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Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann was admitted to a hospital in New Delhi due to unbearable stomach pain. He was admitted to a private hospital in New Delhi on Tuesday night. Sources claim that Mann started suffering from abdominal pain a couple of days after consuming 'contaminated' water from a reservoir on Sunday. He was taken to hospital on Tuesday night. However, the Punjab administration has denied the chief minister's stay in the hospital. On the contrary, the administration officials claim that the Chief Minister is healthy.

In what the intelligence sources termed “a classic example of community policing”, a local panchayat in Haryana’s Manesar forced at least 500 Rohingya families to vacate their colony overnight, leaving their belongings behind.

The locals alleged that there was a rise in criminal activities in the area after the group settled there.

After deliberations, a mahapanchayat was called by Devender Singh, where it was decided that the inhabitants should show their valid residency documents or vacate the place.

The split in the Shiv Sena shows Uddhav Thackeray is losing control over his MLAs and MPs, but it is still early to judge if the Thackeray legacy is fading, say political experts. A “vertical split” in the Shiv Sena is unavoidable, with 61-year-old former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray not being able to capitalise on the legacy of his father and party founder late Bal Thackeray, they say.

“The Thackeray legacy will continue in his faction, but the sole proprietorship will not be there,” a political analyst claimed. “It is to be seen if the Shiv Sena will remain only on paper or enjoy popular support,” he said. After a split in the Shiv Sena legislature party last month, the Udhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena on Tuesday suffered a fresh jolt with 12 of its 19 Lok Sabha members shifting allegiance to Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.

With the approval of the National President of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Sharad Pawar, all the departments and cells of party has been dissolved with immediate effect.

Indian-origin MP Rishi Sunak and foreign secretary Liz Truss have emerged as the top two contenders for the UK PM post. Sunak secured 137 votes in the last round of voting.

Meanwhile, Liz Truss secured 113 votes in the race to replace Boris Johnson as British prime minister and leader of the Conservative party.

Sunak, the former foreign minister, has led in all rounds of the voting among Conservative lawmakers, but it is Truss, who seems to have gained the advantage so far among the around 200,000 members of the governing party, who will ultimately choose the winner.