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Four people have been arrested at the Chennai International Airport for trying to smuggle into the country 929 grams of gold worth Rs 30 lakh concealed in their rectum, a customs department official said Sunday.

A case has been registered against DMK leader A Raja for allegedly making derogatory remarks and levelling allegations of corruption against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami and his cabinet colleagues.

The West Bengal Police has filed a suo motu complaint against state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Dilip Ghosh and three other party leaders for conducting a public meeting in Coochbehar district on Friday without permission, the police said.

Delhi's air quality significantly deteriorated Sunday with a fall in temperature which slowed dispersion of pollutants, as authorities warned pollution level might further increase in the next two days.

Shivpal Singh Yadav, chief of Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia), addressed a "Jan Aakrosh Rally" in Lucknow which was attended by Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav.

A small stretch of less than two per cent of the Yamuna accounts for 76 per cent of the river's pollution, according to a monitoring committee overseeing its cleaning.

A fire broke out at a slum in northern Mumbai's Malad this evening, news agency ANI reported. Four fire trucks are at the spot

Mumbai's capacity-constrained Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport on Saturday handled a record 1,007 aircraft movements, higher than its earlier record of 1,003 flight movements in a day in June this year.

Senior Aam Aadmi Party party leader Sanjay Singh said that his party is not part of an anti-BJP formation or that it is in talks with the Congress for a possible alliance ahead of the general elections.

Eleven people were killed and four were critically injured after a truck collided with a tempo in eastern Maharashtra on Sunday morning.

A huge right-wing rally to demand the fast-tracking of the Ram temple at Ayodhya is being held at Delhi's Ramlila grounds. The attending groups, which include the BJP's ideological mentor, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, want the government to pass an ordinance to bypass the legal process. The winter session of parliament -- the last full-fledged one before the Lok Sabha polls are announced -- begins on Tuesday.

TMC workers in West Bengal's Cooch Behar district today sprinkled 'ganga jal' and cow dung water to "purify" the grounds, where the BJP held a rally on Saturday. Local TMC leader Pankaj Ghosh said that the grounds had to be "purified as the BJP came here and gave a communal message."

Three terrorists were shot dead by security forces in an overnight encounter that broke out on the outskirts of Srinagar on Saturday evening.

A former aide of a Maharashtra minister and a policeman were among those arrested in connection with the murder of a diamond trader, who was found dead in a forest in Maharashtra's Raigad district two days ago, the police said.

Four persons were arrested in Ghaziabad for allegedly stabbing a taxi driver to death over an "affair" with a woman who was said to be in a relationship with one of the accused, police said on Saturday.