At least 29 houses were set on fire in separate incidents in Kuki and Tangkhul Naga villages in Manipur near the India-Myanmar border. Four attacks were reported between Wednesday afternoon and early Thursday morning, with Kuki and Naga organisations blaming each other.

The attacks took place in the Kuki villages of Phaimol and Liekot, and in the Tangkhul Naga villages of Shangkhalok and Huimine Thana.

The developments came amid tensions between Kukis and Nagas in Ukhrul that had erupted on February 7 after an alleged assault involving members of the Tangkhul Naga and the Kuki-Zo communities escalated into clashes. At least 25 persons from the two communities have been killed since then. Read on.

India and Japan agreed to boost their partnership in the fields of artificial intelligence, energy resilience and economic security. This came after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his Japanese counterpart Sanae Takaichi, who is on a three-day visit to New Delhi.

Takaichi’s visit follows Modi’s trip to Tokyo in 2025, during which Japan pledged to more than double its investment in India to more than $61 billion in the next decade. Trade between New Delhi and Tokyo in the financial year 2025-’26 had topped $27 billion.

India and Japan are part of the Quad, or the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, which also comprises the United States and Australia. Read on.

Seven workers were killed after a boulder collapsed at a stone quarry on the outskirts of Bengaluru. Six others were injured and several more workers are feared trapped under the debris.

The incident occurred around 7.30 am at a stone quarry in Madapattana village, located in Bengaluru South taluk. The boulder collapsed from a height of about 40 feet at the spot where workers were operating machinery.

At least 20 labourers, most of them migrants from Bihar and from Karnataka’s Yadgir district, were working at the site. Read on.

Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar was released from prison because of political pressure and not due to the mercy petitions he wrote to the British administration, his grandnephew Satyaki Savarkar told a Pune court. He said that VD Savarkar was released from jail due to “efforts made in National Assembly in 1937”.

The case stems from a complaint filed by Satyaki Savarkar in April 2023 against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of making false and malicious remarks about the Hindutva ideologue during an event in London in March 2023. Read on.

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