NIA-led multi-agency operation spanning 42 days, the absconding alleged mastermind and executor of the March 1 blast at Bengaluru’s Rameswaram Cafe were arrested from their hideout in Bengal’s New Digha on Friday. After being alerted that the two were in a lodge in New Digha under assumed identities, NIA requested Bengal police to secure them.

S Nirmala from Pedda Harivanam, Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh, tops first year intermediate board exams with 95.7%. Despite parents’ child marriage plans, she aims to be an IPS officer, advocating against child marriages, empowering girls’ dreams.

Rewa ASP said that a parallel pit was in the process of being dug so that the trapped six-year-old could be brought out safely.