Deepti was married to Kamal Kishore’s son, Harpreet Chaurasia, and it was rumoured that she committed suicide because of his second marriage.

The seer of Chitradurga’s Sri Murugha Mutt, Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru, accused of raping minor girls staying in the mutt, has been acquitted in one of the two cases filed against him.

China’s stranglehold on the rare earths industry — from natural reserves and mining through processing and innovation — is the result of a decades-long drive, now giving Beijing crucial leverage in its trade war with the United States.