Mumbai experienced its coldest December morning in six years, with Santacruz recording 13.7°C. The city’s air quality was recorded as ‘moderate’.

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju today claimed that the alleged connections between Congress leader Sonia Gandhi and Hungarian-American businessman George Soros are a “serious” concern. Mr Rijiju said that such matters should not be viewed through a “political lens” and urged a united front against “anti-India forces.”

“It is an important issue that I want to raise without doing politics over it. The links between Sonia Gandhi and George Sores are serious. We do not want to see it by giving a political spin,” he said. 

The woman at the centre of the mass rape case sees her public trial as a chance to “stand for all victims”. 

​The woman at the centre of the mass rape case sees her public trial as a chance to “stand for all victims”.