A confrontation between two state police forces unfolded on a highway in Himachal Pradesh on Saturday, escalating into a rare situation in which one police unit registered a criminal case against officers from another state.

The renaming of “Kerala” to “Keralam” is not just a “trivial” issue to focus on when key issues are going unattended, it also jettison’s a name with far more antiquity, senior Congress leader and Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor has told NDTV.

In a shocking incident reported from Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district, a minor girl studying in Class 10 delivered a baby boy during her board examination at an exam centre in Pithampur, a police officer said.