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A 30-year-old man was shot dead in a crowded market in Civil Lines area in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh after he allegedly refused to lend Rs 200 to an acquaintance, police said on Sunday.

Madhya Pradesh, which is known as the "tiger state" of India, has lost 26 striped animals so far this year, as per the National Tiger Conservation Authority.

Father Stan Swamy, the 83-year-old tribal rights activist who suffers from Parkinson's disease and was arrested last month over his alleged involvement in the Bhima-Koregaon case, couldn't get a straw and sipper for around four weeks because the National Investigation Agency (NIA) didn't have them, the agency has said.

The ongoing farmers' agitation, with its increasing focus on the national capital, has made travelling by road between Delhi and its neighbouring states hellish. Protesters, paranoid security personnel, and choc-a-bloc traffic has turned the crossing of border into a huge task for regular travellers.

BJP's Rajasthan unit president Satish Poonia on Friday tweeted a video in which Congress MLA Mahendrajeet Singh Malviya is purportedly heard accusing two MLAs of Bhartiya Tribal Party of taking Rs 10 crore each to support the Gehlot government.

Ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president Naveen Patnaik on Sunday expelled Gopalpur MLA Pradeep Panigrahi from the regional party on charge of "anti-people" activities.

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut has lashed out at the centre over its treatment of farmers agitating against its controversial new farms laws, criticising the government for treating them like "terrorists"

Union Home Minister Amit Shah, in Hyderabad on Sunday to campaign for next week's municipal elections, asked voters for "one chance" to show how the BJP could change the city for the better

Amid a fresh rise in COVID-19 cases in Gujarat, the state health department has again directed oxygen production units to keep 50 per cent of their production for medical use so that it could be easily made

Tea will be sold in environment-friendly ''kulhads'' (earthen cups) in place of plastic cups at all railway stations in the country, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said on Sunday.

A day after a Janata Dal-United (JDU) MLA's aide was shot dead in Gopalganj, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday slammed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar by terming the law and order situation in the state as "maha jungle raj".

Attorney General KK Venugopal has declined consent for initiation of criminal contempt proceedings against Prashant Bhushan for his tweets in which he was critical of Chief Justice of India (CJI) S A Bobde being provided a special helicopter by the Madhya Pradesh government, saying the activist-lawyer later expressed regret.

A group of farmers protesting against the central new agricultural laws today broke barricades at the Delhi Haryana border near Narela in Delhi. The barricades were placed to slow the farmers' "Dilli Chalo" march which has been on for the past few days.

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday slammed the BJP for calling the MVA government in Maharashtra as "unnatural", and said a government is natural till it exists.

Punjab farmers, who are protesting against the Centre's new farm laws, rejected Union home minister Amit Shah's proposal for an early discussion on their grievances, conditional to their moving to a designated protest site. The farmers said the government should have approached with "an open heart" and not put preconditions. The farmers' decision came after a meeting this morning, shortly after Prime Minister Narendra Modi, showed support for farm laws in his radio address Mann ki Baat, saying the "agricultural reforms" have "unshackled" the farmers and given them "new rights and opportunities".