In a boost for the ruling BJP, the party has crossed the 100 mark in the Rajya Sabha for the first time since April 2022, with three nominated members joining the party.

Two nuns, along with another person Sukhman Mandavi, were arrested on charges of them of forcibly converting three women and trafficking them.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group on Thursday posted a video of an Israeli-German hostage – Rom Braslavski, who had been held captive in the Gaza Strip in October 2023, an attack after which war sparked in the territory.