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A 22-year-old Dalit woman in Kerala has alleged that she was gang-raped in the house of a police constable in rural Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday,

The Telangana Cabinet would meet in Hyderabad tomorrow to discuss the situation arising out of demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes by the Centre and the measures to be taken to address the concerned issues.

A 52-year-old man allegedly committed suicide in the district today by shooting himself, fearing that his son must have been fatally hit after his licensed gun went off accidentally when he was cleaning it, police said.

A 37-year-old man, who cheated a woman by marrying her and taking lakhs of rupees from her after claiming to be a software professional was arrested today, Cyberabad police said.

Union minister Smriti Irani today paid Rs 100 to a cobbler in Coimbatore for getting her slippers repaired and the latter, who had demanded only Rs 10 for the job, happily put in additional stitches on it with the incident going viral on the social media.

A 35-year-old Japanese woman was allegedly raped by a man from neighbouring Karnataka at nearby Kovalam, police said on Saturday.

A 35-year-old constable had a fatal fall while chasing a suspected thief at Gadwal in Jogulamba district in Telangana, police said today.

DMK leader MK Stalin today urged the Tamil Nadu government to take adequate steps to prevent suicides by farmers, affected by crop failure, in the state.

Channapatna in Karnataka is well known for its bright and colourful wooden toys - popular with tourists who pass the town on the busy route between Bengaluru and Mysuru. In fact, Channapatna is called toy town - thanks to the popularity of these wooden creations. But coping with the notes ban is no child's play here.

A delegation of opposition YSR Congress MLAs today met Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu in Vijaywada to seek funds for development of their respective constituencies but came out of the meeting "totally disappointed".

Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, who has had a tracheostomy after a severe lung infection, is now speaking for a few minutes at a time using speakers, Chennai's Apollo hospital said today in a new health update.

A man wearing a white check lungi (kallimundu) was denied entry into the visitors' gallery in the Kerala assembly on the ground it was an 'informal' dress, following which the state Human Rights Commission has sought a clarification from the officials.

Nalini Sriharan, who has spent 25 years in prison for the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, has said in a book that his daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra met her in jail "only for strategic reasons", not to help with clemency.

At least two Maoists have been killed, according to sources, in a police encounter today in Kerala's Malappuram district.

A day after DMK termed AIADMK's win in the November 19 polls in three constituencies in Tamil Nadu as an "artificial victory", the ruling party today hit back, saying it showed the main opposition party's obstinacy and tall talk instead of accepting the people's mandate.