After shooting his father with a rifle, Akshat severed his legs below the knees, chopped off both hands and decapitated him. He then stuffed the torso into a sleeping bag and hid it inside a blue drum.

The Union Cabinet has approved changing Kerala’s name on the Kerala government’s proposal, on Tuesday. The decision comes ahead of the Kerala assembly elections which are likely to be held in April-May.

A third-year resident doctor from Nagaland posted at the AIIMS Gorakhpur was allegedly subjected to racial slurs, stalking and physical assault by three men near the institute’s premises on Sunday evening, news agency PTI reported.