Punjab Police and security agencies are conducting investigations into a blast in a car near Bathinda which left three people dead and 11 others injured, police officials said on Wednesday. ....

Days before polling in the Punjab assembly elections, at least three persons were killed in a powerful blast in a car close to a rally of a Congress candidate near the state's Bathinda city on Tuesday evening, police said. ....

Nine workers died after inhaling toxic fumes while cleaning an oil tank at an edible oils manufacturing company, police said on Tuesday. ....

Posters of the Islamic State surfaced near an army cantonment in Himachal Pradesh's Solan district on Tuesday, a police official said. ....

Software major Infosys on Monday expressed shock over the alleged murder of its woman techie -- a software engineer -- on its Pune campus on Sunday. ....

Two multi-storey residential complexes in this Himachal Pradesh town collapsed on Monday because of digging activity in the vicinity, officials said. ....

Infosys software engineer K. Rasila Raju paid with her life for objecting to a security guard staring at her while she worked in office on Sunday evening, police said in Pune on Monday. ....

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Monday said a state annual plan of Rs 5,700 crore has been proposed for the next fiscal with an increase of Rs 500 crore over the present fiscal. ....

A work suspension notice was put up at a wagon manufacturing factory in the city here on Monday, citing "incurring losses due to strike of workers". ....

A security guard has been detained in connection with Sunday's murder of an Infosys techie inside her office in Pune, officials said on Monday. ....