BREAKING highlights: In Karnataka, Class 4 student dies after teacher thrashes him

A class 4 student died on Monday after a guest teacher allegedly thrashed him and pushed him off the first-floor balcony of a government-run school at Hadli village in Naragund taluk of Karnataka’s Gadag district, police said.

A 18-year-old boy, said to be nephew of AIMIM corporator Azam Sharif stabbed to death near his office. Some old rivalry is said to be the reason.

The Allahabad University was rocked by violence on Monday when students fought a pitched battle with security guards and then the police.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker Sushil Kumar Modi on Monday demanded that legal sanction should not be provided to a marriage between individuals of the same sex, saying same-sex marriage was against the cultural ethos of the country and allowing it will “play havoc with the delicate balance of personal laws”.

The Ashok Gehlot government in Rajasthan will provide cooking gas cylinders at ₹ 500 for people under the poverty line and those enrolled in the Ujjwala scheme.

Thai navy ships and helicopters searched Monday for more than 30 sailors still missing more than 17 hours after their warship sank in rough seas in the Gulf of Thailand, AP reported.

Ukraine has issued air raid alert across capital Kyiv, large parts of war-torn country, Reuters reported quoting officials.

Twitter's owner Elon Musk had tweeted a poll asking his followers if he should step down as the chief of the microblogging site he bought at a whopping $44 billion.

The poll results showed that a majority of users voted in favour of the move. A total of 17 million votes were cast on the poll created by Musk. Out of this, 57.5 per cent votes were for ‘Yes’ while 42.5 per cent were against him stepping down.

Noting that the hooch tragedies taking place in Bihar is a crime and it has nothing to do with ‘prohibition’, chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday assured that the matter will be dealt with accordingly.

Bhairon Singh Rathore (81), the veteran of the 1971 India-Pakistan war whose bravery at Rajasthan’s Longewala post was portrayed by actor Suniel Shetty in Bollywood movie ‘Border’, took his last breath in AIIMS, Jodhpur.

In the aftermath of Bihar hooch tragedy, state Excise Minister Sunil Kumar on Monday said that raids are being conducted at various places to nab all the accused.

He added that further action in the hooch tragedy would be taken only after the post-mortem report.

At least 20 school children were injured after a school bus of the Aditya Army Public School collided with a truck container near Raipuri village of Haryana's Mewat district on Monday, ANI reported.

The Jammu and Kashmir Police have arrested a terror associate of the Lashkar-e-Taiba from Chakloo village of the Union Territory's Baramulla district, police said, reported ANI.

Delhi High Court dismisses a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking direction to the authorities to prohibit the affixation of images of the deities on the walls for the prevention of open public urination or spitting or littering garbage around it, reported ANI.

For the first time, the Union Home Minister has mediated in the inter-state border dispute (between Maharashtra & Karnataka). There should be no politics on this issue now. We should stand together with the border residents: Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde in Legislative Assembly, reported ANI. 

Himachal Pradesh CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu tests positive for Covid week after taking oath, reports ANI.

Ahead of Meghalaya polls, Congress's Ampareen Lyngdoh quits along with another MLA; set to join ruling NPP.

12 members resign from the recently-formed Pradesh Congress Committee. In the resignation letters, they mentioned that KCR has been running a dictatorial rule in the state. There is a necessity for a strong struggle to dethrone KCR, ANI reported. 

The executive director of the United Nations World Food Program, which won the Nobel Peace Prize two years ago, says he will step down at the end of a six-year term heading the world's largest humanitarian organization, PTI reported. 

A moderate intensity earthquake shook Central Nepal on Sunday night.

According to Earthquake Monitoring and Research Centre of Nepal, the tremor measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale was recorded at 10.53 pm with its epicentre located at Dhading district, 50 km west of Kathmandu, reported PTI.