At least 12 persons returning from an army recruitment rally in Madhya Pradesh were arrested for attacking and damaging a New Delhi bound Shatabdi express, a police official said on Wednesday. ....

Light rain is forecast in the national capital on Wednesday afternoon as the minimum temperature recorded at 12.5 degress Celsius remain way above the season's average, the weather office said. ....

The sealing of the electoral alliance between the Congress and the Samajwadi Party (SP) has altered the political landscape in Uttar Pradesh for the crucial seven-phased assembly elections from February 11 to March 8. ....

After a brief break, the winter chill is set to intensify further in Uttarakhand as the Met office on Wednesday forecast rains and heavy snowfall till Friday morning. ....

An escape attempted by 45 prisoners and under-trials at a prison in the port town of Vasco in Goa has been thwarted by police. ....

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday drew criticism as he not only shared stage with controversial Samajwadi Party leader Gayatri Prajapati at a public rally in Sultanpur but also exhorted people to elect him with a handsome victory margin. ....

In a daring highway robbery, three unidentified persons looted Rs 21-lakh in cash from an Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) of a bank on the outskirts of Tumakuru town in southern Karnataka, said police on Tuesday. ....

A senior official of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), who was incharge of the committee that inquired into the incident of beating of a student inside the campus, resigned from his post on Tuesday. ....

The Congress on Tuesday released its second list of five candidates for the upcoming Uttarakhand assembly polls, taking the total number of candidates announced to 68 out of total 70 seats. ....

Former Samajwadi Party (SP) state president Shivpal Singh Yadav does not figure in the list of 40 'star campaigners' issued by the party for the first phase of the Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections. ....