The US government has officially shut down after Democrats blocked a Republican stopgap funding package that didn’t address their demands.

The BJP has launched a scathing attack on the Congress after the Election Commission published the final voter roll for Bihar following the Special Intensive Revision

Two policemen in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvannamalai district have been arrested and suspended for allegedly gang-raping a 25-year-old woman from Andhra Pradesh, the police said.