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A leopard's paw, possibly used for "tantra mantra" (sorcery), was seized from a tractor agency located in Lakhnadon town in Madhya Pradesh's Seoni district, a senior forest department official said.

Patidar quota spearhead Hardik Patel today issued an open letter asking the Patel community members and leaders to attend a "Maha Panchayat" to be organised on May 26 in Moti Malvan village in Gujarat's Surendranagar district.

The Akal Takht today set up a 'Sikh Censor Board', saying it was "mandatory" for filmmakers now to seek approval from it before making a movie on a subject related to Sikhs and their religion.

Kolkata will soon see women traffic constables managing the roads and its unruly vehicles for the first time. "As per plan, some woman constables will be deputed to traffic department for on road duty," Deputy Commissioner of Police Sumit Kumar told IANS.

A debt-ridden businessman in Ahmedabad shot dead his wife and two daughters on Tuesday after an argument over sending the elder daughter to Australia for higher studies, police said.

A day after a police constable allegedly attacked cricketer Ravindra Jadeja's wife Reeva here, he was suspended today, officials said.

A heat wave officially struck Delhi on Tuesday with the city seeing a maximum of 44 degrees Celsius, four notches above the season's average, and some regions sizzling at 46 degrees while an unrelenting summer sun scorched the capital and suburbs as well as north, east and west India.

The Kotwali Police has rescued a 15-year-old girl, who is from Assam, and nabbed six people who were allegedly involved in human trafficking, a police officer said.

The Delhi Minorities Commission today issued a notice to the registrar of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) seeking to know the reason behind a varsity proposal to start a course on 'Islamic terrorism'.

The incident, that took place inside the Taj Mahal premises, has caused panic among the visitors.

Nearly two months after CM Devendra Fadnavis cleared a file, on March 21, permitting the constable from Beed to undergo a gender reassignment surgery, her long wait has finally come to an end. Salve received an official order copy from the office of Beed SP that says, "Your application for gender reassignment is accepted; you are now permitted [to go ahead with it]." Salve applied for leave, and that too was cleared by the department.

The mayor also said that she had raised the issue earlier and that will be resolved soon.

The Archbishop of Delhi, Anil Couto, has set off a political row with a letter that controversially refers to a "turbulent political atmosphere" threatening democracy and secularism and urges all priests to "pray for the country" ahead of the 2019 national election

The woman allegedly had a fight with her friend and jumped off the fourth floor of the building.

There were no life jackets or fencing around Delhi's swimming pool where the two men drowned.