A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawan was injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast near Kamalpost in the Aranpur area of Dantewada on Tuesday morning, officials said.

The incident occurred when personnel from the CRPF’s 231 Battalion were conducting an anti-Maoist search operation in the region. As the team moved through the area, an IED -- believed to have been planted by Maoists -- detonated, injuring a jawan in the leg.

Following the blast, the injured soldier was initially taken to the Dantewada District Hospital for medical attention. Given the severity of his injuries, he was later airlifted to Raipur via an M-17 helicopter from the Karli helipad for advanced treatment.

Eight devotees from Hyderabad, who were returning home from Kumbh Mela in Uttar Pradesh, were killed in a road accident on Tuesday.

A minibus in which the devotees were traveling was hit by a truck near Sihora in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh.

According to reports reaching here, seven devotees died on the spot while another person succumbed while undergoing treatment at a hospital.

One person was injured in the accident, which reportedly occurred when the truck laden with cement bags was coming in the wrong route.

A day after multiple Exit polls predicted a resounding victory for the BJP in the Delhi Assembly elections, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal has labelled these surveys as fake, claiming they are part of a strategy to disrupt his party's momentum. In a post on X, Kejriwal expressed his disapproval of the results and shed light on why he believes these surveys are being manipulated.

Hyderabad police have seized drugs worth Rs.1.60 crore and arrested three foreign nationals for drug peddling.

Hyderabad Narcotics Enforcement Wing (HNEW) made the arrests in a joint operation with Langer House and Humayun Nagar police and seized 1,300 grams of MDMA in three separate cases.

Deputy Commissioner of Police, Task Force/ H-NEW, Y.V.S. Sudheendra, said they have arrested two Nigerians and a Guinean.

Police arrested Oliver Ugochukwu alias Johnson alias John alias Emji, a Nigerian, and seized 1,300 grams of MDMA from his possession. The 44-year-old was living in Mumbai.

A Class 12 student lost her life while nine other children sustained serious injuries as the driver of the school bus in which they were travelling lost the control of the vehicle following which it fell off a culvert.

The accident reportedly happened due to a brake failure. The bus was carrying at least 30 children.

Soon after the tragic accident, all injured students were rushed to the hospital, where doctors are closely monitoring their condition.

The driver fled the scene immediately after the accident which was reported on the Jaipur-Bikaner Highway (NH-52) near Chomu.

Three workers were killed in a wall collapse on a construction site in Hyderabad on Wednesday.

Another worker was injured in the incident that occurred in LB Nagar.

According to police, the incident occurred when the workers were engaged in digging a pit for the cellar of an under-construction building of a hotel. A compound wall in the same premises fell on the workers, burying them under the debris.

Police and Disaster Response Force (DRF) personnel rushed to the spot and launched rescue operation. Bodies of three workers were pulled out from the rubble.

At least two devotees were killed and 14 others injured when a sleeper bus, returning from Maha Kumbh in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj to Hanumangarh (Rajasthan), overturned on the Jaipur-Agra Highway on Wednesday.

Hearing a loud voice that occurred when the bus overturned, villagers rushed to the scene and helped in rescuing passengers trapped inside the vehicle.

According to Balaheri Police Station in-charge Bhagwan Sahay, the incident occurred near Peepalkheda village when the bus lost control while trying to avoid hitting cattle on the road.

Police and local villagers worked together to rush the injured to Mahwa District Hospital, while seven seriously wounded individuals were later referred to Dausa District Hospital.

The Assam Rifles and other security forces in different places have destroyed a marijuana (ganja) plantation area, seized drugs valued at Rs 3.50 crore and also busted an inter-state drug peddling gang in Tripura and Mizoram, an official said on Tuesday.

A total of 11 drug peddlers were arrested.

A Defence spokesman said that, in a major crackdown on illegal narcotics' cultivation, Assam Rifles, in the late evening hours of Monday, destroyed approximately 75,000 plants of marijuana valued at around Rs 2.90 crore at Bijoynagar in Tripura's Sepahijala district, which shares a border with Bangladesh.

Panic gripped two private schools in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore after receiving the bomb threats which prompted authorities to take action on Tuesday.

The bomb threat was received via emails after which school administrations alerted the district administration and police.

“The threats mentioned blowing them up using RDX were received via e-mails from Chennai. The two private schools have been identified as Digamber Public School, located on Khandwa Road, and the Indore Public School,” said Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Rajesh Dandotia

Tension flared up in Odisha’s Bhubaneswar following the tragic death of a minor girl in a road accident involving a bus of the city's public transport bus service here on Tuesday.

The 12-year-old deceased identified as Kuni Juadi was staying at a nursery in the Raghunathpur area of the city along with her family.

Locals claimed that the girl was going on her bicycle to buy some food items from a local shop when a speeding ‘Mo Bus’ vehicle, the public transport bus service in the city under Capital Region Urban Transport (CRUT), crushed her to death at Raghunathpur under Nandankanan police limits.

The minor girl has reportedly died on the spot. The onlookers said the bus dragged her for around 50 to 100 meters on the road after the accident. The irate locals later staged a blockade by burning tyres on the Jaydev Vihar- Nandankanan Road demanding financial compensation for the family.