The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the Centre and the Madhya Pradesh government on a PIL seeking a CBI probe into the private medical colleges admission scam involving 42 percent of government-quota seats. ...
India has taken up with Pakistan the issue of heavy firing along the International Border in Jammu and Kashmir, officials here said on Thursday. ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's one-day visit to his parliamentary constituency Varanasi was cancelled on Thursday following heavy rains -- and the death of a labourer setting up the stage from where he was set to address a public rally, the BJP said. ...
Veteran Telugu playback singer V. Ramakrishna, who was reportedly undergoing treatment for cancer for quite some time, breathed his last on Wednesday at his residence here. He was 68....
Four people working on their fields in villages near the International Border in Jammu and Kashmir were injured in Pakistan firing on Thursday, a day ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the region....
India and Pakistan traded heavy firing exchanges on the International Border in Jammu district on Thursday on the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's day-long visit to the region, police said. ...

Greek's parliament on Thursday approved an omnibus draft bill ratifying the debt deal the government reached with creditors on Monday and the first round of reforms requested as prerequisites for the immediate release of international aid to avert imminent default and Grexit, media reports said. ...
An Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, Godala Kiran Kumar, was arrested Wednesday night for allegedly siphoning off funds from the Siliguri-Jalpaiguri Development Authority (SJDA) while serving as its CEO, police said....
Nine people have been arrested for hacking to death six members of a family for suspected sorcery in Odisha's tribal dominated Keonjhar district, said police on Wednesday....
On the eve of the "Bandh" (shutdown) it has called, the Congress party here on Wednesday expressed fears of violence by the people linked to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government....