BREAKING highlights: Cash van guard shot dead in north Delhi, suspect flees with ₹8lakh, say police

The owner of hotel Malari Inn, that is proposed to be demolished after being declared unsafe by the authorities, threatened to self-immolate if the authorities "forcefully try to demolish his property."

Thakur Singh Rana, the Malari Inn hotel owner, told HT, "I would kill myself by setting myself on fire if the authorities try to demolish my hotel forcefully. The authorities should first give us adequate compensation. It's not just about me, but the people of the whole Joshimath. I am fighting for their rights."

A BSF jawan suffered a bullet injury during a scuffle to stop a commanding officer who was attempting to end his life using his service weapon at a camp located in the anti-Naxal operations grid of Odisha on Tuesday, PTI reported.

India on Tuesday set the ball rolling for buying indigenous helicopter-launched anti-tank guided missiles, air defence weapons and equipping more of its warships with BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles, with the defence acquisition council (DAC) - in its first meeting in the new year - clearing army and navy proposals worth ₹4,276 crore, officials familiar the development said.

An unidentified man shot dead the security guard of a cash van and fled with around ₹8lakh kept in the vehicle outside a private bank’s ATM booth near Jagatpur flyover in north Delh’s Wazirabad, where it had come to refill cash in the machine on Tuesday evening, police said.

FIR lodged against senior IAS officer and former RJD MLA at Patna's Rupuspur police station in a rape case.

DGCA issues show cause notice to GoFirst for leaving behind 55 passengers in the passenger coach at Bengaluru airport on Monday.

The collapse of an under-construction pillar of the Bengaluru Metro, which killed a woman and her two-year-old son, has prompted calls for Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai's resignation. The Congress has yet again raised allegations of "40 per cent commission", stressing that corruption has been prevailing across government departments.

The Delhi government's Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) has decided to move the high court against Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel's order declining prosecution sanction against AAP MLA S K Bagga in a corruption case, official sources said on Tuesday.

A six-year-old child fell into a borewell in Hapur district. NDRF team on the spot to rescue the child.

Five people, including a three-year-old boy, were injured on Tuesday after a cluster bus rammed into a taxi and hit pavement dwellers on Rohtak road in central Delhi, reported PTI citing police officials.

A vehicle carrying the mother of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma met with a minor accident on National Highway 37 in Morigaon district on Tuesday, an official said, reported PTI. However, no injuries were reported in the accident.

Congress leaders and workers protest in Bengaluru against the book "Siddu Nija Kanasugalu" on party leader Siddaramaiah.

An Indian-origin man - Swapan Dhairyawan - has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Fort Bend Toll Road Authority and the Grand Parkway Toll Road authority in the US state of Texas.

President Droupadi Murmu arrives in Indore; Governor Mangubhai Patel and CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan receive her. She is set to address the valedictory session of the 17th edition Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) convention today.

Delhi L-G gives nod to prosecute ex-JNUSU leader Shehla Rashid for sedition over her 2019 tweets on Indian Army.

Shraddha Walkar murder case: Judicial custody of accused Aftab Poonawala extended for 14 days, reported ANI.

Chanda Kochhar, the former ICICI Bank managing director and chief executive officer, and her husband Deepak Kochhar on Tuesday walked out of Arthur Road Jail after the Bombay High Court granted bail in ICICI-Videocon loan fraud case.

The Chinese embassy in South Korea has suspended the issue of short-term visas for South Korean visitors - the first retaliatory move against nations imposing COVID-19 curbs on travellers from China, reported Reuters.

Opening bell: Sensex down by 152 points to open at 60,595, Nifty slumps to 18,064.

The Bombay High Court will hear on Tuesday a petition filed by Videocon Group founder Venugopal Dhoot seeking to declare his arrest by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the ICICI-Videocon bank loan fraud case as "arbitrary and illegal" and to be released on bail.

Delhi continues to reel under worsening air pollution as the air quality plunges into 'severe' category with an overall AQI of 418.

Due to the dense fog conditions, 36 trains are running late in the Northern Railway region. 

An attempt to launch the first rocket into orbit from UK soil ended in failure on Tuesday, with scientists reporting an "anomaly" as it neared its goal, reported AP.

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake on Tuesday struck the Tanimbar region of Indonesia on Tuesday night (IST).