The Supreme Court on Thursday called Bengaluru’s cosmopolitan life “very alluring” as it refused to examine a plea by government doctors against their transfers out of the city.

A fresh landslide triggered by rains blocked the new track to Mata Vaishno Devi shrine atop Trikuta hills in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, officials said.

France’s military took part in efforts to stop Iranian drones targeting Israel prior to this week’s ceasefire, the country’s defence minister Sebastien Lecornu said late on Wednesday.