It is Diwali, and the entire country is busy celebrating the festival of lights, except for a small village in Andhra Pradesh. Just like for the past nearly 200 years this year too, there are no Diwali celebrations in Ponnanapalem village of Srikakulam. ....

A rickshaw puller has approached the police in Mathura district after he was served a notice by the Income Tax (IT) department, asking him to pay over Rs 3 crore. ....

Call it an extremely rare incident or rather a miracle, a 70-year-old woman finally fulfilled her dream of motherhood, by giving birth to her first child, in Gujarat’s Kutch. The woman, identified as Jivunben Rabari, said she gave birth to a baby boy who was conceived through IVF. ....

Turkey's Rumesya Gelgi was confirmed this week as the tallest living woman in the world with a height of 215.16cm (7ft 0.7in). ....

The New Zealand Cricket Board cancelled their tour of Pakistan due to security concerns last Friday which was followed by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) withdrawing their men’s and women’s team from their scheduled tour to the country in October. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) are set to incur huge financial losses owing to the withdrawal of both the teams, according to reports in the media. ....

There has been a lot of talk about aliens in the last few years. Video footage recently came out of Navy pilots encountering UFOs, which led to the release of an intelligence report on their existence. That report revealed that there have indeed been sightings of unidentified flying objects, but the government did not conclude that the aircrafts are extraterrestrial in nature. ....

While many prodigies in India have either been selected by NASA or other prestigious global institutions for research or fellowship, a Pune teenager’s claim of being selected by NASA left netizens stunned as they smelled something fishy. Several news outlets including Lokmat and ANI reported that Diksha Shinde, a 14-year-old girl from Aurangabad, was selected as a panellist on NASA’s prestigious MSI Fellowships Virtual Panel. ....

Alan Slattery, a resident of St Leonards in Hastings, England probably thought that he would be making away with a few hundred pounds when he entered a bank in Eastbourne on March 18. However, things didn't go as planned as he went up to an employee and handed them a threatening note. There was one catch- the employee could not understand Mr Slattery's handwriting and so he did nothing. ....

A man killed his 23-year-old wife with a spade in Kanpur Dehat and then walked to the police station to tell the police to pick up his wife's body. His in-laws insist its a dowry death. ....

A 65-year-old drunk man chewed on a snake after the latter bit him in Bihar's Nalanda district. ....