A day after Himanta Biswa Sarma hinted at transferring an ongoing state inquiry – into ‘links’ between Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi’s wife and a Pakistan-based non-governmental organisation – to the National Investigation Agency, he explained why.

A judge of the Delhi High Court on Thursday recused himself from hearing a plea by UK-based arms consultant Sanjay Bhandari challenging a trial court’s order declaring him a “fugitive economic offender”.

Two nuns from Kerala along with Sukaman Mandavi were arrested in Chhattisgarh on accusations of forcibly converting three women and trafficking them.