A city-based NGO on Friday approached Lok Ayukta seeking orders to the governments of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh to close down Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) outlets as some samples collected from the fast food giant found to have E.coli and salmonella bacteria....
An A-380 passenger plane of Emirates airline with over 500 people on board made an emergency landing at the Bandaranaike International Airport here on Friday due to a technical fault....

The Uttarakhand government on Friday began rescue and evacuation measures for the stranded pilgrims hit by inclement weather during the annual Char Dham Yatra, officials said....

Normal life was thrown out of gear in Odisha as the Congress on Friday called a shutdown protesting against the mismanagement of "Brahma Parivartan" rituals at the Jagannath temple in Puri....
Thed Aligarh Muslim University's social sciences cyber library or "cyberary" was accredited with the International Standard Organisation (ISO) certification, institute officials said on Friday....

President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday presented the 'Punyabhushan' award to media personality Pratap Pawar at a function here....

Union Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Muktar Abbas Naqvi on Friday rubbished accusations that the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to "go slow" in the Malegaon blast case....

In a by-election tipped to bring her back to the Tamil Nadu assembly, Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaaa faces a CPI candidate in the Radhakrishnan Nagar constituency here on Saturday. ...
The Rajasthan chief minister's office on Friday came down heavily on TV channels saying that "some of them are showing baseless and untrue reports" pertaining to Vasundhara Raje....
Amid growing demands for the resignation of Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje over her alleged favour to former IPL chief Lalit Modi, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday met BJP president Amit Shah at his residence....