
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Saturday that India is completing the necessary formalities to bring back Gita, a hearing and speech-impaired Indian woman stranded in Karachi, to India. ...
Mysuru in Karnataka and Thiruchirapalli (Trichy) in Tamil Nadu have been ranked first and second among 476 cities in the "Swachh Bharat" ranking.in the top 10 are Navi Mumbai, Kochi, Hassan, Mandya and Bengaluru in Karnataka, Thiruvananthapuram, Halisahar in West Bengal and Gangtok....

Four accomplices of a Pakistani terrorist captured after the August 5 Udhampur terror attack were arrested from the Kashmir Valley on Saturday, an official said. ...
Youth Congress activists on Saturday showed black flags to union minister Smriti Irani when she arrived here to attend a BJP programme. ...
The IAF on Saturday said it rescued 21 Britons and a seriously injured French woman who were stranded in high altitude Leh in Jammu and Kashmir following poor weather. ...

The wife of a slain Bangladeshi blogger known for his secular views has filed a case against the assailants, the media reported on Saturday....
A Pakistani terrorist captured after the Udhampur terror attack was on Saturday brought to Kashmir Valley by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to gather information on other LeT militants active in the region. ...
Five women were beaten to death here early on Saturday for allegedly practicing witchcraft, police said....
Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York mercantile exchange rose after the release of the US jobs report....
China is not a dark totalitarian country, a state-run daily said Saturday, stressing that "many elements from the developed world are taking root" in the nation. ...