A day after a fire disaster in a Kerala temple killed 109 people, authorities on Tuesday gave conditional approval for the hugely popular fireworks show at the Thrissur Pooram festival. ...
The fire tragedy at the Puttingal Devi temple in Kerala has killed 109 people and 24 others are in critical condition, Health Minister V. Sivakumar ...

A day after the tragedy at Kerala's Puttingal Devi temple left 109 dead and over 300 injured, women living in the temple's vicinity are heartbroken to see their lives and property ruined by it. ...
The BJP will win 265 of the 404 seats in Uttar Pradesh next year, Keshav Maurya, the party's new state president, said on Monday after arriving here to a grand welcome by supporters....

Hindu seer Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati on Monday said the shocking Kerala temple tragedy occurred due to women forcibly entering the Shani Shingnapur temple in Maharashtra, which a tradition of over four centuries earlier banned....
The Calcutta High Court on Monday constituted a three-member committee to collect videotape footage of a sting operation in which several leaders of West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress were allegedly shown taking bribes....
The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) has started investigating the reasons for leak of heavy water at its 220 MW reactor at Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS) in Gujarat, said a senior official. ...
The number of tigers in the wild has risen for the first time in 100 years, marking a major turning point in the big cat's plight against poaching and habitat loss. ...

Amid reports of stray violence from different parts of the state, the second phase of polling recorded over 55 percent voting till 2 p.m. on Monday....

Notwithstanding the sweltering heat, 60 percent of the nearly 70 lakh voters turned out till 1 p.m. on Monday to cast their ballot in 31 constituencies in the second part of the first phase of the West Bengal assembly polls. ...