Five Maoists were killed in Kandhamal, Odisha during a joint SOG, CRPF and BSF operation; rifles recovered and search operations continue.

In Nanded, Maharashtra, a family of four was found dead in suspected suicides, with the parents hanging at home and the sons discovered on nearby railway tracks.

In a tragedy that claimed the lives of 24 children across Madhya Pradesh after they consumed a poisonous cough syrup, a five-year-old boy from Chhindwara has returned home after a 115-day battle for survival.