Tensions are high in Karnataka’s Ballari district after a man was killed in a clash that broke out when Congress workers tried to put a banner ahead of a Valmiki statue unveiling event scheduled tomorrow.

The contaminated drinking water in Indore’s Bhagirathpura has now cost 11 lives and more than 1,400 residents have been affected.

A Delhi court has sentenced Haryana gangster Vikas Gulia and his associate to life imprisonment under MCOCA provisions, but refused the death penalty saying the offences did not fall under the category of ‘rarest of the rare cases’.