Bahraich (UP): A mutilated body of a two-year-old boy was found in a field in the Gadamaar Kalan village of Mahsi tehsil Tuesday morning, possibly dragged there and mauled by an animal, police said.

Firozabad (UP): A 12-year-old boy died after being hit in the chest by a cricket ball during a match in Tundla town of Firozabad district, police said on Tuesday.

Five people were apprehended for allegedly attempting to sell cocaine laced with Ephedrine in Kukatpally here, police said on Tuesday.

Chaotic scenes prevailed at a party welcome programme of new Assam Congress president Gaurav Gogoi on Tuesday, forcing the felicitation ceremony to be suspended for some time as organisers expressed apprehension that the wooden dais could cave in.

The government on Tuesday announced new reservation and domicile polices for the Union Territory of Ladakh, reserving 85 per cent jobs for locals and one-third of the total number of seats in the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Councils for women.

Beed: A recent health report has revealed alarming findings about the conditions faced by women sugarcane labourers in Maharashtra’s Beed district. According to the data, 843 women, mostly aged between 30 and 35, have undergone hysterectomy (surgical removal of the uterus), while 1,523 women were found to be pregnant during the harvesting season.

District Magistrate Rajender Pensiya on Tuesday announced that sacrificial slaughter in public places will not be permitted here during Bakrid and assured strict action against anyone attempting to disturb public order.

A police sub-inspector has been removed from field duty after he allegedly asked a gym owner not to allow entry to Muslims at the facility in Bhopal, officials said on Tuesday.