Police have detained 12 people in a village in Bareilly district for allegedly offering namaz at a empty house “without permission”, officials said on Sunday.

A 27-year-old software engineer, Yuvraj Mehta, died after his car plunged into a deep, water-filled ditch amid dense fog in Noida, a tragedy his father, Rajkumar Mehta, says unfolded as he heard his son’s desperate pleas of “papa mujhe bacha lo.”

The survey found that 52 per cent of respondents strongly oppose any US attempt to seize the semi-autonomous Danish territory, while only one in four Americans support the proposal.