Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram were back in action on Thursday morning after affecting millions of users across its platforms globally, including in India. Some users, however, still reported failed messaging and image download issues. ....

A Mumbai Magistrate on Thursday granted bail to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on a personal bond of Rs 15,000 in connection with a defamation case filed by an RSS worker, a party leader said. ....

A day after Congress President Rahul Gandhi stepped down from the party post issuing his resignation on a public platform owning responsibility for the party's national election debacle, his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra tweeted: "Few have the courage that you do". ....

Pakistan's counter terrorism department on Wednesday said it has registered 23 cases relating to terror financing and facilitation against Mumbai terror attack mastermind and Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed, days ahead of Prime Minister Imran Khan's visit to the US. ....

Rahul Gandhi announced on Wednesday that he has resigned as the Congress President and that he was to blame for the party's rout in the Lok Sabha elections where it could win only 52 of the 542 seats. ....

At least seven persons were killed and 20 went missing in a small dam burst near Bhendewadi hamlet following torrential downpour, late on Tuesday night, a top official said here on Wednesday. ....

Two forest officers were injured in yet another attack on forest department personnel in Telangana early on Tuesday, police said. ....

An additional fuel tank of Tejas, a light combat aircraft (LCA) which was on a regular sortie, fell down on a farm land near Sulur Air Base near Coimbatore on Tuesday morning, said an official. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday condemned party leader Kailash Vijayvargiya's son Akash Vijayvargiya for attacking a government employee with a bat, saying "beta kisi ka bhi ho, aise logo ki party see nikal dena chahiye" (regardless of whose son he is, such people should be sacked from the party). ....

The Central Railway (CR) early on Tuesday suspended suburban train services after incessant heavy rain flooded tracks at several spots between Mumbai-Thane, and services on Western Railway were also hit as Maharashtra government declared a precautionery public holiday for the city, officials said. ....

At least 13 persons were killed in a wall crash in Malad, north-west Mumbai and another seven perished in a wall collapse in Pune, early on Tuesday as rains continued to wreak havoc in large parts of Maharashtra. ....

Home Minister Amit Shah said on Monday that the Narendra Modi-led government believes in former Prime Minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee's formula of 'Kashmiriyat, Jamhooriyat, Insaniyat' to resolve the Kashmir issue. ....

The Lok Sabha on Monday passed the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers' Cadre) Bill, 2019, which aims to ensure reservation in teaching positions in central institutions for persons from Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Socially and Educationally Backward Classes and the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS). ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday expressed grief after an accident involving a mini bus in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district left 33 people dead. ....

Over 7,500 pilgrims are headed to the Himalayan cave shrine to perform the annual Amarnath Yatra as it began on Monday amid hightended security, police said. ....

The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will strengthen its position in the Rajya Sabha with the addition of four more members later this week. ....

Thirty three people were killed and 22 injured on Monday in a road accident in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district, an official said. ....

Two school children and the driver of a bus were killed and five others injured when a state-run bus of a private school rolled down into a gorge in the Himachal Pradesh capital on Monday, police said. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday made his first 'Mann ki Baat' radio address after the recent Lok Sabha polls, as he remembered famous Hindi-Urdu playwright Munshi Premchand, saying his stories are still relevant today. ....

In a bid to check growing influence of China-Pakistan nexus in the Indian Ocean, India's external intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) is bolstering up its maritime intelligence network, laying more emphasis on the Arabian Sea region. Eight months ago, in the tenure of the then President of Maldives, Abdullah Yameen, capital city Male had become overseas hub of Pakistan's spy agency, the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). ....