Over two dozen people, including security personnel, were injured in Srinagar on Friday when protesters fought a pitched battle with security forces after Friday prayers over separatist leader Masrat Alam's detention. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said Alam will be sent to jail....
Taking "strong objection" to Narendra Modi's claim of being the first Indian prime minister in 42 years to visit Canada, the Congress on Friday sought to remind him of ex-prime minister Manmohan Singh's state visit there in 2010. ...
The Supreme Court is likely to hear on Monday a plea by All India Bar Association (AIBA), seeking to restrain the central government from the purported move to appoint Kerala Governor Justice (retd) P. Sathasivam as the chairman of the National Human Rights Commission....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi headed home after ending his three-nation tour, with the final day spent in the city of Vancouver in British Columbia, visiting a temple and a gurudwara and attending an official dinner hosted by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper....
The body of Malli Mastan Babu, India's top mountaineer who died while scaling a mountain between Argentina and Chile, will be brought home in a couple of days, union minister M. Venkaiah Naidu said....

Christian priests in Mathura on Friday raised security concern after an attack on the 95-year-old St. Mary's Church in Agra on Thursday....
Declining to term it as a comeback platform for a 'rejuvenated' Rahul Gandhi, the Congress on Friday said its Sunday's rally is solely aimed at pressurising the centre to withdraw the land acquisition amendment bill. ...
A total of 475 people, including 73 Indians and 337 Bangladeshis, evacuated from strife-torn Yemen will arrive here on Saturday aboard two Indian ships, an official said on Friday....
The BJP said on Friday that there would be no compromise on "certain basic principles" while dealing with issues of national importance like separatist leader Masrat Alam and others raising pro-Pakistan slogans and waiving its flag....
The supreme court has extended the bail of J Jayalaithaa ,former chief minister of Tamil Nadu till May 11,which is a boon to the beleaguered AIADMK she heads .But question marks remain...