A 68-year-old senior advocate, Shiv Kumar Verma, died by suicide at his residence in the Jahangirabad area in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal on Monday night.

In a rare and dramatic rescue, a cobra injured during construction work in Madhya Pradesh’s Ujjain was saved after a two-hour surgery in which the reptile received 80 stitches.

The country has a right to bring back offenders who are evading law, the Supreme Court said on Wednesday as it refused to entertain a plea by a man seeking withdrawal of a request made to the United Arab Emirates for his extradition.