One person died and 12 people were injured in a blast at a restaurant in Ansbach, near Nuremberg in Germany, at about 10.12 pm local time on Sunday night.

The person who died appeared to have been the bomber, said a police spokesperson, though no information is available about the cause of the blast or the motivation.

While some local media reported that the blast was caused by a gas leak, a spokesperson of the Bavarian interior ministry said it did not appear to be an accident, but was intentional, according to The Indian Express.

Two Dalit men from Beed in Maharashtra have alleged that they were beaten up by a mob of about 25 people because they overtook the accused on their motorcycles.

The men claimed that the beating became more brutal after the accused saw pictures of Dalit rights icon Dr BR Ambedkar pasted on their motorcycles.

According to NDTV, the incident took place on Friday in Beed's Savargaon village after six Dalit men on three motorcycles overtook the accused.

The Indian Air Force AN-32 aircraft with 29 people on board that went missing over the Bay of Bengal on Friday is still untraceable, despite the use of satellite imagery.

Defence sources said: "Indigenous imagery satellite did give us some pointers to possible floating objects. The areas indicated are being searched intensively by ships and aircraft. But nothing has been sighted as yet."

The search continues for the fourth day since the plane left the Tambaram air base near Chennai at 8.30 am on Friday but vanished from the radar at 9.12 am, 280 km out of Chennai, says NDTV.

The Kolkata police have filed a murder case against unknown assailants after Aabesh Dasgupta, a 17-year-old boy, bled to death on being stabbed with a broken bottle during a surprise birthday party for well-known author Amit Chaudhuri's daughter on Saturday.

Though another 17-year-old was detained for the crime on Saturday, the police said on Sunday that that due to conflicting witness statements, they would wait for the post-mortem report before making any arrests, according to The Indian Express.

Some of the young people who went missing from Kerala reportedly to join international terror group Islamic State have got in touch with their families via online messaging services to say they are alive and well.

One of them, Ashfaque, sent a voice message to his family via the Telegram messenger on Friday. According to the police, the message said he was fine. He also inquired about the health of his mother.

Since Telegram messages automatically self-destruct, there was no way to trace his location, says The Indian Express.

Two of the three Chinese journalists whose visas for India were not extended had visited Tibetan settlements in Karnataka last year without revealing their identity, said government sources.

The three journalists work for China's official news agency, Xinhua. Wu Qiang and Lu Tang headed Xinhua's bureaus in Delhi and Mumbai respectively, while She Yonggang was a Mumbai-based reporter, according to the Hindustan Times.

A government official said: "The Mumbai-based Chinese journalists visited Karnataka-based Tibetan camps late last year and didn't reveal their true identity. Thereafter, the government decided not to renew their visa."