Delhi's air quality further plummeted following Diwali, as the Air Quality Index (AQI) reading surpassed 400 in multiple parts of the national capital on Monday, placing it in the 'severe' category.

Areas including Anand Vihar (433), Ashok Vihar (410), Rohini (411), and Vivek Vihar (426) registered AQI levels above 400, according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).

Other regions like Dwarka, Patparganj, Jahangirpuri, and Punjabi Bagh also recorded 'severe' AQI levels.

Meanwhile, several parts of Delhi fell into the "very poor" category, with Lajpat Nagar, RK Puram, Lodi Road, and North Campus reporting AQIs above 370. The city's average 24-hour AQI at 7 a.m. on Monday was 373, a notable decline from Sunday.

A group of wild elephants went on a rampage, killing two persons and injuring another near the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve (BTR) in Madhya Pradesh, officials said on Saturday.

The incident occurred days after BTR in Madhya Pradesh's Umaria district witnessed the death of 10 elephants.

The elephants that attacked the people are believed to be part of the same herd of which 10 jumbos died, the official added.

The first attack was reported in Devra village, around 10 km away from BTR, where Ramratan Yadav (50) was trampled to death early on Saturday.

Two officials associated with a hospital in Madhya Pradesh's Dindori district were suspended after a pregnant woman was forced to clean the blood-stained bed on which her husband succumbed to injuries, an official said on Saturday.

The man had sustained severe wounds during a brutal attack on his family.

The action (suspension of two officials) by Dindori district administration came hours after a video showing the woman cleaning a bed surfaced on social media, creating outrage.

Medical officer Dr. Chandrashekhar Singh, who was also in-charge of the primary health care in Gadasarai (from where the episode of woman cleaning bed was reported), has been transferred.

At least 12 people were injured after two groups pelted stones at each other over a minor dispute in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur district on Saturday.

According to information, the incident occurred in Koni village, under Patan police station, around 60 km from district headquarters Jabalpur.

A 'Dial 100' police vehicle was also damaged during the violence.

The condition of two injured persons was said to be critical, and they were referred to Jabalpur Medical College

Top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander, Usman Bhai was killed in a gunfight with the security forces in downtown Srinagar city on Saturday, police said.

IGP, Kashmir, V.K.Birdi told reporters that top LeT commander, Usman Bhai, who hailed from Pakistan and was involved in a series of crimes, was killed in the daylong gunfight in the Khanyar area.

"Usman was wanted in many militancy-related cases including the killing of non-locals and security forces. He was also involved in the killing of Inspector Manzoor Ahmad Wani who was critically wounded on October 29, 2023, in the Eidgah area of Srinagar city," he said.

As many as two persons died following a head-on collision between a bike and auto rickshaw near Kandeswara village in the Digapahandi area of Ganjam district in Odisha on Saturday.

The deceased were identified as Simanchal Reddy and Kunti Gaud of the Kandeswar village.

The duo was reportedly going to their agriculture farm when a speeding auto-rickshaw hit their two-wheeler near their village on Saturday afternoon. The duo was rushed to a nearby hospital where a doctor declared them ‘brought dead’. Their body was handed over to the family members after post-mortem.

In a tragic accident, four contract cleaning workers who were engaged in cleaning the railway track were trapped on a railway bridge and run over by the speeding Kerala Express at Shoranur in Kerala's Palakkad on Saturday evening, officials said.

The dead include two men and two women, all of them hail from Salem in Tamil Nadu.

Both the male cleaning workers were named Lekshman, while the women were identified as Valli and Rani.

Two CRPF troopers and 2 policemen were injured in the ongoing gunfight between holed-up terrorists and the security forces in Srinagar on Saturday, officials said.

The gunfight was underway in the downtown Khanyar area of Srinagar.

Officials said that following intelligence inputs about the presence of terrorists, security forces started a CASO (Cordon & Search Operation) in the Khanyar area.

"As the security forces came closer to the hiding terrorists, they fired at the security forces triggering an encounter which is now going on," an official said.

At least 15 persons were injured during a traditional 'Hingot war' in the Gautampura area in Madhya Pradesh's Indore.

The traditional 'Hingot war' is organised every year a day after the Diwali festival in the Gautampura area, which is around 60 km from district headquarters in Indore.

Several people participate in the event and hurl "burning arrows" at each other. They believe it is not just a tradition but a display of courage.

Gautampura police station in-charge Arun Solanki said adequate police personnel were deployed to manage the situation at the site.

An encounter started on Saturday between holed-up terrorists and the security forces in the heart of Jammu & Kashmir’s Srinagar city.

Officials said that following intelligence inputs about the presence of terrorists, security forces started a CASO (Cordon & Search Operation) in the Khanyar area of Srinagar city.

“As the security forces came closer to the hiding terrorists, they fired at the security forces triggering an encounter which is now going on,” officials said.

Saturday’s encounter started in the heart of Srinagar city’s downtown area. It is for the first time in more than 10 years that an encounter started in the old city area.

This area was once the hotbed of separatist sentiment and militants used to move freely in this area.