A section of a nearly 75-year-old overbridge in Indore has collapsed with a member of the civic corporation’s mayoral council blaming rat infestation for the cave in, a claim junked by civil engineering experts who said it was caused by lack of maintenance and traffic surge. Photo: Harsh Jain, Congress M.P. spokesperson X post X@@ItsHarshJ...

Stating that there is a thin line between investing money in productive assets and giving freebies, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said many states are “in difficulty” as such giveaways are piling up. Posing questions about states’ finances, she asked if there is no way to rationalise committed expenditure of states, especially if they...

A 30-year-old man in West Bengal’s Howrah district allegedly died by suicide on Tuesday, reportedly after being distressed over errors in his identity document during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, police said. The deceased, identified as Jahir Mal, a resident of Khalisani in Uluberia, was found hanging at his home in...