A 20-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly raping and then brutally murdering a teenage girl with a sharp-edged blade in a village in Uttarakhand’s Udham Singh Nagar district.

Pope Leo XIV met with the Indian Minorities Federation (IMF) delegation at the Papal Audience at St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican City and blessed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a long life and good health.

The Kerala Assembly on Wednesday witnessed stormy scenes for the second day in a row as an Opposition adjournment motion on amoebic meningoencephalitis (brain fever) led to a fierce exchange between treasury and Opposition benches.