Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has spoken to the father and brother of a Dalit youth who was lynched in Raebareli and stands in complete solidarity with them in this hour of unbearable grief, AICC media and publicity department head Pawan Khera has said.

In a post on X on Sunday, Khera said the horrific lynching is both heartbreaking and enraging.

The Madhya Pradesh police have formed a special investigation team (SIT) to probe the death of 14 children in Chhindwara due to suspected renal failure, linked to the consumption of a toxic cough syrup, officials said.

Dr Praveen Soni from Chhindwara has been arrested for alleged negligence in connection with the child deaths, while a case has been registered against the Coldrif cough syrup manufacturing company, the officials said on Sunday.

Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar clarified that, as per Supreme Court orders and the Aadhaar Act, an Aadhaar card cannot be considered proof of date of birth, residence, or citizenship.

Speaking on the use of Aadhaar in voter enumeration, Kumar emphasised that providing an Aadhaar number is optional under both the Aadhaar Act and the Representation of the People Act, 1950.

Cyclone Shakhti, the first cyclonic storm in the Arabian Sea in the post-monsoon season, was moving towards Dwarka off the Gujarat coast on Friday and was expected to intensify further, the weather office said.

The cyclonic storm over the northeast Arabian Sea moved west-northwestwards with a speed of eight kmph during the last six hours, and lay centred at 2030 hrs IST on Friday, over the same region, nearly 300 km west of Dwarka, 330 km south-southwest of Karachi (Pakistan) and 360 km west of Porbandar.

Indian equities are on track for record foreign outflows this year as concerns over US tariffs and weak earnings weigh on sentiment.

Overseas investors have pulled a net $16.8 billion from local shares this year through Sept. 26, nearing the record set in 2022, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. On Monday, the outflow stood at $319 million, provisional exchange data show.

Former JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna has approached the Karnataka High Court appealing against his conviction in a rape case.

A special court that convicted Revanna last month had sentenced him to imprisonment for the remainder of his life and imposed fines, in one of the four sexual abuse and rape cases against him.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday welcomed US President Donald Trump's 20-point peace plan to end the Israel-Gaza war, hours after Trump met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House.

In a post on X, PM Modi said, "We welcome President Donald J. Trump’s announcement of a comprehensive plan to end the Gaza conflict.

Tata Capital is set to launch India’s largest ever initial public offering (IPO) by a non-banking financial company (NBFC), valuing the Tata group firm at ₹1.38 trillion. This will make the company India’s fifth-most-valued NBFC after Bajaj Finance (₹6.12 trillion), Bajaj Finserv (₹3.2 trillion), Jio Financial Services (₹1.87 trillion), and IRFC (₹1.59 trillion).

Google-owned YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by US President Donald Trump over the platform’s decision in 2021 to suspend his account after the January 6 attack on the Capitol, The Washington Post reported.

As part of the agreement, Trump has directed YouTube to contribute $22 million of the settlement towards the construction of a new White House ballroom.

Continuing his self-introduced tradition of imposing tariffs, United States President Donald Trump has now targeted movies made outside of the US.

In a post on social media platform TruthSocial, Trump wrote, Our movie making business has been stolen from the United States of America, by other Countries, just like stealing “candy from a baby.”

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