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‘If you want to stay alive…’: Madhya Pradesh judge gets threat letter seeking Rs 500 crore A sitting judge in Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa district has received a ransom note demanding that he pay Rs 500 crore . Police said the threat letter landed in the court of a Civil Judge in Rewa . Police have not revealed the name of the judge due to security concerns . Read full story: Source

Another BITS Goa student found dead on campus, 5th such case in 10 months A second-year student of BITS Pilani’s Goa campus was found dead in his hostel room on Thursday . It is the fifth death on campus in the last 10 months . Police said he was undergoing treatment and had been prescribed antidepressant medications . Read full story: Source

No High Court relief for logistics firm employees who ‘delivered knife used in murder’ The Chhattisgarh High Court refused to quash a First Information Report (FIR) against two employees of a logistics company . The petitioners Dinesh Sahu and Harishankar Sahu – both employees of the logistics company, Elastic Run – were accused of helping deliver some banned knives . Read full story: Source

Kerala’s first woman forensic surgeon and author of Postmortem Table, Dr Sherly Vasu dies at 68 Dr Sherly Vasu, Kerala’s first woman forensic surgeon and renowned scholar in forensic medicine, died in Kozhikode Thursday . She had conducted more than 20,000 autopsies in a career spanning 35 years . Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said she had helped state police find evidence for several complex cases . Read full story: Source

News Today Live Updates, 5 September | Afghanistan hit by fourth earthquake since Sunday, latest at magnitude 5.4 News Today Live Updates: Get the latest news updates from India and all around the world. Stay updated with breaking news today. The fury of the Ravi river has ripped through Punjab’s border belt, washing away nearly 30 km of iron fencing along the Indo-Pak frontier, breaching embankments and forcing the Border Security Force (BSF) to abandon dozens of checkposts. At least 50 breaches have been reported in protective bundhs across Gurdaspur, Amritsar and Pathankot, officials said on Wednesday. Drug smugglers have…