Dahi Chura feasts have become the flavour of the season in Bihar as the Makar Sankranti week is progressing. It is powering politics also, extending all the way from Patna to Delhi.

Three police officials have been suspended in Bihar after a jewellery store worker was thrashed in custody and petrol was poured on his private parts allegedly to force a theft confession.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to use the Insurrection Act, which would allow him to deploy military forces, in Minnesota amid escalating tension over a deployment of federal agents in the state’s most populous city.