New Delhi: Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan on Wednesday questioned why India's retaliatory action post-Pahalgam attack was named "Operation Sindoor", when women were widowed in the incident and actually "lost their sindoor".

Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara on Wednesday said that the state government will decide if there is a need to replace senior IPS officer Pronab Mohanty, who is the SIT chief, set up to probe the allegations of "mass burials" in Dharmasthala, considering law and rules.

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday urged the Centre to waive loans for the flood and landslide victims from her parliamentary constituency of Wayanad, and lamented the "lack" of central assistance in helping the affected people rebuild their lives.

 Congress MP Praniti Shinde on Wednesday stood by her remarks on Operation Sindoor and said she would not apologise to the BJP’s "trolls and andhbhakts", a day after the saffron party’s workers staged a protest against her in Solapur.

C Chandrasekar, the father of 26-year-old C Kavin Selva Ganesh, who was allegedly murdered in a suspected honour killing in Thoothukudi, has accused the parents of the prime accused of being part of a larger conspiracy and demanded their immediate arrest.

The family of a Kargil war veteran, Hakimuddin Shaikh, living in the city has alleged that they were recently harassed by Chandan Nagar Police who stormed into their house with a group of men at night and demanded proof of their Indian citizenship.

The Union government has not yet taken a decision on updating the National Population Register (NPR), the Ministry of Home Affairs informed the Lok Sabha, Scroll.in reported on Wednesday.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who recently claimed that his party has figured out the modus operandi of the "votes theft" by studying a Lok Sabha constituency in Karnataka, will participate in a protest in Bengaluru on August 4 and submit a representation to the Election Commission officials here.