Indian priest from Bengaluru, Father Tom Uzhunnalil, who went missing on Friday after an attack on an old age home run by Kolkata's Missionaries of Charity in Aden, Yemen, is being held by the attackers who most likely belong to terror group Islamic State.

Though the ISIS has not taken responsibility for the attack, Yemeni sources believe that they are to blame.

"According to our information, the extremists who attacked the elderly care home in Aden have kidnapped priest Tom Uzhunnalil, a 56-year-old Indian, who was taken to an unknown location," said a Yemeni security official quoted in The Indian Express.

Draft legislation by the Maharashtra state government that aims to stop the exploitation of women in Mumbai's notorious dance bars includes such provisions as a fixed monthly salary with salary slips, identity cards and a choice of work timings.

"We will not allow exploitation of women in dance bars," said Dr Vijay Satbir Singh, principal secretary, home department.

Since the Supreme Court struck down several of the state government's proposed norms for obtaining a dance bar licence so as to prevent obscenity, the government has now decided to ensure that dance bar owners do not exploit their female staff, says the Hindustan Times.

Smriti Irani as the BJP's choice for Uttar Pradesh's chief ministerial candidate in the assembly elections next year may be in question, say sources in the party.

Irani was seen by the BJP as a probably chief ministerial candidate in UP, especially after her speech in Parliament in the nationalism debate.

But certain sections of the party are cautious about choosing Irani because of its experience of other state chief ministers handpicked by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah, say the sources.

"Modiji's political fate hangs on the outcome (of the UP assembly elections," a BJP source told The Telegraph.

Intelligence failure and the negligence of certain top state officials are what led to the 2013 riots in Muzaffarnager and the loss of 60 lives, according to the report filed by the Justice Vishnu Sahai inquiry commission on the issue.

Tabled in the Uttar Pradesh assembly on Sunday, the 700-page report included 14 factors that led to the riots.

According to the inquiry commission, the negligence of four officials at the time - Principal Secretary (Home) R M Srivastava, Circle Officer Jansath Jagat Ram Joshi, Muzaffarnagar District Magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma and Muzaffarnagar SSP Subhash Chandra Dubey - was a big factor, reports The Indian Express.

If India, especially Gujarat, is on high alert today and tomorrow in preparation for a possible 26/11-type terror attack on the processions of Mahashivrati, it is because of intelligence provided by Pakistan's National Security Advisor.

The warning from Pakistan's NSA, Lieutenant-General Naseer Janjua, is unprecedented. Though it did not include details such as which Pakistan-based jihadist group is planning the attack, the information provided by Janjua has "enough credible sourcing for the matter to be taken seriously," said a government official quoted by The Indian Express.

The sex ratio in Gujarat has come down to 919 in 2011 from 920 in 2001 as against significant increase of 10 points in the national average during this period, according to the Socio-Economic Review for 2015-16 tabled in the State Assembly recently. As against the national figure of 943, the overall sex ratio of Gujarat was 919 in 2011, the Review said. With 919 females for every 1000 males, Gujarat ranked 22nd among 28 states as per the 2011 Census.