Amidst tight security, police on Thursday foiled attempted rail blockades across southern Karnataka by angry mobs protesting against the state releasing the Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu....
Two Indian teachers who were abducted in Libya over a year ago have been released, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Thursday....
Maharashtra bid adieu to Lord Ganesh - the elephant-headed god - on Anant Chaturdashi on Thursday as the curtains fell on the 11-day Ganeshotsav festivities....
Nepalese Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, leading a 125-member delegation, on Thursday left for a four-day state visit to New Delhi at the invitation of his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi....
Substantive Brexit talks between the UK and the rest of the European Union (EU) were unlikely to start much before the end of 2017, a former European Council president said....

The Hillary Clinton campaign has released updated health information for the Democratic presidential candidate. Her doctor wrote in a letter that she had a "mild" and non-contagious form of pneumonia and remains "healthy and fit to serve as president"....
The diplomat was pictured with his wife in the traditional white garments of the annual pilgrimage, which is compulsory for Muslims to perform at least once in their lives. ...
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav had to step in on Wednesday to check the growing rift within the "family" and state government over a "power tussle" between Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and his uncle Shivpal Yadav -- with crucial assembly elections slated for early next year....
India and Pakistan faced off strongly on Kashmir at the UN Human Rights Council, with Islamabad alleging "atrocities" on civilians even as New Delhi hit back, accusing the neighbour of using terrorism as a state policy and of "widespread human rights violations" there, especially Balochistan....

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday underwent a five-hour throat surgery at a private hospital here for a persistent cough, which troubled him for about 40 years....