TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee on Friday triggered a political controversy after saying he would have “cut the finger” of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar had the latter not been holding the constitutional post.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Friday said social media will be prohibited for children below 13 years of age, within the next 90 days, in the state.

Pockets of off-coast areas in the Gulf have turned into a virtual tinderbox as commercial ships remain huddled in proximity as they wait on either side of the crucial Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has blocked amid ongoing war with the US and Israel.