‘Why are raids taking place on the homes of lawyers, poets, writers, Dalit rights activists and intellectuals and not those who make up lynch mobs?’

An Indian Police Service (IPS) officer has written to Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath and offered to campaign for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

A 19-year-old murder convict will spend the rest of his life in jail for killing his 17-year-old school junior. The court hinged on two pieces of evidence — a poem of the victim girl and a YouTube song in which a youth kills his girlfriend — to deliver this verdict.

A major fire broke out at an Army camp near the Line of Control in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, police sources said.

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-linked (RSS) Malayalam weekly, Kesari, pulled down an editorial from its website which criticised the Modi government’s handling of the Kerala floods, News 18 reported. It even slammed the Centre for giving “political colour” to the crisis.

 The Maharashtra Police on Tuesday arrested Maoist ideologue Varavara Rao here, with a family member quoting the detectives as saying that he was linked with an alleged plot to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Activists from across the country were picked up following a series of raids by the Pune Police in connection with violence in Maharashtra's Bhima Koregaon in January this year. Raids were conducted at homes of activists and intellectuals in Delhi, Faridabad, Goa, Mumbai, Thane, Ranchi and Hyderabad today.

Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb said he wants to distribute ducks among villagers in the state because he believes they will boost the rural economy. But the chief minister also claims ducks provide additional benefits: he says they recycle water, and their swimming increases oxygen levels in water bodies.