Six family members were killed and two others seriously injured after a gas cylinder explosion in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province on Saturday, according to a rescue official.

According to Pakistan's News, among the deceased were a husband, wife, and four other family members.

Local police said that the roof of a dilapidated house collapsed due to the blast, leaving several people buried under the debris.

Ahead of the Ludhiana West by-election, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) achieved a significant boost as Ward No. 58 Councilor Satnam Singh Sunny Master, who had recently left AAP to join Congress, quit Congress and rejoined AAP on Saturday. Along with him, Paramvir Singh Roni, the nephew of late MLA Gurpreet Gogi, also returned to the party.

AAP Punjab Working President Amansher Singh Shery Kalsi and Cabinet Minister Tarunpreet Singh Sondh formally welcomed Sunny Master and Roni back into the party in the presence of party leader Dr. Sunny Ahluwalia and MLA Inderbir Singh Nijjar.

Russia on Saturday accused Ukraine of indefinitely delaying a planned exchange of prisoners and the handover of fallen soldiers' bodies.

Russia has handed over the first list of 640 prisoners to Ukraine and begun transferring bodies of dead Ukrainian soldiers, but Ukrainian negotiators did not arrive at the exchange site, Russian Presidential Aide Vladimir Medinsky said in a telegram post.

He called on Ukraine to "strictly adhere to the schedule and all agreements reached, and to immediately begin the exchange."

On the auspicious occasion of Bakra Eid or Eid-ul-Adha, Salman Khan took to his Instagram handle to wish everyone "Eid Mubarak".

Khan further treated the fans with a dapper picture of himself in a clean-shaven look, gazing straight into the camera with a smile on his face.

Aside from him, taking to his X handle, versatile actor Kamal Haasan wished all through a social media post that read, "My heartfelt greetings to my brothers and sisters celebrating Bakrid, the great day of remembrance of sacrifice. May equality and brotherhood prevail! #EidMubarak."

Around 60 per cent electricity consumers in Tripura do not pay energy bills, forcing the authorities to take drastic steps including disconnection of power lines and imposition of hefty fines against the defaulters, an official said on Saturday.

A senior official of the Tripura State Electricity Corporation Limited (TSECL) said that out of 9.87 lakh electricity consumers in the state, only 4.32 lakh customers are paying their bills on time.

“Lakhs of electricity consumers, mostly in rural and interior areas, do not pay their electricity bills. We have imposed a hefty fine and disconnected electric lines of the defaulters,” the official said.

He said that during the past two years, the electricity lines of thousands of default consumers were disconnected.

In a significant breakthrough in the ongoing anti-LWE operations, the Jamui Police in Bihar on Saturday arrested Sarita Soren a.k.a. Sita Soren, a female Maoist operative who had been absconding for the last 15 years.

The arrest took place near Karma village, an official said.

The development marks the second major success within three days for the district police as the force on Thursday nabbed another long-absconding Maoist operative involved in serious cases from as far back as 2005.

Jamui Superintendent of Police Madan Kumar Anand confirmed the arrest and said that Sarita Soren had been on the police radar for years but consistently evaded capture.

Five Maoists were killed in two encounters with security forces in an ongoing operation in the Indravati National Park area of Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, police officials said on Saturday.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah has hailed the success and expressed his wish to meet the brave soldiers who are engaged in anti-Maoist mission.

With the latest casualties, seven Maoists, including top leaders Sudhakar and Bhaskar, were neutralised in the operation in the last three days, they said.

As the entire country celebrated the festival of Eid-ul-Adha on Saturday, several big wigs from the entertainment industry penned lovely posts to wish the netizens "Eid Mubarak."

Kamal Haasan took to his X timeline (Earlier known as Twitter,) and wished all with the following words, "My heartfelt greetings to my brothers and sisters celebrating Bakrid, the great day of remembrance of sacrifice. May equality and brotherhood prevail! #EidMubarak"

Embattled shooting coach Mohsin Khan, already facing multiple charges including gang rape, molestation, forced religious conversion, and cheating, has been named in yet another FIR, police said on Saturday.

The latest complaint was registered late Friday night at the Mhow police station by a woman who previously worked as a trainer at Khan’s Dream Olympic Shooting Academy.

She accused Khan of repeated sexual harassment and inappropriate physical contact during her tenure at the academy.

According to the complainant, she joined the academy in 2022 to train young shooters but soon quit due to Khan’s alleged misconduct.

“He repeatedly misbehaved and touched me inappropriately. After I left the job, he called me to his home, offered money, and tried to molest me again. When I refused to compromise, he threatened me with dire consequences,” she told police.

Karnataka Police have arrested a man who allegedly raped a minor, and three others for attempting to "settle" the matter near Shiggaon town in Karnataka's Haveri district.

According to the police, the victim had informed her family about the assault.

After the parents questioned her, three individuals known to the accused attempted to broker a "compromise" and tried to settle the issue by a meeting.

However, the parents lodged a complaint, leading to the arrest of the accused and the three others.