Refusing to give Rs 20 to her drug addict son cost a 56-year-old woman in Gururgam her life after he hacked her to death with an axe in rage, police said on Sunday.

Upendra Kushwaha on Sunday urged Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to take a firm decision in a ‘timely manner’, cautioning that any delay in this would lead to ‘irreparable’ damage to his party – the Janata Dal (United).

Maharashtra’s Agriculture Minister Manikrao Kokate finds himself at the centre of a controversy as a video surfaced that shows him apparently playing rummy on his phone while seated in the state assembly.