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A Russian national who was touring the country was beaten up by a farmer in Telangana after he pitched a tent by the side of an agricultural field to shelter himself from bad weather. The farmer had ventured out to inspect potential damage to his crops due to the bad weather and saw the pitched tent with the Russian national lying inside.

A Delhi-bound Air India flight from Jodhpur with 142 passengers on-board was diverted to Jaipur this evening due to a landing gear of the aircraft failing to retract after take-off, officials said.

A train in Odisha with passengers on board travelled for 10 kilometres without an engine on Saturday night. The train engine had earlier been detached from the coaches before the train starting moving as the skid brakes had not been applied by persons in charge.

A 75-year-old woman was beaten to death in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district on Friday allegedly by the owner of a fair price shop after she got into a dispute with him over the quantity of ration given to her, according to a report by news agency Press Trust of India.

The Shiv Sena today won the bypoll to Ward 173 of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) with its candidate, Ramdas Kamble, defeating the Congress' Sunil Shetye by a margin of 845 votes.

Over 7,000 buses, a majority from neighbouring states, were booked for flouting pollution norms in the national capital in the last six years, the Delhi government informed the state Assembly.

Eight people were killed and five others were injured after a speeding truck hit two auto-rickshaws near Majhgavan in Katni district of Madhya Pradesh this morning, a police official said.

A traffic cop in Haryana has been arrested and suspended from duty for allegedly sexually harassing a 21-year-old woman in an auto-rickshaw on Thursday.

A 32-year-old woman has been arrested by the Goa police for allegedly selling her infant son for Rs 2 lakh. The 11-month-old child was allegedly sold to Amar Morje who is married but did not have a child of his own.

Indrani Mukerjea, who is lodged in Arthur Road jail on charges of murdering her daughter Sheena Bora, was admitted to the JJ Hospital in south Mumbai's Byculla late on Friday.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today demanded a probe by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Delhi Assembly into the relationship between the Lt Governor and food commissioner with regard to alleged irregularities in distribution of ration.

Goa issued an alert on Friday to all the vessels and casinos operating off the state's coast following an intelligence input about possible arrival of terrorists on board a fishing trawler, the state's ports minister said.

A BJP leader was attacked by half a dozen men in West Bengal's Bankura on Friday when he arrived at the District Magistrate's office to file a complaint for the violence over filing nominations for the panchayat polls scheduled for next month.

Train services on the recently-opened Pink Line of the Delhi Metro were affected today for nearly two hours after a section of the overhead electrification (OHE) tripped on the down line due to the dust storm in the evening.

For a young woman from Hyderabad, the job of a salesgirl in Dubai was meant to be an escape from poverty and a tough life back home in India. Instead, she spent the last three weeks in horror - cheated and sold to a sheikh in the Sharjah to work as a domestic help.