A Class 10 student drowned in the Hooghly river in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district on Monday, police said. ....

Four persons, including a woman and child, were killed on Monday morning when a car collided with a bus due to thick fog in Punjab's Tarn Taran district, police said. ....

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday said his words on former minister P.S. Nataraja Pillai were "misrepresented" and he had full respect for him as the Congress demanded that he apologise for his rude remarks. ....

A special court here on Sunday sent chit fund company Green Ray International Ltd. (GRIL) Managing Director Mir Shahruddin to six-day custody of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). ....

After days of pleasant weather, the cold returned to Himachal Pradesh on Sunday with the state's higher reaches witnessing a fresh spell of snow, while lower areas received moderate rain. ....

Tamil Nadu's traditional rural sport Jallikattu, bull taming sport, was held at Avaniyapuram in Madurai district on Sunday after a gap of three years. ....

The Congress' Maharashtra unit on Saturday demanded a waiver of all farm loans on the lines of the assurance given by the BJP in poll-bound Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. ....

A fake currency racket has been busted with the arrest of four persons and seizure of counterfeit notes worth Rs 27.46 lakh in Odisha, police said on Saturday. ....

A woman Information Technology employee was assaulted by a mob after she protested against loud music in East Kolkata's Kasba area, police said on Saturday. ....

Raising the banner of revolt, former MP and AIADMK member K.C. Palaniswamy has written to the Election Commission saying the appointment of Sasikala as interim general secretary should not be recognised and the poll panel should appoint an "independent and fearless" official to conduct polls for electing the AIADMK General Secretary soon. ....