The seer was booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and the Indian Penal Code for allegedly sexually exploiting two girls studying in schools being operated by the mutt and living in its hostel.

Chief minister Bommai said there was waterlogging in many residential layouts because the developers did not build a proper drain.

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, in a letter to the Karnataka superintendent of police, asked him to conduct an inquiry into the matter ensuring that the victims’ identities are not disclosed during the process of investigation.

Tamil Nadu minister for public works, highways and minor ports EV Velu on Wednesday said the government will take a policy decision on the project after taking views from all stakeholders. He said his earlier comments on the project were misunderstood.

Apart from the uprooted trees and flooding potholes, the city witnessed a five-hour traffic jam outside RMZ Ecospace in Bellandur.

India’s first indigenously developed quadrivalent Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine for the prevention of cervical cancer will be launched here on Thursday, officials said on Wednesday.

Environmentalists are worried that it will regularise illegal sand mining happening within the sanctuary unabated for the past many years and provide incentive to for more illegal mining

Former Pradesh Congress Committee president Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed in Jammu and Kashmir was among 33 leaders who resigned from the party in support of former senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, who quit the party last week and is likely to float his own political outfit.

The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved the signing of a MoU between India and Nepal in the field of biodiversity conservation.