A woman in Kerala sat in protest outside her home for five days after she said her husband gave her a "triple talaq" instant divorce in the third such case filed in the state since practice was outlawed in July this year, according to the Kerala Women's Commission. The Kerala Women's Commission has also intervened in the case, its first intervention in a triple-talaq-case.

Six people drowned as the vehicle in which they were travelling plunged into a canal in Telangana's Suryapet district, a senior police official said on Saturday. The accident occurred on Friday night. National Disaster Response Force teams retrieved the bodies. The SUV rammed into a railing of a culvert at Munagala and slided into the brimming canal, he said.

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram today attacked the government over the alleged decline in population of cattle in the country, saying that the government's love for cows is only on paper. In a tweet posted by his family on his behalf, P Chidambaram, who is currently in the custody of the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case, put out two economic indicators.