Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting M. Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday expressed grief over the death of IANS Executive Editor Arvind Padmanabhan, describing it as a "huge loss to the media fraternity". ....

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to pull up those who "abuse" women and to take action against them. ....

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday said that the perpetrators of the Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train bomb blast had suspected Islamic State (IS) links. ....

A man died after falling on the Delhi Metro track as the train approached, an official said. ....

Tamil Nadu's former Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam and his followers began their one day fast on Wednesday demanding a judicial inquiry into the death of former Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa. ....

Brisk voting is reported on Wednesday in Varanasi, the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in the first two hours in the seventh and final phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh. ....

Polling began in 40 Uttar Pradesh assembly segments at 7 a.m. on Wednesday and around 26% voters cast their votes till noon. ....

The Border Security Force personnel seized 70 head of cattle worth more than Rs 6 lakh and two trawlers, used to carry the animals, worth Rs 14 lakh during a joint operation with the state police forces in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, a BSF official said on Tuesday. ....

Delhi's GSDP growth rate saw a decline from 8.82 per cent in 2015-16 to 8.26 per cent in 2016-17, according to the advance estimates in Delhi's Economic Survey report, tabled in the assembly on Tuesday. ....

Delhi University professor G.N. Saibaba, who is wheelchair-bound, was on Tuesday sentenced to life imprisonment by a Maharashtra court for his links with Maoists. ....