Advocate and social activist Varsha Deshpande has filed a complaint in a local court seeking action against actor Shah Rukh Khan, his wife Gauri and others under the Pre-conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act (PCPNDT) in connection with the surrogate child of the celebrity couple. Ms Deshpande filed the complaint on Thursday alleging that the child’s gender had been determined before birth, thus violating the PCPNDT Act.

The Supreme Court has upheld its earlier verdict commuting to life imprisonment the death penalty awarded to a man, for beheading a person in Assam, whose mercy plea was earlier rejected by the President.

A 17-year-old daughter of Bommanahalli constituency’s BJP MLA M. Sathish Reddy hanged herself at their residence in Hongasandra on Begur Road on Thursday night. The girl was upset after being reprimanded by her mother over a trivial matter.

Controversial police sub-inspector Sachin Suryavanshi, who was allegedly assaulted in the state Assembly after he fined an MLA for over-speeding, has been transferred out of Mumbai.

Chhattisgarh home minister Nankiram Kanwar has drawn flak from all quarters for describing rape of women as mere “cheerharan” (a misdemeanour).

The paediatric intensive care unit at Kilpauk Medical College and Hospital on Friday received a number of curious visitors wanting a glimpse of three-month-old baby Rahul, who suffers from spontaneous human combustion (SHC). Only 200 cases suffering with this condition have been seen in the world over the past 300 years. The last reported case being in the US in 2010.

The US pulled out all “non-emergency” staff from its consulate in Lahore, Pakistan’s second-biggest city, citing “specific threats” by Al Qaeda amid a worldwide alert.

The Army held a flag march and police and CRPF reinforcements sent to enforce curfew at Kishtwar town in eastern Kashmir as communal violence erupted there Friday. Besides marring Id celebrations, the rioting left a trail of devastation of public and private property.

Credible information gathered by Indian intelligence agencies has revealed that the Pakistan Army’s elite commando unit, Special Services Group (SSG), has been running a fully operational training camp in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, for operatives of the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and Jaish-e-Mohammed.

With the claim that its probe into the conspiracy leading to the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter was complete, the CBI is ready to file a supplementary chargesheet naming former Intelligence Bureau officials as accused.