Rakbar Khan, the man who died after being attacked by a mob in Rajasthan's Alwar on Friday, died of shock and injuries from a "blunt weapon or object", a post-mortem report has said.

Karnataka is the new national leader in renewable energy generation, US-based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) said on Tuesday. It has overtaken Tamil Nadu that had long been India's top renewables market.

A photograph of Rakbar Khan -- the man who died in Rajasthan's Alwar allegedly after being beaten up by cow vigilantes -- sitting upright inside a police car has raised further questions about the role of the police in the attack. The photo has been circulated by Naval Kishore, the man who had placed a call to the police about the attack and accompanied them for most of their three-hour journey through the area before Rakbar Khan was taken to the hospital -- dead.

The benchmark BSE Sensex touched a new record high of 36,869.34 points on Tuesday morning with healthy buying in banking, consumer durables and metal stocks.

Four women were beaten up and two of them even stripped by a mob in a village in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district on Monday afternoon on suspicion of being child lifters before police rescued them.

Sanjay Dutta, inspector-in-charge of Dhupguri police station said, “We rescued the women from the mob. No arrest has been made till night.”

A high level team, set up by the Rajasthan Police on Monday, to probe why policemen took three hours to reach a hospital only four kilometres away with a badly injured man accused of smuggling cows, admitted local personnel made an "error of judgement".

 At least four persons have been killed and 12 injured after an LPG cylinder exploded at a village in Uttar Pradesh's Agra district, police said on Tuesday.

 Swaraj India on Monday welcomed the Supreme Court decision removing the blanket ban on peaceful protests in central Delhi including Jantar Mantar.