Stand-up star and actor Vir Das woke up, took a deep breath and turned lyricist as he made a song about Mumbai’s ever-thickening smog, blending pollution woes with his signature wit.

An Enforcement Directorate probe into illegal betting has uncovered a bike-taxi driver in Delhi whose bank account received over Rs 331 crore in eight months. Investigators suspect the account was used as a ‘mule’ for money laundering, with funds channeled to a luxury wedding linked to a Gujarat politician. The ED is tracing the entire transaction chain.

Dr Rajesh Kumar, a 1990-batch IPS officer, has challenged UPSC’s decision to exclude him and two other senior-most officers from the panel for appointment as DGP