Security concerns in the Indian Ocean and the Indo-Pacific were long ignored, but now the strategic region is a top priority for India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in Kochi on Friday as he commissioned INS Vikrant — the largest warship to be built in the country — into the navy.

The Supreme Court on Friday granted interim bail to social activist Teesta Setalvad and directed her release by Saturday on the condition that she surrender her passport and cooperate with the investigation into the case lodged against her by Gujarat police accusing her of falsifying evidence in the 2002 riots cases.

Between August 28 and September 1, Shivprasad Dhruve killed three people, all security guards. The police – 10 teams of 25 policemen each – have been looking for him since August 30, and even announced a reward for his capture.

In their complaint, the family alleged the teacher at the anganwadi centre at Godekere burnt the toddler’s private parts for frequently wetting his pants, Tumkur superintendent of police (SP) Rahul Kumar Shahapurwad said.

Slamming the minister and his son Jay Shah who is Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary, Banerjee said, “The father is trying to teach nationalism to the nation but his son refused to touch the national flag after India recently defeated Pakistan.”

The National Coastal Zone Management Authority has given its nod to Goa’s coastal management plan, the absence of which has led to several projects on the coastline pending.

Forest minister A K Saseendran directed the divisional forest officer to visit the area and submit a report to him. Public works minister Mohammad Riyas also condemned the incident and sought a report from the National Highway Authority of India

The Telangana chief minister’s tour to Patna came at a time when the death of four women on Tuesday due to botched sterilisation surgeries at a community health centre in Ibrahimpatnam in Telangana’s Ranga Reddy district was rocking the state

Sitharaman asked the collector to ensure that Modi’s picture should be put up at all the fair shops in the district. “It is the responsibility of all the district collectors to see that the ration shops should invariably have the pictures of the Prime Minister without fail,” she said