The EC has written to West Bengal DGP, flagging serious security lapses during the visit of an electoral roll observer to SIR) hearing camps in South 24 Parganas district.

In Odisha, several people are feared to be dead after a large portion of rocks collapsed at a stone quarry in Dhenkanal district.

Gujarat has once again reaffirmed its status as a haven for avifauna, with more than 8.33 lakh migratory and local birds recorded across various water bodies and wetland areas of the state during 2024–25.

The NIA on Saturday chargesheeted four more CPI (Maoist) operatives in connection with the killing of a ‘gopniya sainik’ of the Bijapur district police in Chhattisgarh.

 The Madhya Pradesh government on Friday shunted out the Indore municipal commissioner and suspended two senior officials.

In municipal corporation elections in Maharashtra, the BJP-Shiv Sena coalition has won 66 wards and Ajit Pawar's NCP two.