Union Minister for Heavy Industries Anant Geete and a security official sustained minor injuries in a road accident while on a tour of his home district here on Friday, a police officer said. ....

The Bombay High Court on Friday struck down the sanction accorded by Maharashtra Governor C.V. Rao to prosecute former Chief Minister Ashok Chavan in the Adarsh Society scam. ....

Ballotting for the Radhakrishnan Nagar (R.K. Nagar) Assembly by-poll on Thursday saw over 60 per cent voting, Election Commission officials said, ....

Justice Umesh Dattatraya Salvi on Wednesday took charge as acting chairperson of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), a day after Justice Swatanter Kumar retired. ....

BJP MLA Jairam Thakur is emerging as the "key" face in the race for picking a chief ministerial candidate in Himachal Pradesh, with the party expected to take a final call after a meeting of the newly-elected MLAs with the central observers. ....

Inderjit Singh Sandhu, one of the masterminds of the sensational Nabha jailbreak in Punjab, has been arrested from the Indira Gandhi International airport in Delhi, Punjab Police said on Wednesday. ....

Additional forces were deployed in some villages of Rajasthan on Wednesday to maintain the peace after the demolition of a temple built on encroached land led to tension. ....

Maoists have attacked a railway station in Bihar, killing one person and abducting two to enforce their shutdown, police said on Wednesday. ....

A Metro train on a new line, to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi next week, hit a wall here on Tuesday evening during trials as its brakes failed, a Delhi Metro official said. No one was injured. ....

Three persons were killed in Uttar Pradesh's Basti district early on Tuesday when their car rammed into a parked gas tanker in dense fog and poor visibility. ....