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Flight operations at the Mumbai airport remain affected for the second day today following heavy rains that continue to lash the metropolis.

A 45-year-old businessman on Tuesday committed suicide by shooting himself with his licensed pistol in the national capital, police said.

A 20-year-old private tutor has been arrested in New Delhi for allegedly molesting a minor girl, police said on Tuesday.

A madness to click a selfie with a running train took the life of a polytechnic student and left another youngster seriously injured in West Bengal's Nadia district on Tuesday, railway sources and witnesses said.

The body of an assistant sub- inspector of Faridabad Police was found riddled with bullets at his residence in Gurgaon's DLF Phase-III, police said. Naresh Yadav's body was found on his bed.

A man had been arrested for allegedly killing his 13-year-old daughter as he was suspicious about her "character" and opposed to her "hobby of singing" in Nalgonda district of Telangana, the police said on Tuesday.

Maharashtra Police cannot become private guards, the Bombay High Court today said and directed the state government to review each and every case in which police protection has been given.

A director of a Delhi-based real estate firm was today sent to two-day police custody in a cheque bounce case in which cricketer Munaf Patel is also an accused.

The Special Investigation Team probing the murder case of journalist Gauri Lankesh today questioned gangster-turned-journalist 'Agni' Sreedhar in connection with its investigation.

The Haryana government has written to the Centre seeking a CBI probe into the gruesome murder of a seven-year old boy at Gurgaon's Ryan International School, a senior official said today.

A state-level cricketer-turned-model was among two persons arrested allegedly for robberies and snatching mobile phones here, the police said today.

The Delhi Police today arrested the manager of an ashram run by jailed self-styled godman Rampal in outer Delhi for alleged negligence, a day after two of his followers died while manually cleaning a septic tank there.

Heavy rain battered Mumbai on Tuesday, triggering traffic jams and waterlogging in many areas of the city. Schools and colleges have been asked to remain closed today. The downpour is likely to continue for the next 24 hours, the weather department predicted. Operations at the Mumbai airport were suspended for a while, delaying several flights.

Maharashtra agriculture minister Pandurang Fundkar today said the state government's loan waiver scheme will be implemented from October 15.

Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia today said the liquor shops located near schools would be closed and action taken against officers who issued the licences to them.