Fourteen people reportedly lost their lives after a private bus, carrying more than 30 passengers, skidded off the road and plunged into a deep gorge near Harpur Dhar in Sirmaur district.

Umar Khalid, a former PhD scholar at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, has been lodged in jail for more than five years in connection with the February 2020 riots in the capital, in which 53 people were killed. He was recently denied bail by the Supreme Court, and his trial remains pending.