The killing of the most-wanted Maoist commander Madvi Hidma on the Andhra-Chhattisgarh border has triggered a wave of desertions inside the outlawed CPI (Maoist), with fifteen active cadres carrying a combined bounty of nearly fifty lakh rupees laying down arms in Sukma district on Monday.

The Hayli Gubbi volcano in northern Ethiopia erupted after 12,000 years, and ash from the volcano reached India via the Arabian Sea on Monday, drifting towards the capital Delhi around midnight. It also moved through several states including Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab, and Haryana.

A UK-based Indian woman from Arunachal Pradesh has alleged that she was detained for nearly 18 hours at Shanghai Pudong International Airport after Chinese immigration officers refused to recognize her Indian passport, declaring it ‘invalid’ and ‘mocked’ her Indian citizenship.