought the total number of arrested men to 10. While two people were arrested from Hubballi, another was arrested from Madikeri. Gauri Lankesh, 55, a vocal critic of hardline right-wing ideology, was shot dead outside her Bengaluru home in September last year.

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov has reiterated his "call to all in Gaza to step back from the brink", saying "those who seek to provoke Israelis and Palestinians to war must not succeed".

Vijay Mallya, the embattled tycoon wanted in India on loan default and money-laundering charges, is reported to have sent feelers to central agencies and the government that he is willing to come back to the country to face the law, sources in the Enforcement Directorate, which fights financial crimes, have said.