Some people fell into a shallow rivulet in Junagadh district of Gujarat after a slab of a dilapidated causeway-like bridge collapsed during demolition, officials said on Tuesday.

A Telangana CPI leader was killed on the spot on Tuesday after unidentified assailants opened fire on him during his morning walk at Malakpet here, police said.

The execution of Nimisha Priya, a Kerala-born nurse sentenced to death in Yemen, has been temporarily postponed, according to sources on Tuesday. However, the family of the deceased Yemeni businessman has not yet agreed to grant her a pardon or accept blood money, a form of financial compensation under Islamic law.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted protection from coercive action to a cartoonist accused of sharing alleged objectionable cartoons of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and RSS workers on social media.

The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday stayed the arrest of cricketer Yash Dayal in connection with an FIR against him for allegedly sexually exploiting a woman.

Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has emphasised the crucial role of citizens who file petitions against the government, stating that such legal interventions help instill discipline in public administration and often succeed where political mechanisms fail.

A government school teacher in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district has been booked for allegedly reciting a poem critical of the Kanwar Yatra during a morning assembly, sparking protests from local residents.

Two teenage male friends, one of them a minor, have allegedly been stripped and forced to indulge in unnatural sex by some persons over non-payment of money in Mumbai, police said on Tuesday.