In a tragic incident, a nine-year-old girl playing on a swing made with saree died from suffocation in Udupi district of Karnataka on Monday. The deceased girl is identified as Manvitha, a resident of Nitte village near Karkala town in Udupi. According to police, preliminary investigations suggested that the incident had taken place when Manvitha, daughter of Lakshmi Poojari, had gone to play at the residence of her paternal uncle. The victim and a girl from the neighbourhood made a swing out of the saree and played.

At least 160 people have been arrested on charges of fake gold smuggling in Assam in the last two weeks, police said on Monday. According to an official statement by the Assam Police, the highest number of arrests took place in Lakhimpur district with 63 people already under custody, followed by 45 arrests in Sonitpur.

Following the heavy rain and hailstorms in Gujarat, the weather department said there was a possibility of thundershowers and moderate rain on Monday and in the coming days. According to the latest weather bulletin, there was a high likelihood of light thunderstorms on Tuesday accompanied by lightning and surface winds ranging from 30 to 40 kmph in isolated areas.

The Delhi High Court on Monday issued a notice to Yasin Malik, chief of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) over the NIA's plea seeking his death penalty in a terror funding case. A division bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Talwant Singh also issued production warrants for Malik and listed the case for hearing next on August 9. Appearing for National Investigation Agency (NIA), Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta argued that it was a "rarest of rare case".

In a bone chilling incident, a 16-year-old girl was stabbed to her death by her 20-year-old boyfriend in Outernorth Delhi's Shahbad Dairy area, an official said on Monday. The accused, identified as Sahil, even hit the girl with a stone. According to police, on Sunday an information was received regarding murder of a girl following which a police team was rushed to the spot.

An Indian Army helicopter made an emergency landing in a village in Madhya Pradesh's Bhind district on Monday, with no reports of any casualties. The pilot landed the chopper in Jakhola village, bordering Uttar Pradesh. The reason for the emergency landing is yet to be ascertained.

A light intensity earthquake measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale jolted Assam on Monday. According to the National Centre for Seismology, the epicentre of the quake was at Sonitpur district at a depth of 15 km from the surface. According to an official statement, the quake struck at around 8 a.m.

Seven students of Assam Engineering College were killed and six others injured in a road accident in Guwahati on Monday, police said. According to locals, the accident took place around 2 a.m. when a Scorpio vehicle in which the students were travelling lost control, crossed over a divider and crashed into a pick up van that was coming from the opposite side of the road in the Jalukbari area.

A 42-year-old mango grower in Rahimabad, on the outskirts of Lucknow, allegedly ended his life by suicide following the loss of crop caused by the storm that lashed the city on May 27. The man identified as Sushil Singh a.k.a Anna was found hanging from the ceiling of his room with a plastic rope tied around his neck on Sunday. Police have sent the body for post-mortem and an investigation is underway.

The Kerala Police, probing the butchering of a 58-year-old hotelier, on Saturday revealed that it was a case of a well-planned honey trap operation by the three accused who are presently under police custody. Twenty-two-year-old Shibly, his female friend Farhana(18) and Ashiq were taken into custody for the gruesome murder of Siddiq, who owned a hotel in Malappuram district. The brutal crime took place at a lodge where Siddiq had booked two rooms and all of them met there on May 18. While interacting with the media, Malappuram Superintendent of Police Sujith Das called it a well planned honey-trap operation by the three.