The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said India vice-captain Rishabh Pant is undergoing treatment for a left index finger injury sustained during the third Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy Test match at Lord’s. With Pant under the medical team’s supervision, reserve wicketkeeper-batter Dhruv Jurel is currently on keeping duties for India.

The incident happened during the second session’s play when in the 34th over Pant copped a blow to the fingertips on his left hand while attempting to stop a Jasprit Bumrah delivery that was fired down legside against Ollie Pope.

Joe Root hit his second fifty of the ongoing Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy series while stitching a patient unbroken 109-run stand with Ollie Pope as the duo helped England reach 153/2 in 49 overs against India at tea on day one of the third Test at the Lord’s here on Thursday.

Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema accused the BJP of openly shielding gangsters and attempting to destabilise non-BJP state governments through violence and fear tactics.

Cheema alleged that several top BJP leaders, from Punjab to Delhi, were seen defending the accused instead of standing with the victim.

The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Bengaluru Zonal Office, has arrested the key accused Ravi Yallappa Kurbett in connection with double compensation scam at Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB), Dharwad, in the case of V.D. Sajjan and others under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, the official statement said on Thursday.

Two of the five people who went missing amid torrential rain that hit Zhaotong, a mountainous city in southwest China's Yunnan Province, have been confirmed dead as of 6:40 p.m. Thursday, according to local authorities.

Search and rescue operations remain underway for the remaining three people who are still missing.

Acting against a Himachal Pradesh university and its agents in the Rs 387-crore fake degree scam, the ED provisionally attached seven properties worth Rs 1.74 crore in Delhi, Haryana, UP and Bihar, an official said on Thursday.

The properties belong to accused commission agents, namely, Abhishek Gupta, Himanshu Sharma and Ajay Kumar, involved in the scam surrounding Manav Bharti University (MBU), Solan, with proceeds of crime (POC) adding up to Rs 387 crore.

The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has provisionally attached immovable assets worth approximately Rs 1.75 crore in a corruption and money laundering case linked to illegal constructions inside the Corbett National Park.

The action was taken under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, following an FIR registered by the Vigilance Establishment, Dehradun.

A large cache of arms and ammunition was recovered on Thursday by the security forces during a CASO (Cordon & Search Operation) in J&K’s Poonch district.

Officials said that based on specific intelligence inputs, a CASO was started by the security forces in the Khanetar Top area of Poonch district.

Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, on Thursday, visited the Divya Jyoti Jagriti Sansthan in Nur Mahal, near Punjab's Jalandhar city, and took part in Guru Purnima.

Union Minister of State for Railways Ravneet Singh Bittu accompanied Chief Minister Saini.

The Chief Minister bowed to the portrait of Ashutosh Ji, head of Divya Jyoti Jagriti Sansthan, and took his blessings.

He expressed his heartfelt greetings to all devotees.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Thursday, said in the post-Pahalgam episode, the responsibility lies with the Union government to ensure proper security arrangements in J&K so that more tourists could travel there.

On Thursday, Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah arrived in the West Bengal state secretariat of Nabanna and had a meeting with Mamata Banerjee.