Three pilgrims died and over a dozen others were injured on Saturday in a stampede on the banks of the Ganga river in Bihar's Begusarai district, an official said. ....

Five police officers were on Friday suspended in Madhya Pradesh for the alleged gang rape of a 19-year-old daughter of a police couple in the state capital on Tuesday, a senior police officer said. ....

Nine of the seriously injured in the massive blast at an NTPC plant in Uttar Pradesh have been shifted to the Safdarjung Hospital here, five of them with critical burn injuries, doctors said on Friday. ....

Owing to continuous rains schools and colleges in Chennai, Kanchipuram, Tiruvallur, Pudukottai and Nagapattiman districts of Tamil Nadu were closed on Friday. ....

With the change in the wind direction and slight rise in temperature, Delhi on Thursday recorded a slight improvement in the air quality which however remained "very poor" generally but the situation in the NCR was a little better. ....

Power producer NTPC on Thursday said it has shut down a 500 MW unit at its Feroze Gandhi Unchahar Thermal Power Station in Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh following the accident on Wednesday that claimed the lives of 26 people. ....

At least eight persons were killed and more than 40 injured in an explosion at a boiler unit of the NTPC in Uttar Pradesh's Rae Bareli district on Wednesday evening, officials said. ....

A 52-year-old Assistant Sub-Inspector of Delhi Police on Wednesday allegedly committed suicide by jumping in front of a Metro train. ....

Ending days of speculations, the BJP on Tuesday announced Prem Kumar Dhumal would be its Chief Ministerial candidate in poll-bound Himachal Pradesh. ....

The Delhi government on Tuesday said the licences of all hotels and restaurants with hookah bars would be cancelled as many of them have been found illegally providing tobacco to customers in the garb of herbal materials. ....