A man allegedly bludgeoned his 70-year-old mother to death after she refused to give him Rs 200 to purchase a dog in Chhattisgarh’s Raipur on Friday, police said.

Senior bureaucrat Arvind Shrivastava has been appointed as the new Revenue Secretary as part of a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre on Friday.

BJP MLA and former Manipur minister Vungzagin Valte told NDTV the only path to peace in Manipur is autonomy for the Kuki, Zomi, and Hmar people with a Union Territory status.