
Mistaking an ambulance's siren for police chasing them, two liquor smugglers jumped in the Dharmawati river in Bihar's Rohtas district on Wednesday morning and died, police said. ...

The statements being made by the opposition leaders in Maharashtra, both inside and outside the Assembly, gives an impression that they have lost their mental balance, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said on Wednesday. ...

Amidst an ongoing eighth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, Japan registered 206,943 new cases, marking the first time that the single-day tally has surpassed the 200,000-mark since August 25, health authorities have confirmed....

Reservation pangs are back to haunt the ruling BJP in Karnataka with the Panchamasaali Lingayat seer setting a deadline till December 22, for the government to declare reservation. ...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday took a swipe at the opposition-ruled states of West Bengal and Punjab in Parliament while seeking cooperation from all states to combat drug traficking. He said that when central forces are sent to help states, they complain that it is an attack on federalism and their jurisdiction is...

Nagaland along with two other northeastern states - Meghalaya and Tripura - will go to the polls in February next year, but there is no remote chance of any breakthrough in the decades old Naga peace talks before the elections, a top government source said on Wednesday....

Shiv Sena-UBT MP Sanjay Raut on Wednesday threatened to enter Karnataka just as China has entered Indian territory and nobody's permission is needed for that, as a fresh war of words erupted out on the contentious border dispute with Maharashtra....

Facing an unexpected surge in cases after lifting zero-Covid policy restrictions, China has set up a network of hospitals to monitor mutations of the virus, the media reported on Wednesday. ...

Three people were killed during a midnight Israeli missile strike that targeted the countryside of Syria's capital Damascus, a war monitor reported on Wednesday....

Congress Karnataka unit on Wednesday charged that the BJP governments at the Centre and in Maharashtra and Karnataka have failed to address the border dispute....