A social entrepreneur, Rohit Aarrya, held 17 children and others hostage in a Mumbai studio after feeling betrayed by the government over his civic initiative. The standoff ended in a police shootout, with Aarrya dead and the hostages rescued. His actions stemmed from a perceived lack of accountability and stolen ideas.

A sessions court in Chittoor has sentenced five men to death for the 2015 murder of Chittoor Mayor Katari Anuradha and her husband inside the Municipal Corporation office.

A bird once seen every afternoon along suburban wires is now rarely glimpsed, a change so slow it only registers when you compare years of memories.