1,144 hectares of forest land in Uttarakhand scorched by wildfires, causing health issues among residents. Nita Pawar highlights cases referred to Delhi for breathing problems. Charan Negi and Madhavi Daruwala describe the suffocating conditions and ecological concerns.

The Delhi High Court has imposed costs of Rs 1 lakh on a man who made Lord Hanuman his colitigant in a plea concerning the possession of a private land having a temple of the deity. The plea, which was an appeal against a lower court order rejecting their “objection petition” in relation to the transfer of the land to another party, claimed that since there was a public temple on the property, the plot belonged to Lord Hanuman and the appellant man was before the court as his next friend and a worshipper.

The house in which the terrorists were hiding caught fire on Tuesday morning during the exchange of fire between the two sides, officials said