A pall of gloom descended upon him, the man told NDTV as his 24-year-old daughter telephoned him to say that she had been raped at her college in Kolkata and then requested that he come and pick her up.

Inequality in India has come down significantly between 2011-12 and 2022-23, making it the fourth-most equal country globally, according to a World Bank report.

Moved by the video of a debt-hit farmer pulling a plough all by himself to till his field in Maharashtra’s Latur district, state minister Babasaheb Patil on Saturday cleared his outstanding loan of Rs 42,500, an official release said.