An eight-year-old boy found himself alone at a hospital as he arranged the postmortem examination of his mother, who died of HIV-related infection, until local police stepped in to help him with legal formalities and the last rites.

Manipur’s Thadou tribe draw attention to what they called “reckless, irresponsible, and inherently dangerous” decision to start the census exercise in the border state without first removing Any Kuki Tribes from the ST list.

A smart city with no drinking water, quipped Rahul Gandhi as he arrived in Indore, India’s so-called “cleanest city”, to meet victims of the contaminated water tragedy in the city’s Bhagirathpura area.